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Trump’s Done a Lot the Last 11 Days. Lowering Costs Isn’t High on the Agenda.
We’re just about two weeks into the president’s second term. The carton of eggs I bought at the grocery store today was $6. Google Maps doesn’t say Gulf…
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Elizabeth Pancotti
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Trump Is, Once Again, Inheriting a Historically Strong Economy. That Wasn’t Guaranteed.
President Donald Trump, having handed off the worst economy of any modern president on his way out four years ago (obviously with a strong assist from…
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Mike Madowitz
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It's the Fear, Stupid: Why Biden’s FDR-Size Aspirations Fell Short
When Joe Biden entered office four years ago, FDR comparisons were everywhere. We at the Roosevelt Institute even briefly asked our followers to guess…
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Suzanne Kahn
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December 2024

Roosevelt’s Reading Recommendations
To close the year out, we’ve put together some reading recommendations from the Roosevelt research and editorial teams ahead of a hopefully restful…
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It Turns Out Legislating Is Really Hard. Maybe That’s Good for Now.
It’s been 38 days since Donald Trump was declared the winner of the presidential election. On the campaign trail, Trump promised to make his “massive…
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Elizabeth Pancotti
Democracy Is Not a Rocket Ship
Elon Musk believes he can make the government more efficient by destroying much of it. Atop his perch at the newly established Department of Government…
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Bilal Baydoun
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November 2024

October 2024

What If We Nationalized the Credit Bureaus?
A credit reporting system that is motivated by profits and which provides no consumer choice will always be extractive. And people will always be…
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Elizabeth Pancotti
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Graham Steele
Abortion and Economic Policy, Part I: “Personal Rights Shape Economic Mobility”
The economy and reproductive rights are two of the most important issues for voters—indeed, a growing number of young women in particular say that…
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Hannah Groch-Begley
Why Harris’s Medicare at Home Plan Is the Next Frontier of Industrial Policy
A great advantage of bringing Medicare into the long-term care industry is that doing so should not only help the direct recipients, but fix a larger…
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Suzanne Kahn
50 Years In, Most SSI Recipients Live in Poverty. That’s a Policy Choice.
Fifty years ago, the Social Security Administration’s Supplemental Security Income launched with the goal of offering aid to adults and children with…
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Stephen Nuñez
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