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To Build the Care Infrastructure We Need, Tax Credits Won’t Cut It
As we near the end of April, two things are happening: First, the IRS is processing the millions of tax returns Americans filed in 2025, and doling out…
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Noa Rosinplotz
Republican Tax Policies Will Create a Trillionaire Class. That’s Bad News for Workers and Democracy.
As the top 1 percent of the nation have settled into their windfalls post–2017’s tax cuts, they have increasingly invested in our political system—an…
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Portia Allen-Kyle
Abortion and Economic Policy, Part II: “The Key Economic Decision Many Women Will Make in Their Lifetimes”
One of the key arguments the state of Mississippi presented to the court in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case was that there was no…
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Hannah Groch-Begley
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March 2025

Abundance That Works for Workers—and American Democracy
Ezra Klein argues in his recent op-ed (and at greater length in his compelling new book with Derek Thompson) that a central problem facing Democrats is…
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Kate Andrias
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Alexander Hertel-Fernandez
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What If Oakland Owned the A’s?
If you’re anything like me, you won’t be able to watch this year’s Major League Baseball (MLB) Opening Day without thinking about the Oakland…
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Denton Cohen
The Musical Chairs Theory of Housing
For hundreds of years, thousands upon thousands of New Yorkers all moved on the same day. Moving Day, which fell on May 1 each year, coincided with…
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Paul Williams
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“Abundance” Thinkers Asked Many of the Right Questions in 2021. Are We Going to Like the Answers in 2025 (and 2050)?
This week, one of the most awaited public policy books in years hits shelves. Titled simply Abundance, the book brings together themes developed in New…
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Todd Tucker
Trump’s Illegal Attacks on Regulatory Agencies Are a Gift to Corporations
On Tuesday we learned that President Trump illegally attempted to fire two Federal Trade Commission (FTC) commissioners, the administration’s latest…
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Elizabeth Wilkins
The Full Costs of Our Health Insurance Maze
The news last December that UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson had been assassinated prompted both a collective processing of the shocking event and a…
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Miranda Yaver
Where Abundance Goes Next Under Trump 2.0
The 2024 Democratic National Convention was a moment of triumph for the fledgling abundance movement. While accepting the party’s nomination for…
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Ned Resnikoff
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A Fireside Stacks Film Festival
In anticipation of the 2025 Academy Awards, we’ve put together a watch list of some favorite films from across Roosevelt staff. The twist? Each movie…

February 2025

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