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Advocacy affiliate of @rooseveltinstitute.org. We believe that new politics and policymaking—that can equalize power in our society—are possible. www.rooseveltforward.org || Subscribe to our Substack #FiresideStacks 🔥 firesidestacks.com
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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · Feb 20
👀 The latest with an eye toward the long game.

#FiresideStacks🔥 is a weekly newsletter about progressive politics, policy, and economics.

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When the government can’t act decisively, democracy is at risk.

In #FiresideStacks🔥, Hannah Garden-Monheit shares insights from former Biden-Harris senior officials on how we can build a more responsive government that works for everyone.

https://bit.ly/3Xh9biB
November 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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“If the government can’t deliver quickly and visibly for ordinary people, its legitimacy erodes.”

In our inaugural #FiresideStacks🔥 video interview, Hannah Garden-Monheit offers a clear-eyed blueprint for rebuilding public capacity.

https://bit.ly/3Xh9biB
November 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Did you know that Oxfam research found that the richest 10 Americans made over $698 billion dollars this past year? This extreme concentration of wealth alongside the hardship of many is no accident. This is what oligarchy looks like. @rebeccariddell.bsky.social 

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November 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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"The data confirms what people across our nation already know instinctively: the new American oligarchy is here." -
@abbymaxman.bsky.social speaks about our newest report on the drastic growth of inequality in the U.S: www.forbes.com/sites/josiec...
Income Inequality Is Surging In The U.S., New Oxfam Report Shows
The richest 1% of households have accumulated almost 1,000 times more wealth than the poorest 20% over the last three and a half decades.
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November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Excited that my new book review came out at the same time as Corrine Low's essay on what the medical professions can teach us about how to organize jobs to be family friendly. There's a lot to be learned by looking at how women organize work when they have numbers.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...
November 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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a sharp @suzmkahn.bsky.social review in @washingtonmonthly.com on After the Spike. Parenting will always have something of an "opportunity cost" but that doesn't mean there's not a lot policy can do to make it a better option

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Running Out of People
In After the Spike, two economists make a provocative case that population decline could stall innovation and human progress.
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November 3, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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#ICYMI:

✅ Biden alums reflect on what was already broken before they took office
✅ What expiring health insurance tax credits mean for you
✅ Latest explainer on the SCOTUS tariff cases

More in the #RooseveltRundown ⬇️
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161 Ways to Make Government More Effective - Roosevelt Institute
Roosevelt Rundown: “I Don't Want to Go Back to a Government I Entered in 2020–21”, Why Everyone's Premiums Are Going Up This Open Enrollment Season, What We're Talking About, and What We're Reading
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November 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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When students speak, history tells us to listen. They often hold the line on justice while institutions maintain the status quo.

In #FiresideStacks🔥, @katie-kirchner.bsky.social argues that their activism should be the standard.

www.firesidestacks.com/p/we-c...
Roosevelt Forward quote graphic reads "As in generations past, the student left remains “the most reliably correct constituency in America.” Over and over—often at great personal sacrifice—they’ve held the line on what is moral, only to see institutions and leaders catch up. Columbia University is one example: It once worked to crush its 1968 student uprising, and now it markets that same protest as a symbol of its “activist Ivy” legacy."
October 31, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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"Isn’t empathy for that pain, and honesty about its scale, the bare minimum we should expect from our leaders? That’s the spirit that should guide how progressive institutions and leaders approach policy: starting from what is necessary, not what polls as popular."
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Young progressives aren’t “the future”—they’re the moral compass of the present.

Ignoring them isn’t just shortsighted. It’s a threat to progress.

This week’s #FiresideStacks🔥 is a wake-up call from @katie-kirchner.bsky.social.

www.firesidestacks.com/p/we-c...
Roosevelt Forward quote graphic reads "This time, instead of treating students’ moral conviction as a challenge to pragmatic politics, what if we saw it as the foundation of any civic movement capable of meeting this moment?"
October 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Young progressives aren’t “the future”—they’re the moral compass of the present.

Ignoring them isn’t just shortsighted. It’s a threat to progress.

This week’s #FiresideStacks🔥 is a wake-up call from @katie-kirchner.bsky.social.

www.firesidestacks.com/p/we-c...
Roosevelt Forward quote graphic reads "This time, instead of treating students’ moral conviction as a challenge to pragmatic politics, what if we saw it as the foundation of any civic movement capable of meeting this moment?"
October 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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The White House claims it’s out of cash for food stamps. But the law’s pretty clear: they could tap SNAP’s backup fund anytime.

@brycecovert.bsky.social breaks down how we can ensure 42 million Americans continue to get access to SNAP via @prospect.org
https://bit.ly/4npfkE1
Trump Is Illegally Withholding Food From Needy Families - The American Prospect
The White House claims it cannot fund food stamp benefits for November. But not only is there a contingency fund meant to be used in this exact fashion, but it’s illegal for the Trump administration t...
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October 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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AI is speeding up health insurance denials, and ERISA makes them nearly impossible to fight.

In this week’s #FiresideStacks🔥, @mirandayaver.bsky.social unpacks the law that prevents 100M Americans from holding insurers accountable.

www.firesidestacks.com/p/ai-p...
Roosevelt Forward quote graphic reads “[Employee Retirement Income Security Act] not only discourages patients from suing—shielding insurers from consequences for wrongful denials—but also disproportionately harms lower-income and marginalized workers.”
October 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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SCOOP --> Major new Bidenworld autopsy just dropped: 45 former Biden officials candidly assess their mistakes and failings in new Roosevelt Institute report. They lay out the beginnings of a Project 2029 agenda to reverse authoritarian tide.

Details in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2023...
Why Is Trump Autocracy Rising? These Dems Have an Unnerving Answer.
A new Biden administration autopsy, based on internal assessments from many government insiders, has crystal clear lessons for the future.
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October 28, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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New from me! Do you have questions about the enhanced premium tax credits? What are they and why are they important? Why have they taken a central role in the federal government shutdown? Find out in my explainer:

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What’s at Stake in the Shutdown Fight: Enhanced Premium Tax Credits, Explained - Roosevelt Institute
At the heart of the current federal budget standoff lies an esoteric but consequential policy choice: whether to extend the enhanced premium tax credits (EPTCs) that help millions afford health covera...
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October 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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A majority of insured workers are on ERISA plans. That means no state oversight, no damages, and little legal recourse.

In #FiresideStacks🔥, @mirandayaver.bsky.social exposes the risks of a system working as designed to protect insurers.

www.firesidestacks.com/p/ai-p...
Roosevelt Forward quote graphic reads “With few lawsuits and no real penalty for wrongful denials, insurers face little incentive to change, especially as AI promises faster, cheaper claim reviews at the patients’ expense.”
October 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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During his campaign, Trump promised a "Michigan miracle" that would "reclaim our stolen wealth," but so far his policies are only paying off for the richest Americans.

@elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social and @bilalb.bsky.social of @rooseveltforward.org lay out the facts for @freep.com:
Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill is wrecking Michigan’s middle class | Opinion
Trump promised to save post-industrial Michigan. Instead, he gave tax cuts to millionaires.
www.freep.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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The one-two punch this week says it all: the DOJ demands billions from Binance, and days later, Trump pardons its founder.

This isn’t hypocrisy—it’s the point.
kenvogel.bsky.social Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 18d
NEW: Trump has pardoned Binance founder CZ, wiping away one of the US’s most significant crackdowns on crypto crime.

The pardon is emblematic of Trump’s approach to clemency:

CZ hired lawyers & lobbyists with Trump ties, while Binance struck a business deal with the Trump family’s crypto company.
Trump Pardons Founder of the Crypto Exchange Binance
www.nytimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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#ICYMI:

✅ Warning signs are emerging for workers in the non-AI economy
✅ The Fed is missing key data thanks to the shutdown
✅ #RooseveltontheRoad goes to Michigan!

More in the #RooseveltRundown ⬇️
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The Frozen Economy Is Threatening Workers - Roosevelt Institute
Roosevelt Rundown: Workers Are Feeling the First Tremors from Destabilizing Forces, What We’re Talking About, and What We’re Reading
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October 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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AI tools can deny insurance claims in seconds, while appeals can take months.
ERISA ensures there’s no accountability in between.

In this week’s #FiresideStacks🔥, @mirandayaver.bsky.social exposes the true cost of “efficiency” in health care.

www.firesidestacks.com/p/ai-p...
Roosevelt Forward quote graphic reads “AI-assisted claims are error-prone: In some cases, up to 90 percent of AI-related denials are reversed on appeal to the insurer— if patients can manage the onerous process to appeal, which many do not.”
October 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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⚠️ Let’s not forget: the Administration can use emergency funds to bridge the SNAP gap during the shutdown.

This is a policy choice.
October 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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I was pleased to get to write this piece for @rooseveltforward.org. With proliferation of insurer reliance on AI tools to deny claims & prior auths, workers in self-insured health plans regulated by ERISA are esp vulnerable because if harmed, no legal recourse. www.firesidestacks.com/p/ai-powered...
How a 1974 Law Made AI-Powered Insurance Denials All But Impossible to Fight
Prominent health insurers are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) to process medical claims and prior authorizations. What few realize is that when this system fails, patients have almost ...
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October 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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AI claims to make health care more efficient, but it’s making denials faster and appeals harder.

In #FiresideStacks🔥, @mirandayaver.bsky.social shows how ERISA ensures no one is held accountable when AI gets it wrong.

www.firesidestacks.com/p/ai-p...
Roosevelt Forward quote graphic reads “Insurers are hardly alone in using AI as a cheap substitute for labor-intensive procedures, but when these tools wrongly deny coverage, patients have little legal recourse. Without the ability to recover damages for pain and suffering, insurers face almost no serious penalty for error—errors that are likely to only increase given such tools’ imperfect track record. And because [Employee Retirement Income Security Act] preempts state law, even the most ambitious state reforms can’t protect most workers.”
October 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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🧵Trump promised a “Michigan miracle.” Nearly a year later, the only miracle is how fast his “Big Beautiful Bill” made the rich richer—while Michiganders are left waiting.

His signature law slashed Medicaid to fund another tax windfall for billionaires and corporations. 1/3
October 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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🧵 Yesterday’s AWS failure wasn’t just a massive service disruption. It exposed how dependent our economy and public institutions have become on privatized, centralized systems. 1/4
www.fastcompany.com/91425078/aws...
The AWS outage reveals the web’s massive centralization problem
What happens when key infrastructure providers are too good at their jobs? Everyone relies on them—with catastrophic consequences when they fail.
www.fastcompany.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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The Fed is flying blind.

The government shutdown has cut off data on jobs and prices—leaving the Fed to make decisions that affect prices and borrowing costs without the info it needs.

@mikemadowitz.bsky.social spoke w/ @ddayen.bsky.social on what it means in @prospect.org https://bit.ly/3WLrzzU
Fed Making Key Economic Decisions Without Key Economic Data - The American Prospect
The Fed considers information from a variety of sources in setting monetary policy, everything from anecdotal reports to original data produced by its regional Reserve Banks. But the loss of public, and apparently some private, data is an acknowledged b...
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October 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM