You are going to hear a lot over the next few years about how SS is doomed and we need to privatize it or whatever. But it is not doomed. We have already figured out several possible ways to right to the ship. And we could have done so at any time in the last 2 decades. We knew this was coming...

This paper is part of a new portfolio of work on care at Roosevelt Institute w/ contributions from @indivar.bsky.social, @kedseconomist.com, @ehaspel.bsky.social. I was so excited to work with these creative thinkers who are pushing us to think big about solutions to decades of failed care policy.

Our paper argues that a public system is the best way to meet these needs. As @lbilik.bsky.social and I write today, tax credits--whether the paltry ones JD Vance is touting or the robust ones families deserve--will not get us there. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...