Prediction markets claim to outperform traditional gambling by matching users against each other instead of a house. However, most participants end up competing against professional traders, and evide...

States are expanding public childcare through broader subsidies, investments in the childcare workforce, coordinated governance, capital funding, and community engagement. This brief examines Connecti...

Graham Steele looks to lessons from financial regulation to examine whether self-regulatory organizations can help govern AI—and where democratic oversight must take the lead.

The US once had dozens of income tax brackets. Samarth Gupta argues that restoring more brackets at the top would better address today’s extreme income inequality, raise revenue, and give policymakers...

The new city agency intends to connect workers who want to unionize with resources and organizing contacts, and use worker stories of exploitation to inform policy.

How Care Blocks are reshaping space and giving people time back.

Low corporate taxes are sold as the price of competitiveness. The evidence shows otherwise and points toward stronger corporate taxes and international cooperation.

In just a few years, prediction markets have gone from obscure tools concentrated in the niche corners of elite policy, academia, intelligence, and analytics communities to rapidly expanding fixtures ...

This community has already faced structural racism and disinvestment. A two-week blackout unleashed a humanitarian disaster.

Capital markets, labor markets, and fragmented government policy are weakening America’s industrial capacity. This brief offers 15 reforms for a high-road clean energy economy.

All the most significant Social Security laws were developed with the help of outside boards.

Meet the experts who put AI public equity stakes on the map.

Asad Ramzanali discusses AI and tech policy, regulatory reform, and how government can deliver bold solutions in this Building the Future: Meet the Roosevelt Society interview.

In her words, Frances Perkins, the first woman cabinet secretary, ‘came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain, common workingmen.’

Critics are assailing deals to give the government stakes in major companies—but they’re overlooking their civic dividends.

“Apartment buildings are bought, sold, and borrowed against on the expectation that rents will keep rising,” writes Anisha Steephen.

Three men who were in the vehicle alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo are contesting the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the fatal shooting.

After years of criminalization and confiscation, New York’s street vendors have won long-overdue reforms. Now the city must make good on its promises.

Housing affordability is often framed as a supply problem. This brief examines the role of speculative finance in rental housing and argues that rent regulation is a powerful tool for promoting financ...

AI isn't causing mass job losses, but youth unemployment is rising. Why are recent college and graduate degree holders facing a tougher labor market?

Tackling both the broken incomes and broken markets of housing.

How did NYC's free Pre-K for All survive Eric Adams’s budget cuts and expand statewide? Josh Wallack's analysis offers a blueprint for progressive policies that last.

What does the 2025 Social Security Trustees Report mean for your benefits? Experts break down the OASI Trust Fund depletion timeline, what causes the shortfall, and why Congress must act now to protec...

A day after ICE officials pepper-spray senator, tensions ramp up outside facility on fifth day of hunger and labor strike

In an era of political pressure on universities, this report examines free speech, academic freedom, and governance and why public higher education can be a bulwark for democracy.

The Roosevelt Institute announces a new application period for its Good Life Residents Program, soliciting applications for emerging policy leaders to write on housing policy.

Rejecting surveillance capitalism means insisting, clearly and unapologetically, that markets should serve the people — not the other way around, writes NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protectio...

The Good Life Residents Program is a six-month initiative focused on developing new leaders and elevating bold ideas centered around six economic policy priorities for the Roosevelt Institute, as part...

Predistribution transforms society and markets to generate less inequality in the first place.

The president signaled this week the government could help the discount carrier, which has struggled with surging jet-fuel prices.