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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 30/03/2026

Real corporate accountability means changing the structure: how power is distributed, how decisions get made, and who benefits. More from Julie Menter of Transform Finance in this week's #FiresideStacks🔥: www.firesidestacks.com/p/beyond-sta...

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 13/03/2026

New evidence confirms what many suspected: the Supreme Court increasingly rules for the rich. What’s driving the shift and what it means for democracy. The latest #FiresideStacks 🔥 from @andreaprat.bsky.social, @proffionasm.bsky.social and Jacob Spitz: bit.ly/4cFUY7U

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 06/03/2026

Who profits from a supersized ICE? @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social, @bedoyausa.bsky.social and @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social break down how corporations benefit from a massively expanded detention and deportation apparatus. 🎥 Watch the video: www.firesidestacks.com/p/how-compan... #FiresideStacks🔥

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 26/02/2026

Bezos’ layoffs at the Washington Post are a warning: the extremely wealthy buy essential institutions and reshape them to extract more from all of us. Taxing billionaires is about breaking that power. Read more from @igorvolsky.bsky.social in this week's #FiresideStacks🔥 : bit.ly/4rCLlLE

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 29/01/2026

Filing your taxes shouldn't be this hard. The IRS built a free filing tool that worked. This administration killed it. Tax prep companies are cashing in. This is how complexity become a profit strategy, Noa Rosinplotz in this week's #FiresideStacks🔥 : bit.ly/3NNVCFZ

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 27/01/2026

New from our President and CEO @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social: @mayor.nyc.gov is reshaping the city's affordability approach, from multibillion-dollar childcare to rent freezes, wage floors, and people-led policy engagement. Read more in our latest #FiresideStacks🔥 bit.ly/4rfYtWD

An image featuring a quote from Elizabeth Wilkins about Zohran Mamdani's approach to people-centered policymaking, presented by Roosevelt Forward: "What truly distinguishes this approach is that Mamdani treats people-centered policymaking as a source of governing power, not just popular appeal. He has invested in building a sense of belonging that is now translating into sustained civic engagement."

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 24/01/2026

Affordability is at the center of people’s needs and today's politics. Our President & CEO @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social highlights @mayor.nyc.gov as an exemplar for tackling care, housing, and wages by listening and using a people-first approach to policymaking. bit.ly/4t2IZXO

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 15/01/2026

States know the federal minimum wage is too low—that’s why 19 raised theirs. So why do most still rely on outdated federal overtime rules? If wages must keep up with inflation, overtime should too. Patrick Oakford in this week’s #FiresideStacks🔥 bit.ly/49NboIG

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 12/01/2026

“For a lot of powerful people [...] ‘too progressive’ is code used to undermine any economic agenda that favors working people.” 🎯 from @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social at @pressclubdc.bsky.social. The debate we should have is not left vs. right, but how we ensure working families can afford to live.

Senator Elizabeth Warren speaking at The National Press Club on January 12th, 2026.

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 08/01/2026

So much of what we’re told is “personal failure” is actually public policy failure. Shame keeps people silent and that silence protects the billionaire class. @kristencrowell.bsky.social of @fairshareamerica.bsky.social in this week's #FiresideStacks🔥 bit.ly/4jwQW2T

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 19/12/2025

@elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social on Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's appointment of Julie Su as NYC’s Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice—and what it means for delivering the #GoodLife for working New Yorkers ⬇️

“Julie Su is the rare public servant who not only cares deeply about working people, but will fight for them with the creativity and relentlessness required to make government deliver at the scale of the need. Mayor-elect Mamdani’s decision to put her in this role shows he’s serious about making sure New York City works for all New Yorkers.” — Elizabeth Wilkins, President and CEO, Roosevelt Forward

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 18/12/2025

79 million Americans already struggle with medical bills or medical debt. Telling them to “pay up front and deduct it later” isn’t reform—it’s denial. @mirandayaver.bsky.social takes on Sen. Hawley's new proposal in the latest #FiresideStacks🔥 : bit.ly/4p6sren

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 18/12/2025

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social spoke with @nicholsuprising.bsky.social about the hope of living up to Roosevelt’s New Deal agenda. This legacy drives the work to better serve everyday Americans. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

"So it was that, while they were in the Oval Office, Mamdani steered the discussion to Roosevelt’s New Deal presidency—the legacy of which Trump has been attacking on so many fronts. 'I actually asked the president that we take a photo in front of the portrait [of FDR] and I spoke about how transformative the New Deal had been for our country and how that is the legacy of politics that I seek to draw upon in the work that I’m doing in New York City.'"

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 13/12/2025

Stretching a mortgage to half a century doesn’t expand opportunity—it extends vulnerability. In this week’s #FiresideStacks🔥, Portia Allen-Kyle breaks down how a “death pledge” is not housing policy for a fair economy. bit.ly/4oTzLtJ

Roosevelt Forward quote graphic reads: A 50-year mortgage is a death pledge that follows a family to the grave instead of building something they can pass on. With a 50-year mortgage, someone buying a first home at 40 would most likely die still owing at least a decade of payments without passing down the generational wealth the American Dream promises to homeowners.

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 11/12/2025

Roosevelt fellow Portia Allen-Kyle makes it clear: a fair housing system should expand stability and power. A 50-year mortgage does the opposite, cementing inequality for another generation. Read more in this week’s #FiresideStacks🔥. bit.ly/3Yo1S9m

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 10/12/2025

When consumer sentiment nears historic lows while markets soar, it tells us something deeper: economic power is drifting upward, away from most families. Last week’s #FiresideStacks🔥 analysis by @mikemadowitz.bsky.social breaks it down. bit.ly/4rINxSv

Roosevelt Forward quote graphic reads "Consumer sentiment in October was only exceeded by lows from the worst of the early 1980s recession, the peak of the 2022 inflation, and the months following the “Liberation Day” tariff announcement this year. Since January, consumer sentiment has plunged, giving up essentially all gains from a steady rise after the inflation peak of 2022.”

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 08/12/2025

The US economy should be one, but reads like three. Household costs rising, economic data trending downward, but record gains for elites. @mikemadowitz.bsky.social explains this divide and why the “vibes” are good for some & bad for many. FiresideStacks🔥 bit.ly/4a55eW6

Roosevelt Forward quote graphic reads "First, the vibes are bad (just ask anyone coming out of a grocery store). Second, the real economy—prices, jobs, and consumer and business spending, among other factors—is worse than it was a year ago, but holding up OK (4.4 percent unemployment, GDP growth over 2 percent, and inflation around 3 percent is hardly the stuff of recession). Third, a small number of people and companies are doing extremely well.”

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 04/12/2025

The US economy is “OK” on paper, painful in reality, and exuberant for a tiny elite. This week, @mikemadowitz.bsky.social shows that understanding the divide is essential to building an economy that works for everyone. #FiresideStacks🔥 bit.ly/4iO6RcT

Roosevelt Forward quote graphic reads "Overall, the data are on a more even keel than either the awful vibes most Americans are feeling from an affordability crisis or the anxiously warm vibes of investors. We’re not living through the economic boom tech investors see everywhere, nor the near-term dystopia consumers are feeling. The economy is weaker than last year and likely to continue to soften a bit more over the first part of next year, but the good news is at least for now things are not as bad in the data as in the headlines. The bad news is…that’s the good news."

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 25/11/2025

When families can’t afford care but billionaires grow richer, the system isn’t working. In #FiresideStacks🔥, @lbilik.bsky.social highlights how voters nationwide are pushing for a different path—one rooted in collective care. www.firesidestacks.com/p/care-over-…

Roosevelt Forward quote graphic reads "Americans know that it’s not that we lack the resources to deliver economic security. It’s that lawmakers appear to lack the will to collect those resources."

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 21/11/2025

People want a government that helps everyone build a stable life. This week, @lbilik.bsky.social discusses the nationwide momentum behind taxing concentrated wealth to fund care—the new mainstream for progressive policy. #FiresideStacks🔥 bit.ly/4i7SgIU

Roosevelt Forward quote graphic reads "Time and again, the American people have told almost anyone who will listen that they are deeply concerned about the fact that households in the top 10 percent hold over two-thirds of the country’s wealth, while many families can’t afford childcare or eldercare, children go hungry, and so many live in tenuous precarity because we lack a true social safety net."

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 20/11/2025

NY hopes to invest in childcare as an economic engine, while CO proves people will raise taxes to feed kids. In #FiresideStacks🔥, @lbilik.bsky.social explores the momentum behind taxing concentrated wealth to fund economic stability for all. www.firesidestacks.com/p/care-over-...

Roosevelt Forward quote graphic reads "People have made clear that they don’t want to live in a country where children go to bed hungry or parents can’t make ends meet because they lack childcare, while the richest among us keep getting richer."

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 13/11/2025

Wealth inequality continues to widen while the tax code favors the top 0.1%. In this week’s #FiresideStacks🔥, Jacob Spitz discusses why it’s time to stop letting billionaire threats shape public policy. bit.ly/4hZo2YE

Roosevelt Forward quote graphic reads "The myth of millionaire mobility has done its job: It’s made policymakers nervous and kept billionaires comfortable. The evidence tells a simpler story—most of them stay put."

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 10/11/2025

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. bit.ly/3Xh9biB

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 07/11/2025

“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. bit.ly/3Xh9biB

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 31/10/2025

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."

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 30/10/2025

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?"

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 28/10/2025

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.”

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 26/10/2025

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.”

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 24/10/2025

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.”

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 23/10/2025

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.”

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 22/10/2025

Michiganders see through it. New polling shows that 70% of likely Michigan voters support raising taxes on billionaires to fund healthcare, schools, and public services: 2/3 taxgreed.org/wp-content/u...

Bar graph titled "Support for Raising Taxes on Billionaires," showing levels of support across Congressional Districts +49, +54, and +44. Strong support is represented in dark blue, somewhat support in blue, strongly oppose in dark red, and somewhat oppose in red. The bars are labeled with percentages for each category.

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 19/10/2025

With the government shutdown halting vital data collection, we’re flying blind in an uneven, fragile economy. For #FiresideStacks🔥, @mikemadowitz.bsky.social explains the risks without public data and why we must push to restore a foundation of our economy. bit.ly/4726aag

Roosevelt Forward quote graphic reads "This data blackout, however, should be a wake-up call. Even under stress, federal economic data remain a crucial piece of our economic foundation and one of the last objective truths in America. Building on the legacy of statistics introduced to monitor the Great Depression and war mobilization, the US has the institutional knowledge and professionalism to expand and improve its open access federal statistics."

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 17/10/2025

📉 The economic dashboard has gone dark. With families struggling and inflation rising, shutting down data is reckless leadership. In this week’s #FiresideStacks🔥, @mikemadowitz.bsky.social unpacks what’s lost when we shut down public data. bit.ly/4726aag

Roosevelt Forward quote graphic reads "It’s not just that private data depends on federal data; it’s that no one—no matter how smart— can match the work of a capable state."

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 16/10/2025

No jobs data. No inflation report. No roadmap. This isn’t a technical glitch, it’s a threat to democratic governance. In #FiresideStacks🔥, @mikemadowitz.bsky.social warns how the shutdown has silenced the federal stats that keep our economy functioning. bit.ly/4726aag

Roosevelt Forward quote graphics that reads "With this much volatility, it’s precisely the wrong time to turn off the data tap. And it really is shut off, making the economy harder to read in addition to gumming up the work of straightforward governing."

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 10/10/2025

YIMBYs are winning reforms that defy political norms, proving community can be a key driver to success. In #FiresideStacks🔥, @resnikoff.bsky.social explores lessons from the housing policy movement that prioritizes connection. www.firesidestacks.com/p/yimb...

Roosevelt Forward quote graphic which reads "While local conditions can explain some of the wins, a consistent theme is that YIMBY groups have a knack for hosting fun social gatherings where they can, and often do, persuade skeptics and convert sympathizers into activists."

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 09/10/2025

A key lesson from YIMBYtown: movements thrive on meaning and momentum. In #FiresideStacks🔥, @resnikoff.bsky.social highlights how joy, scrappiness, and social bonds have been overlooked in the infrastructure of democracy. www.firesidestacks.com/p/yimb...

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 01/10/2025

“Shutdowns may start as political gambits, but they end as human harm.” Stalled factories = lost jobs Frozen disability checks A health coverage cliff impacting millions In #FiresideStacks🔥, Rey Fuentes highlights the need to end shutdown politics. bit.ly/48rICOL

Roosevelt Forward quote image stating: 'Each new standoff reinforces a sense that the government is unstable, which serves the agenda of those eager to discredit public power.' - Reynaldo Fuentes, from 'Shutdown by Design: How State-Capacity Sabotage Stalls Industrial Renewal, Shreds Public Trust, and Hurts Families.'

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 30/09/2025

Shutdowns used to be rare. Now, they frequently block progress—hitting public services & industrial renewal policy projects hard. In #FiresideStacks🔥, @reyfuentes.bsky.social discusses shutdowns as a tool for dismantling the government itself and public trust. www.firesidestacks.com/p/shutdown-b...

Quote “For the people waiting—a disabled worker, a small business owner, a family navigating Social Security—these aren’t abstractions. They are weeks of anxiety, bills delayed, or opportunities foregone.” highlighted in an orange box, attributed to Reynaldo Fuentes from Roosevelt Forward.

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 25/09/2025

3.2M Americans could be lifted out of poverty. Its cost is less than a single tax break in Trump’s budget bill. We can afford to do it. In #FiresideStacks🔥, @socio-steve.bsky.social explores why it’s the perfect time to fix what’s broken in Social Security. www.firesidestacks.com/p/ssi-reform...

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 18/09/2025

When billionaires like Elon Musk stroll the Oval Office, it’s a reminder: corporations will bend government to their own interests. In #FiresideStacks🔥, Brad Lipton explores why leaders must act boldly so government truly works for the people. www.firesidestacks.com/p/corporatio...

U.S. President Donald Trump standing in the Oval Office, with a bold caption about corporations and government overlaid on the photo.

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 11/09/2025

Work requirements don’t create jobs. They just kick people off food + health care, saddle states with costs, and strain already fragile hospitals. Our new #FiresideStacks 🔥 explores why targeting “ABAWDs” hurts not just them—but everyone. www.firesidestacks.com/p/the-cruelt...

Image of a group of individuals in a meeting room. Overlay text reads: 'Cruelty Is the Point: Work Requirements Don't Lift People Up—They Drag Us All Down. www.firesidestacks.com'.

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 04/09/2025

“ABAWDs,” aren’t the lazy caricature politicians make them out to be. They’re caregivers, neighbors, and workers trying to get by. The latest #FiresideStacks 🔥 from @socio-steve.bsky.social and Noa Rosinplotz unveils the truth behind the rhetoric: www.firesidestacks.com/p/abawds-are...

Two individuals, one appearing elderly, look at a laptop in a kitchen, with text overlay emphasizing that ABAWDs are workers, caregivers, and neighbors, not political punching bags.

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 03/09/2025

Universal childcare isn’t just a policy fix; it’s a foundation for strong families, thriving communities & a healthier democracy. @lbilik.bsky.social talks with @ehaspel.bsky.social about building the movement to make universal childcare real. #FiresideStacks www.firesidestacks.com/p/raising-a-...

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 03/09/2025

Stagnant wages. Rising costs. Broken trust. The market-first consensus has collapsed. In Democracy Journal, @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social lays out the path to a democratic economy—one built with people, not just for them. democracyjournal.org/magazine/78/...

Graphic on the 4 pillars for a democratic economy

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 28/08/2025

Childcare holds families, communities, and our economy together. In the latest #FiresideStacks 🔥, @lbilik.bsky.social sat down with @ehaspel.bsky.social, who makes a compelling case for universal childcare as a central tenet of the American Dream. www.firesidestacks.com/p/raising-a-...

No matter where one comes from, whether or not one has kids, whether or not one is particularly comfortable with the idea of young children being cared for outside the home, there is a way into this idea that childcare undergirds everything we care about as Americans. And unless we start explaining that, and making that case on that emotional, values-laden level, I think we’re going to be stuck on a very slow, choppy path toward the system that we need.

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 21/08/2025

Social Security isn’t broken; it’s under attack. Trump’s budget will exhaust funds by 2032 & risky Wall Street schemes won’t fix it. @justinbloesch.bsky.social explores real solutions like raising the cap on taxable income for the wealthy, in #FiresideStacks🔥 www.firesidestacks.com/p/the-social...

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 14/08/2025

Social Security is America’s most trusted social program. On its 90th anniversary, Jim Roosevelt, grandson of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, urges the importance of defending it and building a stronger, more inclusive safety net in #FiresideStacks🔥 www.firesidestacks.com/p/soci...

An informational graphic from Roosevelt Forward, featuring a quote "My grandfather spoke of Social Security as a moral compact that binds generations together through mutual obligation. He knew then what we must remember now—that economic security is a prerequisite for democracy," by Jim Roosevelt, discussing its importance to democracy and its role as a moral compact, titled "Social Security at 90: Protect the Promise."

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 07/08/2025

Headlines say AI is replacing workers, but beneath the headlines is a more sinister truth—they're being reorganized, outsourced, and devalued to make automation possible. @samshorey.bsky.social lays it all out in the latest #FiresideStacks 🔥 www.firesidestacks.com/p/patchwork-...

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 05/08/2025

Trump’s second term is damaging. It’s being defined by consolidation, deregulation, sabotage, and power grabs. We call for rebuilding government to be faster, fairer, and truly serve the people. It’s time for a new vision. #FiresideStacks 🔥 www.firesidestacks.com/p/reclaiming...

Infographic titled 'A New Blueprint for Politics' with four key points

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Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltforward.org · 05/08/2025

The firing of the labor stats chief isn’t about data—it’s about power and eroding trust in our institutions. As @mikemadowitz.bsky.social says, credibility is easier to lose than rebuild. And America’s economy runs on trusted data. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“Politicizing economic statistics is a self-defeating act,” said Michael Madowitz, the principal economist at the Roosevelt Institute’s Roosevelt Forward, who added that “credibility is far easier to lose than rebuild, and the credibility of America’s economic data is the foundation on which we’ve built the strongest economy in the world”.

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