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Sunny Malhotra

@sunnysmalhotra.bsky.social
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Former Roosevelt, current grad student at WU I write about how rules impact outcomes *Opinions my own*

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 30/04/2026
If markets are rigged, no amount of redistribution fixes the problem. Predistribution = unrigging the rules: • higher wages • lower prices • less corporate power A powerful antidote to the oligarchal agenda. Read more from @sunnysmalhotra.bsky.social and @skvogel.bsky.social:
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Predistribution Is the Anti-Oligarchy Solution
Predistribution transforms society and markets to generate less inequality in the first place.
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Aastha पास्ता @aasthauprety.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
"The most pressing problems we face today, from climate change to affordability, cannot be resolved within the existing structure of our unbalanced economy." 📝 @sunnysmalhotra.bsky.social @skvogel.bsky.social rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/predist...
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Predistribution Is the Anti-Oligarchy Solution
Predistribution transforms society and markets to generate less inequality in the first place.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Corporate America made over $22 billion from contracts with ICE and CBP last year. The list of companies profiting from Trump's aggressive deportation regime includes Palantir, Deloitte, GEO Group, and many more. www.ft.com/content/c741...
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Companies reap $22bn from Trump’s immigration crackdown
Palantir and Deloitte among beneficiaries of spending by government agencies
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Steven Vogel @skvogel.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The Democratic Party needs a bold economic vision for a better future. @sunnysmalhotra.bsky.social and I propose the predistribution solution.
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The Predistribution Solution - Roosevelt Institute
Introduction This policy brief analyzes the American political economy past and present through the lens of “predistribution.” Predistribution policies seek to achieve greater equality in opportunitie...
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 17/12/2025
NEW 📰: Inequality in the US has never been higher. But what if, instead of trying to close the gap after the fact, we adopted policies that prevented it in the first place. @skvogel.bsky.social and @sunnysmalhotra.bsky.social lay out a plan for a predistribution agenda: bit.ly/4rXStTs
Image from a candlelight vigil with signs reading "THIS IS OUR MOMENT" and "THRIVE." To the right, a quote by Sunny Malhotra and Steven K. Vogel states, "The predistribution agenda does not accept labor exploitation and value extraction and then compensate for it, but rather strives to give workers fair wages and consumers fair value in the first place." The Roosevelt Institute logo is visible in the bottom left corner.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
America if the news covered it like those countries Over There
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Ira.R @iraregmi.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Just released a new @rooseveltinstitute.org brief examining shelter inflation as an integral part of the post-pandemic inflation, its connection to the housing crisis, and why monetary policy alone isn't the answer. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
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The Persistence of Post-pandemic Shelter Inflation and the Housing Affordability Crisis - Roosevelt Institute
In a new analysis Ira Regmi examines shelter inflation’s complex dynamics through a monetary policy lens, analyzing its distinct trajectory during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Deeply honored that work from my team on the climate dimensions of genocide in Palestine was discussed at length at the Intl Court of Justice yesterday. War & militarism are insufficiently accounted for in climate policy; hopefully a strong advisory ruling can start to change that. Starts ~1:41:00
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THE HAGUE – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings in the advisory proceedings on Climate Change – Nauru; Nepal; New Zealand; State of Palestine and Pakistan
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings on the request for an advisory opinion on the Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change.
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Sunny Malhotra @sunnysmalhotra.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
A reminder that “austerity” has never been about cutting spending, but about weaponizing budgets to consolidate the power of specific interests. And people say Industrial Policy is picking winners…
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Lenore Palladino @lenorepalladino.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
new working paper ⬇️💰 the assumption that shareholders are the key investors in business innovation is simply taken as a given it's past time to abandon this myth: shareholders of corporations are not always, or even often, “investors.”
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Sunny Malhotra @sunnysmalhotra.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Last week #Amazon launched Amazon Haul to compete with #Shein and #Temu 's ultra cheap shopping platforms. As I wrote about in a recent Fireside Stack, fast fashion is nothing new, but a continuation of historical low-road business practices. www.firesidestacks.com/p/cheap-clot...
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Cheap Clothes, High Costs: Individual Choices Can’t Thread the Needle on Fast Fashion
We’re on the heels of New York Fashion Week—a display of the latest fashion trends that can travel from the runway to outlet malls in the blink of a cerulean eye. And though the dupes will be cheaper ...
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Sunny Malhotra @sunnysmalhotra.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
It's easy to think today's climate investment is a temporary phenomenon. But policy feedback theory and history show perhaps it's here to stay. I write about why in my new blog. #CleanEnergy #IndustrialPolicy rooseveltinstitute.org/2023/12/12/c...
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