Roosevelt Network

We're down to the final weekend! Apply for the Roosevelt in Washington and Emerging Fellowships at the Roosevelt Network by 11:59pm on Sunday, December 18th!

https://rooseveltinstitute.org/roosevelt-network/undergraduate-fellowships/roosevelt-in-washington-fellowship/

https://rooseveltinstitute.org/roosevelt-network/undergraduate-fellowships/emerging-fellowship/

Network 2.0 Fellowship Applications are Officially Open!

The Roosevelt Network is opening applications for two undergraduate fellowship experiences: the Roosevelt in Washington Fellowship and the Emerging Fellowship.

https://rooseveltinstitute.org/roosevelt-network/undergraduate-fellowships/

If you’ve ever wanted to witness how policy is researched, debated, designed, and advocated for in the real world, then Roosevelt in Washington is for you!

If you’re a public policy wonk, contemplating pursuing a policy-related graduate degree, or looking for an independent research opportunity, check out the Emerging Fellowship!

Both opportunities are PAID, include MENTORSHIP, and you’ll LEVEL-UP your credentials for a career in the progressive movement. Current Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors are eligible to apply (current seniors only eligible for Emerging).

Have Questions? Join us for an information session tomorrow 11/16 at 12:00pmEST or 6:00pmEST

https://rooseveltinstitute.org/roosevelt-network/undergraduate-fellowships/

We’re in Hyde Park for the Forge Fellowship retreat weekend!

There’s no better place to learn from the Roosevelt Legacy and feel connected to all the Network alumni who have been here before.

Have you heard about Network 2.0 yet!?

This evolution situates the Network as the entry point of the Roosevelt Institute’s progressive pipelining project.

As the entry point for the organization’s new pipeline development plans, Network 2.0 is a revamped model for supporting and training undergraduate college students and early career professionals—centering those who hold identities historically denied political power.

Network 2.0 will:
- Provide transformative Fellowships for current undergraduate students
- Reposition alumni as participants of the Network rather than graduates of it
- Build Roosevelters’ capacity to be in deep community with one another: to call on their fellow Roosevelters for lifelong personal and professional support

🚨 Calling all alums 🚨 It’s time to register for Alumni @ Hyde Park local events! You can join us on Saturday, August 27th in person in Boston, NYC, DC, and Chicago OR join us virtually.

For those attending in each city, we’ll follow up with information about your venue soon. We’ll be holding the events from around 2-4pm local time (might change a little based on the venues) and the agenda is as follows:

- Welcome
- Happy Hour
- Alumni Panel
- Community Building Activity
- Strategic Planning Update
- Closing Call to Action

We know that these events aren’t the same as returning to the Hudson Valley, but we hope that this approach will balance everyone’s health and safety while still allowing us to bring our community together again.

Local Alumni @ Hyde Park Events: Registration Form Please click the link to complete this form.

Start your new year with a new job! Check out our open positions and apply now!

Career Opportunities with the Roosevelt Institute Build a rewarding career within the progressive movement; help make our economy and democracy work for the many and not the few.

"Racial justice must be central to investment and regulatory policy, otherwise any clean energy transition will risk reproducing and worsening existing racial inequities."

Racial justice, neoliberalism, and the climate crisis This piece was originally featured in The New Common Sense newsletter from our Economy and Society Initiative. Read more from this edition. One of the most compelling recent developments in U.S. politics is the increasing recognition among policymakers and advocates that climate policy is deeply int...

Fighting for economic justice must involve fixing our tax system so the rich and wealthy pay their fair share.

Senate Democrats are leaving the billionaires' tax out of their climate and spending plan due to widespread resistance in their ranks The tax would have hit 700 billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, compelling them to pay a chunk of their wealth to the federal government.

Handouts to fossil fuels have no place in climate policy.

House Progressives, Climate Coalition Demand End to 'Fossil Fuel Handouts' "Congress and the president should not throw frontline communities living with fossil fuel extraction and climate crisis under the bus to get this bill across the finish line."

“I worry that not everybody sees the threats to our democracy as threatening as they actually are, which will be the demise and peril of our democracy if we don’t take these threats seriously,” Kyle Strickland.

Moving beyond racial liberalism (with Kyle Strickland) - Pitchfork Economics How can we center the role of race in our economic policy and in our politics in a way that will drive real change? Kyle Strickland, the deputy director of race and democracy at the Roosevelt Institute, explains how our leaders have fallen under the sway of racial liberalism, which focuses solely on...

Check out our open positions and apply now to join the fight to of our economy and democracy for the many, not the few!

Career Opportunities with the Roosevelt Institute Build a rewarding career within the progressive movement; help make our economy and democracy work for the many and not the few.

“Another weekend in America: American workers died on the job during an environmental disaster, while others literally scrambled on the floor for cash.”

A Brutal Weekend in a Brutal Country Including Amazon workers dying in tornados and teachers competing Squid Game-style.

All workers have the right to safety in the workplace, but because they lack power in our current system, it’s difficult to speak out against any injustices. We need policies that protect workers’ right to unionize and demand better conditions.

Omicron could keep some workers — especially older ones — out of work force - Marketplace There are signs that health concerns, particularly for older Americans, are decreasing interest in being employed or “unretiring.”

Indigenous people across the globe are both the most vulnerable to climate inaction and the least culpable in creating the crises. They must have a seat at the table to fight the .

Those on the front lines of climate change should be empowered to be central to its solution While the people who have historically inhabited the Western Hemisphere — and native communities around the world — are among the most vulnerable to the climate crisis, they are also the key to its survival.

As student loan payments resume on February 1, so will the financial pressures on borrowers. The administration can—and must— via executive order.

How Canceling Student Debt Would Bolster the Economic Recovery and Reduce the Racial Wealth Gap - Roosevelt Institute Alí Bustamante explains that now, more than ever, student loan cancellation is a good—and necessary—economic policy.

Student debt cancellation is progressive, helping those with the largest debt burdens the most. It would also play a role in closing the racial wealth gap and building the Black middle class.

On student-debt cancellation, AOC slams the 'ridiculous assertion' it would benefit the rich: 'Do we really think that a billionaire's child is taking student loans?' AOC and House progressives like Rep. Ayanna Pressley say borrowers will face "a disastrous financial cliff" when loan payments resume in February.

It is crucial that we adopt a race-conscious jurisprudence that reckons with our history and present-day realities.

A Jurisprudential Reckoning: How Conservatives Use “Colorblind” Ideology to Obstruct Racial Justice - Roosevelt Institute To achieve racial justice today—and sustaining our democracy—we must have a sobering conversation about how our courts often obstruct racial progress.

We're hiring! Learn more about the External Relations Manager and Training and Field Manager roles and apply now!

Career Opportunities with the Roosevelt Institute Build a rewarding career within the progressive movement; help make our economy and democracy work for the many and not the few.

The student debt crisis is a racial justice issue and due to the existing racial wealth gap, a college degree is not the economic equalizer it claims to be.

Black college grads sought degrees as tickets to success. Now they’re buried in debt When it comes to the wealth gap, a college degree “doesn’t serve as an equalizer among Black and white families,” said Lowell Ricketts, a data scientist with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Transitioning to clean energy is not only absolutely necessary to combat the , but is economically advantageous.

The Best Way to Fight Inflation: Ditch Fossil Fuels The oil and gas industry and its Republican allies claim that climate policies are driving prices higher. That’s not the case.

There's still time to RSVP to our Alumni Book Club happening tonight at 8 pm ET!

We'll be discussing "Immigration Matters" with Slyvia Ruiz, Director of the Roosevelt Institute’s Power Building Initiative.

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Alumni Book Club: Discussing Immigration Matters . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. The next alumni book club discussion will be on a visionary new work on immigration policy, rights, and the future of the movement: Immigration Matters. Written by Ruth Milkman and edited by Penny Lewis and Roosevelt’s own Deepak Bhargava, Immigration Matters offers a new, actionable vision for im...

TODAY at 7pm ET: Join us for a Fireside Chat about the intersection of education and the economy with Policy Coordinators and special guests about the intersection of education and the economy.

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: PC FireSide Chat: The Suburbanization of Poverty and its Impact on Schools. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Education and the Economy go hand in hand. As we have seen in educations systems across the country, the impact of suburban poverty on public education has been chilling. Join us for a Fireside about the intersection of education and the economy with Policy Coordinators from this year’s National L...

Check out our open positions and apply now to join the fight to of our economy and democracy for the many, not the few.

Career Opportunities with the Roosevelt Institute Build a rewarding career within the progressive movement; help make our economy and democracy work for the many and not the few.

Join us for a Fireside Chat Dec 1 at 7pm ET about the intersection of education and the economy with Policy Coordinators from this year’s National Leadership Team and special guests about the intersection of education and the economy.

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: PC FireSide Chat: The Suburbanization of Poverty and its Impact on Schools. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Education and the Economy go hand in hand. As we have seen in educations systems across the country, the impact of suburban poverty on public education has been chilling. Join us for a Fireside about the intersection of education and the economy with Policy Coordinators from this year’s National L...

We have two open positions!

Learn more about the External Relations Manager and Training and Field Manager roles and apply now!

Career Opportunities with the Roosevelt Institute Build a rewarding career within the progressive movement; help make our economy and democracy work for the many and not the few.

If policymakers want to alleviate the price increases facing families, they would be wise to start with the single biggest line item in household budgets: rents.

No Room for Rent: Addressing Rising Rent Prices through Public Investment and Public Power - Roosevelt Institute This issue brief assesses rent prices through several different indicators to paint a holistic picture of rising housing costs.

The $1.7 trillion is not just a problem for the 45 million borrows that have student debt. It's a problem for the whole economy.

4 reasons why the $1.7 trillion student debt crisis is so bad for 45 million Americans The student debt crisis has surged 144% since 2007, and from rising tuition to uncapped borrowing, the Bipartisan Policy Center has some reasons why.

"We as a society still cannot wrap our minds around the fact that what’s good for women is also good for society as a whole."

The Patriarchy Penalty - Ms. Magazine The Build Back Better Act represents an opportunity to begin to address the deep inequities and injustices the patriarchy places on women and mothers.

Don't miss this must read on how private equity and hedge fund insiders infiltrating college boards helps the rich get richer on campuses, and on Wall Street.

Analysis | Elite private universities got much wealthier while most schools fell behind. My research found out why. Insiders helped out insiders, and the rich got richer.

Check out this event that our Washington University chapter helped organize to discuss improving the relationship between their campus and the region!

Mayor Jones critiques Democratic messaging and calls on WU to do more for St. Louis during visit to campus The event, Jones