Today, the Trustees announced that the OASI Trust Fund—the reserve that helps pay full benefits when Social Security tax revenue falls short—will run out by 2032, a full quarter earlier than last year’s projection.
This is not bankruptcy, but it is a warning: Congress must act. 🧵
"To be a parent in America is to race constantly in vain against the clock." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/m...
This excellent piece is why I'm so excited that our new Good Life Agenda included a whole section on time. (rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...)
New 📰: Patrick Oakford explores how stronger labor standards are foundational to the economic security of working families—raising the federal minimum wage to $20/hr by 2030, establishing just cause protections, and strengthening enforcement against wage theft. 🧵
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Suzanne Kahn
We need to build the economic scaffolding that enables good lives in our own era. The Good Life Agenda tries to begin mapping our way there.
It builds on a core demand of 19thc labor: 8 hrs to work, 8 hrs to rest, and 8 hrs for what we will. "Winning that basic compact for many workers through the New Deal demonstrated to generations of Americans that democratic government could create the economic scaffolding that enables a good life."
Roosevelt Institute
The story of UPK is a story of building programs that build countervailing power. It has critical lessons for @rooseveltinstitute.org's whole good life agenda.
Roosevelt's Good Life Agenda is out today. We argue that the only way to renew faith in democratic governance is to build a government that is committed to making people's lives better and equipped with the tools to do so by controlling costs, raising incomes, and creating more time in our days.
Suzanne Kahn
Suzanne Kahn
Suzanne Kahn
Suzanne Kahn
This is very much a project in FDR's legacy. FDR came to power at a moment when the ability of democracy to meet the challenges of the day was in question. He defended democracy by showing it could make people's lives better.
Suzanne Kahn
New 📰: NYC's Pre-K for All is a rare success story and an example of building policy that can survive attack and expand. This new paper from Josh Wallack has lessons for anyone designing progressive policy to last.
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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.
