The Roosevelt Institute is a
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American think tank.
According to the organization, it exists "to carry forward the legacy and values of
Franklin
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and
Eleanor Roosevelt
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by developing progressive ideas and bold leadership in the service of restoring America’s promise of opportunity for all." It is headquartered in
New York City
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.
History and overview
The Roosevelt Institute was created in 1987 through the merger of the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Foundation. In 2007, the Roosevelt Institute merged with the Roosevelt Institution, now known as the
Roosevelt Institute Campus Network
The Roosevelt Institute's Network, formerly the "Roosevelt Institute Campus Network" and the "Roosevelt Institution", bills itself as the first student-run policy organization in the United States.Falcone, Michael, "Hoping to Make Policy Waves, a ...
. It remains the non-profit partner to the government-run
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum holds the records of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States (1933–1945). Located on the grounds of Springwood, the Roosevelt family estate in Hyde Park, New ...
, the nation's first presidential library. In 2009, it expanded its mission with the launch of the Four Freedoms Center, a progressive policy
think tank
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, and an economic policy blog.
Felicia Wong, formerly of the
Democracy Alliance, became the organization's president and CEO in March 2012. In 2015, the Roosevelt Institute was added to the Democracy Alliance's list of recommended funding targets. Other donors to the Roosevelt Institute include the
Ford Foundation, the
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the
MacArthur Foundation, and the
Bauman Foundation.
Activities
Joseph Stiglitz
Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (; born February 9, 1943) is an American New Keynesian economist, a public policy analyst, and a full professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the Joh ...
is the Roosevelt Institute's chief
economist
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. In 2015, a report authored by Stiglitz offered an indictment of 35 years of
U.S. economic policies.
[ ]Elizabeth Warren
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and Bill de Blasio
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joined Stiglitz at the press conference to announce the report. The 37 policy recommendations in the Stiglitz report include progressive taxation and an expansion of government programs.
''Time
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'' called the Stiglitz report "a roadmap for what many progressives would like to see happen policy wise over the next four years." According to ''The Washington Post
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'', the institute's plan is "firmly rooted in the conviction that more government can solve most of America's economic challenges. It is a plan seemingly designed to rally liberals, enrage free-market economists and push a certain presumptive presidential nominee to the left."[
]
See also
* Four Freedoms Award
The Four Freedoms Award is an annual award presented to "those men and women whose achievements have demonstrated a commitment to those principles which United States, US President of the United States, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt proclaime ...
References
External links
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Political and economic think tanks in the United States
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