Elizabeth Wilkins
@ewwilkins
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President, Roosevelt Institute, Roosevelt Forward. Proud Biden FTC, WH and DC AG alum. Retweets, follows, and likes ≠ endorsements. All views are my own.
Washington, D.C.
Joined January 2015
Excited and honored to be taking the helm at Roosevelt Institute. Our economy should work for the many, not just the few. The Roosevelt community has been instrumental in the fight for shared prosperity, and I can't wait to jump back in in this new capacity. Let's get to work!.
We are thrilled to welcome @ewwilkins as Roosevelt’s next president and CEO. 🎉. Her accomplished leadership in organizing, law & government service make her the right leader to champion Roosevelt’s vision of a better economy & democracy.
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RT @SEIU: There’s always money to make the rich richer. But somehow taxpayer money “runs out” when it’s time to feed kids, fund care, or he….
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This bill isn’t just an economic travesty, it’s a moral one. Forget trickle down economics; we’re now in a greed-first economy, one that will take great moral courage to overturn.
The now-passed budget bill is "a cruel and calculated transfer of wealth from working families to the rich." . New post on #FiresideStacks🔥by CEO @ewwilkins .
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It’s an American tradition for bullies and cheats to use race and identity to divide us. @ZohranKMamdani eloquently shows us how not to let that happen: How to keep our eyes on the prize of winning economic power and security for all of us. Take heed.
In the latter half of this clip, Mamdani gives one of the most powerful takedowns of BBB I’ve heard, pivoting off an unrelated question on Trump’s attacks on his citizenship and identity.
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Private equity is using childcare provider retirements to scoop up and consolidate the care of our next generation. Now is the time to find more affordable and better ways to take care of our kids - before it’s financialized right out from under us.
A private equity-backed company sent letters to childcare programs in the Midwest asking, “Have you ever considered how you might transition your business to a new owner?”. A fitting title for @ehaspel's brief on private equity ownership in childcare.
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RT @econliberties: When healthcare workers are subjected to noncompete agreements the entire healthcare system suffers. "In states without….
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RT @econliberties: Noncompetes stifle the careers of some of the most experienced workers. Here's James, a hairdresser, whose previous emp….
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RT @AngelaHanks: No tax on tips is temporary and is capped, and corporate tax cuts are permanent and have none . economic populism at its f….
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RT @RBReich: What is freedom?. Are you really free if your groceries or medicine are so expensive that you can’t afford them?. Or if your b….
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RT @birnbaum_e: The Senate voted 99-1 (!!!) to strip the measure pausing state AI regulations from the tax bill early this morning. A huge….
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RT @RBReich: 81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education,….
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He also showed us you can bring people together by focusing on fixing the things that matter for everyone — high costs, insecurity, bad or no jobs. Without giving up an inch of your honor on including everyone. Unchecked power is our enemy, not each other. 2/2.
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Mamdani reminds us that democracy falls when people don’t believe it can deliver economic security. I agree: 1/2.
"As FDR said, democracy has disappeared in several other great nations, not because the people like democracy, but because they had grown tired of unemployment & insecurity."
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This. Our task is to throw every lever toward helping people — clearing away obstacles, supporting through crisis, making an economy with agency and freedom. That means relentlessness in the face of existing entrenched interests.
In @nytopinion. “We’re up against a multi-decade drift away from using the levers of government and law enforcement to stand up for working people,” Lina Khan tells Ross Douthat on this week’s episode of “Interesting Times.”
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👇🏾.
In the last 25 years, ever major industry-supported change to financial rules has contributed to a crisis in short order. Gramm-Leach-Bliley (repeal of Glass-Steagall) and the Commodities Futures Modernization Act each helped lead to the 2008 financial crisis. The Economic.
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RT @linamkhan: Thanks to @DouthatNYT for the rich discussion, exploring how monopolies can both raise prices and lower wages—but also depri….
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RT @RooseveltFwd: Head Start just turned 60—but the program faces deep cuts amid right-wing plans that threaten childcare access for 700K+….
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@toddntucker on the 'golden share' agreement in the U.S. Steel-Nippon Steel partnership - these are important tools we can use to drive pro social market outcomes, if we use them right.
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“The only value that guides the AI industry right now is the pursuit of profit.” @ChrisMurphyCT breaking down how leaving the development of tech that affects things like our kids’ mental health to an unfettered market is … insane.
“One conversational AI program, affiliated with Google, recently began recommending to kids that were frustrated with their parents that they murder their mother and father.”. @ChrisMurphyCT is not buying Big Tech’s AI BS
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Calling a bill explicitly allowing for 4-year noncompete clauses in employment contracts the “Contracts Honoring Opportunity, Investment, Confidentiality, and Economic Growth (Choice) Act” puts the moron in oxymoronic.
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RT @stephtngu: 1/ In today’s digital economy, enforcers must keep pace. @linamkhan @saalevine and I explain how the FTC shifted away from “….
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