@EconomicSecProj cofounder and @AspenFutureWork Senior Fellow. Author “The Guarantee”
Joined July 2007
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Natalie Foster retweeted
1/ Today, ESP released Building Affordability, our new policy agenda on housing, which tackles the two causes of unaffordability: broken markets and broken incomes.
Written by @chao_becky, @Mtkonczal, and @resnikoff, it shows how policy can expand supply while also directly protecting tenants.
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Natalie Foster retweeted
May 27
Massachusetts became the first state to formally recognize a union representing drivers for ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft. The union will represent about 70,000 drivers statewide @StateAffairsUS @statehousenews link.stateaffairs.com/c/443/…
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May 20
1/ Policy is downstream of culture. That's something I've believed for a long time — and sitting down with comedian, director, and Emmy and Peabody winner @wkamaubell at Guaranteed Income Now in Austin, TX last week, he gave me a sharper way to say it:
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11/ If culture moves policy, then funding culture is how we change things. That means resourcing creators directly through programs like the Economic Futures creator cohort and by putting more cash into people’s pockets so they have the freedom to tell their own stories.
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May 20
12/ Thank you to Kamau for sitting down with me. You can watch our full conversation here:
youtube.com/watch?v=zVCfo9mi…
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Natalie Foster retweeted
In Atlanta last month, we asked local leaders what a #GoodLife means to them.
Their answers were clear: Affordable and quality housing. Access to healthcare. Jobs with dignity. And above all: more time with family and less time stretched thin trying to make everything work. 📹
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Natalie Foster retweeted
May 12
The kind of quote that used to end political careers
Trump on Iran War:
Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal?
Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation
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Natalie Foster retweeted
$160 and 9 hours. That’s what filing taxes costs the average American, not in taxes, in fees to private companies that have spent decades lobbying to keep the system complicated.
In 2024, Direct File proved it didn’t have to be this way. Free, no middleman, 94% satisfaction. Then it was shut down.
We documented what worked, what we learned, and what comes next in our new report. Our Tax Filing Fellows built a roadmap for how a future administration can bring it back and make it too essential to ever take away again.
Read the full report: economicsecurityproject.org/…
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Natalie Foster retweeted
May 8
HUGE NEWS: California just became the FIRST state in America to provide FREE DIAPERS to all new parents.
Launching this summer.
Since I became Governor, we have made preschool FREE, school meals FREE, and expanded paid family leave.
Stop talking about lowering costs for families — DO IT!
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1/ Last week, under the shadow of the Michigan state capitol, I gave a keynote address to the hundreds of people gathered to ask a question 250 years in the making: Are we fulfilling the promise of democracy in America?
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Ada Limón’s "A New National Anthem" from The Carrying (thank you for the rec, Malia Wollan) -poetryfoundation.org/poems/1…
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