Game Changers launches the final wave of policy proposals! This week's proposals examine how we can reshape the rules governing finance, housing, taxation, defense spending, and public investment to build a more stable, equitable, and democratic economy. gamechangerspolicy.org

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What if we rewrote the rules of our economy to better serve people, communities, and the public interest? This week's Game Changers proposals explore bold ideas for Righting the Rules, from financial regulation and housing to public investment and tax policy. 🌐 GameChangersPolicy.org

Having served as Director of Chicago’s Office of New Americans early in my career, I saw firsthand how thoughtful immigrant inclusion policies can strengthen communities. That’s why I appreciate the vision behind this Game Changers proposal, “The Wealth of Welcome.”

Game Changers: Economic Policies for a Working America@gamechangerspolicy.bsky.social · 3w ago

Immigration policy should be about more than enforcement. Our Game Changers proposal, "The Wealth of Welcome," explores a more welcoming, orderly, and fair approach that helps people, communities, and our economy thrive. 🎥 Watch below Read the proposal: peri.umass.edu/publication/...

Excited to join with Irene Tung and @gamechangerspolicy.bsky.social in making the case for "just cause" job protections -- especially as AI increases precarity in the workplace peri.umass.edu/publication/...

‘Just Cause’ Job Protections

The Problem In the United States, most employers can legally fire workers without warning, an explanation, or severance pay. This system, known as “at-will” employment, can cause great harm to U.S. wo...

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Game Changers: Economic Policies for a Working America@gamechangerspolicy.bsky.social · 2w ago

The second wave of Game Changers is here! From Medicare for All and raising wages to worker protections, healthier environments, climate resilience, and North American worker-centered trade, these proposals offer bold ideas for a more secure economy. 🌐: gamechangerspolicy.org

Climate change-fueled disasters threaten the safety of our homes & insurance provides a financial safety net to help us recover. But current insurance systems are failing, leaving households high (& not dry). What can the federal government do? I've got a proposal: peri.umass.edu/publication/...

National Disaster Insurance for All: Single-Payer Disaster Insurance and Community Resilience Investments for Safer and More Affordable Housing

The Problem The climate crisis is fueling extreme weather and increasing disaster risk for households and housing providers across the country, representing collectives risks that no individual househ...

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More gamechangers! Shout out to Work&Labor team. Alexander Hertel-Fernandez' great work on Solidarity Insurance, Irene Tung&Paul Sonn on "Just Cause" Job Protections & Ellora Derenoncourt & @profsheenalives.bsky.social on raising wages. @gamechangerspolicy.bsky.social gamechangerspolicy.org

Game Changers: Economic Policies for a Working America

Game Changers presents policymakers with bold, new ideas to build a stronger, fairer, greener, and more inclusive economy for all Americans.

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What would it take to build a healthcare system that puts patients before profits? Watch our latest video, then explore two Game Changers proposals: 📄Medicare for All: peri.umass.edu/publication/... 📄End Profiteering in Health Care: peri.umass.edu/publication/...

SOLIDARITY INSURANCE & "JUST CAUSE" JOB PROTECTION From The Game Changers Project: - Solidarity Insurance: Reimagining Unemployment Insurance as a Platform for Worker Power - tiny.cc/solins - ‘Just Cause’ Job Protections - tiny.cc/JustCause

Let's focus on some basics: Raising the floor of wages in a meaningful and sustainable ways. Here are my and Ellora Derenoncourt's @princetonecon.bsky.social perspective on raising wages in ways the help change norms. peri.umass.edu/publication/... @gamechangerspolicy.bsky.social

Raising Wages by Changing Norms: Work Policy for the Long Game

The Problem Decades of wage stagnation in the U.S. can be traced to powerful economic forces arising from product and labor markets and changes in the economic organization of work. Sluggish wage grow...

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Without an insurance system for the many, only the wealthy few are likely to remain solvent as climate-driven disasters increase. Read our policy brief produced in collaboration with @periumass.bsky.social on how the US can equitably spread the costs & benefits of a stable disaster insurance system:

National Disaster Insurance for All: Single-Payer Disaster Insurance and Community Resilience Investments for Safer and More Affordable Housing - Climate and Community Institute

The Problem The climate crisis is fueling extreme weather and increasing disaster risk for households and housing providers across the country, representing collectives risks that no …

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This policy blueprint was produced as a collaboration between @periumass.bsky.social & @cplusc.bsky.social. And a narrative version of this idea was published last month in @liberalcurrents.com. The federal landscape isn't great at the moment, but we need big ideas for when we change that landscape!

Our second wave of bold, innovative policies has launched! Policies that address Medicare for All, climate change, affordable housing, North American trade, unemployment insurance, job protection, and a livable wage. Game Changers that build a better economy for all Americans. GameChangersPolicy.org

Game Changers: Economic Policies for a Working America@gamechangerspolicy.bsky.social · 2w ago

The second wave of Game Changers is here! From Medicare for All and raising wages to worker protections, healthier environments, climate resilience, and North American worker-centered trade, these proposals offer bold ideas for a more secure economy. 🌐: gamechangerspolicy.org

Game Changers: Economic Policies for a Working America@gamechangerspolicy.bsky.social · 2w ago

Thank you @theameilee.bsky.social, @jimbostanford.bsky.social, @profsheenalives.bsky.social, @awhf.bsky.social, @paulsonn.bsky.social, @julietschor.bsky.social, @periumass.bsky.social, and more!

No more Games of Thrones. No more Hunger Games. No more Squid Games. Go to the Common Dreams interview with Gerald Epstein to learn more about alternatives. www.commondreams.org/opinion/econ...

Game Changers: Building an Economy that Works for Working Americans | Common Dreams

There is an arsenal of bold policies out there to embrace that will “defeat fascism, preserve democracy, and help create a greener, stronger and fairer economy for American workers.”

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Could a four-day workweek become the new standard? Watch @julietschor.bsky.social explain why in her TED Talk, then explore her Game Changers proposal on how a shorter workweek could benefit workers, businesses, and the economy. 🎥 www.ted.com/talks/juliet... 📄 peri.umass.edu/publication/...

The case for a 4-day work week

The traditional approach to work needs a redesign, says economist Juliet Schor. She's leading four-day work week trials in countries like the US and Ireland, and the results so far have been overwhelm...

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In this new piece with Suresh Naidu (part of the Game Changers volume), I lay out a vision for how to use sectoral standards in America - to set wages but much more, including regulating technology like AI. Check it out! peri.umass.edu/publication/...

Raising Middle-Class Pay and Working Conditions through Sectoral Standards

The Problem Most American workers do not have a say in the governance of their workplaces, and too often are paid wages that have not tracked economy-wide productivity. We need institutions that give…

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Thanks to @periumass.bsky.social for partnering on this work. Read @nancyfolbre.bsky.social's accompanying blog here: www.dollarsandsense.org/we-need-a-ca...

We Need a Care Package!

We've built an economy that depends on unpaid and underpaid care, but penalizes the people who provide it.

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PERI is proud to help launch the first set of Game Changers: Economic Policies for a Working America. This first wave of proposals explores new approaches to strengthening worker power, expanding care, reforming healthcare, improving immigration policy, and creating better jobs.

Game Changers: Economic Policies for a Working America@gamechangerspolicy.bsky.social · 4w ago

Welcome to the official account for Game Changers: Economic Policies for a Working America. This week we're introducing the project and its vision. Next week, we'll begin rolling out the first wave of policy proposals! Learn more: gamechangerspolicy.org

Explore Game Changers and its vision for a better economy: investing in each other, securing our future, and righting the rules. Individual policy proposals begin rolling out next week! #GameChangersPolicy gamechangerspolicy.org

It's time to change the game. Bold, new policies to build a stronger, fairer, greener economy for all Americans. Watch trailer: Game Changers: Economic Policies for a Working America gamechangerspolicy.org via @periatumass #GameChangersPolicy peri.umass.edu/gamechangers/

Game Changers: Economic Policies for a Working America

Game Changers presents policymakers with bold, new ideas to build a stronger, fairer, greener, and more inclusive economy for all Americans.

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Over 160 Years After Abolition, Anti-Black Racism Still Structures US Economy truthout.org/articles/ove...

Over 160 Years After Abolition, Anti-Black Racism Still Structures US Economy

Scholars Michelle Holder and Jeannette Wicks-Lim share their analysis of the formation of US anti-Black racism.

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Despite Climate Policy Setbacks, a Just Transition Is Still Within Reach truthout.org/articles/des...

Despite Climate Policy Setbacks, a Just Transition Is Still Within Reach

Many US states have the ability to implement climate stabilization programs and become carbon-neutral by 2050.

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PERI researchers estimate that Michigan clean energy investments could generate between 85,000 – 100,000 jobs. Read new report: "The Prospects for Expanding Clean Energy Investments and Job Opportunities under the "MI Healthy Climate Plan" peri.umass.edu/publication/... @sbs-umass.bsky.social

The Prospects for Expanding Clean Energy Investments and Job Opportunities under the “MI Healthy Climate Plan”

In 2022, the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) published the MI Healthy Climate Plan. A centerpiece of the MI Healthy Climate Plan is its commitment for Michigan to…

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TODAY, May 5 at 4pm: "Against Money" roundtable with authors @jwmason.bsky.social & Arjun Jayadev. In-person-UMass Amherst. Panelists: Christine Desan, Gerald Epstein, Perry Mehrling. Moderator: Robert Pollin peri.umass.edu/event/agains... @sbs-umass.bsky.social

Join book launch event: "Against Money" with authors @jwmason.bsky.social & Arjun Jayadev. May 5, 4pm. In-person-UMass Amherst. Panelists: Christine Desan, Gerald Epstein, and Perry Mehrling. Moderator: Robert Pollin peri.umass.edu/event/agains... @sbs-umass.bsky.social

6/ @katherinemoos.bsky.social is an assistant professor of econ @umassamherst.bsky.social & economist @periumass.bsky.social. Her research focus is feminist political economy and the welfare state, unpaid household labor and care work, and time-use and working-hours legislation. #WomensHistoryMonth

Thurs., April 30 at 12pm EDT, Join @nancyfolbre.bsky.social, Jane Humphries & @joyamisra.bsky.social for a discussion of "Making Care Work: Why Our Economy Should Put People First." Register for Zoom Webinar: bit.ly/MakingCareWork peri.umass.edu/event/nancy-...

“The cuts to Medicaid in one year alone are enough to finance 100 more days of bombing Iran or tax cuts for the rich—neither of which would benefit most Americans.” War Dollars, Care Dollars (and No Sense) www.dollarsandsense.org/war-dollars-... @sbs-umass.bsky.social @nancyfolbre.bsky.social

War Dollars, Care Dollars (and No Sense)

It seems like a good time to compare the running tally of war dollars with the cost of relentless attacks on public care provision in the United States.

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Trump’s Economy Is Hurting Americans — and Setting Us Up for Long-Term Collapse Read interview with PERI's Gerald Epstein truthout.org/articles/tru... @sbs-umass.bsky.social @umassamherst.bsky.social

Trump’s Economy Is Hurting Americans — and Setting Us Up for Long-Term Collapse

Trump boasts of a booming economy. He’s dead wrong. A year into Trump 2.0, the affordability crisis is worse than ever.

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“The ever-tightening crypto chokehold heralds both the naked extraction of more wealth by a relatively few capitalists and the severe risk of a massive financial crisis.” Read Jerry Epstein's new piece in @bostonreview.bsky.social @sbs-umass.bsky.social @umassamherst.bsky.social

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”Instead of leading the opposition to Trump’s crypto plans, many prominent Democrats have stood meekly by—or worse, encouraged them.” Economist Gerald Epstein on the pro-crypto interests behind the White House’s deregulatory project:

Nancy Folbre: "Cuts in government spending and deportation threats against the workforce have sent costs soaring in daycare, eldercare, and long-term medical care" www.dollarsandsense.org/the-u-s-care... @nancyfolbre.bsky.social @sbs-umass.bsky.social @dollarsandsense.bsky.social

The U.S. Care Affordability Crisis

Cuts in government spending and deportation threats against the workforce have sent costs soaring in daycare, eldercare, and long-term medical care.

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