The Roosevelt Institute is a liberal American think tank headquartered in

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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. It remains the non-profit partner to the government-run Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, the nation's first presidential library. In 2009, it expanded its mission with the launch of the Four Freedoms Center, a progressive policy

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, and an economic policy blog. Felicia Wong, formerly of the

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, 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

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, the

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, the

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, and the Bauman Foundation.

Activities

Joseph Stiglitz Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (; born February 9, 1943) is an American New Keynesian economist, a public policy analyst, political activist, and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2 ...

is the Roosevelt Institute's chief

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. In 2015, a report authored by Stiglitz offered an indictment of 35 years of U.S. economic policies.

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and

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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. ''

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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 ''

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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."

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