10/ The Working Families Guarantee is one of the most exciting expressions yet of where we're going. Grateful to Maurice Mitchell for his leadership and to the whole badass team: @nelini.bsky.social , Joe Dinkins, Amirah Sequeira, Adam Gold, and many more - thank you for pointing the way.
9/ Organizers, advocates, scholars, artists, and policymakers refusing to accept that scarcity is our only option.
8/ The book traces the leaders and movements making each of these a reality, including @aijenpoo.bsky.social, Solana Rice, Aisha Nyandoro, Mayor Michael Tubbs, Professor @darrickhamilton.bsky.social, Astra Taylor, and so many more.
7/ That every person in America can be guaranteed a safe place to live, affordable healthcare, a good job, childcare, time to care for a new baby or an aging parent, an inheritance to build from, and an income floor to stand on. That case is only more urgent now in the age of AI.
6/ I wrote it with one goal: to show that an economy that works for all of us isn't pie-in-the-sky thinking, it's achievable, in fact it is already being built.
5/ The power of a Guarantee and what it stands for is particularly meaningful to me. This week also marks two years since I published "The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for America’s Next Economy."
4/ I particularly love the "guarantee of time" as a formulation of what's possible, pushing us to think differently about how we value time and who deserves it.
3/ This is what it looks like when ideas meet political power. WFP isn't asking for incremental tweaks: they're naming the floor every American deserves to stand on, and they're organizing to build it.
🏠 A home we can afford
🩺 Healthcare we can rely on
👷 A good job to support our families
🍼 Childcare when and where we need it
👪 Time to spend with our families
1/ This week the @workingfamilies.org launched the Working Families Guarantee: a bold agenda built on the conviction that in the wealthiest country in history, everyone should be able to afford the basics.
your annual tax season reminder that filing your taxes could be way easier and more affordable - if it weren't for corporations spending millions on lobbying to keep the system deliberately confusing.
this is why we can't have nice things.
Great work by @rooseveltinstitute.org @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
Welcome to the fellowship, Nikita Redkar, Nick Cutsumpas, Cassie Willson, Josh Lara, Danielle Kirk (@daniellekirkxx), Tony Vara, @jordxn-simone.bsky.social , Jared Shult, Charles McBryde, and David Lu.
Make sure you give them a follow on Instagram!
14/ That's what we're expanding this year. Because the people best positioned to reach young, economically anxious Americans aren't in think tanks or on cable news. They're in our feeds — and we're here to back them up.
13/ Creators who usually work alone, racing against an algorithm that punishes stillness, suddenly had a newsroom: a place to brainstorm, push each other, and share the energy of people working toward something meaningful.
12/ but what none of us anticipated was how much the community itself would matter.
11/ Spearheaded by ESP’s Senior Director of Narrative Strategies @caradefabio.bsky.social and Content and Events Strategist Hannah Gregor, we gave creators editorial support, fact-checking, access to experts and polling, and a monthly stipend,
10/ while @mentallydivine.bsky.social made the case for public grocery stores as a tangible solution our leaders should explore to combat skyrocketing grocery prices (1M+ views).
9/ For example, Joshua Doss's explainer on surveillance pricing broke down how corporations are quietly driving up the costs of everything from plane tickets to diapers (800K+ views)
8/ We know this approach works because we've seen it. Our first cohort spent seven months learning how economic issues resonate with their audiences and building content that connected real problems to real policy solutions.
7/ By recruiting across these different niches, we're meeting young people where their interests already live, and using that as a gateway to talk about economic ideas.
6/ Research shows that creators who don't lead with politics build deeper trust with their audiences, making them far more effective when they do engage on policy.
5/ These creators work across interest areas including comedy, fitness, culture, history, and lifestyle. Most aren’t "political" accounts, and that's by design.
4/ One theme emerged almost immediately: young people know the economy isn't working for them, want to understand why, and most importantly, learn about the solutions that can actually build a better economy.
3/ Going around the table, each of them shared who their audiences are, why they come to them, and what kind of content actually cuts through.
2/ We gathered our newest fellows — ten creators with a combined audience of 6 million followers — to kick off the second year of our Economic Futures Cohort, a fellowship program designed to cultivate the next generation of civic storytellers around economic issues.
1/ In a media ecosystem that rewards clickbait, doomscrolling, and outrage, people are desperately craving hope grounded in real solutions. That was one of the main takeaways from our content creator convening in Venice, CA, last week.
I'm looking forward to this! See you in Lansing.
