Game Changers: Economic Policies for a Working America
The Game Changers project offers bold, new ideas to build a stronger, fairer, greener, and more inclusive economy for all Americans.
Introduction: The Economy We Deserve
A national initiative to reimagine economic policy for the 21st century.
Investing in Each Other
Strengthen the public investments and institutions that expand opportunity.
A Universal Basic Income for Children
Nancy Folbre
Fully-Universal Federally-Funded Child Care
Nancy Folbre
Paid Family and Medical Leave, and Long-Term Care
Nancy Folbre
End Profiteering in Healthcare
Eileen Appelbaum, Rosemary Batt and Brandon Novick
The Wealth of Welcome: Immigration Reform that Works for America
Thai Le, Manuel Pastor, Mary Lopez, Patrick Mason, Clara Alvarez Caraveo, Jeanine Erikat and Uriel Serrano
America’s Workers Deserve a Four Day Week
Juliet B. Schor
Raising Middle-Class Pay and Working Conditions through Sectoral Standards
Arindrajit Dube and Suresh Naidu
Securing Our Future
Help families build greater economic security and resilience and protect the planet in the face of climate change.
A Clean and Safe Environment for All
Michael Ash and James K. Boyce
Chemicals Without Harm Act
Joel Tickner
Polluters Pay: The Extreme Weather Superfund
James K. Boyce and Michael Ash
The Fossil Fuel Phasedown: Energy Security and Climate Defense for All
James K. Boyce and Michael Ash
Medicare for All
Robert Pollin, Jeannette Wicks-Lim and Peter Arno
‘Just Cause’ Job Protections
Irene Tung and Paul K. Sonn
Raising Wages by Changing Norms: Work Policy for the Long Game
Ellora Derenoncourt and David Weil
Solidarity Insurance: Reimagining Unemployment Insurance as a Platform for Worker Power
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez
Democratizing North American Trade
Jasper Andrée, Hector de la Cueva, Thea Lee, Jim Stanford and Luis Rangel
Righting the Rules
Ensure markets work for the public interest, reward work, and promote broadly shared prosperity.
No More Bailouts
Gerald Epstein and Marc Jarsulic
From Public Money to Public Rails: Reclaiming the Infrastructure of Money and Payments
Tonantzin Carmona
Public Banking
Christine A. Desan
National Rent Control
Mark Paul
Toward Housing as a Human Right: Eliminate Extreme Housing and Energy Insecurity with a Safe Housing Foundation
Daniel Aldana Cohen, isaac sevier and Maddison Wells
The Social Housing Development Authority
H. Jacob Carlson
A Smaller, Safer Military
Lindsay Koshgarian
Funding the Future While Reducing Inequality
Gerald Epstein and Aaron Medlin
International Tax Justice for a Democratic Economy
Lauren Johnston and Thomas Liess