Trevor Dolan on Student Voting in The Michigan Daily
Trevor Dolan on the importance of voting for University of Michigan students. People aged 18 to 29 composed 19 percent of the electorate in the 2012 election. This 19 percent had enormous sway, and 60...
View ArticleBlueprint Series
We believe that it’s not only the rules that need to change, but who gets to write them. Our Blueprint Series is cutting-edge participatory democracy in practice: we leverage our vast network to crowd...
View ArticleRoosevelter in New York Times: Shauna Rust on E-Cigarrettes
Emerging Fellow for Healthcare Shauna Rust writes a Letter to the editor in response to Joe Nocera’s Op-ed on E-Cigarettes: While e-cigarettes may present fewer health risks than traditional...
View ArticleOur National Network
Roosevelt is home to the nation’s largest network of emerging doers and thinkers—young people who are committed to reimagining and rewriting the rules in their communities. Our members are organized on...
View ArticleUniversity press profiles Roosevelt @ U of Georgia
Roosevelt @ U of Georgia is profiled on their campus’ website for being a highly active, impactful and sustainable chapter. UGA’s Roosevelt students have presented their white papers in Atlanta,...
View ArticleRewrite the Rules
Inequality is a choice. Since the 1980s, trickle-down economics has shrunk the middle class and increased the concentration of wealth at the top. But it doesn’t have to be this way: We can rewrite the...
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Will Republican Candidates Triple-Down on Trickle-Down Tax Policies?
Though Republicans in Congress may be in disarray with the departure of House Speaker John Boehner, there’s at least one thing neither they nor the presidential hopefuls we’ll hear from at tonight’s...
View ArticleThe Real Threat of Right-Wing Tax Plans: They Become Law
It’s all fun and games until someone gets elected. When Jeb Bush’s proposed $100 billion tax cut for the top 1 percent was followed by Donald Trump’s $1 trillion dollar annual reduction, and then by...
View ArticleRoosevelter on Huffington Post: Joelle Gamble on the GOP Economic Debate
Joelle Gamble on the importance of addressing policy proposals in the second GOP debate: From our survey, we know that young people have a set of policy priorities they want candidates to cover in an...
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The University of Michigan, as a public university, has an inherent responsibility to serve the interests of the community it represents. The institution purchases more than $1 billion of goods and...
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