Suzanne Kahn
@SuzMKahn
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Historian of social insurance and feminism. VP Think Tank @rooseveltinst, @RooseveltFwd. Previously @32BJSEIU, @SEIU, @CUHistoryDept.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Joined March 2009
Excited to announce my book is out! It’s about the politics and policy of divorce in the late 20th c. It’s also about how political identities form, forgotten feminisms, and how feminists accommodated neoliberalism. Buy it/ request it at your library:
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RT @RooseveltFwd: Economic and bodily autonomy are under attack. In @MsMagazine, @SuzMKahn connects the dots between Big Tech’s war on ant…
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RT @DavidpStein: “Figuring out what a left-wing, feminist populism looks like is our challenge going forward.” - @SuzMKahn, on the gendered…
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Reading lists to get you through the day/week: Topical: Escapist:
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The quiet part out loud
I told him: you know this world you think you miss has been disappearing for a while. And without missing a beat he went, very earnestly: “I know, everything started to go wrong when we let women enter the workforce.” I was dumbfounded. (5/7)
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If you read this incredible article wanted a lot more details on this quote “We were trying to fuse the realities of race and other structural inequities with economics," @rooseveltinst and @ksabeelrahman have got you covered
Nicholas Lemann reports on the Democrats across the country who are transforming their identity to retain the working-class voters the Party has been losing.
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It's good to think about the outrage that is the credit bureau system at least every few years. No clearer case for a public option.
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It's not an accident that we started this week, we both needed a creative outlet for our election anxieties, see most recent text exchange.
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Who is in power matters!
🆕: Increased worker mobilization and public support for unions have enabled the NLRB to do exactly what they should be doing—making our labor law work for workers. @dianareddy explores evolving labor politics and what comes next:
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RT @rooseveltinst: 🆕: Increased worker mobilization and public support for unions have enabled the NLRB to do exactly what they should be d…
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RT @ENPancotti: Michelle Obama 🤝 @grochbegley outlining the stakes of abortion bans Check out Hannah's latest on the economics of abortio…
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RT @SenWarren: This is why we dream big and fight hard. Before @POTUS Biden took office, this program had cancelled student debt for only…
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I wrote about my most succesful political prognostication and why Medicare at Home would be a BFD.
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And, it should be noted that the choice not to strengthen SSI has been aided by groups like divorced women, who could have lobbied to improve SSI but instead argued they deserved to be in better-funded programs.
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This interview is so fun & full of wisdom. A favorite: "The idea that you could do multiple things with a major piece of legislation—economic development, education, etc.—that's just the way policy works. The idea of a simple rifle shot that just does one thing is unrealistic."
The Biden admin has advanced the most active industrial policy since FDR. In a new brief, @toddntucker sat down with three of the architects behind this new industrial strategy to learn what it really means to build state capacity. 🧵1/5
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