Dear Majority Leader Schumer, Minority Leader McConnell, Speaker Pelosi, and Minority Leader McCarthy:
The Build Back Better framework is a historic opportunity to invest in child care, long-term care, clean energy, health care and more.
These once-in-a-generation investments will create millions of jobs, lower costs on essential expenses for American families and help position the United States to meet the enormous challenges of the 21st century, including a changing economy and a growing climate crisis.
Once passed, this framework will counteract decades of underinvestment in our communities that has come at a cost to working Americans and caused our economy to grow unevenly.
We urge Congress to pass this critical and historic framework into law.
Signed,
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Nobel Laureate Professor Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University
Amy Crews Cutts, AC Cutts & Associates
Elizabeth Palley, Adelphi University School of Social Work
Gabriel Mathy, American University
David Weiman, Barnard College, Columbia University
Juliet Schor, Boston College
Neva Goodwin, Boston University & Tufts University
Mark Votruba, Case Western Reserve University
Andres Vinelli, Center for American Progress
Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research(CEPR)
Howard Chernick, City University of New York
Rick Eichhorn, Coe College
Alexandra Bernasek, Colorado State University
Elliott Sclar, Columbia University
Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University
Jane Waldfogel, Columbia University
Adam Tooze, Columbia University
Brendan O’Flaherty, Columbia University
Erica Groshen, Cornell University
Christopher Barrett, Cornell University
Arnab Datta, Employ America
William Ferguson, Grinnell College
Rakeen Mabud, Groundwork Action
Claudia Sahm, Jain Family Institute
Peter Matthews, Middlebury College
Carolyn Craven, Middlebury College
Anna Stansbury, MIT
Barry Bluestone, Northeastern University
Gernot Wagner, NYU
James Stewart, Penn State
Alan Blinder, Princeton University
Lauren Melodia, Roosevelt Institute
Yana Rodgers, Rutgers University
Kimberly Christensen, Sarah Lawrence College
Rick McGahey, Schwartz Center, New School for Social Research
Ellen Mutari, Stockton University
Deborah Figart, Stockton University
Edith Kuiper, SUNY New Paltz
Ranjit Dighe, SUNY Oswego
Teresa Ghilarducci, The New School for Social Research
Codrina Rada, U of Utah
Margaret Andrews, U.S. Department of Agriculture, retired
François Geerolf, UCLA
Aaron Sojourner, Univ. of Minnesota Carlson School of Management
Michael Reich, University of California at Berkeley
Raul Hinojosa, University of California Los Angeles- NAID Center
Clair Brown, University of California- Berkeley
Ronald Lee, University of California-Berkeley
Chris Tilly, University of California-Los Angeles
Chris Benner, University of California-Santa Cruz
Jesse Rothstein, University of California, Berkeley
Richard Gilbert, University of California, Berkeley
Sylvia Allegretto, University of California, Berkeley
Farida Kahn, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs
Haider Kahn, University of Denver
Yavuz Yasar, University of Denver
Carmen Diana Deere, University of Florida
Marcus Casey, University of Illinois at Chicago
James Ziliak, University of Kentucky
Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Lenore Palladino, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Michael Ash, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Gerald Epstein, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Arthur MacEwan, University of Massachusetts Boston
Mary Stevenson, University of Massachusetts Boston
Randy Albelda, University of Massachusetts Boston
Philip Moss, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Thomas Weisskopf, University of Michigan
Margaret Levenstein, University of Michigan
Samuel Stolper, University of Michigan
Sheldon Danziger, University of Michigan
Warren Whatley, University of Michigan
Doyne Farmer, University of Oxford
Dorene Isenberg, University of Redlands
Manuel Pastor, University of Southern California
Michael Hillard, University of Southern Maine
Stephanie Seguino, University of Vermont
Fabio Ghironi, University of Washington
Timothy Bartik, Upjohn Institute for Employment Research (organization for identification purposes only)
Michael Garvey, Washington Center of Equitable Growth
Sari Kerr, Wellesley College
Emily Hoffman, Western Michigan university
John Watkins, Westminster College
John Miller, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
Sarah Jacobson, Williams College
John Roemer, Yale University