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🧵Families are being squeezed—and not by accident. Today, @TCFdotorg is launching a new campaign, Affordable Futures: Policy for People—Not the Powerful. go.tcf.org/AffordableFutures Here’s why it matters. 1/x
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Utility bills are becoming unaffordable for millions of families, as rates rise alongside demand from data centers. Our recent research also found that utility debt is disproportionately burdening Black & Asian households. Read more in @ConsumerReports: consumerreports.org/data-cen…
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Since the Iran war started, wages have been losing ground to prices, according to Kyle Moore, TCF's chief economist. “The American worker is working harder, productivity is up, wage growth is tepid, prices are continuing to rise,” Moore told @Marketplace: marketplace.org/story/2026/0…
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NYC is expanding child care. But without investing in the workers who provide it, families may still struggle to access care. Our new commentary outlines three steps for New York to build a sustainable, fairly compensated child care workforce: tcf.org/content/commentary/n…
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The Federal Reserve raised interest rates today. But higher rates won’t reopen the Strait of Hormuz, lower energy costs, or reverse tariffs—the real drivers of inflation. So where will this burden fall? Almost certainly on those fighting hardest to get by, writes TCF Chief Economist Kyle K. Moore: tcf.org/content/commentary/a…
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Americans are increasingly turning to refinancing their homes to dig out from their credit card debt. But why? @TCFdotorg's recent research cited by @nytimes finds that credit card debt per cardholder has jumped 22.7% since 2018: nytimes.com/2026/08/11/busin…
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Women are bearing the brunt of job losses in today’s labor market. As @TCFdotorg's Janelle Jones tells @CNBC, women—particularly women of color—are concentrated in fields seeing some of the biggest cuts, from public service to leisure and hospitality: cnbc.com/2026/09/02/getting-…
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Americans across the political spectrum are concerned about how AI and technology are reshaping K-12 schools. As @TCFdotorg President @jmargetta told @K12DiveNews, schools should listen to families and policymakers should set clear guardrails for tech: k12dive.com/news/voters-expr…
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“Shouldn’t we figure out the rules before we hand our kids over to unregulated technology?” In a new op-ed for MS NOW, TCF President @jmargetta makes the case for putting families and educators, not Silicon Valley, in the driver’s seat on AI in schools: ms.now/opinion/ai-schools-pa…
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AI tutors are entering classrooms, but are students actually benefiting? Our polling, covered by @The74, found 84% of Americans worry about tech companies profiting from students’ data, while nearly half want AI use in classrooms kept to a minimum: the74million.org/article/ai-…
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Congratulations to TCF’s expanded Economic Policy Team (including former DCWP Commissioner @lorelei_salas33) 🥳 We are excited to continue our partnership and explore creative ways to bring economic justice to all New Yorkers!
Big news: We’re expanding TCF’s economic policy team to build a research agenda for an economy that works for working people. Meet the four leaders bringing decades of experience in economic policy, government, research, and advocacy to this work: go.tcf.org/econteam
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The Century Foundation retweeted
.@Avik Roy of Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (@FREOPP) and Julie Margetta Morgan of The Century Foundation (@TCFdotorg) discuss the top healthcare issues for voters ahead of the midterms. LIVE: tinyurl.com/36cddrsv
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Big news: We’re expanding TCF’s economic policy team to build a research agenda for an economy that works for working people. Meet the four leaders bringing decades of experience in economic policy, government, research, and advocacy to this work: go.tcf.org/econteam
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Sameera Fazili joins TCF as a visiting senior fellow. She’ll lead a new project on international economics and domestic renewal, exploring how the U.S. can strengthen its economic competitiveness while building shared prosperity at home.
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Together, Tonantzin, Kyle, Lorelei, and Sameera bring decades of experience and a shared commitment to building an economy centered on working people, not Wall Street. We’re thrilled to have them! Read the full announcement: tcf.org/content/about-tcf/tc…
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The Century Foundation retweeted
.@AOC is right. Reversing Trump's cuts to Medicaid and the ACA is the bare minimum if Dems take Congress. Recent @TCFdotorg polling shows that voters want structural reforms to our health care system that take on Big Pharma, insurers, and price-gouging providers.
NEW: Health care tops the Democrats’ to-do list if they win control of the House in 2026 Jeffries says they’ll reverse Trump’s Medicaid cuts and revive ACA funds. These two ideas unify Dems. But many want to go bigger. Story w/ @scottwongDC: nbcnews.com/politics/congres…
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