Any efforts to shift policy and politics in the US will fail if we don’t first rewrite the decades-long stories that shape our realities. Narratives—our cultural understandings, frames of reference or mental models—play a significant role in how leaders create and implement policies, and how people on the ground react to them. They also shape how people of color, women, immigrants, and low-income communities view and advocate for themselves.

The Insight Center asks, “Who are our current narratives building power for, and who do they purposefully leave behind?” We believe that narrative change is essential to progressive economic change, and we are committed to exposing false myths, telling bold truths, and expressing our vision and values. In the end, we know that it will take more than policy to attain an economy and society in which everyone is truly free and equal.

Black Americans Need Reparations: The Fight for the CTC Highlights the Roadblocks

Public concern about systemic racial and economic inequities and their causes has increased in the past two years—particularly in the wake of COVID-19’s devastating economic impact and the police murder of George Floyd. The racial reckoning of 2020 created some momentum toward greater economic and racial equity in America, but, as always, hoped-for progress has been thwarted.

2022-09-12T10:04:24-07:00August 15, 2022|

Women Need a Win. Pass the Child Tax Credit Expansion.

Women are under attack in America. Our freedom is being gleefully stripped away by the conservative Supreme Court and various state legislatures across the nation, and we need our leaders to take every step possible to ensure that women and their children retain any agency they have left. Given it is impossible to extract economic justice from reproductive rights, President Joe Biden and Congress must pass the expanded child tax credit (CTC) and give us a much-needed win.

2022-09-12T10:04:26-07:00May 5, 2022|
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