Statement of Concern
Statement
June 1, 2021
We, the undersigned, are scholars of democracy who have watched the recent deterioration of U.S. elections and liberal democracy with growing alarm. Specifically, we have watched with deep concern as Republican-led state legislatures across the country have in recent months proposed or implemented what we consider radical changes to core electoral procedures in response to unproven and intentionally destructive allegations of a stolen election. Collectively, these initiatives are transforming several states into political systems that no longer meet the minimum conditions for free and fair elections. Hence, our entire democracy is now at risk.
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A World Ruled by Persons, Not Machines A World Ruled by Persons, Not Machines
By RAPHAELE CHAPPE
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020
Long-term macroeconomic trends such as the decline of the labor share in total national income, the stagnation of wages for average workers, and the widening wage distribution suggest that the U.S. economy has been failing to deliver inclusive economic growth for workers for some time now. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, though the unemployment rate in the U.S. had actually dropped to a 50-year low of 3.5 percent, leading
The Economist to celebrate an unprecedented jobs boom, labor markets were in reality a lot more precarious than this figure would have suggested. In past decades jobless recoveries have become more prevalent, and most new jobs created in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis were in low-wage occupations rather than “quality jobs.”
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The scope of President Biden’s American Families Plan, which will be formally unveiled in a nationally televised speech to Congress on Wednesday evening, has been described in terms of unalloyed awe.
It’s called “sweeping,” “sprawling” and, more mildly, merely “ambitious.” Democrats call it “big” and “bold,” Republicans label it “radical” (and they don’t mean that as a compliment).
Placing it in historical terms, the plan is all that and more. It’s the first concrete recognition by a president in more than a generation that social programs shouldn’t be classified as spending, but as investing.
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