ICYMI: 60+ Economists Support Build Back Better Framework for Creating Jobs, Lowering Costs, and Combatting Climate Change

Today, 61 economists, led by Nobel Economics Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, signed a letter urging Congress to pass the Build Back Better framework, which will create millions of good-paying jobs, spur long-term growth, reduce costs for middle class families, and combat the climate crisis. In particular, the economists highlight Build Back Better's transformative investments in children and caregiving, a clean energy economy for the 21st century, and the largest expansion of affordable health care coverage in a decade.

Read the full letter below:

Economists: Build Back Better Framework Will Make Long-Neglected Key Economic Investments
[10/28/21]

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
Elizabeth Palley, Adelphi University School of Social Work
Amy Crews Cutts, AC Cutts & Associates
David Weiman, Barnard College, Columbia University
Elliott Sclar, Columbia University
Juliet Schor, Boston College
Mark Votruba, Case Western Reserve University
Andres Vinelli, Center for American Progress
Howard Chernick, City University of New York
Eric Verhooge, Columbia University
Jane Waldfogel, Columbia University
Christopher Barrett, Cornell University
Rakeen Mabud, Groundwork Action
Claudia Sahm, Jain Family Institute
Peter Matthews, Middlebury College
Carolyn Craven, Middlebury College
Barry Bluestone, Northeastern University
Gernot Wagner, NYU
James Stewart, Penn State
Alan Blinder, Princeton
Lauren Melodia, Roosevelt Institute
Yana Rodgers, Rutgers University
Ellen Mutari, Stockton University
Deborah Figart, Stockton University
Edith Kuiper, SUNY New Paltz
Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, Third Way
Codrina Rada, U of Utah
François Geerolf, UCLA
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
Jesse Rothstein, University of California, Berkeley
Richard Gilbert, 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
Michael Ash, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Lenore Palladino, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Gerald Epstein, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Arthur MacEwan, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Mary Stevenson, 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
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)
Sari Kerr, Wellesley College
Emily Hoffman, Western Michigan university
John Watkins, Westminster College
John Miller, Wheaton College, Northern MA
Sarah Jacobson, Williams College
John Roemer, Yale University