Four Freedoms Center

Through the Four Freedoms Center think tank, launched in 2009, the Roosevelt Institute incubates and promotes rigorous, progressive policy ideas and value narratives, and deploys the people who are their strongest proponents into the public debate.

 In short order the Institute has established itself as a leading voice for change. With Senior Fellows including Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and former chief economist to the Senate Banking Committee Robert Johnson, our work informed the consumer protection efforts of Elizabeth Warren as well as the financial regulatory reform law enacted in 2010; we continue to work with Ms. Warren and to ensure the law’s proper implementation as we delve into new areas including money and politics, progressive values, and the middle class.

 
The following are the major initiatives the Center is currently undertaking: