Roosevelt Institute

[2][8] Elizabeth Warren and Bill de Blasio joined Stiglitz at the press conference to announce the report.

[9][10] The 37 policy recommendations in the Stiglitz report include progressive taxation and an expansion of government programs.

[11] Time called the Stiglitz report "a roadmap for what many progressives would like to see happen policy wise over the next four years.

"[12] According to The Washington Post, the institute's plan is "firmly rooted in the conviction that more government can solve most of America's economic challenges.

It is a plan seemingly designed to rally liberals, enrage free-market economists and push a certain presumptive presidential nominee to the left.

Four Freedoms Wall, Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial
Four Freedoms Wall in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C.
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, November 1935
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, November 1935.