James Roosevelt Jr.

James Roosevelt Jr.—grandson of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt—is an attorney and former associate commissioner of the Social Security Administration.

FDR and New Dealers in car

The Case Against Privatizing Social Security The Case Against Privatizing Social Security

For the New Deal’s 90th birthday, let’s deliver a cake, not a hand grenade.

Mar 4, 2023 / Henry Scott Wallace, June Hopkins, Tomlin Perkins Coggeshall, Harold M. Ickes, and James Roosevelt Jr.

FDR with cabinet

As Child Tax Payments Expire, Struggling Families Are Desperate As Child Tax Payments Expire, Struggling Families Are Desperate

Congress could get inspiration from the tortured creation of Social Security.

Feb 7, 2022 / James Roosevelt Jr., Henry Scott Wallace, June Hopkins, Tomlin Perkins Coggeshall, and Harold M. Ickes