"The President said today he wants to unrig the economy, which begs the question: unrig it for who?" said Rep.
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To accelerate the economy, you've got to unrig the markets.
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They do want to "drain the swamp" and unrig the system.
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To me, this is where we get this question of how do you unrig the system.
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The ads are part of a larger campaign dubbed "Unrig the Economy" that will span several years.
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The good news is that we can make different choices that unrig rules and tilt the scales back towards working people.
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Look: This is a poor theory, and it's not very useful for helping us understand how we might unrig the economy.
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Unless we fight to unrig the system, millions of us will continue to live and die on the terms of unaccountable power.
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To unrig the rules, working people need permanent, powerful organizations that give them a strong voice in the decisions that affect their families.
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Inslee's DGA had launched an "Unrig the Map" project aimed at giving Democrats a voice -- or at least a veto -- in the redistricting process.
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I say we unrig the system by reducing political influence and looking for ways to open up competition by putting consumers back in the game.
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Solid policy and effective advocacy are two of the principles that drew me to Issue One, and they'll be key elements of the Unrig agenda.
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Gallagher and people from around the country at Unrig about the small and large steps we can take to get our democracy back on track.
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Americans are fed up with feeling that the system is rigged against them — to coin a phrase — and itching for leaders who will unrig it.
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I look forward to living that promise at Unrig the System, and each day after that as we push for the nation we love and need.
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Ganesh Sitaraman is a professor at Vanderbilt Law School and the author of The Great Democracy: How to Fix Our Politics, Unrig the Economy, and Unite America.
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Americans for Prosperity, the conservative group founded by the Koch brothers, pushed for a fairer and simpler tax code to "unrig the economy" today at a press conference.
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Terry McAuliffe — who helped spearhead the DGA's "Unrig the Map" redistricting program — said he would focus on helping Democrats win control in the state rather than running for president.
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Nor can any of us acting alone as workers, consumers or voters "unrig" the economy so that it begins to work for all of us and not just the wealthy few.
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"In a district where Donald Trump won by a large margin, voters are looking for a candidate who will bring change and unrig the system," Tiffany Muller, ECU's president, said in a statement.
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The theme that the economic system is rigged against middle-class families is very much present in Two-Income Trap, but the full agenda to unrig it was still years in the making.
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Meade is emerging as a star on the liberal speaking circuit — interviewed by Samantha Bee for her show, "Full Frontal"; featured alongside Jennifer Lawrence at an event called "Unrig the System" at Tulane University.
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Both of our movements will do whatever it takes to ensure everyone has a living wage, a strong union and the right to organize for their rights so we can unrig America's broken politics and lift people of all races out of poverty.
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In February, I'll be joining hundreds of them in New Orleans at the Unrig the System summit to discuss what draws us together – the fundamental belief in our democracy and what we can do to refocus our politics on the issues that matter.
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If it ever does become possible to unrig the system, it will be because enough of us have come to agree about how it got that way and have set to work restoring our economic liberties in the same way they were whittled away: doggedly, democratically, one market and one jurisdiction at a time.
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"One of the keys to selling tax reform is the president making the point that tax reform will unrig this economy by stripping out the special-interest deductions and carve-outs that riddle this code," said Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity, a group founded by the billionaire industrialist Koch brothers that is spending heavily to push changes to the tax code.
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The crew proceeded to unrig the vessel and at midnight left in the ketch Dauntless and arrived in Sydney at 4pm on the 26th. Her cargo consisted of of hardwood. The Æolus was insured for £500 in the Sydney Marine Office.The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 1 November 1867 She was owned by Mr. Davis, of Pyrmont.
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RepresentUs held its first conference called the "Unrig Summit" in February 2018 in New Orleans. In March 2019, 2,000 attended the conference in Nashville, including United Nations official Kate Gilmore, gun control advocate Emma González, voting rights activist Desmond Meade, and actress and comedian Sasheer Zamata, who spoke to attendees. Leading up to the conference, actress Jennifer Lawrence (who is a RepresentUs board member) released a short film detailing the organization's political aims to a general audience. According to RepresentUs, the summit is the largest national event that attempts to address underlining causes of dysfunction in US government.
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With Anne L. Alstott, he published The public option: How to expand freedom, increase opportunity, and promote equality. He was also the author of the 2019 book The great democracy: How to fix politics, unrig the economy, and unite America. The great democracy describes a progressive platform for systemic change which is offered as an alternative to market-driven neoliberalism in the United States, including policy prescriptions for decreased barriers to citizen participation, expanded health care, legal reform, and climate policy. In The great democracy Sitaraman continues to connect changes in contemporary American politics with developments in the American economy, arguing that a rigged economy has created a rigged politics, and that a change is needed in American politics on the order of historic movements like New Deal progressivism.
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