University of Oklahoma (BA) Boston University (JD)
Occupations
Lawyer
policy analyst
commentator
Employer
People's Policy Project
Spouse
Elizabeth Bruenig
(m. 2014)
Children
2
Website
mattbruenig.com
Matthew Bruenig[1] (born November 22, 1988)[2][3] is an American lawyer, blogger, policy analyst, commentator,[4] and founder of the left-leaning think tank People's Policy Project. He was a blogger for the American think tank Demos covering politics and public policy[5] and has written on issues including income distribution, taxation, welfare, elections, the Nordic model, and funds socialism.[6][7][8][9]
^Bruenig, Matt. "Resume" (PDF). Matt Bruenig. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
^Hoxie, Josh (August 25, 2017). "Getting Ready for the Day the Power Structure Shifts". Inequality.org. Institute for Policy Studies. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
^Bruenig, Elizabeth. "ITS @MattBruenig's BIRTHDAY". Archived from the original on November 22, 2018. Retrieved November 22, 2018.
^Bruenig, Matt (April 13, 2017). "Welfare for Everyone". Jacobin. Interviewed by Denvir, Daniel. Retrieved July 21, 2017.
^"Posts by Matt Bruenig". Demos Policyshop. February 15, 2023.
^McFarland, Kate (February 26, 2017). "Matt Bruenig on 'Passive Income': Viral Article and Video Interview". Basic Income Earth Network. Retrieved July 21, 2017.
^Campos, Paul (April 23, 2014). "Matt Bruenig Discovers Secret Motivation for Criticisms of His Insights". Lawyers Guns & Money. Retrieved July 21, 2017.
^Worstall, Tim (January 4, 2017). "Matt Bruenig Says the 1% Already Gets a Universal Basic Income – So Why Not One for All?". Forbes. Retrieved July 21, 2017.
^Bruenig, Matt (September 28, 2018). "Common Wealth: workers' ownership in the history of socialism". Verso. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
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the Redskins name, not the federal government". The Washington Post. MattBruenig (June 20, 2014). "The myth of Big Government in the Redskins trademark...
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between democratic socialism and European social democracy. In 2019, MattBruenig described Sanders as a supporter of market socialism rather than social...
political belief system and called it "think-of-the-children-ism". Elizabeth Bruenig wrote in a 2014 article for First Things that moralizing with the phrase...
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"Forbes 400: The super-rich get richer". CNN. Retrieved August 11, 2013. Bruenig, Matt (March 24, 2014). "You call this a meritocracy? How rich inheritance...
scene from businessman Mark Zuckerberg's hearing in Congress. Elizabeth Bruenig of the Washington Post described this as a "digital update to the surreal...
collectively form a sharply-observed portrait of contemporary America." Elizabeth Bruenig of The Atlantic, "for exposing the tortuous last hours of inmates awaiting...
Archived from the original on May 13, 2022. Retrieved September 18, 2022. Bruenig, Matt (2019). "The Family Fun Pack". People's Policy Project. Archived from...
Credit Suisse. June 23, 2021. pp. 115–118. Retrieved March 4, 2022. Bruenig, Matt (March 24, 2014). "You call this a meritocracy? How rich inheritance...
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the original (PDF) on 12 January 2013. Retrieved 10 February 2020. Bruenig, Matt (28 October 2013). "Libertarians Are Huge Fans of Economic Coercion"...
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