Reframing the 2020 Health Care Debate
“Health care and poverty are inseparable issues and no program to improve the nation’s health will be effective unless we understand the conditions of injustice which underlie disease. It is illusory...
View ArticleHealth Care 2020: What’s Missing from the Debate?
The Progressive Policy Institute’s Health Care 2020 panel relayed the overwhelming opinion that the American health care system is broken and in desperate need of reform. Americans need health care...
View ArticleRitz for Medium: “Budget Deal Perpetuates Broken Status Quo”
The budget deal scheduled for a vote tomorrow gets two things right and nearly everything else wrong. The main thing it gets right is the need to unshackle domestic public investment that would be...
View ArticleMedia Advisory: Building a #BetterBudget, A Forum on Investing in America’s...
WASHINGTON—The Progressive Policy Institute and House Blue Dog Coalition will host a lunchtime discussion today at the Longworth House Office Building about what leaders in Congress can do to invest in...
View ArticleFacing the Future Podcast: Ben Ritz on A Progressive Budget for Equitable Growth
During the most recent Facing the Future, Ben Ritz discussed PPI’s latest policy proposal, “A Progressive Budget for Equitable Growth.” The blueprint addresses a variety of issues, such as the national...
View ArticleLong for Medium: “The Canadian App Economy is Global and Diverse – But Can...
The Canadian App Economy is strong both in terms of app exports and compared to its industrialized peers. The Canadian App Economy has 262,000 App Economy workers as of November 2018, according to a...
View ArticleMarshall for NY Daily News: “Why the moderates must prevail”
Thanks to CNN’s penchant for elaborately staged political melodrama, it’s easy to dismiss Round 2 of the Democratic presidential debates last week as a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing. But...
View ArticlePPI Blog: A Simple Way to Help Formerly Incarcerated Americans Reenter Society
Roman Darker, PPI Summer 2019 Intern We often take for granted the many essential tasks that require government-issued ID, such as a drivers’ license or a state-issued ID card. We need them to open a...
View ArticleThe App Economy in India
India is one of the premier technology countries in the world. According to one forecast, India will overtake the US as the world’s largest developer population center by 2024. (1) India is also one of...
View ArticleOn the Blog: UBI Is The Wrong Way To Fight Poverty
Critics say that UBI risks discouraging people from working, which would shrink our economy and thereby lower U.S. living standards. by PPI Summer Intern Avi Lipton In his long-shot bid for the...
View ArticleCan HEA Reauthorization Help Close America’s Skills Gap?
House Democrats yesterday introduced major legislation to reauthorize the landmark Higher Education Act. Although reauthorization is long overdue, the new legislation, called the College Affordability...
View ArticleStangler for Medium: “Announcing the New Urban Progress Initiative to Foster...
In its recently published The World in 2020, the editors of The Economist observe that the U.S. presidential race will “hog headlines” globally for the next year. One of the implications of this is...
View ArticleMarshall for The Hill: “Is Corbyn handing Brexit to Boris Johnson?”
When British voters go to the polls Thursday, it probably will be their last chance to stop Brexit. If they don’t, Jeremy Corbyn will bear much of the blame. Wait – isn’t the Labour Party leader...
View ArticleInvestment Heroes 2019: Boosting U.S. Growth
Companies that invest in America are the lifeblood of economic growth. Whether it’s a fast 3D printer, a fuel-efficient delivery van, a gigabit-speed broadband network, a new solar power project, a...
View ArticleRitz for Forbes: “Three Tax Cuts a Santa Claus Congress Could Deliver in 2019”
Congress must pass a comprehensive funding bill by the end of next week to avoid a repeat of last year’s government shutdown. Such a must-pass bill at the end of the year often becomes a “Christmas...
View ArticleBledsoe for the New York Times: “Our Future Depends on the Arctic”
Delegates from nearly every nation spent the last two weeks here at a United Nations climate summit struggling to chart a course to meet the extraordinarily difficult goal of net zero emissions of...
View ArticleRitz for Forbes: “Who Is Fighting For Fiscal Responsibility?”
The federal government is ending 2019 with a national debt of over $17 trillion for the first time in U.S. history – and if one includes intragovernmental debt, such as that held by the Social Security...
View ArticleMarshall for the Daily News: “Britain’s Warning to American Democrats”
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s thumping victory last week confirms that 2016 was a political watershed. It marked the beginning of a new political alignment that is rewriting the rules of party...
View ArticleGold for Medium: “Attention Democrats: UK Elections Not Only Cautionary Tale...
As Democratic presidential hopefuls gather in Los Angeles this week for the last debate of 2019, candidates should look across the Atlantic for a cautionary tale. No, I’m not just talking about last...
View ArticleStangler for Medium: “The Democrats Should Talk About This Tonight”
Here is how tonight’s Democratic debate should begin: The American economy has always been driven by entrepreneurial energy — the creation and growth of new businesses. Today, however, entrepreneurship...
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