Friday, January 31st, 2020 Contact: Carter Christensen, [email protected], 202-525-3926

Four Days Before Iowa, Which Democrats’ Promises Add Up? Ben Ritz, Director of the Center for Funding America's Future If one of these candidates unseats President Trump in November, he or she will inherit an enormous fiscal mess. Hopefully Democratic voters will choose a nominee who doesn’t dramatically make it worse. READ MORE

Don't fuel Donald Trump's culture war on climate change. Beat it instead. Paul Bledsoe, Strategic Adviser Australia’s raging infernos, like our Western wildfires and more devastating storms, prefigure a darker climate future for all of us without urgent action. But for President Donald Trump, the climate crisis is just another opportunity to stoke anger among the American people and further divide us. READ MORE

New Report: How The Democratic Presidential Candidates Would Fund America’s Future Ben Ritz and Brendan McDermott, The Center for Funding America's Future  As Democrats begin selecting their party’s nominee for president with the Iowa caucuses next week, voters deserve to know what policies each candidate prioritizes and how they would finance their agendas. PPI’s Center for Funding America’s Future has compiled a comprehensive review of tax and spending proposals offered by four leading presidential candidates to help guide voters: Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and Vice President Joe Biden. READ THE NEW REPORT

New CBO Report Projects $13 Trillion Deficit Over 10 Years Ben Ritz, Director of the Center for Funding America's Future With partisan divisions as deep as ever, both sides can agree on one thing: Everybody wants to avoid another financial crisis. And forecasters have recently identified subprime auto loans as an existential threat to the economy.  READ MORE

Do Subprime Auto Loans Threaten the U.S. Economy? Dr. Michael Mandel, Chief Economic Strategist With partisan divisions as deep as ever, both sides can agree on one thing: Everybody wants to avoid another financial crisis. And forecasters have recently identified subprime auto loans as an existential threat to the economy.  READ MORE

PODCAST: Spending Smarter vs. Spending More Ben Ritz, Director of the Center for Funding America's Future Ben Ritz, director of the Progressive Policy Institute’s Center for Funding America’s Future., discusses PPI’s report on 2020 presidential candidate policies and pay-fors, as well as the Congressional Budget Office’s latest 10-year federal budget outlook. Listen Here. LISTEN HERE

New Report: Low-Income Borrowers and the Auto Loan Market Dr. Michael Mandel, Chief Economic Strategist  Some are concerned that subprime auto loans – which offer higher interest loans to riskier borrowers – pose a threat to the stability of the global economy in much the same way that the subprime mortgage market contributed to the Great Recession. Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, in particular, has raised the warning flags as part of her campaign. But these worries are ill-founded and based on misleading data and faulty analogies. READ THE NEW REPORT

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