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Before Tonight's Debate in New Hampshire: How Do Candidates' Proposals Stack Up? By Ben Ritz, Director of the Center for Funding America's Future The leading Democratic candidates for president have each made dozens of policy promises to voters over the past year as they campaigned for the opportunity to challenge President Trump in November. With the Iowa caucuses taking place next week, now is the right time to evaluate how these proposals add up: which candidates have given voters a credible agenda for enacting progressive change, and which have not? An analysis from the Center for Funding America's Future. READ MORE

ICYMI: 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

NEW: Who’s Cheering for Bernie Sanders to Win Monday? Young Lefties—and Donald Trump Will Marshall, PPI President A heavy responsibility thus lies on Democratic caucus and primary voters as they start selecting their party’s nominee next week. If they make the wrong choice, it means four more years of Trump’s corrosive assaults on reason, democracy, and basic human decency. For many, the right choice will require setting aside their ideological druthers and picking the candidate most likely to beat Trump in the Electoral College. READ MORE

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

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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