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The Future of High School: Academy of Health Sciences at PGCC
Wednesday, May 31st at 2:00 PM EST
Join us on Wednesday, May 31st at 2:00 PM EST for a one-hour Zoom webinar as our panel of experts discuss the partnership between The Academy of Health Sciences at PGCC and Bowie State University and how it's helping develop strong college and career pathways to their students. Additionally, we'll discuss the growing efforts of HBCUs to develop robust career pathways opportunities like apprenticeships and other models.
The webinar is a collaboration between the Progressive Policy Institute's Reinventing America’s Schools Project, New Skills for a New Economy Project and The 74.
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New from the Experts
Claire Ainsley, Director of PPI's Project on Center-Left Renewal: The centre left is on the up around the world. Here’s what Keir Starmer can learn from it
⮕ The Guardian
The Debt Ceiling Decision Tree, ft. Ben Ritz, Director of PPI's Center for Funding America's Future
⮕ The Dispatch
Climate group with GOP roots a go-to for tariff push, ft. Paul Bledsoe, PPI's Strategic Advisor
⮕ E&E News
What to Know in Washington: Congress Faces A.I. Learning Curve, ft. Jordan Shapiro, Director of PPI's Innovation Frontier Project
⮕ Bloomberg Government
Trade Fact of the Week: Louisiana is the U.S.’ top exporting state
⮕ PPI's Trade Fact of the Week
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PPI Applauds New Democrat Coalition’s Bipartisan Permitting Reform Priorities
Elan Sykes, Energy Policy Analyst at the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), released a statement in reaction to the New Democrat Coalition’s bipartisan permitting reform proposal.
“Securing permitting reforms will not only help address climate change with the proper urgency, but it will also lower household energy costs for American families in a time of concerning inflation. Congress must take effective, bipartisan action to break through this outdated, bureaucratic red tape and let America build.”
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Biden Needs To Remind Voters He’s Always Been Pro-Business
By Paul Bledsoe
Senior Advisor for the Progressive Policy Institute
For The Messenger
A new AP poll found that only 31% of Americans approve of President Joe Biden’s handling of the economy, a result both shocking and familiar. Shocking because no modern president has received such poor marks during a period of very low unemployment and a growing economy. But it is also familiar because it shows Democrats have a chronic political problem regarding the economy: Many voters don’t trust them on economic issues even though Democratic presidents have demonstrably better records of producing job growth, income improvements and avoiding recessions.
As research has found, of 17 recessions over the last century, 13 began under Republican presidents, including all of the biggest: the Great Depression and the major recessions of 1981, 2007 and 2020. The last Democratic recession occurred more than four decades ago.
Why don’t voters believe it? One problem is that the far-left of the Democratic Party reflexively indulges in anti-business rhetoric, and often in policies, led today by the Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) wing of the party. If you spend time bashing the very companies that produce most jobs, growth and wealth, it should come as no surprise that most Americans don’t trust you to help the private sector be more productive. So, while issues like income inequality are important to address, as recent Biden legislation helped do, condemning the private sector as a political strategy often ends up backfiring. |
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MOSAIC MOMENT:
State Governments Are The New Frontier
PPI's State and Local Political Director Reid Fauble sits down with Sahar Fathi, Policy Director for the Washington State Attorney General's office and Mosaic Project Alum to discuss her role in the Washington State AG's office, why the legislative work and policy initiatives of state and local legislative chambers matter, and how state and local governments will serve as the new frontier of shared democratic values.
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THE NEOLIBERAL PODCAST:
YIMBYISM in California,
ft. Ned Resnikoff
We're going state by state, trying to figure out which approaches to YIMBYism work. Ned Resnikoff, policy director of California YIMBY, joins the show to discuss YIMBYism in California. We talk about the history of California's housing crisis, how California YIMBYs battled their way to successfully passing bills, and how California's one-party status changes the politics of housing.
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Don't Miss These PPI Reports
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Staff Spotlight: Elan Sykes
Elan Sykes
Energy Policy Analyst
Elan Sykes is an Energy Policy Analyst at PPI. Elan works on energy deployment, innovation, and decarbonization. Prior to joining PPI, Elan served as a researcher at the Climate Leadership Council where he focused on carbon pricing, global climate policy, and the intersection of climate and trade policies. Before that, Elan served as an intern at the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel.
Elan received an AB cum laude from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs in 2018, where he wrote a thesis examining Eastern Mediterranean energy and security politics.
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