Facing the Future Podcast; Canadian App Economy Event; Lakisha Young, Oakland Reach; Would Single Payer Set Back Progress? ‌ ‌ ‌ Facing the Future: "Paying for a Progressive Budget" “The federal budget is too focused on consumption by the current generation and not enough on investment in the next. We wanted to show what it would be like to put together a budget that funds these … public investments … but at the same time did so in a fiscally responsible way so that they could be sustainable for the long-term.” Interview with Ben Ritz, Director of PPI's Center for Funding America's Future OPINION: Forcing More Litigation Isn't the Answer to Litigation Abuse "To avoid the expense and stress of going to court, Americans are turning to arbitration to settle workplace, and other disputes. Free enterprise depends on businesses, employees, and consumers to be able to resolve disputes quickly and fairly. Plaintiffs' lawyers, who file lawsuits for a living, are trying to convince Congress to take that option away." By Phil Goldberg, Director of PPI's Center for Civil Justice Would Single Payer Set Back Progress on Paying for Value? "While the left and center-left have been debating the wisdom of abolishing private insurance, another critical policy issue has not gotten much attention: The Medicare-for-all bill currently in question would create a single-payer health care system based on fee-for-service, disregarding the financial and outcome-based successes of payment reforms emphasizing value-based care." By Nathan Janda, PPI Health Care Fellow Lakisha Young, Oakland Reach "Lakisha Young is no stranger to education reform. A former Teach For America corps member and founding member of a KIPP Charter School, Young knows the power parents can wield when they demand educational options for their children. The daughter of a single mother who enrolled her in a traditional public school, a Catholic school, and later a private high school, Young expected to have the same power to make choices for her children when she became a mother." By Curtis Valentine, Deputy Director of Reinventing America's Schools Project 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 recently released report by the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI). App Economy workers are those that develop, maintain, or support mobile applications. What’s more, Canada is outperforming many of its industrialized peers. READ ABOUT OUR EVENT HERE "A study from 2012 shows that app jobs have quadrupled - about the same pace as the United States, and faster than many European countries as well. We know this: export-based apps are a huge potential economic strength for Canada." @MichaelMandel #CanadaAppEconomy "Tech workers in Canada are a success story when it comes to diversity. Almost 1/3 belong to a visible minority group. But in other respects, only 20% of tech workers in Canada are women - and only 1% are indigenous." @vviet93 #CanadaAppEconomy RECAP OUR EVENT HERE The Impact of Electronic Cigarettes on Cigarette Smoking by Americans and Its Health and Economic Implications By Robert J. Shapiro, President of Sonecon writing for PPI Cigarette smoking by Americans declined steadily from the mid-1960s to around 2005, when this progress began to slow. From 2013 to 2017, however, cigarette smoking rates fell sharply, during a period in which the use of electronic cigarettes or e-cigarettes increased sharply. We estimate that pre-existing trends and factors other than e-cigarettes can explain a decline in smoking rates by people ages 18 to 44 from 20.2% in 2014 to 17.9% in 2017. However, the rate fell from 20.2% to 14.6% in 2017, and the rising use of e-cigarettes can explain the additional 3.3 percentage-point decline in cigarette smoking rates. We also calculated the healthcare savings and costs and the productivity benefits associated with the reductions in cigarette smoking and the increased use of e-cigarettes from 2014 to 2017 by those 3,844,840 people ages 18 to 44. These calculations are based on healthcare costs, life expectancy, and the differences in the incidence of illnesses that interfere with work for smokers, ex-smokers, nonsmokers and e-cigarette users. READ THE FULL REPORT HERE Contact: Media, [email protected] Progressive Policy Institute | 1200 New Hampshire Ave. NW, Suite 575, Washington, DC 20036 Unsubscribe [email protected] Update Profile | About Constant Contact Sent by [email protected] in collaboration with Try email marketing for free today!