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** Democrats Should Junk the Primaries: Here's Why
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By Will Marshall
Founder and President of the Progressive Policy Institute
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After one presidential defeat, two impeachments, two criminal indictments and, possibly, two more to come, Donald Trump has learned nothing. He still insists he won the 2020 election – by a landslide – and that he’s the victim of a vast deep-state conspiracy bent on his destruction.
It’s hard to believe: A plainly delusional 77-year old is making a third run for the White House on an explicit platform of wreaking revenge on his political enemies. Yet somehow he’s outpacing his saner Republican rivals and, in some polls, is even with President Joe Biden.
This is nuts, and it poses a riddle for Biden and the Democrats: Why aren’t they 20 points ahead? Why can’t they rally a solid majority of Americans to protect our constitutional democracy against an incendiary demagogue?
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New from the Experts
Statement from Erin Delaney, Director of Health Care Policy at PPI, on the anniversary of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade
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For Democrats to be successful in 2024, they need to focus on reaching voters in the middle, ft. Will Marshall, Founder and President of PPI
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WATCH: U.S. Secretary of State traveling to China to ease tensions, maintain open communication, ft. Ed Gresser, Vice President and Director for Trade and Global Markets
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“Thank a Black Teacher” celebration during Teacher Appreciation Week highlights the importance of black educators throughout history, ft. Curtis Valentine, PPI’s Co-Director of Reinventing America's Schools
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WATCH: Panel on preparing kids for careers in STEM & a new economy, ft. Taylor Maag, Director of Workforce Development Policy for PPI and Curtis Valentine, PPI’s Co-Director of Reinventing America's Schools
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Trade Fact of the Week: 13.4 billion COVID vaccinations and boosters have been delivered since December 2020
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From Innovative Schools to State Law: RAS Hosts Event, Releases Report Highlighting Success of the RSIZ and its Rural Students
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A first-of-its-kind-in-the-nation high school model is making such a tremendous impact in Texas that the Texas State Legislature has just passed a bill to incentivize its replication in rural school districts statewide.
PPI's Reinventing America’s Schools Project (RAS) today released a detailed report titled “Reinventing Rural Education: The Rural Schools Innovation Zone ([link removed]) ,” specifying the unique challenges rural schools face and how the RSIZ meets those challenges while expanding career pathways and workforce preparation for students.
“Traveling to southern Texas, I saw firsthand how the Rural Schools Innovation Zone prepared its students for success, said report author Tressa Pankovits, Co-Director of Reinventing America’s Schools. “The RSIZ collaboration in Texas should be a blueprint for other rural school districts across the country that aspire to give their students the opportunity to graduate with college credits and industry certifications that qualify them for jobs with family-sustaining wages.
Nearly one in five U.S. students attend a rural school, but rural schools are often left behind in policy discussions due to their unique challenges. Seeking to rectify that, RAS today hosted a delegation of students, educators, and administrators from the RSIZ to travel to Capitol Hill and host a panel discussion where the students shared their experiences possible through the RSIZ.
During their visit to Capitol Hill with PPI, the attendees from the RSIZ also had the opportunity to directly engage with members and staff from their local congressional delegation. Alicia Seagraves, Senior Legislative Assistant for U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar (TX-28), attended the event and provided welcoming remarks on behalf of the Congressman’s office. After the event, the RSIZ group and PPI met with U.S. Representative Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34). Both Representatives Cuellar and Gonzalez represent areas of the RSIZ in Congress.
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Can The Federal Reserve Stick A Soft Landing?
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By Paul Weinstein Jr.
Senior Fellow for PPI
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The Federal Reserve recently announced it was skipping another interest rate increase for the first time in 15 months to assess the impact of its efforts to quash inflation.
Apparently, one of the reasons for the pause was disagreement among the 12 members of the Federal Open Markets Committee about what to do next. The hawks—who want to raise rates at least twice more this year—argue that inflation is still above the Fed’s target of 2% to 3%, and that core inflation (sans volatile gas and food prices), remains stubbornly high at 5.3% year-over-year.
Other committee members want to leave things where they stand for now. They point out that consumer prices rose a modest 4% in May from 12 months earlier—the smallest increase in more than two years—and that the full impact of the central bank’s 10 previous rate hikes is still not known.
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🗓️ Mark Your Calendar!
Thursday, July 20: Women in Policy Coffee & Conversations, on the Hill!
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PPI's "Exploring the App Economy" Series
⮕ Monday, June 26: Berlin ([link removed])
Be sure to keep an eye out for future PPI events ([link removed]) !
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RAS REPORTS:
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:
Should America Have More Apprenticeships?
PPI's Director of Workforce Taylor Maag joins the show to talk about apprenticeships. We discuss whether apprenticeships make sense for the modern economy, whether our current labor market policies are too focused on "college for all," and if the government should be in the business of subsidizing apprenticeships.
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Staff Spotlight: PPI Fellow
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Caroline Burney
Communications and Political Affairs Fellow
Caroline Burney is a Communications and Political Affairs Fellow for the Progressive Policy Institute. Caroline earned a BA from Louisiana State University in Political Communications with a minor in Political Science. During her senior year, she and a group of fellow students worked with the Louisiana Department of Health to gather information on COVID misinformation among college students and how to combat it. Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, Caroline worked on Jon Ossoff's Senate campaign during the runoff election in 2020 and Stacey Abrams' campaign for Governor in 2022.
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