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Colleges without affirmative action: What the schools must do now
By Will Marshall
Founder and President of the Progressive Policy Institute
for New York Daily News
Once again, the U.S. Supreme Court has brushed aside its own precedents to achieve a long-sought conservative goal — banning race-conscious college admissions. Unlike last year’s inflammatory decision overturning abortion rights, however, this ruling is likely to be popular.
Americans have been leery of race, ethnic and gender preferences since the Nixon administration first introduced them in 1969. According to a recent YouGov poll, two-thirds of the public say colleges shouldn’t factor race into their admissions decisions. Majorities of whites, Hispanics and women take that view, as does a plurality of Blacks, Democrats and liberals.
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A Trade-Based Climate Policy Can Cut Emissions Globally
By Paul Bledsoe and Ed Gresser
PPI's Strategic Advisor and VP & Director for Trade and Global Markets
For The Messenger
The recent reopening of diplomatic dialogue by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese leaders highlighted the enormous importance of climate change action by the world’s two largest greenhouse gas emitters. But it did not yield immediate progress on China’s huge annual carbon emissions.
In contrast, the U.S., European Union and their G7 allies are taking historic actions to reduce greenhouse emissions. America’s effort includes hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies for domestic private-sector investments in clean energy, intended to reduce emissions by 50% or more by 2030 and reach “net-zero” emissions before mid-century. |
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THE REPORT:
Alliance for Clean Trade: A Framework Proposal for a New Climate and Trade Alliance Between the U.S., EU, and Allies
By Paul Bledsoe and Ed Gresser
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New from the Experts
Ben Ritz, Director of PPI's Center for Funding America's Future: PPI Urges Dems to Pursue More Responsible Higher Ed Policy After SCOTUS Cancels Debt Cancellation
⮕ PPI Statement
Analysis: New Humira rivals likely to hit US market with small discounts in July, ft. Robert Popovian, Senior Health Policy Fellow at PPI
⮕ Reuters
Trade Fact of the Week: The African American exporting community shrank by 34% in 2020
⮕ PPI's Trade Fact of the Week
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Red states take aim at public schools
By Will Marshall
Founder and President of the Progressive Policy Institute
for The Hill
The states, said Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, are America’s “laboratories of democracy.” Today’s red-state Republicans see them differently — as staging grounds for cultural revolution.
Despite polls showing that most Americans favor legal abortion, 15 Republican-controlled states have passed laws depriving women of their reproductive rights. They are also targeting the nation’s public schools.
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🗓️ Mark Your Calendar!
Thursday, July 20: Women in Policy Coffee & Conversations, on the Hill!
⮕ RSVP Here
Be sure to keep an eye out for future PPI events!
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MOSAIC MOMENT:
Internet Access As We Know It
According to The International Telecommunications Union, two-thirds of the world now has internet access. PPI’s Ed Gresser sits down with two of the nation’s leading broadband experts, Meagan Bolton and Christine O’Connor to discuss where connectivity gaps remain and what U.S. policymakers are doing to bridge this digital divide.
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Don't Miss These PPI Reports
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Staff Spotlight: PPI Fellow
Kristin Rheins
Public Policy Fellow
Kristin is a Public Policy Fellow for the Progressive Policy Institute hailing from Nashville, Tennessee. Before moving to Washington DC, Kristin studied Art History and Economics at William and Mary and is currently one year away from earning her law degree at the American University Washington College of Law. She is a senior staffer for the American University Law Review and an active member of the Federal Communications Bar Association. Kristin is interested in content moderation, free speech, and intellectual property, and hopes to apply her knowledge of the law to current technology legislation with the goal of promoting diversity across the Internet.
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