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** PPI Partners with New Democrat Coalition to Host Workforce Development Task Force Roundtable
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Taylor Maag, Director of Workforce Development at PPI, partnered with the New Democrat Coalition to host a Workforce Development Task Force Roundtable on Wednesday, July 26.
Members of Congress in attendance included: Representatives Kathy Manning (NC-06), Salud Carbajal (CA-24), Hillary Scholten (MI-3), Gabe Vasquez (NM-02), Val Hoyle (OR-04), Lucy McBath (GA-06), and Donald Norcross (NJ-01).
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NEW REPORT FROM TAYLOR:
The United States’ Unemployment Insurance (UI) system is a lifeline for jobless Americans, and provides an income-smoothing effect for workers and their families, as well as sustains and stabilizes consumer spending during economic downturns. However, UI also has the potential to spur entrepreneurship through the Self-Employment Assistance (SEA) program.
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Paul Bledsoe, PPI's Strategic Advisor: Sleepwalking Toward Climate Catastrophe
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Richard D. Kahlenberg, PPI Senior Fellow: Only Zoning Reform Can Solve America’s Housing Crisis
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'Honest Billing' is a Step Forward, But No Substitute for Site-Neutral Payments, by Erin Delaney, PPI Director of Health Care Policy
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Trade Fact of the Week: The Number of Poor Countries Has Fallen By More Than Half Since 2000
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College Affordability Requires Cutting Costs, Not Canceling More Debt
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By Ben Ritz
Director of PPI's Center for Funding America’s Future
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The past two months have made clear that President Biden’s approach to making higher education more affordable isn’t working. First, bipartisan majorities of both the U.S. House and Senate voted to block his debt cancellation policies. Then, shortly after Biden thwarted that effort with his veto pen, the Supreme Court ruled that his attempt to cancel up to $20,000 of student loan debt per borrower was an illegal overreach of executive authority.
Biden responded to the setback by announcing two debt-cancellation schemes shortly after the Supreme Court issued its ruling. The first was the finalization of a new income-driven repayment (IDR) plan known as the SAVE plan. Biden also announced he would start a new process under the Higher Education Act to cancel more debt “for as many borrowers as possible, as fast as possible” through executive action.
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** Liberal Suburbs Have Their Own Border Wall
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By Richard D. Kahlenberg
Senior Fellow for PPI
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The New York City suburb of Scarsdale, located in Westchester County, New York, is one of the country’s wealthiest communities, and its residents are reliably liberal. In 2020, three-quarters of Scarsdale voters cast ballots for Joe Biden over Donald Trump. One can safely presume that few Scarsdale residents are ardent backers of Trump’s wall on the Mexican border. But many of them support a less visible kind of wall, erected by zoning regulations that ban multifamily housing and keep non-wealthy people, many of them people of color, out of their community.
Across the country, a lot of good white liberals, people who purchase copies of White Fragility and decry the U.S. Supreme Court for ending affirmative action, sleep every night in exclusive suburbs that socially engineer economic (and thereby racial) segregation by government edict. The huge inequalities between upscale municipalities and their poorer neighbors didn’t just happen; they are in large measure the product of laws that are hard to square with the inclusive In This House, We Believe signs on lawns in many highly educated, deep-blue suburbs.
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The Future is Woman: Episode 3
PPI’s Reinventing America's Schools (RAS) Project has a new podcast series titled "The Future is Woman" recorded live at the 2023 Essence Festival in New Orleans, Louisiana. In the third episode of this five-part series, RAS co-director Curtis Valentine sits down with Tracey Dumas Clark, Chief Program Officer at 4.0 and Crystal Gilliam, Director of Philanthropic Programming at 4.0.
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Staff Spotlight: Taylor Maag
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Taylor Maag
Dir. of Workforce Development Policy
Taylor Maag is the Director of Workforce Development Policy at PPI. In this role, Taylor focuses on developing policy solutions that strengthen our nation’s workforce, ensuring employers have the talent they need to remain competitive and people have the skills and critical supports necessary to succeed in today and tomorrow’s economy.
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