Friday, February 21, 2020
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Jason Gold, PPI Managing Director

Pushing the envelope to gain an edge has always been ingrained in baseball’s culture, from pine tar to spitballs. Now, with the advent of modern technology and exponentially larger revenue and payrolls, the pressure to cheat is stronger than ever. The same can be said (and quite often has been said by some leading presidential candidates) about Wall Street.  
Tressa Pankovits, Associate Director of Reinventing America's Schools

President Trump, in yesterday’s 2021 budget address, called for cutting the U.S. Department of Education budget by 8 percent. That is obviously terrible, but it is, at least, less than the 12 percent he wanted to axe in 2019 or the 10 percent reduction he called for in 2020.
Ben Ritz, Director of the Center for Funding America's Future

The ironically titled “Budget for America’s Future” is anything but: it proposes to slash critical public investments that lay the foundation for long-term growth, double down on reckless tax cuts for the rich, undermine health-care and safety-net programs for millions of Americans, and leave the nation on a path of trillion-dollar deficits as far as the eye can see.
Elliott Long, Senior Economic Policy Analyst

The failure of the app intended to collect results from the Democratic caucuses in Iowa wasn’t the best advertisement for the App Economy. But we have to remember that apps play a central role in the economy.

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