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Is Our Workforce Ready for a Successful Green Energy Transition?
By Taylor Maag and Elan Sykes
Director of Workforce Development Policy and Energy Policy Analyst
For The Messenger
Over the past two years, the Biden administration has made large national investments aimed at putting America ahead in the global race to develop clean energy industries and jobs. Investment is flowing all across the country, for projects like solar panel factories in Louisiana, energy-efficient apartment buildings in New York and electric vehicle battery factories sprouting everywhere from Georgia to Michigan.
This emphasis on a green transition comes at an important time. Just last week, our nation’s deadliest wildfire killed at least 111 people and destroyed Maui’s historic town of Lahaina. While detailed studies have not yet determined exactly how climate change influenced Maui’s fire, climate scientists have pointed to specific climate-driven factors, and existing attribution science suggests that climate change fuels warmer temperatures, less rainfall, stronger storms and powerful winds — increasing the likelihood of devastating events like this. It’s clear there is no time like the present to create a lower-emissions economy, mitigate climate impacts and protect public safety.
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New from the Experts
A Fundamental Driver of Persistent School Segregation, ft. Richard D. Kahlenberg, PPI Senior Fellow
⮕ The Washington Post
Robert Popovian, PPI Senior Fellow: Patients Need Faster Access To Approved FDA Vaccines. What Can We Do?
⮕ Clinical Leader
'One Climate Disaster After Another': North America's Long Hot Summer, ft. Paul Bledsoe, PPI's Strategic Advisor
⮕ Financial Times
Tressa Pankovits, Co-Director of PPI's Reinventing America's Schools Project: On Wisconsin: Democrats Listening to Parents Advance Equal School Funding
⮕ WisPolitics
LISTEN: Ben Ritz, Director of PPI's Center for Funding America's Future: Recent US Credit Rating Downgrade Should Be a Wakeup Call
⮕ NH Talk Radio
Trade Fact of the Week: First round of the globalization debate: 90 BC
⮕ PPI's Trade Fact of the Week
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NEW REPORT:
How To Cut Administrative Bloat at U.S. Colleges
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As America’s students are heading back to school in the coming weeks, non-instructional spending at colleges and universities — which includes spending on administration and student services — have been skyrocketing over the last several decades.
Report author Paul Weinstein Jr., Senior Fellow at PPI, outlines the reasons administrative expenses and personnel at post-secondary institutions are rising and specifically reviewed faculty versus non-faculty positions at the top 50 universities in the country.
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On Wisconsin: Democrats listening to parents advance equal school funding
By Tressa Pankovits
Co-Director, PPI's Reinventing America's Schools Project
For WisPolitics
Students may not realize it, but when they head back to school next week, public education will be funded at the highest level in Wisconsin history. It’s important to recognize a handful of Democrats, all from blue, blue Milwaukee, who courageously cast a hard vote this legislative session. As a result, Wisconsin will also provide more equal state funding for non-traditional K-12 schools.
Despite pressure from teachers unions, five Democrats supported increasing public charter school funding. The bill, Act 11, was an unexpected, complicated, bipartisan compromise that Democratic Governor Tony Evers hammered out with Wisconsin’s Republican legislative majority in order to pass the state budget. The charter school funding provision represents a concession for Evers, whose record on charter schools is lukewarm and, at times, antagonistic.
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🗓️ Mark Your Calendar!
Wednesday, September 13: An Exclusive One-on-One Conversation with Delaware Lt. Gov. Bethany Hall-Long on Working Families and Health Care Policy
⮕ RSVP Here
Be sure to keep an eye out for future PPI events!
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Mosaic Moment
Building the Next Digital Workforce Generation
On this episode of the Mosaic Moment, Jasmine Stoughton sits down with PPI’s Director of Workforce Development Policy, Taylor Maag, and Senior Software Engineer, Eela Nagaraj, to talk about the importance of building a strong digital workforce and how governments and the tech industry are ensuring the next generation of skilled professionals.
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Don't Miss These PPI Reports
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Staff Spotlight: Paul Weinstein Jr.
Paul Weinstein Jr.
Senior Fellow
Paul Weinstein Jr. is a PPI senior fellow and from 2005 to 2009 served as the organization’s chief operating officer. Weinstein is currently the Director of the MA in Public Management program at Johns Hopkins University and a consultant to the Promontory Interfinancial Network, a leading fintech firm. A veteran of two Presidential Administrations, he was senior advisor to the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (Simpson-Bowles), which was created by President Obama to address the nation’s mid- and long-term fiscal challenges. Weinstein formerly served as Special Assistant to the President and chief of staff of the White House Domestic Policy Council, and then later as senior advisor for policy planning to the Vice President during the Clinton-Gore Administration.
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