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NEW REPORT!
"Bidenomics" as Politics and Policy: Credible Start, but Gaps to Fill
By Ed Gresser
PPI's Vice President & Director for Trade and Global Markets
A PPI Report
The White House has spent the summer touting President Biden’s economic record in a case for re-election, calling it “Bidenomics.” In June, the administration released a paper summarizing its view of the current economy, the role of its policies to date in creating record job numbers and promoting manufacturing, noting high growth relative to peer countries and falling inflation rates, and the ways to build on success. Yet many working Americans still feel the impact of rising costs on their day-to-day lives and recent polling has shown that voters remain unhappy about the economy.
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PPI released a new report, "'Bidenomics' as Politics and Policy: Creditable Start, But Gaps to Fill," analyzing the administration’s record to date and its plans for the coming years, with ideas on messaging and policy solutions to fill the gaps missing in their economic agenda. Report author Ed Gresser examines the case for Bidenomics, the administration’s success in reviving the COVID-stricken economy of 2020 and its less-compelling depiction of the likely Republican 2024 opposition, and the areas in which Bidenomics can go further.
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⮕ Citizen's Climate Lobby
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⮕ PPI's Trade Fact of the Week
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What Democrats can learn from the UK’s resurgent Labour Party
By Will Marshall
President and Founder of the Progressive Policy Institute
For The Hill
When Britain’s Labour Party gathers for its annual conference in Liverpool next month, its main task may be tamping down overconfidence about next year’s national election. Almost everyone expects Labour to oust the ruling Conservatives after 13 turbulent years in power. If so, it would cap a remarkable reversal in Labour’s fortunes engineered by party leader Keir Starmer, who would become Prime Minister.
Starmer, who was featured in a May conference co-sponsored by Progressive Britain and my organization, the Progressive Policy Institute, grasps something that eludes many U.S. Democrats: It will take more than a new economic offer to bring working class voters back to Labour. Restoring hope for working people, he argues, also requires building prosperity on a strong social foundation of “stability, order and security.”
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Radically Pragmatic Podcast
Let's Talk Tech: How Would Antitrust Legislation Affect You?
Chief Economic Strategist at PPI, Michael Mandel, and Senior Fellow at AEI, Shane Tews, sit down to discuss the current antitrust legislation in Congress and how it will affect everyday consumers. What happens to Amazon Basics? And what about Kirkland products? Is breaking up big tech really what consumers are concerned about?
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Staff Spotlight: Ed Gresser
Ed Gresser
Vice President and Director for Trade and Global Markets
Ed returns to PPI after working for the think tank from 2001-2011. He most recently served as the Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Trade Policy and Economics at the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), where he led USTR’s economic research unit from 2015-2021, and chaired the 21-agency Trade Policy Staff Committee.
Ed began his career on Capitol Hill before serving USTR as Policy Advisor to USTR Charlene Barshefsky from 1998 to 2001. He then led PPI’s Trade and Global Markets Project from 2001 to 2011. After PPI, he co-founded and directed the independent think tank ProgressiveEconomy until rejoining USTR in 2015. Ed is the author of Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Global Economy (2007).
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