Biden's High Speed Rail Dreams
Joe Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure bill allocates $80 billion for updating passenger rail, but never does the bill mention outright the words,"high speed rail." PPI's Paul Weinstein says, "Don't be fooled." In a new op-ed, Weinstein outlines how the infrastructure bill would fund the largest-ever investment in inter-city high speed rail and transform travel along the Eastern Seaboard. He also points to Rep. Seth Moulton's high speed rail plan as a blueprint.
→ "President should take cue from Moulton’s high-speed rail plan,"
by Paul Weinstein, The Boston Herald
|
|
🗓 On the Calendar
Join us this week for events with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Representatives Chris Pappas and Terri Sewell, and our friends across the pond at New Urban Progress.
|
|
|
☑New From The Experts
> The Kids Need Options
The debate around postsecondary education centers around access to four-year colleges –– and that's a mistake, according to PPI's Veronica Goodman. In a new opinion piece for Newsweek, Goodman explores the need to create paths to success for American teenagers beyond the traditional university track and the role that work-study can play in opening doors for kids across the country. → "Let's Multiply Non-College Career Pathways for Young Americans," by Veronica Goodman, Newsweek
> Parent Perspectives
The education system continues to deal with the complications of pandemic life and learning, and new challenges present themselves every day. Across the country, educators have noticed a widespread pattern: children are missing from school. Homeschooling, pods, private school and pandemic boomtown alike have driven an exodus from America's public schools, and to understand the parent perspective PPI's Curtis Valentine sits down for a conversation with National Parents Union Founding President Keri Rodrigues. → "National Parent Union’s Keri Rodrigues on Public School Dis-enrollment Amid the COVID Crisis," by Curtis Valentine, The 74
|
|
|
PPI President Will Marshall and Senior Policy Fellow Crystal Swann sit down with Rep. Marilyn Strickland (WA-10), a former Mayor of Tacoma, and Sly James, former Mayor of Kansas City. The group discusses metro-diplomacy, COVID-19 recovery goals, and the American Jobs Plan.
|
|
|
Host Jeremiah Johnson welcomes the 2021 Neoliberal Shill Champion Bastiat, an attorney and Twitch streamer, on the Neoliberal Podcast this week. They discuss how politics is discussed on social media, how social media influences young people's politics and extremism.
|
|
|
🔥Hot Off the Press
> Kerry, Climate, & the Limelight
A new piece from The Washington Post dives into the life and legacy-in-the-making of John F. Kerry, Biden's climate envoy. PPI's climate policy expert Paul Bledsoe shares his insight in the article. Particularly, he emphasizes the significance of the former Secretary of State's selection for the role and how Biden views climate change in the context of global security. → "After half a century in public life, Kerry gets one more shot," by Matt Viser and Brady Dennis, The Washington Post
> Big Tech, Little Tech
PPI Technology Policy Director Alec Stapp is featured in new reporting from Axios on the mixed messages state governments are sending to the tech industry. "It's a tough message to sell that you'll be tough on Google and Facebook but open to other startups," says Stapp. "Every venture-backed company wants to be the next Facebook. So it's a flawed message from these states to say, move here, invest here and in 10 years we'll come after you." → "States court tech money even as they bash companies," by Kim Hart, Axios
> Scare Tactics
Much reporting was done on the eve of Brexit about the predicted collapse of UK-EU trade –– it faltered, yes, but the latest numbers are healthy. In a new piece from The Spectator, author Wolfgang Münchau references this report from PPI's Michael Mandel in his analysis of the doom-and-gloom predictions economists made about Brexit's unrealized financial fall-out. → "The Collapse of the Brexit Scare Stories," by Wolfgang Münchau, The Spectator
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
