PLUS: The Climate Crisis, the Neoliberal Week of Action, and the Future of Innovation

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Strengthening the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework
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As lawmakers return to Washington this week, one of their top priorities will be crafting legislation based on the bipartisan infrastructure framework agreed to by President Biden and Senate negotiators last month. PPI's Ben Ritz explains how Congress can maximize the impact of this transformative investment.

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** > PPI Statement on the White House Executive Order on Competition
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PPI released a statement commending the Biden Administration for working to level the playing field for American consumers.
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> Reinventing America's Schools Project Unveils a High-Level Advisory Council
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PPI's Reinventing America's Schools Project unveiled a high-level Advisory Council, featuring veteran K-12 leaders, a former U.S. Education Secretary, parents' groups, public school choice reformers, education foundations and philanthropists, and rigorous policy analysts and evaluators.
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** > Attracting (and Keeping) the Best and the Brightest
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PPI's Caleb Watney and Divyansh Kaushik published a new piece in Issues ([link removed]) on the need to enact immigration policies that help keep young immigrant scientists, students, and entrepreneurs in America. This piece is included in a discussion of The Next 75 Years of Science Policy ([link removed]) .
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** > Advance Integrated Development - Not Regulatory Imperialism
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PPI's Alec Stapp and Michael Mandel recently released a new paper examining two key questions facing the biotech industry in America and the European Union.
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** > Reconstructing Manufacturing Policy
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PPI's Michael Mandel argues America's policy framework for manufacturing needs more explicit emphasis on digitization of physical production, with is the only way that American manufacturers can compete over the long run and create new jobs.
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** > SNAP forward
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PPI's Veronica Goodman and Kaitlin Edwards released a new report outlining new ways that policymakers and the USDA should modernize the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to make the program more accessible to families in need and more resilient in a future crisis.
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** > PPI On Your TV
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PPI's Paul Bledsoe joined MSNBC Weekend to discuss the climate crisis, and the work we need to do to avoid this dangerous new normal.
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** > PPI On Your Radio
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PPI's Caleb Watney joined Sabri Ben-Achour on Marketplace to talk about the need to ensure highly trained, highly skilled immigrants can stay in the U.S., start a new business, help create more jobs, and help push forward the scientific frontier.
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PPI's climate expert, Paul Bledsoe, also recently joined WURD Radio's Reality Check program to talk about the need to build a clean energy grid for the future.
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** > An Expert Opinion
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Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell cited PPI's Ben Ritz in her recent column about how Congress can help state and local governments spend the recent cash infusion on projects that will support infrastructure and community redevelopment.
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** > Competitive Forces
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PPI's Alec Stapp discussed the Biden Administration's recent Executive Order on competition and the power of this action at the FTC.
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** > Mark Your Calendar!
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Politico Defense recently featured PPI's event with Reps. Connolly, Bera and MEP Bütikofer in their roundup of can't-miss events for the week.
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** > Climate Check
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E&E News spoke with PPI's Paul Bledsoe on the Biden Administration's opportunity to prove that U.S. gas can be the lowest-emitting in the world.
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Paul also talked with the Financial Times about how the White House is working to use budget reconciliation to pass additional climate measures that were left out of the bipartisan infrastructure framework.
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And don't miss this recent piece featuring Paul on the climate fight happening in the EU over biomass and the environmental impact.
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👂We're All Ears
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Last week's episode of Radically Pragmatic features the Neoliberal Project's Jeremiah Johnson and Markose Butler. They talk about the Neoliberal Week of Action and the work of the 70 chapters!
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Why are there so many proposals to break up tech companies? What impact would that have on job growth and innovation? PPI's Alec Stapp joins the Neoliberal Podcast to discuss these important issues.
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** > A Transatlantic Response to the China Challenge, with Reps. Gerry Connolly and Ami Bera and MEP Reinhard Bütikofer

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Join PPI for a timely dialogue between key U.S. and EU policymakers on how to craft a stronger transatlantic response to China.

Special guests include U.S. Representatives Gerry Connolly (VA-11) and Ami Bera (CA-07), both members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and MEP Reinhard Bütikofer of the Greens-European Free Alliance Party. Butikofer, who chairs a European Parliament committee focused on EU relations with China, has been the leading voice in Brussels for a tougher European response to China.

PPI President Will Marshall will moderate the conversation.
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📊 Don't Miss These PPI Reports
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In this paper, PPI's Dr. Michael Mandel and Alec Stapp examine two questions facing the biotech industry in the United States and European Union today: Is it pro-innovation for European antitrust regulators to block a deal involving two American biotech companies that don't do substantial business in the Europe? And under what conditions is vertical integration a socially beneficial strategy for accelerating innovation?

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PPI's Caleb Watney argues that artificial intelligence systems will only narrow the recent productivity gap between small and large firms if they are diffused throughout the economy. The paper outlines how artificial intelligence can increase productivity among SMEs, current barriers to artificial intelligence uptake, and how the U.S can utilize various policy levers to ensure the proper diffusion of artificial intelligence systems.

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In 2019, over 38 million Americans participated in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Unfortunately, 16% of eligible Americans did not utilize SNAP due to lack of information or barriers to access. In this paper, PPI's Veronica Goodman and Kaitlin Edwards outline ways that the Biden Administration can modernize SNAP and increase its effectiveness as it continues to draft the American Families Plan.

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** > Applications are NOW OPEN for the Mosaic Economic Project's September Women Changing Policy Workshop!

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** The Mosaic Economic Project ([link removed]) application process is now open for the September 2021 Women Changing Policy ([link removed]) workshop, scheduled for September 13-15, 2021.

Previous workshops have included candid conversations with influencers in public policy, including leaders and representatives from Congress, the media, and other experts from policymaking ecosystems.
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** The Mosaic Economic Project is looking for a full-time Program Manager! To apply, send PPI a cover letter, resume, and 1-2 writing samples to [email protected].

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