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** Paul Bledsoe for The New York Times:
How to Limit Temperature Increases in the Very Near Term
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If the years of devastating droughts, floods, heat waves and wildfires since the Paris climate agreement was adopted have taught us anything, it’s that we have underestimated the pace of extreme, destabilizing climate change.
The world has warmed by about 1.1 degrees Celsius from preindustrial levels, much of it occurring since 1950, and the pace continues. That’s why it was so important that more than 100 countries joined a coalition led by the United States and the European Union last week to cut global emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane by at least 30 percent by 2030.
But delegates meeting at a world climate conference in Glasgow have more to do: For the security of the planet, they need to act further and faster to limit near-term temperature increases.
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Will Marshall for New York Daily News:
Democrats must change course: Here are four steps to right the ship
The odd-year contests in Virginia and New Jersey often offer an early test of how voters think the incumbent president is doing and a foretaste of the public mood heading into the next year’s midterm elections. For Democrats, who did badly in both states last night, the message is clear: It’s time for a major course correction.
The Republican sweep of Virginia’s top offices, a year after President Biden’s 10-point victory there, was propelled by a host of factors. Former Gov. Terry McAuliffe ran a generally negative and uninspiring campaign focused mainly on trying to depict Republican Glenn Youngkin as a Donald Trump clone.
It wasn't enough. Youngkin managed to keep the disgraced ex-president out of the state without antagonizing him or his zealous supporters.
PPI's Lindsay Mark Lewis for The Hill:
Move deliberately and rebuild American tech leadership
Facebook’s long-time unofficial motto was “move fast and break things.” We now see that this was a mistaken approach to building and governing a content platform. But some members of Congress who are seeking to hit back at Facebook seem to have been inspired by this same motto. Rather than taking a thoughtful approach and examining the consequences of new antitrust regulation on U.S. competitiveness and national security, the motto of these lawmakers seems to be: “Move fast, break the American tech industry and see what happens.”
We’ve tried the “move fast and break things” approach. It's time for a new, more deliberate approach — a real effort to grapple with the benefits and harms of the tech industry and to build a regulatory framework to govern and promote the sustainable growth of American technology companies, while squarely taking on the challenge from techno-authoritarian states such as China and Russia.
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PPI President Will Marshall: Statement on House Passage of President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill
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PPI Chief Economist Dr. Michael Mandel: How Tech is Building a New Middle Class
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PPI President Will Marshall: Will America fight for Taiwan?
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PPI Vice President and Director of Trade and Global Markets Ed Gresser: Trade Fact of the Week – The U.S. Economy Has Gotten Lighter
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The Washington Post: Biden apologizes for Trump-era absence on climate, pitching a robust agenda that’s on shaky ground at home ([link removed])
“Biden’s unexpectedly strong emphasis on financing for developing countries can be seen as a direct attempt to counter China’s influence through its Belt and Road global infrastructure efforts,” said Paul Bledsoe, a former Clinton White House climate adviser who is now with the Progressive Policy Institute.
BuzzFeed News: Democrats’ Proposed Tax Cuts For The Rich Are Threatening To Derail The Build Back Better Act ([link removed]) “
"We can’t pass a bill like this and ever again have any credibility criticizing Republican tax cuts. This is a disaster,” tweeted Ben Ritz of the Progressive Policy Institute.
USA Today: Many programs in Biden's budget have expiration dates. What that means for health insurance, preschool ([link removed])
Will Marshall, president of the Progressive Policy Institute, said his group is concerned that the latest version of the package “tries to do too much with too little” instead of “prioritizing a few robust and transformative initiatives.”
The Trade Guys Podcast: Discussing U.S. Trade Policy with Ed Gresser ([link removed])
In this episode, the Trade Guys invite Ed Gresser from the Progressive Policy Institute for a chat on U.S. trade policy in the Trump and Biden administrations. They also discuss worker-centric trade, how globalization has been affected over the last few years, and what the future of trade could hold.
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ICYMI – Recently, the Progressive Policy Institute hosted an event with U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper (D-CO) and a panel of energy experts, focused on expanding power line capacity to enable renewable energy deployment.
PPI's Strategic Climate Advisor Paul Bledsoe moderated the conversation and raised questions about how the US can improve its electric infrastructure to reach President Biden's clean energy goals.
ICYMI – Congressman Jim Himes (CT-04) joined the Center for New Liberalism for a Twitch livestream to discuss his work in Congress on Cybersecurity and Inequality. CNL director Colin Mortimer and Rep. Himes discuss how the US should respond to state-sponsored cyber-attacks, how the US can prepare itself for those kinds of attacks, the top drivers of inequality and why inequality is bad in the first place.
They also discuss housing policy along the way, and take questions from the viewers in the livestream's chat.
** Don't Miss These PPI Events
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COMING UP: STEM Education in a Post-COVID World
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Join PPI's Curtis Valentine Wednesday, November 10th at 1:00 PM EST for a one-hour Zoom webinar on STEM education and math recovery in America’s public schools post-COVID.
Panelists will discuss strategies for programmatic and policy success to close achievement gaps in math and STEM education exacerbated during the COVID pandemic. RSVP here ([link removed]) !
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ICYMI – Biotech Innovation: Two Important Questions
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From PPI Chief Economist Dr. Michael Mandel:
Two key questions face the biotech industry in America and the European Union (EU): Is it pro-innovation for European antitrust regulators to be able to block a deal involving two American biotech companies that do no substantial business in Europe? And, under what conditions is vertical integration a socially beneficial strategy for accelerating innovation?
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