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** Jeremiah Johnson for New York Daily News: Give Biden credit for going big
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Left-wing pundits have created a narrative around Biden’s presidency — small-time actions, disappointment and betrayals. The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur calls Biden a “corporate Democrat” and claims that the Build Back Better bill is “trash” that contains “nothing for progressives.” Some progressive groups claim that the bipartisan infrastructure bill “makes things worse,” compared to doing nothing. This is a long-running theme with left-wing criticism. Progressive darling Nina Turner compared Donald Trump to eating a bowl of excrement, then compared Biden to eating half a bowl — as though the two were remotely comparable. These critics paint Biden as unwilling to take bold actions, to break from Trump or to go big.
These criticisms are fundamentally wrong. Far from playing small ball, Joe Biden is having one of the most impressive and transformative first years of any president in generations. Biden deserves far more credit for going big and getting things done.
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Policy Director Jeremiah Johnson
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** How Better Statistics Lead to Better Policy in a Changing World
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DECEMBER 3, 2021; 11:00AM - 2:00PM ET
Join the Progressive Policy Institute’s Innovation Frontier Project for a virtual conference for policymakers, staffers and journalists titled “How Better Statistics Lead to Better Policy in a Changing World.”
Our economy is becoming increasingly global and digital, but economic statistics are slow to adapt to this new reality. In many ways policymakers are flying blind: Why don't we have the data we need on the digital economy, the price and value of cutting-edge medical treatments, and global supply chains and inflation? Innovation is everywhere except in the economic statistics.
The Innovation Frontier Project has assembled a panel of leading experts who will address the need for new statistics in the key areas of the digital economy; health care; and supply chains. They will show how a relatively small investment in improving our data can avoid huge policy mistakes.
WHAT: Virtual conference for policymakers, staffers, and journalists
WHEN: Friday, December 3; 11:00am-2:00pm ET; Zoom
PURPOSE: This conference brings together leading experts to show how our economic statistics need to be improved to avoid policy mistakes in the digital and global economy.
MODERATORS:
Michael Mandel
Vice President and Chief Economist, PPI
Arielle Kane
Director of Health Policy, PPI
Panel 1: Measuring the Digital Economy ([link removed])
Diane Coyle
Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge (keynote)
Shane Greenstein
Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Panel 2: Tracking Health Care ([link removed])
David Cutler
Professor of Applied Economics, Harvard University
Murray Aitken
Executive Director, IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science
Panel 3: Measuring Supply Chains ([link removed])
Susan Houseman
Vice-President and Director of Research, Upjohn Institute for Employment
Robert Johnson
Associate Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame
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John Haltiwanger
Professor of Economics, University of Maryland
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New from the Experts
PPI Executive Director Lindsay Mark Lewis:
Pragmatic bipartisanship – not hard left intolerance – is Democrats' surest path back to power
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PPI's Innovation Frontier Project:
Geothermal Everywhere: A New Path for American Renewable Energy Leadership
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PPI Vice President & Director of Global Markets Ed Gresser:
Trade Fact of the Week: U.S. farm export losses as shipping companies decline cargoes, as of mid-year 2021 – $1.5 billion?
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ICYMI – On this segment of Talk Policy, former Director of Social Policy Veronica Goodman sat down with University of Pennsylvania Criminology Assistant Professor Aaron Chalfin, who researches crime and policing. They discussed the recent spike in violent crime and evidence-based approaches for crime prevention.
Conversations about the crypto world often seem like a pitched battle between supporters and detractors. Vitalik Buterin joins the show to discuss what really matters and what's really showing promise in crypto. We discuss why so many are skeptical of crypto, whether cryptocurrency has too much space in the discussion, and what the most interesting and innovative non-currency applications of crypto are - include smart contracts, DAOs, and more.
** Don't Miss This PPI Event
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COMING UP: How Better Statistics Lead to Better Policy in a Changing World
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Join the Progressive Policy Institute’s Innovation Frontier Project Friday, December 3rd at 11:00 AM for a virtual conference for economics researchers and reporters titled “How Better Statistics Lead to Better Policy in a Changing World." Panelists will discuss how our economy is becoming increasingly global and digital, yet economic statistics are slow to adapt to this new reality.
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Don't Miss This PPI Report
ICYMI – Telehealth Saves Money and Lives: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic
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From PPI Director of Health Care Arielle Kane:
A new bipartisan report by PPI and Americans for Prosperity confirms a promising trend toward cost savings for patients who use a combination of in-person and telehealth services – a result that should give lawmakers confidence to extend the telehealth provisions of the public health emergency rather than letting them expire.
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