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News, events, and must-read analysis from the Progressive Policy Institute.
** Will Marshall: How Biden can get his presidency back on course
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President Biden's fall from political grace has been swift and steep. He began 2021 basking in the gratitude and approval of a solid majority of Americans and ended it only marginally less unpopular than former President Donald Trump.
What happened? Last week Biden blamed Republican obstructionism, marveling that not one voted for the $1.9 trillion bill Congress passed last March to fight the pandemic and speed the economic recovery. He’s also had to endure non-stop political sabotage by Trump, who in refusing to accept the voters’ thumbs down in 2020 has shredded yet another vital norm of American democracy.
Nonetheless, the White House missed an important opportunity in not making more of the president’s big bipartisan breakthrough — passing the first major infrastructure bill in decades. Instead, they attempted to use it as leverage in an unsuccessful bid to pressure dissident Senate Democrats into supporting the strictly partisan reconciliation bill.
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E&E News: Why the Russia crisis matters for U.S. energy ([link removed])
"Paul Bledsoe, a strategic adviser for the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), said 'it’s about time that the U.S., Europe and our allies reduced Europe’s malign addiction to Russian gas, which is funding Putin’s militarism and attempts to undermine democracies around the world.'"
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Politico: Playbook: Pundits to Biden: Here’s how to fix your presidency ([link removed])
"MARSHALL: COUNTRY OVER PARTY — [Will] Marshall, in The Hill, surveys the damage done to Biden, who he notes is 'only marginally less unpopular than former President DONALD TRUMP.' His big takeaway is similar to Carville’s in that he believes Biden needs to recover his bipartisan brand to reverse 'the defection of moderate and independent voters.'"
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Washington Examiner: COVID-19 Expanded the Use of Telehealth and it's Here to Stay ([link removed])
"Arielle Kane of the Progressive Policy Institute and co-author of the report said telehealth is here to stay.
“We had this moment of watching a natural experiment. Medicare had previously been slow to adopt reimbursements, and doctors were slow at providing this new form of care," Kane said. "Then the pandemic hit, and people didn’t want to leave their homes. We saw a huge medical shift that worked to begin offering these services to fulfill a need in a new world.”
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U.S. News: Inflation, Coronavirus Drive Consumer Sentiment Downward ([link removed])
Will Marshall, founder and president of the Progressive Policy Institute, wrote Friday in The Hill that "'Americans are having trouble perceiving the Biden boom through the haze of inflation, which has awakened after three decades in hibernation.'"
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New from the Experts
RAS Co-Director Tressa Pankovits: School Choice Week Must Be a Catalyst for Salvaging Our Education System
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New Report: Don't Drive Up Mortgage Costs Through Unnecessary Changes
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New Focus Group Data on Health Care: Among Swing Voters, Inflation and Health Care Costs are Top of Mind
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PPI's Malena Dailey: The America COMPETES Act Rightly Prioritizes Technological Innovation to Drive Growth
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PPI VP for Trade & Global Markets Ed Gresser: Energy Accounts for 3/5 of Russian Exports
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ICYMI: PPI's Lisa Ly: Expunging Marijuana Convictions
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New PPI Events
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WATCH: Preventing Teacher Burnout: School Choice Offers a Way
PPI Celebrates National School Choice Week and the Importance of Charter and Innovation Schools
PPI’s Reinventing America’s Schools Project celebrated National School Choice Week by featuring voices rarely heard in school choice debates: teachers! Panelists for this event included active-duty teachers and teacher leaders who have chosen to practice their craft in non-traditional schools.
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WATCH: Living with COVID in the New Year and Beyond
Featuring Rep. Lori Trahan (MA-03)!
PPI recently hosted an event with Rep. Lori Trahan (MA-03) and an esteemed panel of medical and health policy experts on the sustainable policies lawmakers should consider to combat the omicron variant – along with how to best balance the tradeoffs between combating the spread of COVID-19 and letting normal life resume.
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In this week's episode of RAS Reports, Tressa Pankovits and Curtis Valentine, Co-Directors of PPI's Reinventing America's Schools Project, celebrate National School Choice Week by discussing new developments in the movement to provide access to affordable, quality education to all of America's youth. The hosts highlight Innovation Schools in Indianapolis, IN which serve as a prime example of the benefits of granting schools the flexibility to make decisions tailored to the specific needs of their student body. Curtis and Tressa discuss how these "schools of choice" attract high-quality teachers, produce higher learning outcomes, and gives parents more power to decide what educational environment is best for their student.
What's going on with the tech antitrust bill being debated in the Senate? PPI's Michael Mandel and Malena Dailey join the show to discuss tech platforms, the consumer welfare standard, all things antitrust. Does Big Tech need to be more regulated, and if so how? Are there other industries more deserving of antitrust enforcement?
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