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News, events, and must-read analysis from the Progressive Policy Institute.
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** Charter Schools Win a Washington Battle
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By Tressa Pankovits, Co-Director of PPI's Reinventing America's Schools project
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Congratulations are in order to thousands of public charter-school parents, educators and advocates who lifted their voices in opposition to the U.S. Education Department’s proposed changes to the federal Charter School Program. Thanks to their relentless advocacy, the finalized rules adopted recently are more rational and slightly less burdensome than the bull-in-a-china-shop scheme the department unveiled in March.

Congress established the CSP in 1994 to provide federal support for children who are poorly served by traditional public schools. The CSP benefited from the support of every presidential administration since—until Joe Biden. Although the program represents a minuscule fraction of the federal education budget, the returns on that investment have been high: The millions of dollars in grants the CSP awards each year enable thousands of new public charter schools to open or to add additional campuses. The vast majority of these schools are located in urban centers, where they serve mostly low-income and minority children.

The department’s proposed rules would have required a public charter school seeking a CSP grant to form a partnership with a traditional public school—in other words, with a competitor. The grant-seeking public charter school would also have had to prove the “need” for a new school based solely on enrollment levels in the traditional schools in the district—ignoring that charter schools serve many purposes beyond the relief of overcrowding. The school also would have had to prove its student population would be “diverse.” Never mind that many traditional schools aren’t. This last demand overlooks both the realities of the U.S. housing market and the desire of some minority communities, such as Native Americans, to establish culturally relevant schools that serve specific student populations with unique needs.
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** Don't Miss PPI's Investment Heroes 2022 Report
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By Michael Mandel, PPI's Vice President and Chief Economist & Jordan Shapiro, PPI's Economic and Data Policy Analyst
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The Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) released its annual Investment Heroes report ([link removed]) , which shows companies with high and sustained capital investment in the United States have helped hold down price increases in the digital sector throughout the past year of otherwise record inflation. The report, titled “Investment Heroes: Fighting Inflation with Capital Investment” ([link removed]) is authored by Dr. Michael Mandel, Vice President and Chief Economist at PPI, and Jordan Shapiro, Data and Economic Analyst at PPI.

“Policymakers should praise and encourage those companies who invest in the United States, keep prices low, and reduce vulnerability against future shocks. That’s a clearcut win for consumers, workers, and the American economy,” write report authors Dr. Michael Mandel and Jordan Shapiro.

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** Green dreams collide with energy crisis reality
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By Will Marshall, President of the Progressive Policy Institute
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Today’s surging oil and gas prices confront progressive climate activists with a discomfiting truth: Their campaign to vilify and suppress fossil fuel production has crashed headlong into Americans’ urgent appetite for affordable energy.

The green left is not happy with President Biden, who is pulling out all the stops to give Americans some temporary relief from punishingly high fuel prices. That includes jawboning U.S. oil companies to drill more, a widely panned proposal to suspend the federal gas tax and Thursday’s controversial visit to Saudi Arabia, whose leaders the White House has implored to boost production to stabilize world oil markets.

It’s true that high fuel prices are heightening the contradiction at the heart of the Biden ([link removed]) administration’s climate and energy policies. If your overriding aim is to drive down consumption of fossil fuels, high prices are a good thing. But that’s a hard sell to working families struggling with $5 a gallon gas and soaring utility bills ([link removed]) .

With the midterm elections looming, activists shouldn’t be too quick to pillory Biden — especially since it’s their premature if not utopian demands to abolish fossil fuels as soon as possible that have landed him and his party in this predicament.

While Republicans cower before MAGA climate deniers, Democrats take climate science seriously and favor decarbonizing the economy. But party leaders – lobbied intensely by a potent network of young activists, old environmental groups jockeying for fresh relevance, liberal foundations and donors, and media elites – too often convey a misleading impression of how fast and frictionless that transition will be.
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PPI's Statement on Reconciliation and Innovation Legislation
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Paul Bledsoe, PPI's Strategic Advisor: How One Senator Doomed the Democrats' Climate Plan
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PPI's Trade Fact of the Week: World Shipping Container Capacity Has Grown Six-Fold Since 2000
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PPI Sends Memo to Congressional Democrats on Must-Pass Legislative Priorities Before the August Recess
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Michael Mandel, Vice President and Chief Economist: Low-inflation Railroads and Labor Negotiations
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Paul Bledsoe, PPI's Strategic Advisor: As UK conservatives dump Johnson, most in GOP still embrace Trump's far graver threat
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RADICALLY PRAGMATIC:
Forging A Transatlantic Dialogue

Does Germany struggle with homelessness the same way cities like Denver do? What can the U.S. learn from Germany in regard to improvements to public transportation infrastructure? In the Fall of 2019, the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) partnered with Das Progressive Zentrum (DPZ) and Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft (AHG) for a new project titled "New Urban Progress: Transatlantic Dialogue on the Future of Work, Democracy, and Well-being" which is aimed at fostering metro innovation and democratic renewal in the spirit of transatlantic dialogue.


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THE NEOLIBERAL PODCAST:
The Past and Future of Polling
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How wrong were the polls really in 2016 and 2020, and can we trust them in the current election cycle? Data journalist G Elliott Morris joins the show to discuss his new book 'Strength in Numbers' and discuss the state of the polling industry.

We talk about the philosophical case for why polling is important, the history of polls getting things wrong, polling misses in recent elections, and how election modelers and pollsters are trying to correct for those misses.

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