PLUS: Three Tax Cuts a Santa Claus Congress Could Deliver in 2019 Friday, December 13th, 2019 ANNOUNCEMENT: PPI's 2019 Investment Heroes by Michael Mandel, Chief Economic Strategist | Elliott Long, Senior Economic Analyst Despite broader trends, some companies stand out for their multi-billion investments in America. Since 2012 the Progressive Policy Institute has provided unique and unmatched estimates of domestic capital spending for individual major U.S. companies. Currently, accounting rules do not require companies to report their U.S. capital spending separately. To fill this gap in the data, we created a methodology using publicly-available financial statements from non-financial Fortune 150 companies to identify the top companies that were investing in the United States. READ THE REPORT REALITY CHECK: Is Corbyn Handing Brexit to Boris Johnson (Analysis Written 12/11/19 prior to the 12/12/19 election results in the U.K.) By Will Marshall, President of PPI When British voters go to the polls Thursday, it probably will be their last chance to stop Brexit. If they don’t, Jeremy Corbyn will bear much of the blame. Wait – isn’t the Labour Party leader running to oust the man actually driving the UK toward Brexit, Prime Minister Boris Johnson? Yes, but polls show Johnson’s Conservatives holding on to a double-digit lead over Labour. That’s remarkable, considering the sorry mess Tory leaders have made of Brexit over the last three years. If Johnson has the electoral wind at his back, it’s not because he’s so mesmerizing. It’s mainly because of Corbyn’s epic unpopularity with UK voters. Read the full analysis here. Three Tax Cuts a Santa Claus Congress Could Deliver in 2019 Ben Ritz, Director of the Center for Funding America's Future, for Forbes Such a must-pass bill at the end of the year often becomes a “Christmas tree” decorated with various policy riders and pet projects for members of both parties in Congress. But under this year’s tree, a fiscally irresponsible Santa Claus Congress might leave wealthy Americans three gifts that together could cost up to $1 trillion over the next ten years – all put on the nation’s credit card for young Americans to pay off for generations to come. READ MORE Poor children are still left behind in DCPS schools David Osborne, Director of the Reinventing America's School's Project, with Associate Director Tressa Pankovits, for The Washington Post D.C. Public Schools received well-deserved praise for its recent scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a.k.a. “The Nation’s Report Card.” Of the 27 urban districts that took the test in 2019, DCPS improved the fastest, continuing a trend that stretches back more than a decade. READ MORE ICYMI: PPI Metro Playbook – Columbia, SC Mark Ribbing, Contributor For all of #CDBG’s contributions to prosperity and opportunity in Columbia, #SouthCarolina and elsewhere, the program could be doing far more across the country to empower communities, according to our latest PPI Metro Playbook. READ MORE ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Progressive Policy Institute | 1200 New Hampshire Ave. NW, Suite 575, Washington, DC 20036 Unsubscribe [email protected] Update Profile | About Constant Contact Sent by [email protected] in collaboration with Try email marketing for free today!