Building a #BetterBudget to Fund America's Future, Getting to 'Yes' on the USMCA, Reframing the 2020 Health Care Debate, and more! ‌ ‌ ‌ Funding America's Future: A Progressive Budget for Equitable Growth By Ben Ritz, Director of PPI's Center for Funding America's Future, and Brendan McDermott, PPI Fiscal Policy Analyst There are few greater reflections of our nation’s values than how we choose to spend our money. Public investments in scientific research power the development of innovative new technologies from energy to medicine that enrich our lives and advance human progress. Modern transportation and other infrastructure networks provide the arteries for robust economic growth and broadly shared prosperity. A top-tier education system that gives every American the skills to earn a decent living and programs to help disadvantaged citizens lift themselves from poverty are essential to delivering on the promise of the American dream. PPI’s Progressive Budget for Equitable Growth gives the next administration a framework for investing in our country that doesn’t stick young Americans with the bill. It powers the engines of American innovation by increasing investments in infrastructure, education, and scientific research by more than 70 percent relative to what they would be under current law. READ THE FULL PROPOSAL HERE 🏛 Our #BetterBudget Forum on #CapitolHill is starting now. Follow along on Twitter, and check out our #BetterBudget for #Congress and ⚒ blueprint, unveiled today! "What PPI’s plan and proposals show is you don’t have to believe in small government to believe in fiscal responsibility." @MarcGoldwein #BetterBudget RECAP OUR EVENT HERE Budget Deal Perpetuates Broken Status Quo "The budget deal [gets] two things right and nearly everything else wrong. The main thing it gets right is the need to unshackle domestic public investment that would be subject to an across-the-board cut… What it gets wrong is charging $320 billion in new spending to our national credit card, which will further grow those debts and so perpetuate Washington’s governing dysfunction." By Ben Ritz, Director of PPI's Center for Funding America's Future House Democrats Unveil Climate Goal Short of Ocasio-Cortez's “The majority of the Democratic caucus is behind aggressive but not socialist climate policies… They worry the Green New Deal rhetoric could alienate rather than attract swing voters needed in 2020.” By Ari Natter with comments from Paul Bledsoe, PPI Strategic Advisor The Energy 202: Key House Democrats Propose Eliminating Climate-Warming Emissions by 2050 “This is an attempt by moderate Democrats to reclaim the climate issue, pushing back against Trump's climate rollbacks but also against more radical Green New Deal proposals they worry could become a political liability for Democrats in 2020” By Dino Grandoni with comments from Paul Bledsoe, PPI Strategic Advisor Monday, July 29th, 2019 | 12:00 - 1:00 MaRS Discovery District 101 College Street Suite 401, Toronto, ON M5G 1L7 Canada has a rapidly growing number of app jobs—workers who design, create, market, and maintenance apps distributed domestically and internationally. Join PPI for a panel discussion on Monday, July 29th, 2019 at 12:00 PM in Toronto. The discussion will feature industry experts in mobile app development, with a Q&A session with audience members to follow the panel. PPI will discuss its January 2019 study on the Canadian App Economy at this event, which measured the Canadian App Economy as a source of growth and job creation. RSVP HERE Reframing the 2020 Health Care Debate By the Honorable John A. Kitzhaber, M.D. Last month’s Democratic debates demonstrate how central health care will be in the 2020 election. Indeed, health care, more than any other issue, propelled the Democrats to regain control of the House of Representatives in 2018. Whether the upcoming election leads to meaningful relief for the millions of families struggling under the escalating financial burden of medical care, however, depends largely on how the issue is framed and on the clarity with which we see our policy goal and the steps necessary to achieve it. Today the vast majority of dollars in our health care system are spent on the after-the-fact treatment of acute and chronic medical conditions rather than on investments that could prevent these conditions in the first place. READ THE FULL REPORT HERE “To relieve and reduce the burden on the health care system, we need significant investment in primary care, prevention, and public health. It’s not just financial, it’s cultural as well to create an efficient health care system in the United States.” @AParekhBPC #HealthCare2020 "As long as we ask who pays the subsidy, and how do they pay, rather than why health care costs so much in the first place, we will not find the best solution." - @GovKitz #HealthCare2020 RECAP OUR EVENT HERE Getting to 'Yes' on the USMCA By Ed Gerwin, PPI Senior Fellow for Trade and Global Opportunity Is it possible that the Trump administration has developed a trade initiative that—with some necessary tweaks from congressional Democrats—can be a good thing for the United States and its North American neighbors? The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) is the Trump administration’s proposed replacement for NAFTA, which the president, with typical hyperbole, has called the “worst trade deal ever." Trump describes the USMCA as a “brand new” trade deal. In reality, however, the USMCA preserves NAFTA’s essential core—including, most importantly, duty-free treatment for virtually all regional trade in qualifying goods. It also borrows liberally from the Trans Pacific Partnership, a deal derided by Trump as “a potential disaster.” READ THE FULL REPORT HERE Contact: Media, [email protected] 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!