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NEW: PPI Polling Shows Midterm Voters Worry About Inflation, Support for Anti-Tech Antitrust Bills Could Cost Support
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The Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) recently commissioned a national survey by IMPACT Research of midterm voters’ attitudes on competition issues across a variety of industries. The survey found that inflation is top of mind for likely 2022 voters, not competition in the technology industry. The voters polled prefer legislative actions focused on personal privacy and national cybersecurity, not antitrust issues.

According to IMPACT Research’s findings, supporting drastic legislation like the anti-tech antitrust bill pushed by Senators Klobuchar and Grassley is more likely to harm congressional candidates than help them. Voters are more inclined to vote for candidates focused on kitchen-table issues like inflation, protecting Medicare and Social security, cutting taxes on the middle class, and lowering health care costs.

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US can improve energy security and climate together
By Paul Bledsoe
PPI's Strategic Advisor
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Election seasons always feature exaggerated divisions, with candidates drawing bright lines between themselves and opponents. But lasting problems come when discourse devolves into false choices between important shared goals. Improving U.S. energy security and preventing catastrophic climate change are issues sometimes falsely opposed during election cycles, when there is little reason that they should be in competition.

For the last decade, during a period of relatively stable energy prices, public discussion has focused primarily on climate risk, for good reason. But as Americans deal with higher energy prices and Europe faces a full-blown energy supply crisis, it’s clear that sustainability and security are intertwined goals. Russia’s weaponization of energy and its impacts on EU climate ambitions provide the starkest example of the interdependency of climate, costs and security.

As the EU’s energy crisis threatens to become a humanitarian crisis this winter, the continent is backtracking on one of its most critical climate initiatives — reducing reliance on coal. Coal power is the world’s largest source of GHG emissions, with twice the CO2 emissions of natural gas power generation. Germany, France and others EU nations are reactivating polluting coal plants to cope with the crisis.
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** Closing the Broadband Adoption Gap: The Right Way — and the Wrong Way
By Dr. Michael Mandel, PPI's Vice President and Chief Economist, on the PPI Blog ([link removed])
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The results of the 2021 American Community Survey (ACS) were recently released, providing important information about the causes of the digital divide and how to fix it. The ACS asks a variety of internet-related questions `including whether the household subscribes to fixed broadband such as fiber, cable, or DSL. According to the ACS, 75% of households, and 82% of individuals have fixed broadband subscriptions. To put it another way, 25% of households and 18% of individuals do not have access to the internet through fixed broadband. This is an unacceptably high number.

On the other hand, the FCC’s broadband deployment data shows that as of June 2021, fixed wired broadband of at least 25/3 (25 Mbps download and 3 Mbps upload) is available to 94.3% of the American population. Or to put it the other way, only 5.7% of the American population does not have fixed wired internet of at least 25/3 bandwidth available. If we add in fixed wireless, the “unavailability” percentage goes down to 2.4%. (We are using ‘access’ to mean actually signed up for broadband services, and ‘available’ to mean that fixed broadband subscriptions are locally available for purchase).

This difference—between 25% of households and 18% of individuals without fixed wired internet access, and the 5.7% of the population without fixed wired internet availability—can be called the adoption gap. ‘Adoption’ refers to the willingness, or lack of willingness, of households and individuals to sign up for broadband when it is available.
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Republicans search for the next Solyndra, ft. Paul Bledsoe, PPI's Strategic Advisor
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Moving Away from Fight or Flight: Key Lessons from China's Tech Regulation, ft. Jordan Shapiro, PPI's Economic and Data Policy Analyst
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U.S. Natural Gas Heavyweights Launch Coalition to Export More LNG, ft. Paul Bledsoe, PPI's Strategic Advisor
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For the U.S.,There is No Net-Zero Without Major Permitting Reform, ft. Progressive Policy Institute
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** ICYMI: Autonomous Schools Can Help Solve the Problem Behind the Teacher Shortage Problem
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By Tressa Pankovits, Co-Director of Reinventing America's Schools


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In August, the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) released the grimmest “Nation’s Report Card” in 20 years. Between 2020 and 2022, America’s students dropped five points in reading and seven points in math. That bad news almost — but not quite — drowned out the summer’s other major, alarming education news: Teachers, burned out or just plain disgusted, were quitting in droves. As the predominant narrative went, many of the nation’s classrooms might be leaderless come fall.

It’s common knowledge that effective, committed teachers are critical to students’ success. At a time when there is empirical evidence that America’s students are struggling — the NAEP scores are just one indicator — it seems timely to take a deeper dive into the widely reported teacher shortage. One needn’t look very far to find many indicators that our current systems of public schools are not serving teachers well. There is no reason to think things will improve (i.e., increased teacher job satisfaction, increased teacher retention, revived talent pipelines, etc.) unless there is an evolution in the underlying systems where teachers work.

This report will examine the current teacher shortage. There is controversy about its severity and data is missing from several states. There is, however, a plethora of data to learn from regarding teachers’ attitudes toward their profession. Not surprisingly, one thing that teachers have often complained about, micromanagement or, put another way, lack of autonomy in the classroom, remains an issue.
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Is American Technological Leadership Under Attack?

The Progressive Policy Institute's Innovation Frontier Project released a comprehensive research deck on the threats facing American innovation. The authors of the deck, innovation experts Ashish Arora and Sharon Belenzon of Duke University, found the United States has lost a substantial amount of corporate research since the 1980s, with only a handful of present-day U.S.-based companies investing in research at a meaningful level.
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