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News, events, and must-read analysis from the Progressive Policy Institute.
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Affordable Child Care Key to Getting People Back to Work ([link removed])
By Taylor Maag
PPI's Director of Workforce Development Policy
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The start of 2023 presented some good news for America’s economic outlook. In the first week of January, the December jobs report was released, showing unemployment edging down to 3.5 percent ([link removed]) with over 200,000 more people employed full-time. But even with this good news, an enduring conundrum remains: our country’s stagnant workforce participation rate.

The workforce participation rate represents the number of people working or actively looking for work. This job report showed that the U.S. labor participation rate is 62.3 percent, which has not changed since the beginning of 2022 and is only 1 percentage point higher than it was at the start of the pandemic. This means
roughly 38 percent of Americans ([link removed]) who could be working are detached from the labor market because they believe there are no jobs available for them, or they are facing personal challenges that make it hard to retain employment. As a result, these individuals have stopped looking for work altogether, leaving employers desperate for talent and policymakers wondering where everyone went.
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Taylor Maag, PPI's Director of Workforce Development Policy: New Skills for a New Economy Project's Workforce Worksheet Newsletter
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Being smart isn't what it used to be, ft. Ed Gresser, Vice President and Director for Trade and Global Markets
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Brownstein tops $60M as business remains brisk on K Street, ft. Reid Fauble, State and Local Political Director for PPI
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How Biden’s climate law is charging US green spending and provoking Europe, ft. Paul Bledsoe, Strategic Advisor for PPI
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ICYMI: Jordan Shapiro, PPI's Economic and Data Policy Analyst: The UK Online Safety Bill is Well Intentioned But Will Undermine Privacy
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ICYMI: PPI Files Amicus Brief in Gonzalez v. Google LLC
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Trade Fact of the Week: Scandinavia has the world's highest union-membership rates
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PPI's Innovation Frontier Project Publishes Report:
Rare Earths for America’s Future

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There are few materials that are quite as important for America’s future security and economic prosperity as rare earth elements (REEs). These 17 metallic elements are essential inputs for weapon systems, clean energy technologies, and consumer electronics, yet for the past 20 years the United States has been almost entirely reliant on China for sourcing these critical materials. Today, the U.S. produces just 15% of the world’s REEs and exports 100% of mined material abroad — primarily to China — for separation and refining. China, by contrast, mines about 60% of all REEs produced globally and has increased domestic production of REEs by 60% over the last five years alone. The national security implications of China’s dominance of the rare earth supply chain are obvious, but viable solutions to securing America’s rare earth supply are not.
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ICYMI: PPI Publishes Issue Brief:
The Climate Case for Expanding U.S. Natural Gas Exports

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A key question for current American climate, energy, and security policy is what role abundant U.S. natural gas should play in the ongoing domestic and global clean energy transition. This report finds that expanding U.S. natural gas production and exports can cut coal use, lowering domestic and global greenhouse gas emissions, along with other policies to increase renewable power and other forms of clean energy.
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The New Skills for a New Economy project ([link removed]) seeks to promote workforce development policies that ensure employers have the talent they need to remain competitive and people have the skills and critical supports necessary to succeed in today and tomorrow’s economy. This project will promote bold and pragmatic solutions that address this challenge and encourage a robust workforce development system that is fully-funded, modern, industry-responsive, and equips current and future workers with the skills they need to get ahead — ensuring greater upward mobility for all working Americans.
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PPI’s Mosaic Project recently announced that the application portal for the project’s upcoming “Women Changing Policy Workshop” is now open. The next cohort of women will meet March 27 to March 29, 2023, and will focus exclusively on empowering broadband experts and women working to bridge the digital divide.

This is the sixth Women Changing Policy workshop. Previous workshops have included exclusive and candid conversations with seasoned media professionals, policy leaders, and representatives from the U.S. Congress.
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RADICALLY PRAGMATIC:

TALK POLICY: Apprenticeships with Dr. Chandra Childers

On this segment of Talk Policy, former Director of Social Policy Veronica Goodman sits down with Dr. Chandra Childers, Study Director at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Their discussion focuses on the concept of apprenticeships, its benefits for workers, and the historical context on the racial and gender makeup of these job training programs.
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THE NEOLIBERAL PODCAST:
Can We Hit a Soft Landing? ft. Joseph Politano

The holy grail of monetary policy is the "soft landing" — being able to bring down high inflation without causing a recession. Joseph Politano, author of the substack Apricitas, joins the podcast to discuss whether or not we'll see a soft landing in 2023.

Staff Spotlight: PPI Fellows

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Policy Fellow

Ellen Gracia is a Policy fellow for the Progressive Policy Institute. She is from Mansfield, Massachusetts, and attends the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, where she designed her own major in PPE: Political Science, Philosophy, and Economics, focusing her studies on equitable education and labor policy, as well as environmental economics.


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Economic Policy Fellow

Alexandre is an Economic Policy Fellow with the Progressive Policy Institute, where he works on issues relating to the real economy, investment, and growth.

Prior to joining PPI Alexandre has served as research assistant at the Elliott School of International Affairs of the George Washington University where he focused on the geography of international impact investment financial flows in the midst of the Covid crisis, with a focus on the agricultural sector. Alexandre is a student at the Institute of Political Studies of Paris and is currently undergoing a year of exchange at the George Washington University.
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