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WTO Filing a Step Toward Enhancing Competitiveness

Are U.S. manufacturing jobs gone for good? Many so-called experts have mocked the Obama Administration’s latest trade action against China as being fundamentally useless, the…

Telecom Giants Top List of Companies Investing in U.S.

PPI’s recent report on Investment Heroes has continued to be picked up by major media outlets.  This time, National Journal focused on the investment in…

Betting On America: How Much Do Apple and Google Invest at Home?

The Atlantic recently published a piece on PPI’s most recent policy report Investment Heroes. The article provides analysis of the implications of Google and Apple’s…

Who’s Betting on America? The Top 25 Companies Investing in the U.S.

PPI’s Diana Carew on Yahoo Finance discussing PPI’s new report on ‘Investment Heroes’.            

Top 10 Investment Heroes

In a recent report, PPI compiled a list of the top 25 companies investing in the U.S. economy. Investing a combined total of 90 billion…

PPI EVENT: The Economic Implications of the Wireless Boom

The Progressive Policy Institute will host an economic forum to discuss the economic implications of the wireless boom. Roger Entner, founder of Recon Analytics, will…

How Standing Up For Chinese Workers Helps America’s Economy

China may look like an unstoppable economic juggernaut, but it is increasingly beset at home by worker protests and strikes. Last June, for example, security…

Fueling App Economy Jobs with More Spectrum

A February 2012 paper by PPI Chief Economic Strategist Michael Mandel estimated that the App Economy has generated almost 500,000 new jobs since 2007. Mandel…

The First Step to Restoring U.S. Competitiveness

Yesterday’s meeting of the Council on Jobs and Competitiveness saw a long list of expensive and long-term recommendations, but one important idea was missing that…

Regulators: Listen to Workers

<img class=”alignleft size-medium wp-image-20907″ title=”3536439053_29b49dc71a” src=”http://progressivepolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/3536439053_29b49dc71a-200×300.jpg” alt=”CWA” width=”200″ height=”300″ />AT&amp;T is a big company, which perhaps explains why federal regulators are ganging up to block…