The Rebalancing Of The California Economy: How Internet/Tech Jobs Are Spreading Across The State
Over the last year, California has added jobs faster than the country as a whole, in large part because of the booming Internet/tech sector. Indeed,…
Regulatory Improvement Commission: A Politically-Viable Approach to U.S. Regulatory Reform
The natural accumulation of federal regulations over time imposes an unintended but significant cost to businesses and to economic growth. However, no effective process currently…
The New Politics of Production
It’s easy enough to get progressives to agree that austerity is not the answer to the malaise that pervades the transatlantic world. What’s hard is…
Natural Gas Vehicles: Driving America to a More Prosperous, Secure and Sustainable Future
There has been a sea change in public attitudes toward natural gas. Not so long ago natural gas was widely viewed as a “bridge fuel”…
Forging Consensus on Immigration
The Bipartisan Framework for Comprehensive Immigration Reform released earlier this year by four Democratic and four Republican senators has been the basis of virtually all…
Guidelines for Federal Housing Administration Reform
After the housing bubble burst, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) rapidly expanded the scope of its mortgage insurance well beyond its traditional mission of helping…
Anatomy of a Special Tax Break and The Case for Broad Corporate Tax Reform
Washington policymakers turn to broad tax reform perhaps once in a generation, and now may be such a time. Today’s focus is on the corporate code, the source…
Student Debt Investment Fund (SDIF): A Preliminary Proposal for Addressing the Student Debt Crisis
The Progressive Policy Institute proposes the creation of a new, private sector Student Debt Investment Fund (“SDIF”) that would address the student debt crisis. The…
Tracking Healthcare Cost Growth Through a New Measure of Productivity
This brief provides a new explanation for why healthcare cost growth is showing restraint. Specifically, we find evidence that the healthcare sector is finally managing…
Ending the Endless Election Season
National elections in the United States now stretch out over nearly 24 months, with each new electoral cycle seeming to start up almost as soon…