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Maag for The 74: Creating a Climate-Literate Workforce in Colorado, Starting in Middle School
04.12.2024
By Taylor Maag The Yampa Valley of Colorado is breathtaking – with the Flat Top Mountains and the Yampa river. It is a region of deep history and natural beauty. But it’s not hard to see the effects of climate change. It is getting hotter and drier, the snowpack is changing and wildfire risk is at an…
Ryan for Newsweek: Young Voters Are Consumed by Desperation—and Nihilism. Here’s How Biden Can Reach Them
04.10.2024
By Tim Ryan President Biden is touting the strength of America’s post-pandemic economic recovery, and he’s right: Wages are up, unemployment is down, and inflation is finally coming under control. But as pollsters perpetually point out, the president is not getting credit in the polls. Working-class voters—particularly young people in middle American communities like those…
Moss in New Concurrences Book Release on “Antitrust Ideology and the 2023 U.S. Merger Guidelines”
04.09.2024
By Diana Moss On April 9, 2024, Concurrences and CCIA released a new volume “The 2023 Merger Guidelines: A Review.” PPI’s Diana Moss is a contributing author with her chapter titled: “Antitrust Ideology and the 2023 U.S. Merger Guidelines.” Introduction In late December 2023, the U.S. antitrust agencies jointly issued new merger guidelines. The 2023…
Pankovits for Colorado Politics: Lawmakers pick on low-income children of color
04.08.2024
By Tressa Pankovits Three suburban Colorado legislators last month introduced a bill designed to run public charter schools out of the state. Yet, most charter schools serve urban, not suburban, children. In Colorado, 49.5% of all charter school students live in a city. Not surprisingly, more than half are non-white. Additionally, almost 40% are eligible for a free or…
Marshall for The Hill: Increasing defections are puncturing the voters of color myth
04.05.2024
By Will Marshall The Democrats’ eroding support among Hispanic, Black, and Asian American voters is making progressive heads explode. Aren’t voters of color supposed to be a solid pillar of the party’s base? Evidently not. Democrats, says 538 statistician Nate Silver, are “hemorrhaging” support among nonwhite voters. That’s the main reason President Biden is trailing Donald Trump in many presidential polls. This development…
Weinstein for Forbes: What History Tells Us About The Fed’s Timing Of Interest Rate Cuts
04.04.2024
By Paul Weinstein Jr. At the end of 2023, many economists and bankers predicted the Federal Reserve would cut interest rates several times over the course of 2024, leading to lower mortgage and credit card rates, and greater economic activity overall. The Fed itself, according to its dot plot (a chart that records each Fed official’s projection…
Lewis for The Well News: A Camel’s Nose Under the Tent for Cigarettes
04.02.2024
By Lindsay Mark Lewis Bad policies rely on bad arguments. Rarely has that aphorism been put on clearer display than in Vermont, a state where advocates for banning flavored nicotine products claim their aim is to protect members of the LGBTQIA community disproportionally drawn to menthol nicotine products. But just ask yourself: Does that make sense? How often…
Pankovits for Community Conversations with NACSA: A Story of Innovation & Partnership
03.28.2024
Tressa Pankovits, Co-Director of Reinventing America’s Schools Project at the Progressive Policy Institute, Priscila Dilley, Senior Officer at the Leadership Academy Network, and Dr. David Saenz, Chief of Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships at Fort Worth ISD come together to tell a unique and powerful story. The partnership between Leadership Academy Network, Fort Worth Independent School…
Jacoby for The Bulwark: MAGA Isolationists, in Their Own Words
03.27.2024
By Tamar Jacoby I’D BEEN TRYING TO UNDERSTAND the rationale for months: Why is MAGA America so opposed to U.S. support for the war in Ukraine? At first, I thought I’d find the answer in foreign policy magazines and journals. I started reading about the history of American isolationism and parsing the speeches of politicians…
