Chuka Umunna: These are “perilous times” for the Left
On Wednesday, PPI hosted a lunch event at the National Press Club, “Progressives for Innovation and Growth: A Transatlantic Conversation,” on the economic challenge facing center-left parties. There,...
View ArticleFinancial Times: US income inequality rises up political agenda
PPI President, Will Marshall, was quoted in a piece by Financial Times addressing how 2016 Presidential candidates are approaching strengthening the middle class and reducing income inequality: Will...
View ArticlePRESS RELEASE: PPI Statement On Significant Progress of TPP Negotiations
WASHINGTON— Ed Gerwin, Senior Fellow for Trade and Global Opportunity at the Progressive Policy Institute, today released the following statement after top trade officials from the 12 Trans-Pacific...
View ArticlePOLITICO: New Democrats plan ‘assertive’ new presence in House
The New Democrat Coalition sees opportunities this fall on taxes, trade, Medicare and others. by Lauren French, POLITICO In the hierarchy of the House, moderate Democrats — a minority in a party...
View ArticleThe Hill: A run by Biden would reinforce VP trend
Throughout his vice presidency, Joe Biden has rarely been considered as a potential presidential candidate in his own right. His two prior runs had come to little, his advancing age worked against him...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Systems: Education Reform in Washington D.C.
An important contest is taking place in Washington, D.C.—a race between two vehicles designed to carry children into the future with the habits and skills they need to live productive, meaningful...
View ArticleCNN: What Democrats should talk about Friday
Compared to the Republicans’ presidential cattle calls, the next Democratic debate will be an intimate affair, since the field has shrunk to just three candidates. They will gather in South Carolina...
View ArticleThe Guardian: ‘New Democrats’ sound alarm over Sanders and Clinton’s leftward...
PPI President Will Marshall was quoted in a piece by The Guardian addressing the 2016 Democratic presidential candidates and the party’s shift to the left: At Columbia University in New York this...
View ArticleAgenda 2016: Reviving U.S. Economic Growth
The Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) teamed up with Columbia University’s Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy to co-host a compelling symposium Nov. 6-7 in New York on...
View ArticleRealClearPolitics: What Obama Must Do in Syria
Syria has become Barack Obama’s Iraq—a foreign policy debacle rooted in faulty assumptions about the utility of American power. Where George W. Bush overstated what U.S. military intervention could...
View ArticlePPI to Congress: Scrub the SCRUB Act
House Republicans this week are expected to take up the ponderously titled Searching for and Cutting Regulations that are Unnecessarily Burdensome Act (SCRUB) of 2015 (H.R. 1155). The Progressive...
View ArticleThe Hill: In TPP review, focus on small business and digital trade
With the release of the full text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement last November, the American people and their representatives now have an extensive opportunity to analyze the...
View ArticleThe Wall Street Journal: Marshall on Anger with Wall Street
In his analysis of how the two parties still do not agree what caused the 2008 financial crisis, Nick Timiraos of The Wall Street Journal quotes PPI president Will Marshall: Anger at Wall Street among...
View ArticleMcClatchy: At start of campaign, the last gasp of political parties?
David Lightman quotes PPI President Will Marshall about how political parties are losing their grasp on the American political system: In 2012, average voter turnout for statewide primaries for...
View ArticleFinancial Times: Democrats struggle to harness economic feelgood factor
Will Marshall, president of the Progressive Policy Institute, said that once Democratic strategists have moved past the primaries and into the general election they will need to portray a hopeful...
View ArticleDemocracy: A New Kind of Public Works
Barack Obama is thinking big as his presidency enters the final stretch. The centerpiece of his last budget, unveiled this week, is a $300 billion plan for a “clean transportation system”—the biggest...
View ArticleThe Hill: Which past presidential election offers this year’s closest parallel?
Every four years since 2000, during the fall semester, I’ve taught a college course on that year’s unfolding presidential election. In the past, it’s been fairly easy to point to a prior election year...
View ArticleMemo to the Presidential Candidates: To Reduce Inequality, Reinvent Public...
Growing inequality has emerged as a central issue in the 2016 presidential election. Yet none of you has paid much attention to a major source of economic inequality in America: the uneven quality of...
View ArticleWashington Post: The new Democratic Party proposal to rival Bernie Sanders’...
Simplicity is one of Bernie Sanders’ great strengths: Corporations and the rich have rigged the economy. His solutions sound simple, even when the plans behind them are complicated: college for all,...
View ArticleUnleashing Innovation and Growth: A Progressive Alternative to Populism
As Americans choose a new president in 2016, populist anger dominates the campaign. To hear Donald Trump or Senator Bernie Sanders tell it, America is either a global doormat or a sham democracy...
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