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The Progressive Policy Institute is a catalyst for policy innovation and political reform based in Washington, D.C. Its mission is to create radically pragmatic ideas for moving America beyond ideological and partisan deadlock.
Founded in 1989, PPI started as the intellectual home of the New Democrats and earned a reputation as President Bill Clinton’s “idea mill.” Many of its mold-breaking ideas have been translated into public policy and law and have influenced international efforts to modernize progressive politics.
Today, PPI is developing fresh proposals for stimulating U.S. economic innovation and growth; equipping all Americans with the skills and assets that social mobility in the knowledge economy requires; modernizing an overly bureaucratic and centralized public sector; and, defending liberal democracy in a dangerous world.
To connect ideas and political action, PPI relies on an extensive network of partners. The Institute has close ties to New Democrats in Congress, as well as leading governors and a host of dynamic mayors and metro leaders. It works with groups of rising progressive political leaders and millennial professionals, as well as policymakers, analysts and think tanks in Europe, Asia and Latin America.
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NEW: We need to protect children’s data online, but let’s protect everyone’s data while we’re at it
"Truly protecting the rights of children who are not legally able to consent to online services requires a broader privacy framework, based on legislation that covers all Americans. The United States currently lacks such legislation. If we want to protect children’s data, the first step is to establish universal digital privacy practices for everyone — including children — and add additional protection where needed. "
"That 47 Republican Senators voted not to confirm her for no reason other than the most reflexive & dishonest kind of partisanship is all that mars this otherwise happy civic ceremony. We thank President Joe Biden for nominating Justice Jackson and look forward to seeing her on the bench."
Read PPI's full statement on Justice Jackson's historic confirmation:
🚨 PPI President Will Marshall sounds the alarm new proposed regulations that would harm charter schools across the country.
"As a matter of civil rights and social justice, the Biden administration should stand with low-income and minority parents who are demanding an end to second-class schools for their children. Instead, the Department of Education’s gremlins seem to be working on behalf of the adults employed in local school districts at the expense of children and their parents."
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/3261097-bureaucratic-gremlins-attack-charter-schools/
🆕 A new PPI report urges lawmakers to invest in better pandemic preparedness infrastructure ahead of the next global pandemic
"Without building resilient infrastructure, nimble manufacturing, & a fast responding government, we risk being prepared for the last pandemic rather than the next one."
Read the report:
Even as prices for traditional goods like energy and autos have skyrocketed, digital economy inflation has remained almost non-existent.
So why have tech and broadband prices avoided surging inflation?
EXCLUSIVE: Politico's Weekly Education Newsletter highlights PPI's new report analyzing a new Education Department rule that would make it difficult - if not impossible - for charter schools to qualify for federal start-up grants.
Read the report:
https://bit.ly/3LDzYxD
READ: PPI's Response to Biden Administration's DOJ Endorsement of Anti-Tech Antitrust Bills
"Given all the real problems in the economy, PPI believes that it is remarkably counterproductive to go after the companies that are benefiting consumers and workers."
The Progressive Policy Institute applauds President Biden for proposing a budget that calls for $1 trillion of deficit reduction over the next decade.
After a year in which loose fiscal policy contributed to inflation rising to its highest levels in over 40 years, it’s essential that Congress uses its power of the purse to complement the Federal Reserve’s inflation-fighting efforts.
Read our full statement on the FY 2023 budget proposal here:
Even if Putin gets all of what he wants, it won’t be enough to compensate for what he has already lost by attacking Ukraine. From a strategic, military and economic standpoint, a weaker and more isolated Russia is bound to emerge from this needless war.
President Joe Biden has the opportunity to use America’s oil and gas resources today to address geopolitical, economic and climate challenges in a way that galvanizes support from the American people and moderates in Congress.
He must not waste this moment.
12 years ago today, Congress approved and President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law.
PPI's Director of Health Policy Arielle Kane is out with a new blog highlighting the success of Medicaid — and the risk of losing such historic progress.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is an unequivocally qualified judge who has already been confirmed three times by the Senate with strong bipartisan support.
PPI encourages Senate Republicans to put aside their typical tribalism and confirm Judge Jackson in a timely manner.
