By Michael Mandel
As Congress considers several major bills intended to transform the tech-ecommerce ecosystem, it is worth considering what might be lost for workers. Based on our analysis of BLS data, the tech-ecommerce ecosystem added 1.4 million jobs between September 2017 and September 2021, the most recent data available…
Today, a bipartisan group of Senators, led by Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), announced the imminent introduction of an antitrust bill aimed at a handful of America’s most successful technology companies. …
By Arielle Kane
The COVID-19 virus is endemic — meaning it’s here to stay. Getting to a 70% or 80% vaccination rate will not stop breakthrough cases, hot spots, and vulnerable people from getting ill. …
By Tressa Pankovits
As the delta variant drives up infection rates in every state in the nation, Americans face an urgent national imperative: Making sure our public schools open and operate safely this fall. …
By Paul Weinstein Jr. and Will Marshall
This piece first appeared in USA Today. Read it here.
America is at a COVID-19 crossroads. For the first time since the highly effective vaccines became widely available in the spring, the new case rate is back on the rise due to the…
By PPI Press
This morning, the House Judiciary Committee will mark up a series of antitrust bills that, taken together, would stifle digital innovation and hinder the United States in economic competition with China.
Alec Stapp, Director of Technology Policy at the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) released the following statement:
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Today, PPI President Will Marshall released the following statement on the federal recognition of JuneTeenth:
Happy Juneteenth!
With uncharacteristic dispatch this week, Congress passed and President Biden signed a new a bill establishing Juneteenth as a national holiday. It happened so quickly that PPI wasn’t quite prepared to observe it…
MEMO: June 14, 2021
TO: Pro-Growth Democrats
FROM: PPI President Will Marshall
RE: How to Lose to China
President Joe Biden says that America is locked in a “strategic competition” with China for global economic and political leadership in the 21st century. …
New legislative package would be a devastating blow to American technological leadership
Today, Members of the House of Representatives introduced a new package of bills aimed at stifling digital innovation through extreme antitrust legislation.
Alec Stapp, Director of Technology Policy at the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) released the following statement:
By Lindsay Mark Lewis
In an op-ed recently published in USA Today, I urged Congress and the Biden administration to take the simplest, most direct path to universal broadband connectivity by moving past the Far Left’s obsession with government-owned networks and misguided “future proofing” symmetric speed mandates:
There are two…
