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Policy Brief: Workers in the Boardroom

Give workers a seat at the directors’ table

Policy Brief: Collaborative Labor-Management Committees

Give workers a collective voice on the job

How Industrial Policy Made the Desert Bloom

A case study on the public investments behind the Israeli economic miracle

Policy Brief: Public Pension Accountability

Require transparency in management of public money

Policy Brief: Local Content Requirements

Spur private investment, innovation, and competition by guaranteeing demand for domestic production

Family Affordability Survey

American families, across parties and classes, broadly share a definition of the middle class and concern with how the economy has made middle-class life harder.

The 2023 Cost-of-Thriving Index

Tracking the catastrophic erosion of middle-class life in America

Policy Brief: Banning Bachelor’s Degree Requirements

Prohibit employers from making a bachelor’s degree a job requirement

Policy Brief: Pro-Worker Bankruptcy Reform

Put workers ahead of Wall Street
when firms go bankrupt

Policy Brief: A Monthly Family Benefit

Help working families with the costs of raising children

Silicon Valley’s Public Garages

The indispensable and effective role of public policy in building the digital age

Policy Brief: Self-Financing by Colleges

Place higher education’s risks on institutions, not students

Policy Brief: Student Debt Relief the Old-Fashioned Way

Make student debt dischargeable in bankruptcy instead of canceling loans

Policy Brief: Worker-Run Benefits

Permit workers to administer their own employee benefits through organizations they control

Uncle Sam’s Top-Performing Venture Fund

With the Small Business Innovation & Research program, Congress helped build many of the nation’s most innovative firms.

Policy Brief: The Global Tariff

Levy a tariff on all imports that rises until trade is balanced

Policy Brief: The Market Access Charge

Make American goods more attractive to foreigners than American assets

Policy Brief: The Import Certificate

Balance trade by requiring importers to purchase credits from exporters.

The Import Quota that Remade the Auto Industry

President Reagan negotiated a quota on Japanese imports that bought Detroit time to retool and spurred massive foreign investment in a new manufacturing base in the South.

Policy Brief: An Online Age-Verification System

Congress should create a publicly provided online age verification system that would allow any person to privately and securely demonstrate their age online.

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