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

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.

Tracking the catastrophic erosion of middle-class life in America

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

Put workers ahead of Wall Street
when firms go bankrupt

Help working families with the costs of raising children

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

Place higher education’s risks on institutions, not students

Make student debt dischargeable in bankruptcy instead of canceling loans

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

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

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

Make American goods more attractive to foreigners than American assets

Balance trade by requiring importers to purchase credits from exporters.

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.

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

This paper focuses on two related areas where public policy places homemakers at a significant disadvantage: access to social insurance systems and employer benefits.

Congress should create a Workforce Training Grant—a $10,000-per-year grant to employers for each trainee engaged in on-the-job training.

In the popular imagination, young Americans leave home to attend college, where they earn degrees that launch them into careers. The actual experience is radically different.

Public policy should recognize that employers, not universities, often provide the most socially valuable form of training and should redirect public resources accordingly.