Issue Brief
Jennifer Erickson and Sean Pool explain how the Economic Development Administration’s Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge can help spur job creation.
Senior Fellow Jonathan Moreno discussed his new book on “biopolitics” at a CAP event last week.
Kristina Costa discusses three financing tools that can encourage innovation in the social and public sector.
Donna Cooper examines what it will take to get Congress to act on the president’s job-creating $50 billion infrastructure investment plan.
Kristina Costa and Adam Hersh detail the bang for the buck we get from government spending on critical infrastructure projects.
Donna Cooper details why legislation to fund airport construction and safety as well as federal highway repairs and construction face unconscionable elimination in Congress.
Elaine Sedenberg discusses the Dalai Lama's advocacy for a peaceful coexistence between science and spirituality.
Donna Cooper and Jordan Eizenga urge policymakers to encourage other states to follow New York’s lead in applying modern portfolio management strategies to their revolving loan funds—which could mean more badly needed water infrastructure improvements.
Donna Cooper and Jordan Eizenga offer a three-step blueprint for state revolving loan funds for maximizing clean and safe water infrastructure investment.
Julia Kantor and Donna Cooper urge Washington policymakers to support a strong American industry where small public investments become major economic gains.
Donna Cooper explains how a current proposal to reduce federal spending on badly needed roads improvement will also be a drag on employment—at the worst possible time.
Report
Michael J. Rugnetta and Khusboo Desai examine issues regarding racial and ethnic health disparities that need to be addressed in order for personalized medicine to offer the greatest benefit to all.
Interactive
A map from Science Progress shows how National Institutes of Health funding for biomedical research and innovation leads to job growth across the country.
There’s no reasonable way to generate billions in savings from consolidating programs that repair our nation’s highways as Rep. Paul Ryan proposes, argues Donna Cooper.
We need to invest in infrastructure now for the sake of public safety and to boost our economy, says Donna Cooper.