Meeting the Infrastructure Imperative: Donna Cooper takes a look at our nation's infrastructure spending needs, and explains how we can pay for them and put Americans back to work.

Putting Big Oil Subsidies to Work: Donna Cooper, Richard Caperton, Kate Gordon, and Daniel J. Weiss detail a plan to redirect billions of dollars in giveaways to Big Oil toward building infrastructure to put Americans back on the job.

Series on U.S. Science, Innovation, and Economic Competitiveness: Two CAP teams, one from Science Progress and the other from the Doing What Works project, release a series of reports focusing on different building blocks of our national competitiveness.

Destroying Our Infrastructure and Our Construction Industry: Donna Cooper details why legislation to fund airport construction and safety as well as federal highway repairs and construction face unconscionable elimination in Congress.

Let It Flow: 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.

Increasing the Impact of Federal and State Funds for Water Infrastructure: Donna Cooper and Jordan Eizenga offer a three-step blueprint for state revolving loan funds for maximizing clean and safe water infrastructure investment.

Don’t Let Freight Economy Run off the Rails: Julia Kantor and Donna Cooper urge Washington policymakers to support a strong American industry where small public investments become major economic gains.

Buy America Works : Sam Ungar and Donna Cooper explore how a new website used by the highway agency makes it easier to ensure that recovery funds flow almost entirely to American companies and workers—and urge other Department of Transportation offices to follow the FHWA’s lead.

Employment Weakness Calls for Stronger Transportation Bill: 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.

A Focus on Competitiveness: Report from John Podesta, Sarah Rosen Wartell, and Jitinder Kohli outlines a framework for making the United States more economically competitive.

Infrastructure Matters: We need to invest in infrastructure now for the sake of public safety and to boost our economy, says Donna Cooper.

Reorganizing Government to Promote Competitiveness: Jitinder Kohli and Jordan Eizenga examine the government’s ability to make policy and implement programs that promote competitiveness, and present four options for government reorganization.

Our Infrastructure Challenge: Donna Cooper applauds high-speed rail investments unveiled by Vice President Biden, but challenges the administration to create public-private partnerships to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure.

Community Program in Crosshairs Must Target Performance: Donna Cooper and Jitinder Kohli discuss how this embattled program that offers opportunity to less fortunate Americans can bridge political divides by improving performance.

Concentrating on U.S. Competitiveness : Jitinder Kohli discusses how to enhance U.S. competitiveness.

How to Win the Race for Jobs: Jennifer Granholm outlines how to create a "Race to the Top" for jobs on the Center's competitiveness blog.

To Combat “Growth Deficit,” Invest in R&D While Cutting Elsewhere: Laura Tyson explains how to combat our little-discussed "growth deficit" on the Center's competitiveness blog.

Bending the Curve as Key to Our Success: Randall Stephenson argues that education and investment are our keys to competitiveness on the Center's competitiveness blog.

Accelerating Job Creation and Competitiveness from the Bottom Up: Dan Carol offers steps to boost growth and competitiveness on the Center's competitiveness blog.

Role of Federal Government in Creating a Competitive Economy: Mark Levinson explains how the federal government can guide the private sector to be more competitive on the Center's new competitiveness blog.

How Innovation Plays Second Fiddle: The U.S. Treasury must consider innovation and competitiveness strategy along with fiscal policy, writes Rob Atkinson.

An American Innovation Agenda: Kevin Sharer, chairman and CEO of Amgen, talks about what he thinks makes America so competitive in biotechnology.

The Infrastructure Edge: Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell discusses why we need to invest in our infrastructure to remain globally competitive.

Feedback on the Center for American Progress’s “A Focus on Competitiveness: Restructuring Policymaking for Results”: Bruce Mehlman, former assistant secretary of commerce for technology policy under President George W. Bush, responds to the Center's new report on competitiveness on CAP's competitiveness blog.

What’s the Best Way to Promote Our Future Competitiveness?: CAP's Executive Vice President Sarah Rosen Wartell and Senior Fellow Jitinder Kohli introduce the Center's new blog on promoting the United States's economic competitiveness.

Labor: A part of the Republicans' "Pledge to America" proposes a blanket nonsecurity hiring freeze, which will actually be bad for business, write Pratap Chatterjee and Gadi Dechter.

Federal Workforce: Scott Lilly explains why a federal hiring freeze wouldn't save much money or be very effective.