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PPI | Front & Center | January 5, 2009
Imports as Inputs
By Doug Karmin
The assumption that all imports are bad because they compete against U.S.-based companies is flawed, and needs to be examined.
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Policy Report | July 9, 2008
Winning in the World Economy II
The DLC's Global Economy Project, chaired by Rep. Greg Meeks (D-N.Y.), presents a comprehensive white paper that offers a foundation for a progressive response to the global economy and the challenges and opportunities it poses for America. The paper combines comprehensive analysis of issues with practical and ambitious policy ideas in competitiveness, trade policy, domestic food safety, global environmental governance, and other issues.
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Soft Skull Press | Book | November 21, 2007
Freedom From Want
By Edward Gresser
In this provocative new book, Gresser shows how his fellow liberals who look to put the brakes on globalization have unwittingly turned their backs on the poor, and have abandoned a tradition heralded by Roosevelt, Kennedy, and Clinton.
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The Miami Herald | Opinion | October 12, 2007
Follow Principles of Fair Globalization
By Rep. Gregory Meeks and Ed Gresser
Can Democrats agree on trade? Our party has been divided on the topic for 40 years, often bitterly. But next month's vote on a free-trade agreement with Peru shows that consensus may not be out of reach.
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PPI | Policy Report | October 3, 2007
The Facts on Trade Deficits and Jobs
By Doug Karmin
Any policy that seeks to save American jobs by reducing imports is likely to be counterproductive.
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PPI | Policy Report | October 3, 2007
The Truth About Middle Class Jobs
By Stephen J. Rose
Despite increased trade and globalization, America is not losing middle class jobs.
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PPI | Policy Report | September 7, 2007
Spoiled
By Jessica Milano
Each year, 76 million Americans get sick from eating spoiled, contaminated, or adulterated food, resulting in roughly 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths. In this paper, PPI offers five simple ideas to improve food safety.
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The Democratic Strategist | Column | May 9, 2007
Populist, Social Democrat or Progressive? The Democrats' Choice on Trade
By Will Marshall and Ed Gresser
On trade, a better model for today's Democrats is the Progressives, who came after the populists. They agitated for fundamental reforms in government and society that went with, rather than against, the grain of industrial transformation and urbanization. That is why they succeeded where populists failed -- in gaining power and governing.
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DLC | Blueprint Magazine | April 23, 2007
Lou Dobbs is Wrong!
By Edward Gresser
America is losing manufacturing jobs, but that doesn't mean it is de-industrializing. Quite the contrary.
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PPI | Testimony | April 18, 2007
"Is 'Free Trade' Working?"
By Edward Gresser
Testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Interstate Commerce, Trade and Tourism.
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PPI | Policy Report | February 9, 2007
Healthy Factories, Anxious Workers
By Edward Gresser
American industry is evolving very quickly, and its very success is eroding old sources of security for workers. We need to address the anxieties brought about by these changes with public policies that are grounded in an accurate diagnosis of the problem that is causing them.
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DLC | Blueprint Magazine | January 4, 2007
Curing Globaphobia
By Will Marshall
A growing economy is supposed to help political incumbents. But instead of profiting from prosperity in the 2006 elections, Republicans got flattened by a mighty gust of globaphobia.
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PPI | Policy Report | June 29, 2006
Raising Our Game
By Edward Gresser, Paul Weinstein, Jr., and Will Marshall
PPI offers a comprehensive national strategy on how America can sustain its economic strength and remain the most innovative and productive country in the world even as powerful new economic competitors emerge.
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DLC | Blueprint Magazine | February 9, 2006
Trading in Myth
By Edward Gresser
Today's liberals have embraced a centuries-old canard about the perils of global trade. The facts tell a different story -- one that liberals used to know.
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The Far Eastern Economic Review | Article | June 10, 2004
It's Expensive Being Poor
By Edward Gresser
While global trade negotiations involving 150 countries require time and patience, fixing the system for Asia's poor need not.
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DLC | Blueprint Magazine | May 7, 2004
Trade Myths
By Edward Gresser
Though the world may not need another globalization book, it can certainly benefit from a good one. And Jagdish Bhagwati's "In Defense of Globalization" is a pretty good one.
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The Straits Times (Singapore) | Editorial | February 4, 2002
North-South Trade Divide Can Be Bridged
By Edward Gresser
While the emotion may not come out of North-South economic arguments any time soon, consensus on long-term solutions to balance trade between rich countries and the developing world, with some effort, seems quite possible.
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The Straits Times (Singapore) | Editorial | January 18, 2002
Anti-globalization Movement Grinds to a Halt
By Edward Gresser
Lacking an agenda and splintered by the war on terrorism, America's once-proud anti-globalization movement seems destined for irrelevance.
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The Straits Times (Singapore) | Editorial | December 18, 2001
Good News from an Unexpected Source: Cambodia's Success in Trade
By Edward Gresser
Recent trade data reveal an odd but fascinating fact. America's fastest-growing trade relationship is with neither China nor Mexico -- it is with Cambodia.
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PPI | Backgrounder | October 26, 2001
Race to the Top II
By Edward Gresser with Sarah West
Much of America's contemporary debate over trade and globalization, with its central focus on the question of whether developing countries are gaining advantages from weak labor and environmental standards, simply misses the point.
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