Supercharge the Export Potential of Our Major Cities
The government should set a strong national platform for exports, starting with the ratification of free trade agreements with Korea, Panama and Colombia.
The government should set a strong national platform for exports, starting with the ratification of free trade agreements with Korea, Panama and Colombia.
Without high-quality retraining, workers get stuck in dying industries, where their skills, networks and work habits erode
Investments in innovation are, by definition, long-term, so a tax credit to encourage innovation needs to have long-term security, too
The Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee should announce a plan to target inflation at 3 or 4 percent
America should fight to keep our entrepreneurs, whether or not they were born here
Michelle A. Rhee
Former chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools system, and founder and CEO of StudentsFirst
Steve Case
Chairman and CEO of Revolution LLC, co-founder of America Online, and chairman of The Case Foundation
Julián Castro
Mayor of San Antonio
Eric Spiegel
President and chief executive officer of Siemens Corporation and CEO of the U.S. Region
Paul Kedrosky
Contributing editor for Bloomberg, editor of the popular financial blog Infectious Greed
Carl Schramm
President and chief executive officer of the Kauffman Foundation
Mary Kay Henry
International president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
Matthew Yglesias
Senior editor at the Center for American Progress Action Fund
Bruce Katz
Vice president at the Brookings Institution and founding director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program
Gerald Chertavian
Founder & CEO of Year Up, a training program for urban young adults
Jody Lewen
Founder and executive director of the Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison
Clive Crook
Senior editor of The Atlantic, a columnist for National Journal, and a commentator for the Financial Times
Frederick Hess
Resident scholar and director of Education Policy Studies
Megan McArdle
Senior editor at The Atlantic who writes about business and economics
Darrell M. West
Vice president of governance studies and director of the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution
Ryan Avent
The Economist's economics correspondent and the primary contributor to Free Exchange, an economics blog
Martin Neil Baily
Senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers for the Clinton administration from 1999 to 2001
Dana Goldstein
Education journalist based in Brooklyn, Puffin Fellow at The Nation Institute, and Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation
Ross DeVol
Executive director of economic research at the Milken Institute
Reihan Salam
Reihan Salam is a policy advisor at Economics 21, a columnist for The Daily, and a blogger for National Review Online
Michael Fleischer
President of Bogen Communications in Ramsey, New Jersey
Peter Wallison
Member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and codirector of financial policy program at the American Enterprise Institute
Richard Florida
Senior editor at The Atlantic and director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto
Carl Camden
President and chief executive officer of Kelly Services, Inc., a world leader in workforce solutions
Mike Haynie
Barnes Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Whitman School of Management and executive director of the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University