Archive: Announcements
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Larry Downes: “Will modern Luddites smash tech’s future?” (Washington Post)
It’s become hip lately to bash the tech industry, and especially those of us who work in Silicon Valley. Current technologies, including social media and news sites, as well as emerging innovatio
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Carol Corrado’s publication wins Indigo Prize for designing a new indicator to measure GDP
Senior policy scholar Carol Corrado and her co-authors have won the Indigo Prize for their publication Improving GDP: Demolishing, Repointing or Extending? The Indigo Prize is awarded to the entr
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Larry Downes: “A Legislative Solution For Net Neutrality May Be Close” (Forbes)
In May, at a Senate Committee hearing on broadband infrastructure at which Larry Downes testified, ranking Democrat Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) signaled strong support for a legislative solution to
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Larry Downes comments about the implications of a potential merger between Sprint and T-Mobile in Bloomberg BNA feature
In a feature Bloomberg BNA about the possibility of Sprint Corp. merging with T-Mobil US Inc., Larry Downes begged the question, "Can Sprint, can T-Mobile, last that long, and are they willing an
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Burton releases EPV: “A Sanguine Assessment of North American Freight Railroads”
The CBPP published an economic policy vignette, "A Sanguine Assessment of North American Freight Railroads," on behalf of Professor Mark L. Burton of University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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Robert Shapiro critiques the Council of Economic Advisers’ tax cut estimates in NY Times feature
CBPP Senior Policy Scholar Robert Shapiro responded to Mr. Trump's Council of Economic Advisers' estimate of average household income savings due to corporate tax cuts. Shapiro is cited in The Ne
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Robert Shapiro comments about U.S. treasury secretary’s fears of “tax cuts or market will dive” in CNN Money feature
Money.cnn.com featured CBPP senior policy scholar Robert Shapiro's reaction to U.S. treasury secretary Mnuchin's address to Congress. Mnuchin stated that Congress needs to take heed on the Trump
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CBPP hosts forum on Regulatory Reform in the Communications Sector
It is no secret that the country is divided. Citizens have increasingly retreated to, or have been drawn to, information streams that identify different profound problems facing the country and w
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CBPP hosts policy forum on the United States – Korea Free Trade Agreement: Is it working for Americans or does it need revision?
On October 6, 2017, the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy (CBPP) hosted its latest Georgetown on the Hill event with a group of industry experts organized by J. Robert Vastine, Sen
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Shapiro releases new policy paper: “The Politics of Widening Income Inequality In the United States, 1977 to 2014”
Robert Shapiro, Senior Policy Scholar, released a policy paper, "The Politics of Widening Income Inequality In the United States, 1977 to 2014." He concludes that "there is strong evidence that t
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