Archive: News
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Robert J. Shapiro releases policy paper: “Changes in the Educational, Racial and Ethnic Composition of U.S. Employment, January 2008 to August 2018, and the Debate over Diversity in the U.S. Economy”
Tuesday, January 8, 2019 Americans are caught in a fierce political struggle today over a border wall intended to discourage immigration from Latin America. It’s part of a long ongoing debat
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Anna-Maria Kovacs: “The FCC clears the way for 5G” (ECN)
Thursday, December 13, 2018 Cisco VNI’s latest forecast projects rapid growth for U.S. mobile data traffic over the next five years. Such growth is only possible, of course, if there is enough
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Larry Downes comments on AT&T-Time Warner merger case in Variety feature
Wednesday, December 5, 2018 Larry Downes comments on the U.S. Department of Justice's appeal of U.S. District Judge Richard Leon's decision in favor of the AT&T-Time Warner merger in a Variety f
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Catherine Tinsley comments on Huffington Post feature, “Let’s Be Honest, Sheryl Sandberg Gets Criticized More Because She’s A Woman”
Tuesday, December 4, 2018 CBPP Senior Policy Scholar Catherine Tinsley comments on the Huffington Post's feature article "Let’s Be Honest, Sheryl Sandberg Gets Criticized More Because She’s A
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John Mayo comments on cost to consumers of robocall scams in Gray TV feature story on pending legislation against the calls
Friday, November 30, 2018 In a Gray TV feature, "FCC and Senate teaming up to take down robocall scams," CBPP Executive Director John Mayo comments on the cost to American consumers of the rob
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Catherine Tinsley: “Origins of a mass-shooting disaster” (The Hill)
Friday, November 2, 2018 I study disasters — disasters that arise from natural causes like hurricanes and those produced by human mistakes and mismanagement, like the massive BP oil spill. By
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Robert Hahn testifies before Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on the HONEST Act
Wednesday, October 3, 2018 On Wednesday, October 3, 2018, Robert Hahn testified in a hearing titled "Oversight of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Implementation of Sound and Transparent
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Larry Downes: “Why Google Fiber Is High-Speed Internet’s Most Successful Failure” (Harvard Business Review)
Friday, September 7, 2018 In 2010, Google rocked the $60 billion broadband industry by announcing plans to deploy fiber-based home internet service, offering connections up to a gigabit per second
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Anna-Maria Kovacs releases policy paper: “Competition in the U.S. Wireless Services Market”
Thursday, August 23, 2018 Anna-Maria Kovacs, Visiting Senior Policy Scholar, contributed a policy paper, "Competition in the U.S. Wireless Services Market." She concludes that "[a]s the Federa
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Larry Downes: “Is Disney Moving Too Fast On Fox Takeover? Don’t Ask Antitrust Regulators” (Forbes)
Tuesday, July 10, 2018 The Department of Justice appears to have changed its mind again about the risks of media mergers. After being brutally trounced in an ill-conceived lawsuit to block the
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