Archive: News
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Shapiro comments for Unherd.com investigative article about “Manufactured Promises in Middle America”
Unherd.com featured CBPP Senior Policy Scholar Robert Shapiro's comments regarding the need for creative solutions to improve digital and technological skills in areas of high unemployment around
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Larry Downes: “How good is your broadband? The FCC needs to know” (Washington Post)
In today’s hyperpoliticized technology policy environment, even an annual report can cause controversy. When the FCC began collecting data last month for its yearly review of America’s broadband
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Anna-Maria Kovacs: “Big tech’s massive expansion in video is a vote of confidence in the free internet” (The Hill)
Anna-Maria Kovacs shared an op-ed in The Hill citing that “advocates of regulation of broadband internet service providers (ISPs) under Title II of the Communications Act claim that this regime i
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Tinsley and Ukhaneva issue research paper: “Choice of Majors: Are Women Really Different from Men?”
CBPP Senior Policy Scholar and Professor of Management Catherine Tinsley, CBPP Visiting Senior Policy Scholar Olga Ukhaneva, and Professor of Public Policy Adrianna Kugler recently issued a worki
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Shapiro comments about Trump’s approach to the 2020 Census and why it “matters more than you think” in a News One feature
News One featured Robert Shapiro's comments on the upcoming 2020 US census and the implications of the country “without an accurate census, many states and cities will be denied the full fund
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Larry Downes: “Antitrust Is Back — But The Media Industry Doesn’t Need It” (Forbes)
After decades of relative obscurity, antitrust is back in the headlines. Late last week, for example, the Federal Trade Commission announced it would not block Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods
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Larry Downes: “Is Tesla Really a Disruptor? (And Why the Answer Matters)” (Harvard Business Review)
Downes co-authored an article in Harvard Business Review about the transformative trajectory of Tesla: "Tesla, Elon Musk’s automotive start-up, is having a very good year. In September, the compa
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Jensen comments on “What went wrong with globalization?” in Marketplace feature
In a feature article about globalization, Professor Jensen was interviewed and shared comments, "We know who is going to lose their jobs from this [globalization]...And so we need to create polic
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Larry Downes: “One recipe at a time, YouTube’s ‘Binging With Babish’ is disrupting the content industry” (Washington Post)
What does a 15-layer taco mean for the future of video competition? Like the list of its ingredients, the answer is: pretty much everything. Last week, up-and-coming YouTube star Andrew Rea, who
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Downes comments on digital divide in FiveThirtyEight feature
FiveThirtyEight featured Larry Downes' comments on rural broadband coverage in the United States: "By virtue of excluding some, the internet’s value as a network of connection was being diluted.
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