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Reasoned solutions from business in the nation’s interest
A series focused on providing trusted insights and reasoned solutions in the nation’s interest to the central challenges and opportunities we face in order to provide economic prosperity with equal opportunity for all Americans.
This Solutions Brief explores the need for AI guardrails in the US to assure businesses and consumers of AI’s safety and fortify US competitiveness.
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This Solutions Brief focuses on the essential role of market mechanisms and innovation in driving adoption of new technologies.
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This Solutions Brief explores AI’s potential economic impacts and implications for the US labor market, offering solutions for business and policy leaders.
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Policymakers and private sector leaders must act now to ensure that the 2024 election restores confidence in the nation’s most fundamental democratic process.
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This Solutions Brief examines the importance of Social Security in retirement planning, its impact on the federal budget, and options for reforming the program.
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This Solutions Brief outlines the nation's public policy priorities for 2024 and provides recommendations to achieve three important objectives.
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This two-year progress report on the IIJA also covers the CHIPS Act and the IRA and recommends ways to assure these government investments achieve their goals.
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This Solutions Brief addresses a series of urgent and major health care policy issues as the nation has emerged from the pandemic.
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This Solutions Brief outlines the steps necessary to ensure a secure, accessible, and credible 2024 presidential election.
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This Solutions Brief provides insights on New York City's economy and the trends that the pandemic has accelerated or altered.
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This Solutions Brief outlines a realistic pathway for the US to attain net-zero GHG emissions by 2050.
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This Solutions Brief examines the impact of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic on the US K-12 education system.
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This Solutions Brief focuses on the challenges of securing US critical infrastructure amid an evolving threat landscape.
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This Solutions Brief examines how US companies can take steps to protect themselves against the risk of a severe event.
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US labor shortages will only grow as birth rates decline. For economic growth, the US needs to reform immigration policy and encourage new workforce entrants.
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This Solutions Brief explains why debt matters, how long it will take and what steps it will take to reduce the debt-to-GDP ratio to a responsible 70 percent.
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As the 118th Congress convenes, the nation is facing the dual economic challenges of re-ducing 40-year-high inflation and averting a deep recession.
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A US energy transition strategy must build on the foundation of market principles, accelerate innovation, and preserve US competitiveness in the global economy.
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This Solutions Brief evaluates the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and provides a series of recommendations for successful implementation.
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This Solutions Brief examines the regulatory impact on health care policy during COVID-19, and provides recommendations through the lens of smart regulation.
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Policymakers, election officials, and business leaders all have very important roles to play to promote confidence in the integrity of the US electoral system.
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This brief examines reshoring, nearshoring, and friend-shoring as ways to secure supply chains and looks at US free trade agreements and general trade policy.
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Insights into cybersecurity trends with a specific focus on ransomware, the largest economic cyber threat today, and ways to upskill the cybersecurity workforce
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This Solutions Brief outlines the issues the US must tackle to better prepare for future public health crises.
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This Solutions Brief examines the sources of the current labor shortage and offer solutions for addressing it.
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Policymakers will need to make difficult decisions about addressing the heavy US debt burden.
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One of the most fundamental roles played by childcare is enabling parents to participate in the workforce.
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Despite the Omicron variant, the near-term outlook for the US economy is promising. To remain strong, policy for 2022 must restore fiscal and public health.
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US competitiveness and innovation are eroding. To return as the uncontested global leader in science & tech requires raising public funding in basic research.
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The budget reconciliation process is put into the context of the nation’s serious ongoing budget problem.
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Regulatory paralysis is one of the causes of our infrastructure shortfall. It needs attention if we are going to spend our tax dollars on infrastructure wisely.
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Health care and technology sectors—two industrial that play a vital role in reviving the NYC's economy and in providing equal opportunity for all New Yorkers.
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This brief offer recommendations to manage the economic and security challenges of global supply chains in the postpandemic economy.
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Policymakers and educators must develop strategies, including public-private partnerships, for harnessing remote learning technologies.
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An assurance that the debt buildup will not be allowed to grow out of hand will give confidence to financial markets and simplify monetary policy formation.
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The US will need to execute a comprehensive, collaborative strategy for preparing, upskilling, and reskilling a future-ready workforce.
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The vaccination stakes are high for both the current crisis and the inevitable pandemics of the future.
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America’s leaders must build toward a vision of a fully wired nation that meets the internet needs of all its citizens.
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This policy statement examines the state of US infrastructure and presents recommendations for closing the infrastructure gap.
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COVID-19 threatens progress in the integration and representation of women in the US economy.
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As one of the early epicenters of the COVID-19 pandemic, metropolitan New York has struggled to regain its bearings and chart its path back to prosperity.
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Business leaders and policymakers must provide a thoughtful response to the COVID-19 crisis and restore confidence in capitalism and democratic institutions.
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There is still time to protect voters and poll workers and maintain trust in the conduct and outcome of elections.
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This compendium addresses critical issues: health care, education, technology & innovation, regulation, trade, infrastructure, inequality, and taxation.
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This report presents a US job training system capable of meeting the challenges of a post-COVID-19 economy and building a modern, highly skilled workforce.
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An education system that invests in children beginning at the earliest ages is a necessity to ensuring that US employers remain globally competitive.
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Education and training programs prepare not only better citizens but also skilled workforce entrants with in-demand, cutting-edge abilities and knowledge.
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High quality education is a critical pathway to career success and economic mobility, particularly for students from low-income backgrounds.
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The US can, and often does, deliver the finest care in the world. However, it is inaccessible or unaffordable to too many Americans. We must do better.
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This brief explains why solving the US budget deficit must be a public policy priority and offers solutions to the challenge.
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This brief provides a plan to address the federal government's rapidly increasing debt at the appropriate future hour
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Roughly one-third of children under age five typically receive services in an organized child care facility—including preschool classrooms.
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As US private and public leaders begin reopening the economy, educators, employers, and service providers are seeking new or different ways of doing business.
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The president’s three-phased “Guidelines—Opening Up America Again” has significant shortcomings that can and must be addressed.
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This brief outlines considerations to combat the COVID-19 crisis and establish smart regulations for a post-COVID-19 economy.
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Most Americans say the country is not doing enough to meet infrastructure needs, making infrastructure a top-tier issue for 2020.
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China’s fast-paced economic rise and defiance of globally accepted market rules are driving US-China trade negations to the top of the post-election agenda.
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Business leaders and policy makers must better position US workers to contribute to and share in growing prosperity in the years ahead.
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This brief offers solutions for expanding the overall US labor force to address the demographic challenges that threaten continued growth.
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The Committee for Economic Development (CED) is the public policy center of The Conference Board. The nonprofit, nonpartisan, business-led organization delivers well-researched analysis and reasoned solutions in the nation's interest. CED Trustees are chief executive officers and key executives of leading US companies who bring their unique experience to address today's pressing policy issues. Collectively they represent 30+ industries and over 4 million employees.
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