What Is the Blueprint for American Prosperity?

The Blueprint for American Prosperity is a multi-year initiative to promote an economic agenda for the nation that builds on the assets—and centrality—of America’s metropolitan areas. The Blueprint will put forth an integrated policy agenda and specific federal reforms that give cities, suburbs, and metro areas the tools they need to leverage their economic strengths, grow in environmentally sensitive ways, and create opportunities to build a strong and diverse middle class. The Blueprint is being supported and informed by a network of leaders who strive every day to create the kind of healthy and vibrant communities that form the foundation of the U.S. economy.

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Webcast of Launch

View the webcast of the Blueprint for American Prosperity launch event held on November 6, 2007.

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Remarks from James A. Johnson, Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC

James A. Johnson's speech at the November 6, 2007 launch of the Blueprint for American Prosperity event.

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Metropolitan Policy Program Leadership Council

The Blueprint initiative is being supported and informed by a network of leaders who strive every day to create the kind of healthy and vibrant communities that are the foundation of the U.S. economy. We believe that these leaders and their metro areas are at the cutting edge of policy innovation in the United States and, through their local action, are guiding the way towards systemic and structural policy reform at the national level. Two core groups of leaders have shaped, and are shaping, the Blueprint to date—the Metropolitan Policy Program Leadership Council and our Metropolitan Partners. As the Blueprint is launched, we will continue to seek additional advisors to this effort. We believe strongly that national policy is most successful when it builds from the knowledge and expertise of local and regional leaders.

Metropolitan Policy Program Leadership Council Members 

Blueprint Partners

The Metropolitan Policy Program is forming a group of elected officials, regional business alliances and civic groups, university presidents, and practitioners from metro areas around the country who are serving as active advisors and supporters of the Blueprint. These Metropolitan Partners will be individuals and institutions widely recognized as being change agents both in their metropolitan areas and nationally. Their role will be to inform the content of the Blueprint, co-host public forums in their home metros, and serve as resources for media and national decisionmakers.

Blueprint Experts

Bruce Katz is the Vice President at the Brookings Institution and founding Director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program.

Amy Liu is the Deputy Director and co-founder of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution.

Alan Berube is the Research Director and Fellow at the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program.

Mark Muro is the director of policy at the Metropolitan Policy Program and leads many of its federal, state, and regional policy analysis initiatives.

Julie Wagner is the trans-atlantic fellow at the Metropolitan Policy Program leading international research efforts to inform U.S. state and national policy reform efforts.

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