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SPOTLIGHT: Competitiveness


Reuters/Lucy Nicholson - People line up to talk to job recruiters at a career fair in Los Angeles.

Save to My Portfolio Creating Jobs in the Recession

Bruce Katz, December 10, 2009

During testimony before a subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, Bruce Katz highlighted six strategies to stop additional job losses and build a lower-carbon, innovation-fueled and export-oriented economy. He emphasized that national recovery will be metropolitan-led but will vary across metropolitan areas—the building blocks of the U.S. economy. Read More

Competitiveness, U.S. Economic Growth, Infrastructure, Labor, U.S. Economy

Schwartz Forum on Competitiveness


Reuters/Jim Young - U.S. President Barack Obama speaks after a tour of a construction site at the Virginia Infrastructure Project in Springfield, Virginia.

Save to My Portfolio Schwartz Forum: Infrastructure Investments, Economic Growth and Jobs

Thursday, December 10, 2009
11:00 AM to 12:45 PM
Washington, DC

On December 10, the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings hosted the fourth Bernard L. Schwartz Forum on U.S. Competitiveness to address the connection between infrastructure investments and economic growth, including the release of a paper discussing the merits and intersections of the capital budget and National Infrastructure Bank concepts. U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood outlined current federal reform efforts. Read More

Competitiveness, Infrastructure, U.S. Economic Stimulus, U.S. Economic Growth, U.S. Economy

Spotlight: Education


Reuters/Larry Downing - U.S. President Barack Obama visits Wright Middle School in Madison, Wisconsin

Save to My Portfolio Department of Education Launches Race to the Top

Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst, November 17, 2009

Through a new competitive grant program called Race to the Top, the U.S. Department of Education is awarding $4 billion of stimulus money to states that demonstrate a commitment to education reform and innovation. Russ Whitehurst says it is a promising program that could promote education reform and elevate the education of thousands of children. Watch Videos

Education, U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Economic Stimulus, Urban and Inner-city Schools

SPOTLIGHT: Competitiveness


Reuters/Morris MacMatzen - Workers stand by to mount the propeller as crane lifts it to the top of a power-generating windmill turbine.

Save to My Portfolio To Make Clean Energy Cheaper, U.S. Needs Bold Research Push

Mark Muro and Teryn Norris, April 30, 2009

Mark Muro and Teryn Norris urge policy-makers to move innovation and commercialization to the fore of America’s outdated energy policy. They advocate creating regional energy partnerships—or e-DIIs—to accelerate the development of reasonably priced alternative energy technologies and bring them to the marketplace. Read More

Competitiveness, Information Technology, Energy Security, Innovation, Technology

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioMoving Forward Incrementally on Infrastructure

Robert Puentes, January 22, 2010, The Brookings Institution

Moving Forward Incrementally on InfrastructureIn the response to President Obama speech at the 75th annual meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Robert Puentes comments that the president’s proposals, albeit small, represent significant steps toward the bold infrastructure vision he offered in his 2008 speech to the same group. Read More

Infrastructure, Cities, U.S. Economic Growth, Competitiveness

PAST EVENT

Save to My PortfolioThe Scouting Report: Innovation and Infrastructure

Wednesday, January 20, 2010
12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
Washington, DC

The Scouting Report: Innovation and InfrastructureOn Wednesday, January 20, as part of a Brookings project to assess President Obama’s performance in 2009 on a range of policy issues, Brookings Vice President Bruce Katz, director of the Metropolitan Policy Program, was on hand to discuss President Obama’s progress on infrastructure projects and innovation. POLITICO Senior Editor Fred Barbash moderated the discussion. Read More

Infrastructure, Innovation, Competitiveness, U.S. Economy, The Presidency

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioThe Scouting Report Web Chat: Innovation and Infrastructure

Bruce Katz, January 20, 2010, The Brookings Institution

The Scouting Report Web Chat: Innovation and InfrastructureOn Wednesday, January 20, as part of a Brookings project to assess the president’s performance in 2009 on a range of policy issues, Bruce Katz answered questions in a live web chat about President Obama’s progress on infrastructure projects and innovation. Read More

Infrastructure, Innovation, Competitiveness, U.S. Economy

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioObama's Plans to Rebuild American Prosperity

Bruce Katz and Robert Puentes, January 15, 2010, The Brookings Institution

Obama's Plans to Rebuild American ProsperityIn this installment of the Status Report, a series of policy assessments of the Obama administration's first year, Bruce Katz and Robert Puentes give President Obama an A- for boosting infrastructure spending and needed policy reforms. On the larger effort to rebuild American prosperity, they write that the work is thus far incomplete. Read More

Infrastructure, Competitiveness, U.S. Economy, Cities, The Presidency

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioInvesting for Success: Examining a Federal Capital Budget and a National Infrastructure Bank

Emilia Istrate and Robert Puentes, December 10, 2009, The Brookings Institution

Investing for Success: Examining a Federal Capital Budget and a National Infrastructure BankEmilia Istrate and Robert Puentes examine the current federal investment process and call for a revamped federal infrastructure policy in order to upgrade existing facilities, expand choices in moving people and goods, and help us attain energy independence. Moreover, in order to achieve these goals a federal capital budget and national infrastructure bank are explored as solutions. Read More

Competitiveness, Infrastructure, U.S. Economic Growth

PAST EVENT

Save to My PortfolioNo Reader Left Behind: Improving Media Coverage of Education

Wednesday, December 02, 2009
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Washington, DC

No Reader Left Behind: Improving Media Coverage of EducationThe American educational system is fundamental to promoting social and economic mobility, civic engagement and global competiveness, but the subject of receives less media coverage than other major public policy issues. Grover "Russ" Whitehurst and E.J. Dionne, authors of The Disappearance of Education News, presented their solutions for improving education reporting and promoting quality discourse. Read More

Education, Media & Journalism, Economic Mobility, Competitiveness, U.S. Department of Education

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioInvisible: 1.4 Percent Coverage for Education is Not Enough

Darrell M. West, Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst and E.J. Dionne, Jr., December 02, 2009, The Brookings Institution

Invisible: 1.4 Percent Coverage for Education is Not EnoughNews coverage is important to every policy area. This is especially the case with education because only a third of American adults currently have a child in elementary or secondary school. Yet despite the importance of media coverage for public understanding of education, news reporting on schools is scant. As Darrell West, Russ Whitehurst, and E. J. Dionne note, there is virtually no national coverage of education. During the first nine months of 2009, only 1.4 percent of national news coverage from television, newspapers, news Web sites, and radio dealt with education. Read More

Media & Journalism, Education, Competitiveness, U.S. Department of Education

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioThe Senate Climate Wrangle Begins

Mark Muro and Sarah Rahman , October 01, 2009, The Avenue, TNR.com

The Senate Climate Wrangle BeginsSenators Kerry and Boxer recently unveiled their climate bill calling for the creation and funding of a string of energy innovation hubs that are dedicated to clean energy technology development and deployment. Mark Muro and Sarah Rahman reviewed the bill—especially as it impacts metro and regional areas—and noted its similarities and differences with the House of Representative's climate bill, Waxman-Markey. Read More

Energy Security, Competitiveness, U.S. Congress, Environmental Regulation, U.S. Department of Energy

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioThe Infrastructure Needs of a 21st Century City—A U.S. Perspective

Emilia Istrate, September 16, 2009, The Institute of Brazilian Issues, the George Washington University

At the Institute of Brazilian Issues at the George Washington University, Emilia Istrate spoke with a group of Brazilian development experts on the infrastructure needs of a metropolitan area, from a U.S. perspective. Read More

Infrastructure, Cities, Highways, Competitiveness

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioMetropolitan Las Vegas: Challenges, Opportunities, and a Vision

Mark Muro and Robert E. Lang, September 08, 2009, University of Nevada Las Vegas

In speeches delivered at the Las Vegas roll-out of the Brookings Mountain West Initiative Mark Muro and nonresident senior fellow Robert Lang argue that Las Vegas presents an exaggerated version of America’s economic quandary. Muro declares that Las Vegas presents, in extreme form, some of the fundamental questions facing the whole country as it faces a major economic “reset” while Lang contends it can still emerge as America’s next true world city. Read More

Competitiveness, Regions and States, U.S. Economic Growth, Intermountain West

Competitiveness at Brookings

As emerging economies and existing powers seek competitive advantages, how can America retain its edge? If global integration is going be an enduring benefit for Americans—and receive their broad-based political support—the United States will need a sustained national agenda for remaining the world's most vibrant economy. Brookings’s institution-wide initiative on competitiveness integrates the global debate with developments at the local, state and federal levels.

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Featured Experts

Martin Neil Baily

Martin Neil Baily

Senior Fellow, Economic Studies
Bernard L. Schwartz Chair in Economic Policy Development

Martin Baily, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton administration (1999–2001) and one of three members of the council from 1994 to 1996, focuses on issues of globalization, productivity and competitiveness, Social Security reform, and U.S. economic policy.
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Bruce Katz

Bruce Katz

Vice President and Director, Metropolitan Policy Program
The Adeline M. and Alfred I. Johnson Chair in Urban and Metropolitan Policy

Bruce Katz, vice president and founding director of the Metropolitan Policy Program, regularly advises national, state, regional and municipal leaders on policy reforms that advance the competitiveness of metropolitan areas.
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Mark Muro

Mark Muro

Fellow and Policy Director, Metropolitan Policy Program

Mark Muro, a fellow and director of policy for the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings, manages the program's public policy analysis and leads key policy research projects.
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