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Advancing inclusion through Clean Energy Jobs

Thursday, May 2nd, 2019

A new report from the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program finds that the persistent
momentum of the clean energy economy transition can bring significant labor market benefits alongside environmental benefits.

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Countering the Geography of Discontent: Strategies for Left-Behind Places

Tuesday, December 18th, 2018
Countering the Geography of Discontent

The 2016 election revealed a dramatic gap between two Americas—one based in large, diverse, thriving metropolitan regions; the other found in more homogeneous small towns and rural areas struggling under the weight of economic stagnation and social decline. This gap between two American geographies came as a shock to many observers.

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What Is Transformative Placemaking?

Wednesday, November 7th, 2018

The Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Center for Transformative Placemaking aims to inspire public, private, and civic sector leaders to make transformative investments that generate widespread social and economic benefits in places throughout the country.

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Renewing the Water Workforce: Improving Water Infrastructure and Creating a Pipeline to Opportunity

Monday, June 18th, 2018

As the U.S. economy continues to grow, many communities are struggling to translate this growth into more equitable and inclusive employment opportunities. Simultaneously, many of the nation’s water infrastructure assets are in urgent need of repair, maintenance, and restoration. Yet the workers capable of carrying out these efforts are in short supply due to an aging workforce eligible for retirement and the lack of a pipeline for new talent.

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Catalytic development: (Re)creating walkable urban places

Friday, May 18th, 2018

Since the mid-1990s, demographic and economic shifts have fundamentally changed markets and locations for real estate development. These changes are largely powered by growth of the knowledge economy, which, since the turn of the 21st century, has begun moving out of suburban office parks and into more walkable mixed-use places in an effort to attract and retain highly educated young workers and support creative collaboration among them.

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Signs of Digital Distress: Mapping Broadband Availability and Subscription in America

Monday, September 18th, 2017
Brookings Institution: Broadband Access in America

BROOKINGS INSTITUTION METROPOLITAN POLICY PROGRAM Executive Summary The internet is now a fundamental component of the American economy, creating new ways to educate, employ, bring services to, and entertain every person. Broadband, especially wireline broadband in American homes, is the essential infrastructure for unlocking the internet’s economic benefits. However, broadband infrastructure is far from ubiquitous, […]

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Unpacked: Why does the U.S. need energy innovation?

Tuesday, June 6th, 2017

Brookings Senior Fellow Mark Muro and Devashree Saha discuss the declining number of patents and ventures capital funds going to clean technology in the United States. They also explain why investing in energy innovation is important for the U.S. economy and fighting climate change.

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Rooftop solar: Net metering is a net benefit

Monday, May 30th, 2016
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BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
METROPOLITAN POLICY PROGRAM

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Remaking Economic Development

Friday, March 4th, 2016
Brookings Institution - Connect Place

BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
METROPOLITAN POLICY PROGRAM
Leaders in cities and metro areas have an opportunity to remake economic development—to adopt a broader vision of economic development that can deliver continuous growth, prosperity, and inclusion in cities and metro areas. While some creative and committed leaders and organizations are embracing this version of economic development, it needs to be further scaled up.

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FAST Act ushers new era for U.S. freight policy

Thursday, January 7th, 2016

BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
METROPOLITAN POLICY PROGRAM
With the recent passage of a new five-year, $305 billion surface transportation bill—Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act—Congress finally brokered a long-term agreement to address the nation’s infrastructure challenges. While the bill pumps needed spending into a range of highway, rail, and transit projects, albeit through some budgetary gimmicks, its most lasting achievement may center on freight.

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