Radically Pragmatic, a podcast from the Progressive Policy Institute

On this episode of the Mosaic Moment, PPI's State and Local Political Director Reid Fauble sits down with Sahar Fathi, Policy Director for the Washington State Attorney General's office and Mosaic Project Alum to discuss her role in the Washington State AG's office, why the legislative work and policy initiatives of state and local legislative chambers matter, and how state and local g...

In part 2 of this two part series, PPI’s Reinventing America’s Schools (RAS) Project Co-Director Curtis Valentine, in collaboration with EdChoice, sits down for a live panel conversation and podcast recording at the ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego with Sharif El-Mekki, Chief Executive Officer of the Center for Black Educator Development and Mikyeil El-Mekki, and Matthew Mugo Fields, Executive Leadersh...

In part 1 of this two part series, PPI’s Reinventing America’s Schools (RAS) Project Co-Director Curtis Valentine, in collaboration with EdChoice, sits down for a live panel conversation and podcast recording at the ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego with Nina Gilbert, Executive Director of the Center for Excellence in Education at Morehouse College, and Sharhonda Bossier, Chief Executive Officer of Educ...

PPI’s  Reinventing America’s Schools  (RAS) Project has a new podcast series on titled "WHAT NEXT: The Future is Now!" recorded at the SXSW Education conference in Austin, Texas. In the fifth and final episode of this five-part series, RAS co-director sits down with Janelle Wood, Founder and CEO of the Black Mothers Forum. Learn more about the Black Mothers Forum  here . Learn more about...

PPI’s  Reinventing America’s Schools  (RAS) Project has a new podcast series on titled "WHAT NEXT: The Future is Now!" recorded at the SXSW Education conference in Austin, Texas. In the fourth episode of this five-part series, RAS co-director sits down with Jay Artis-Wright. Learn more about Jay-Artis Wright here . Learn more about the Reinventing America's Schools Project  here . Le...

PPI’s  ⁠Reinventing America’s Schools⁠  (RAS) Project has a new podcast series on titled "WHAT NEXT: The Future is Now!" recorded at the SXSW Education conference in Austin, Texas. In the third episode of this five-part series, RAS co-director sits down with Dr. Constance Lindsay. Learn more about Dr. Constance Lindsay here . Learn more about the Reinventing America's Schools Project...

According to The International Telecommunications Union, two-thirds of the world now has internet access. On this month’s episode of the Mosaic Moment, PPI’s Ed Gresser sits down with two of the nation’s leading broadband experts, Meagan Bolton and Christine O’Connor to discuss where connectivity gaps remain and what U.S. policymakers are doing to bridge this digital divide. From infrastructure ch...

PPI’s  Reinventing America’s Schools  (RAS) Project has a new podcast series titled "WHAT NEXT: The Future is Now!" recorded at the SXSW Education conference in Austin, Texas. In the second episode of this five-part series, RAS co-director sits down with Dr. Charles Cole. Learn more about Dr. Charles Cole here . Learn more about the Reinventing America's Schools Project  here . Learn...

PPI’s  Reinventing America’s Schools  (RAS) Project has a new podcast series on titled "WHAT NEXT: The Future is Now!" recorded at the SXSW Education conference in Austin, Texas. In the first episode of our five-part series, RAS co-director Curtis Valentine sits down with Emory Edwards of EdChoice. Emory Edwards is the Vice President of Outreach for EdChoice, which is a nonprofit that wo...

Thirteen years ago, President Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress fundamentally transformed the U.S. health care system by providing health insurance coverage that curbed costs and expanded access to millions of Americans. While challenges remain to strengthen the legislation, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) remains entrenched as a permanent feature of America’s hybrid, public-private health care...

In this episode of the Radically Pragmatic podcast, PPI's Taylor Maag, the Director of Workforce Development Policy speaks with national and state leaders, Linda Smith from the Bipartisan Policy Center and Ashli Watts from the Kentucky Chamber on child care policy in our nation, how it is affecting women in the workforce and bold new solutions to address child care challenges at scale. Follow Tayl...

On this episode of the Mosaic Moment PPI’s Director of the Innovation Frontier Project, Jordan Shapiro sits down with Mosaic alum and Intelligence Analyst for Global Intelligence at Concentric, Rachel Brooks. They define online disinformation, discuss how foreign  governments use online disinformation campaigns to target democracies, and unpack their ideas about how to increase protection and...

It’s that time of year again… It’s tax season, and on this episode of the Mosaic Moment PPI’s Senior Policy Analyst, Nick Buffie, sits down with Mosaic alum and Associate Director of Policy at Prosperity Now, Joanna Ain to talk all things taxes. They talk about the importance of the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program (VITA), why funding the IRS is an equity imperative, and the current state o...

Lauren Bealore of Prosperity Now joins Jeremiah Johnson of The Neoliberal Podcast to talk about inclusionary zoning. They Discuss the history of inequity in housing markets, whether or not inclusionary zoning can mend those problems, and what good policies might look like. Learn more about the Progressive Policy Institute here . Follow PPI on Twitter here .

Will Marshall is the president and founder of PPI, and he joins The Neoliberal Podcast this week to discuss immigration policy. The Neoliberal Podcast discusses how we approach immigration from different angles, and try to find how sensible liberals can find common ground to make immigration reform happen. This episode originally aired on The Neoliberal Podcast, which can be found here . Learn mor...

On this episode of RAS Reports, the Co-Directors of the Reinventing America's Schools Project, Curtis Valentine and Tressa Pankovits, sit down to discuss Tressa's recent op-ed in The Hill concerning Peltier et al. v. Charter Day School , the North Carolina court case about charter schools and school uniforms. This case involves a public charter school in North Carolina that does not allow girls to...

On this month’s Mosaic Moment, program director and host, Jasmine Stoughton sits down with Kirsten Wegner , CEO of the Modern Markets Initiative to talk about her latest op-ed outlining the four bipartisan imperatives to ensure safe and sound capital markets. Kirsten unpacks what’s working well for investors and shares her bipartisan recommendations for improving the existing market structure. The...

On this week’s episode of the Mosaic Moment, Program Director, Jasmine Stoughton, sits down with Mosaic alum, Dr. Liz Wilke, to explore her new report, “Supporting Contractors’ Career Development in the Future of Work.” They discuss holes in the social safety net for both contractors and employees, the complexities of filing taxes as an independent worker, and how upskilling and career training co...

Last month, the Progressive Policy Institute hosted an established group of 12 women in tech and workforce development policy, traveling to London, Brussels and Berlin to meet with political leaders, policy experts and thought-leaders across Europe. On this episode of the Mosaic Moment, host and program director, Jasmine Stoughton, asks what one transatlantic policy was most interesting and why. H...

Does Germany struggle with homelessness the same way cities like Denver do? What can the U.S. learn from Germany in regard to improvements to public transportation infrastructure? In the Fall of 2019, the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) partnered with Das Progressive Zentrum (DPZ) and Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft (AHG) for a new project titled "New Urban Progress: Transatlantic Dialogue on th...

On a new episode of Radically Pragmatic, PPI’s Director of Health Care Arielle Kane sits down with Everytown for Gun Safety’s Legal Director Jonas Oransky to discuss the latest developments in the bipartisan movement to pass gun safety legislation. Their conversation comes as President Biden signs a new bipartisan gun safety bill into law — the first in almost 30 years — against the backdrop of ho...

Last week was National Charter Schools Week, and instead of celebrating the quality education that public charters provide to millions of students, the Department of Education is working to undermine the ability of these schools to function.  As hundreds of parents and students descended on Washington to make their voices heard, PPI's Reinventing America's Schools Co-Director Tressa Pankovits...

On this week's episode of Radically Pragmatic, Congressman Dan Kildee (MI-05) sits down with PPI's Director of Health Care Arielle Kane to discuss his bill, The Affordable Insulin Now Act , which passed the House last month and would lower the cost of insulin prescriptions for Americans with diabetes. Currently, the average American family pays $683 a month for an insulin prescription, even though...

On this episode of RAS Reports, Tressa Pankovits, Co-Director of the Reinventing America's Schools Project sits down with New Mexico State Senator Siah Correa Hemphill and Representative Joy Garratt to talk about a bill they successfully sponsored and passed into law this legislative session. New Mexico House Bill 43 creates a revolving facility fund that charter schools can access in order to pro...

In this week’s episode of Mosaic Moment, PPI’s Director of Health Care, Arielle Kane, sits down with Dr. Sarah Oh Lam from the Technology Policy Institute to discuss the benefits and barriers to telehealth services. In a recent blog post Arielle writes, “Without addressing barriers like unequal broadband distribution and limited access to video-capable devices, telehealth won’t live up to its pote...