Past trade shocks—like the "China shock" of 2000 to 2012 that erased millions of U.S. manufacturing jobs—have been a key motivation for place-based industrial strategy across America. But mitigating the potential impacts of future shocks, such as those from the forthcoming clean energy transition, is also critical.
In a new analysis, Glencora Haskins, Mark Muro, and Maya Garg explore the motivations for a surge of recent private investments in strategic sectors and find that the nation's place-based industrial strategies are both helping regions damaged by deindustrialization and assisting the ongoing transition toward a net-zero economy in different ways.
Prejudice against Muslims. After years of improvement, American public attitudes toward Muslims and Islam have declined in the past few months. Shibley Telhami discusses this and other findings from recent survey data.
Women's leadership in Tanzania's education system. As an Echidna Global Scholar, Lydia Wilbard is exploring pathways into educational leadership in Tanzania, with the goal of learning more about what causes the sector's gender imbalance in leadership roles.
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