To compete on a global scale and provide our citizens with the quality of life they have come to expect, the United States must have a first-rate infrastructure. This means our road, bridge, transit, aviation, port, water, electric grid, and broadband networks must be able to accommodate current and future demands.
In cooperation with the Brookings Institution, we assembled some of the most effective and important advisors to the last five presidents to discuss the opportunities and challenges that will face the Trump administration.
To encourage “blue-sky thinking,” and further dialogue the Commission released a 10-paper series on new approaches to how colleges and universities are financed.
The next president should attack child lead poisoning by creating institutions that will keep the problem visible and by finding funding sources that are adequate to the large task of massively reducing lead hazards.
Not surprisingly, most candidates routinely offer plans for improving economic mobility in particular or economic growth in general. However, the next president will have substantially less control over the economy than his or her counterparts before the 1970s. This is due largely to two major developments in the economic policymaking process.
