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Environment
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Policy Memo
Reduce Disaster Costs by Better Tracking Health Impacts of Wildfire Smoke

The Biden-Harris Administration should address this gap by establishing a national public record of wildfire-smoke health impact.

04.22.21 | 9 min read
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Emerging Technology
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Policy Memo
Rebooting the American Dream: Challenge Grants for Emerging Innovation Ecosystems

By supporting bottom-up, place-based investment and building a network of new ideas, the Administration can foster American dynamism.

04.12.21 | 2 min read
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Emerging Technology
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Policy Memo
The Local Innovation Unit: Achieving National Goals Through Local Experimentation

The Administration should create the Local Innovation Unit to catalyze decentralized experiments focused on our most urgent challenges.

04.07.21 | 1 min read
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Environment
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Policy Memo
Repurposing Generic Drugs to Combat Cancer

Repurposing existing drugs, especially off-patent generics, is the fastest way to develop new cancer treatments.

04.06.21 | 1 min read
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Environment
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Policy Memo
Strengthening the Economy, Health, & Climate Security through Resilient Agriculture and Food Systems

This report explores how the agriculture sector can support, and be supported by, policies that advance science, technology, and innovation.

04.05.21 | 4 min read
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Clean Energy
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Policy Memo
Building Back with a Cleaner Power Grid for America

Achieving energy decarbonization in America will require a clean power grid supplied by renewable energy and backed by ample energy storage.

04.01.21 | 8 min read
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Emerging Technology
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Policy Memo
Section 230 Is Essential to the Internet’s Future

The law’s critics are right to question Big Tech’s power, but weakening Section 230 would not address companies’ flaws.

03.31.21 | 1 min read
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Education & Workforce
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Policy Memo
Creating an Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-L) for the Department of Labor

The Federal Government should annually invest $100 million for 5 years to launch an Advanced Research Projects Agency for Labor (ARPA-L).

03.29.21 | 8 min read
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Global Risk
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Policy Memo
Averting Environmental Risks in the New Space Age

Space is at risk of developing the equivalent of the ocean’s “drifting island of plastic.” Unless we act now, we may find that, as with climate change, we wish we had acted much sooner.

03.16.21 | 14 min read
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Education & Workforce
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Policy Memo
Expanding the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program to Preserve American Innovation

Sustained investment in the industries of the future is crucial to national security, American healthcare, and a green economy.

03.15.21 | 1 min read
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Education & Workforce
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Policy Memo
Forging 1,000 Venture Scientists to Transform the Innovation Economy

The Administration should establish the Venture Science Doctorate (VSD) to train graduates to combine research and entrepreneurship.

03.04.21 | 2 min read
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Emerging Technology
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Policy Memo
COVID-19 Presents an Opportunity to Invest in Federal IT Modernization

The pandemic accelerated an already rapid ongoing shift to a tech-driven world. We must similarly accelerate investments in IT.

02.25.21 | 2 min read
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