Third Way Products
Economy
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Memo
The “Buy American” Provisions in the Economic Recovery Package
This memo describes three alternatives to the "Buy American" provisions in the economic recovery package.
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Memo
Insights On The Middle Class
This memo summarizes three key insights from Third Way’s work on how to reach the middle class effectively, both in terms of policy and communications.
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Memo
Restoring Middle Class Success
This memo describes a framework for the development of an effective middle class agenda that is focused on restoring middle class success.
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Memo
A College Tuition Tax Cut and the Recovery Package
This memo argues that a generous college tuition tax cut is a critical component of the pending recovery package.
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Talking Points
The Recovery Package
This memo provides talking points for the progressive economic recovery package.
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Memo
A Plan to Save the U.S. Auto Industry
Is chapter 11 the answer for the auto industry? A Third Way memo proposes the broad outlines of a restructuring plan to save the auto industry today to make it a leader for tomorrow.
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Memo
100 Days for The Middle Class
Congress convenes in January, facing a formidable to-do list. This short memo provides advice to Congress on how it should spend its first 100 days to maximize the likelihood of passing an ambitious legislative agenda successfully.
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Report
Are You Better Off?
A look at how middle class families have fared over the last eight years.
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Memo
Are You Better Off? State by State
In the midst of perhaps the most complicated economic situation in nearly a century, this short memo examines the question "Are You Better Off" throughout all 50 states.
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Message Memo
Are You Better Off? Economic Framing for the Remaining Weeks
In the midst of perhaps the most complicated economic situation in nearly a century, this short memo advises progressives how to refocus the debate from Wall Street to Main Street.
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Message Memo
Reframing the “Bailout”
This memo offers our advice on what progressives must do to reframe the debate, take proper credit for their overhaul of the Bush proposal, and address public outrage.
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Memo
Insights on the Middle Class - A New Third Way Poll
This document describes the results of a poll on the middle class and the economy commissioned by Third Way from Global Strategy Group.
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Memo
Trade and the Middle Class: Recent Focus Group Findings
Third Way and Benenson Strategy Group fielded six focus groups in Atlanta, St. Louis and Columbus, Ohio, to ask middle-class Americans about trade and the economy.
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Memo
Shaken, Not Stirred
Shaken, Not Stirred is a joint memo from Third Way and pollster Pete Brodnitz of the Benenson Strategy Group that describes our findings and discusses a potential opportunity for political leaders.
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External
Third Way statement of support for the Trade and American Competitiveness Coalition
This statement of support endorses the efforts of the Trade and American Competitiveness Coalition to pass Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) reform this Congress.
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Memo
Getting to YES With the Middle Class - An American Success Agenda
Getting to YES With the Middle Class argues why progressives should be talking about success and offers the elements of a success agenda for the middle class.
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Message Memo
Playing Offense on Taxes
This memo is about how progressives can win the tax debate.
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External
Third Way Supports the Feinstein-Martinez SAFE Mortgage Licensing Act
Third Way is pleased to support the Feinstein-Martinez SAFE Mortgage Licensing Act (S.2595).
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Memo
Stemming the Housing Crisis: A Better Framework
This memo argues that staunching the catastrophic loss of middle class wealth from falling home values should share equal billing with foreclosure prevention as a top policy priority.
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Memo
Getting the Economy Moving—A Stimulus Package
Short-term and long-term measures aimed at restoring American confidence in the economy and in progressives’ handling of the economy.
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Report
Why Lou Dobbs Is Winning
Why trade advocates need to change both what they argue and how they argue on trade to communicate more effectively with the American public on the benefits of trade.
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Memo
Unsticking the Sandwich Generation: Help for Families Caring for Aging Parents
Unsticking the Sandwich Generation: Help for Families Caring for Aging Parents
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External
Third Way Supports HR 3378, the Working Student Affordability Act
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Memo
A New Middle Class Compact
The “New Middle Class Compact” is based on a longer paper we released earlier in the year called "The New Rules Economy," in which we argued that middle class anxiety is rooted in the uncertainty of change brought about by advances in technology and accelerating globalization.
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Memo
The Responsible Path Forward on Stem Cell Research
A brief analysis of the complexities of the stem cell debate.
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Report
The New Rules Economy
An analysis of the true state of the middle class, the myths being told by both the right and the left, and the new economic rules facing workers, companies and government.
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Memo
Reforming and Expanding the H-1B Program
Policy ideas and message guidance on expanding legal immigration of skilled workers.
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Memo
Why Deficits Matter to American Families
Conservatives say that deficits don’t matter, and they’ve spent the nation into a ditch to prove it. Under President Bush, the federal budget deficit is expected to reach an historic high of $1.1 trillion by 2011. We do the math to determine how this impacts the budget of average American families.
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Memo
Tax Reform and Economic Growth
Conservatives are certain to attack progressives as "tax and spenders." In this memo, we lay out how to handle that attack and win the debate over tax cuts.
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Talking Points
Talking Points on the Estate Tax
Talking points for progressive leaders on the proposed repeal of the estate tax.
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Message Memo
Tax Giveaway Misses the Mark
A guide to opposing the tax cut bill being rammed through Congress.
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Message Memo
The Politics of Opportunity
Progressives win opinion polls on the economy but are losing middle-class voters at the ballot box. This message memo looks at why and how to fix it.
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Message Memo
Too Many Broken Promises For Too Long: The Bush Budget
How To Play Offense on President Bush’s Budget Message
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Module
Creating Young Investors
This module proposes a federal grant program for state-mandated financial education that helps students gain the knowledge and money smarts to navigate today’s complex financial world.
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Module
Improving Credit Score Disclosure
This module introduces two proposals to make credit scores more transparent.
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Module
Unsticking the Sandwich Generation
This module proposes creating an elder care tax credit to help relieve some of the financial worries of caring for an aging family member.
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Module
Boosting Retirement Weath
This module proposes a generous federal match to 401(k) savings to help middle-class families save for the retirement they deserve.
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Module
Rebuilding Home Wealth
This module lays out how the new housing bill passed by Congress will take big steps toward rebuilding homeownership wealth.