Third Way Products
Economy
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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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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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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