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July 10, 2014

Education
Congress's Job Training Overhaul: A Modest Step in the Right Direction

This is a guest post by Robert Maxim, research associate, competitiveness and foreign policy, for the Council on Foreign Relations studies program. Any bill that receives the support of both Ted Cru…

Ironworker apprentices (L-R) Ian Welshhans, Daniel Truax and Jason Taylor practice their welding skills during a class at the Ironworkers Local 549 training facility in Wheeling, West Virginia (Jason Cohn/Courtesy Reuters).
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for Edward Alden Renewing America

May 8, 2014

Education
How to Fill the Skills Gap: Bring Back Apprenticeships

This is a guest post by Robert Maxim, research associate, competitiveness and foreign policy, for the Council on Foreign Relations studies program. Manufacturing is growing in the United States, but…

Yaun Smith, a senior, talks about his class's assembly line to make a s’more as a class project as part of the Project Lead the Way class at Bradley Tech High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Darren Hauck/Courtesy Reuters).
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for Edward Alden Renewing America

February 26, 2014

Trade
After Two Decades, American Trade May Finally Get a Needed Upgrade

This is a guest post by Robert Maxim, research associate, competitiveness and foreign policy, for the Council on Foreign Relations Studies program. In 1989 the government of Singapore launched an in…

China Shipping containers lie on the dock after being imported to the U.S. in Los Angeles (Lucy Nicholson/Courtesy Reuters).
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for Edward Alden Renewing America

December 9, 2013

Infrastructure
Why We Don't Have the Aviation Infrastructure We Need...and What to Do About It

The following post was written by Greg Principato, who was President of Airports Council International--North America, the trade association representing U.S. and Canadian airports, from 2005-2013. H…

An American Airlines jet passes the air traffic control tower on the runway at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), California (Patrick T. Fallon/Courtesy Reuters).
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for Edward Alden Renewing America

October 18, 2013

Trade
Washington’s Gridlock and Foreign Investment

Thilo Hanemann is Research Director at the Rhodium Group, an economic research firm based in New York. Jacob Kirkegaard is leader of Rhodium Group’s advanced economies practice and a senior fellow at…

A 100 yuan banknote is placed next to $100 banknotes (Petar Kujundzic/Courtesy Reuters).
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for Edward Alden Renewing America