Invest In America
America grew up investing in its land and its people. Today, America's challenge is to invest in its future in the midst of an economic crisis. What's needed is long-term thinking. What's needed is big investments for a big country ... like we used to.
Read our report: "The Investment Deficit in America: Yesterday's Achievements, Today's Problems, Tomorrow's Solutions."

Yesterday's achievements included transcontinental railroads and interstate highways. Elementary schools in every town and land grant universities in every state.
The investment paid off. Americans rode those roads and railroads to the pinnacle of the global economy. Kids went to taxpayer-financed elementary school and veterans went to college on the GI bill. They went on to invent computers, cancer therapies and rocket ships.
Now our investments have stopped. Today we cut taxes and sit in traffic. We defund public universities and complain that tuition costs too much. We import everything from oil to solar cells to hybrid motor cars—while the rest of the world pulls ahead in clean energy innovations.
America can do better.
Direct public investment—in new energy and conservation, in modernizing our infrastructure, in education and training, and research and development— is essential for lifting the economy in the short run and for sustaining in the long run a decent society that is competitive in a global economy. This website offers guideposts and debate on recovery and on long-term sustainable growth.
The Latest: Invest in America
What the Future May Hold
- Nov 17, 2009
From The New York Times
What will the United States be like in 20 years when today's toddlers are in college or trying to land that first job or maybe thinking about starting a family? The answer will depend to a great extent on decisions we make now about the American infrastructure. read more » New Unemployment, Old Solutions
By Eric Lotke - Nov 6, 2009

Today’s unemployment data contain gloomy news. Gloomy, but expected. The interpretation of the data is even worse. read more »
The Story Behind The Recovery Numbers
- Nov 3, 2009
From jackandjillpolitics.com
One number — 640,329 — figure represents the number of jobs that have been created or saved so far through the Recovery Act, according to a report released by the Obama administration. But the true significance of this number lies in the people behind it. Their stories show the true return on investment that America’s communities are reaping from Recovery Act funding. read more » The American People: Smarter Than They Look On TV
By Eric Lotke - Oct 13, 2009

New public opinion research by the Economic Policy Institute contains reassuring findings. The American people are smarter than they sometimes look on TV. read more »
Democracy Vs. Capitalism, or, Money Isn't Everything, Part 2
By Natasha Chart - Oct 7, 2009

Yesterday, I looked at what Michael Moore's call for a democratic economy would mean at the national level. Today, I wanted to look at what it means at a smaller scale, at individual workplaces and for the values that each of us carries around. read more »
