Westfields Marriott Hotel and Conference Center, Chantilly, VA
January 26-28, 2011

Convened by the Progressive Ideas Network and ProgressiveCongress.org

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Numbers and Sense: Talking About the Economy

The Progressive Ideas Network is proud to have been part of sponsoring a series of research studies analyzing how people understand and make decisions about the economy. These studies have implications for both long-term strategic policy considerations and short-term messaging recommendations.

Collaborators:

 

  • Barry Kendall, Progressive Ideas Network
  • Jenifer Ancona Fernandez, Ancona Strategy 
  • Steven Phillips
  • Andrew Rich, Roosevelt Institute
  • Susan Sandler

Resources
Under the leadership of Anat Shenker-Osorio, communications consultant, this project has produced several valuable resources for members of the community:

"What We'll Buy About the Economy: How Common Simplifying Models Help and Hinder the Case for Economic Policies", an analysis of our language about the economy, with recommendations for ensuring our messaging lines up with and reinforces our desired aims.

"Getting the Story Straight: An Outline for Conveying What Caused the Crisis", a summary of existing research and analysis from leading progressive economists on the factors that precipitated the current recession.

"From What to How: Framing the Economic Situation from a Progressive Perspective", a guide to how we describe what caused the economic crisis in terms that promote the solutions we believe will ameliorate the damage done.

Two "cheat sheets" one on words and ideas to avoid and the other on messaging to embrace in talking about the economic crisis.

 

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Welcome to the Progressive Ideas Network!

  

Ideas hold the unique potential to help unify and empower today's progressive movement, bringing together our leaders, grassroots advocates, communications networks, and supporters around our shared values.

The Progressive Ideas Network is an alliance of the country’s leading think tanks and activist organizations, working together to amplify the power of ideas in advancing today’s progressive movement. We gather to look beyond the short-term interests of our individual institutions to envision how, together, we can work more effectively on behalf of our common goals.

PIN serves its member organizations as a

  • Network Builder
            • Strategic Forum
                      • Collaboration Engine

We believe in the possibilities for bold, transformational change in American society, and our business is to generate the ideas and policies needed to create that change. Our organizations contain hundreds of original thinkers in progressive politics, and our networks reach thousands of talented activists who fight every day for the rights and well-being of millions of Americans. Together, PIN partners are building a policy infrastructure to power a new era in progressive politics.

 

The above includes excerpts from Thinking Big: Progressive Ideas for a New Era, our shared agenda for Congress and the Administration. Click here to learn more.