The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 122 - John C. Austin
How do we tackle the problem of immigration? John C. Austin, a fellow at the Brookings Institute, has co-authored a plan featuring logical, common-sense steps we can take to fix a broken system.
How do we tackle the problem of immigration? John C. Austin, a fellow at the Brookings Institute, has co-authored a plan featuring logical, common-sense steps we can take to fix a broken system.
Here's the article on immigration reform written by John and Steve Tobocman from Time magazine:
John C. Austin
John Austin directs the Michigan Economic Center a center for ideas and network-building to advance Michigan’s economic transformation. As a Non-Resident Senior Fellow with the Brookings Institution, the Chicago Council of Global Affairs, and the W.E. Upjohn Institute he leads these institutions' work in support of transforming the Great Lakes/Midwest economy.
In 2020 he organized the Transforming Industrial Heartland Regions Initiative—pulling together the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Georgetown University’s BMW Center for German and European Studies, the University of Manchester, the Ruhr-Konferenz, the Consulate General of the Germany in Chicago, and the European Commission’s Directorate of Regional and Urban Policy in a transatlantic alliance to advance policies, practices, and strategies that foster economic development in industrial heartland regions and diminish support for the polarizing populist and anti-democratic movements threatening Western democracies.
With international security expert Elaine Dezenski Austin developed the concept of “ally-shoring” as the best response to COVID-19 disrupted supply chains, and as a potent strategy to meet multiple economic, foreign policy and national security goals. Aided by explication in Foreign Policy Magazine, The National Interest, Bloomberg Magazine, and Brookings Institution, ally-shoring has taken root, embraced by the Biden Administration.
In 2020 the Chicago Council on Global Affairs released Austin’s report A Global Midwest: The Path to New Prosperity, which provides an updated… Read More
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