Alyssa Brown

Jan 7, 2025 | progressivepolicy.org | Alyssa Brown

The Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) submits these comments in response to the Request for Information (RFI) issued by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) on October 24, 2024, in docket number ATR 103. The RFI seeks information on the “state of competition” in the air transportation industry. PPI’s comments address specific questions in the RFI that relate to markets for passenger air service (“passenger service”).

Dec 10, 2024 | progressivepolicy.org | Alyssa Brown

Rethinking Antitrust Podcast: Diana Moss’s Recommendations for a Centrist, Consumer-Based Antitrust Agenda Diana Moss has spent the last 25 years advocating for a centrist, consumer- and economics-based antitrust policy.

Nov 1, 2024 | progressivepolicy.org | Tressa Pankovits |Joe Nathan |Alyssa Brown

By Tressa Pankovits and Joe NathanBy this stage of the election, it’s difficult to find something to write about the candidates for president and vice president that hasn’t been repeated dozens of times, but here’s one. Conventional wisdom has it that because Kamala Harris and her running mate have courted the teachers unions, they believe that charter schools are the enemy. Maybe there’s hope that they don’t.

Oct 31, 2024 | progressivepolicy.org | Alyssa Brown

A core component of the Trump campaign’s pitch to working Americans is a package of costly tax cuts that sound targeted toward their interests, such as exempting income from tips and overtime pay from taxation. But amongst the many problems with these budget-busting proposals, they wouldn’t meaningfully increase the take-home pay of the many working-class individuals, who have little to no income tax liabilities at all.

Oct 26, 2024 | scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Alyssa Brown |Jenet Erickson |Brigham Young

Keywordsratification, convention, rights of the child, parent-child relationshipCollegeFamily, Home, and Social SciencesAbstractThe Convention on the Rights of the Child is a United Nations treaty declaring the government’s duty to protect children and to provide for their material and immaterial needs, essentially seeking to protect children’s rights. On a worldwide scale this treaty has been greeted with open arms as it has been ratified by 193 UN States Parties.