Milken Institute looked at both the policy
report, "Jobs for America: Investments and
tiveness." To track what policy changes could
do in the medium to longterm, we esti
mated the impact of reducing corporate tax
rates, increasing the R&D tax credit (and
making it permanent), and modernizing ex
port controls on strategically sensitive prod
ucts. For more immediate job growth, we
looked to additional infrastructure invest
ments (some $426 billion worth of them), in
cluding hottopic initiatives in nuclear energy,
systems, and oil and natural gas drilling.
infrastructure. The report and an interactive
data summary, including a calendar where
investment design, can be found at www.
milkeninstitute.org/jobsforamerica.
group of economists, energy policy specialists,
private and public electric utility operators,
investment bankers, real estate developers
and regulators to analyze what needs to be
done to renovate the U.S. electricity grid. Spe
cifically, this latest in a series of Milken Insti
tute Financial Innovations Labs tackled the
question of upgrading the patchwork system
on which the nation's commerce, security and
health depend. The group concluded that suc
cess was within reach but only if policy goals
were aligned with financial incentives. The
lab's analysis and recommendations have
been published in "Innovations for Infra
structure Finance: The Grid, Renewables and
Beyond," available at www.milkeninstitute.org.
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