{"id":18530,"date":"2025-01-29T13:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T12:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.progressives-zentrum.org\/en\/?post_type=publication&#038;p=18530"},"modified":"2025-10-29T14:21:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:21:05","slug":"before-the-election-insights","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/www.progressives-zentrum.org\/en\/publication\/before-the-election-insights\/","title":{"rendered":"Before the Election: Insights from the US Industrial Heartlands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:75%\">\n<p>Four weeks prior to the US presidential election, we visited the crucial electoral battlegrounds in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan together with the fellows of our Industrial Heartlands project. In this episode, the two working group leads <a href=\"https:\/\/www.industrial-heartlands.com\/team\/colleen-dougherty\/\">Colleen Dougherty<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.industrial-heartlands.com\/team\/friedrich-opitz\/\">Friedrich Opitz<\/a> talk with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.progressivepolicy.org\/people\/neel-brown-2\/\">Neel Brown<\/a>, Managing Director of the Progressive Policy Institute, about the remarkable efforts to revitalize these once-thriving centers of industrial manufacturing but also point out the remaining challenges that became apparent both during the study tour and in the election results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"BorlabsCookie _brlbs-cb-default\"><div class=\"_brlbs-content-blocker\"> <div class=\"_brlbs-default\"> <p>Click on the button to load the content from open.spotify.com.<\/p> <p><a class=\"_brlbs-btn\" href=\"#\" data-borlabs-cookie-unblock role=\"button\">Load content<\/a><\/p> <\/div> <\/div><div class=\"borlabs-hide\" data-borlabs-cookie-type=\"content-blocker\" data-borlabs-cookie-id=\"default\"><script type=\"text\/template\">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<\/script><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This episode was produced by <strong>The Progressive Policy Institute<\/strong> in the context of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.industrial-heartlands.com\/\">Transatlantic Dialogue on the Industrial Heartlands: Shaping the Future<\/a> project. 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