Download or read book The Bipartisan Policy Guide written by Luke Lorenz and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bipartisan Policy Guide provides real solutions to the issues that affect us all. When Americans have a firm understanding of the actual policies that directly impact their lives, they can rise above the current state of political dysfunction and become effective voters, activists, community leaders, and candidates for elected office. This book seeks to create an informed and empowered electorate by equipping every voter with the information that they need to become true policy experts. By explaining complex issues with clarity, brevity, and accuracy, The Bipartisan Policy Guide provides a manual for voters to easily familiarize themselves with the policies that interest or concern them. It also provides a comprehensive list of bipartisan solutions to America¿s greatest challenges which could serve as the common ground needed for voters and elected officials to come together in shared purpose. This book addresses a wide-ranging list of issues including workforce development and education, apprenticeship programs, overcoming the nursing gap, better utilization of community colleges, infrastructure development, creating a national infrastructure bank, expanding the TIFIA loan program, bringing back Build America Bonds, utilizing effective public-private partnerships, increasing the use of effective asset inventories, advanced manufacturing and innovation, expanding the Manufacturing USA program, overcoming the manufacturing skills gap, entrepreneurship and small business development, reauthorizing the state small business credit initiative, creating local innovation hubs, increasing American exports, better trade policies, properly funding the office of the United States Trade Representative and the International Trade Commission, expanding the role of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, dealing with currency manipulation, reducing government waste, reducing corrections spending, implementing bipartisan criminal justice reform, safeguarding social security and Medicare, addressing the use of continuing resolutions, upgrading the Foreign Agents Registration Act, upgrading America¿s voting systems, addressing gerrymandering, implementing bipartisan campaign finance reform, creating continuity in foreign policy, forging a new emphasis on national unity, and much more.