An Emerging Pragmatic Caucus of National Leaders?

Bruce Katz, Vice President and Director, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institute, argues that a new cadre of leaders—mayors, governors, academics and business people from around the country—form America’s Pragmatic Caucus. In sharp contrast to Beltway polarization, these bipartisan pioneers—like Michael Nutter in Philadelphia or Ashley Swearingen in Fresno, and the governors of Colorado and Michigan in between—are acting decisively to grow jobs in the near term and retool their metropolitan economies for the long-haul. read more . . .