The Hub for Growth is dedicated to advancing the politics and policies that emerge from middle-out economics. In sharp contrast to the trickle-down philosophies that have dominated our , middle-out economics is a new way of thinking about and litigating the causes of increasing prosperity in a modern market economy — one specifically centered on the basic fact that a thriving middle class is the cause of economic growth. President Biden has centered his economic vision on middle-out economics and implemented a host of significant and successful policies built on a middle-out understanding of economic cause and effect. Abundant empirical evidence shows these policies are working — the US has recovered faster from the economic shock of COVID than our international peers, unemployment is at record lows, inflation has cooled dramatically in a time of robust economic growth, and new manufacturing investments come online almost daily.
We are living through a paradigm shift away from neoliberalism, and it is clear that middle-out economics is what’s next. The economic results of the past few years make it plain that this new approach — putting a strong middle class at the center of economic policymaking — has been remarkably successful. Jobs are being created at a remarkable clip, wages are up, GDP growth is strong, and we’re investing in America again.
However, the economy has been rigged against hardworking Americans for so long that it will take time for the results of this new understanding to break through and be recognized. And it won’t happen on its own. While conventional neoliberal ways of thinking about economics have finally lost sway in policymaking circles, the old fashioned trickle-down approach continues to cast a long shadow in media and public understandings of who gets what and why.
The Hub for Growth is dedicated to the work of expanding the middle out policymaking revolution into a permanent political paradigm shift.
Elections are won and lost on the economy. By developing and distributing strategic poll-tested narrative advice on winning the economic debate, the Hub for Growth shows how middle-out economics is good policy, good politics, and the way to win.
