"Welcome to France, Heroes"; Bipartisan support for America's secret sauce: high-skilled immigration; Operation Warp Speed for rare diseases; McRaven on American goodness
Emmanuel Macron: “Welcome to France, Heroes.”
Economic Innovation Group: Clear bipartisan support for America’s secret sauce and super-power, high-skilled immigration.
Three-quarters of American voters support increasing high-skilled immigration (HSI), with widespread approval across the entire political spectrum and in every presidential swing state. That’s according to a new national survey for the Economic Innovation Group, conducted by Echelon Insights…. Immigration remains one of the most contentious topics in American politics, but voters are in sweeping agreement about the benefits of high-skilled immigration specifically.
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Support for HSI is overwhelmingly bipartisan: 71 percent of voters who plan to support President Trump in November and 86 percent of those who plan to vote for President Biden favor increasing HSI.
More than two-thirds of voters in every swing state (Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) support increasing HSI.
Voters overwhelmingly see the economic and competitive advantages of HSI; 70 percent say it benefits the U.S. economy.
STAT: Operation Warp Speed but for rare disease
From STAT’s Jason Mast: The FDA said last week that it had selected the first participants in a program that top official Peter Marks once billed as an Operation Warp Speed for rare disease. The agency didn’t disclose which groups were picked, but a couple companies disclosed their involvement Monday morning, including Denali Therapeutics and Neurogene.
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Rather than massive infusions of cash, companies will receive the ability to communicate with regulators more easily, so they can get better advice as they design studies and push toward approval. To be selected, sponsors had to be in clinical trials with either a gene or cell therapy or a more conventional drug focused on neurodegeneration.
Adm. (R) Bill McRaven, Washington Post: How do we want America to be?
Abraham Lincoln once said, “My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of Earth.” It is up to us — all of us — to decide whether this is that place and time. Whether this is where we stand together and show the world that we can rise above, that we are exceptional, that my mother was right — that our goodness can transcend our hatreds and bring us together even in the most challenging of times.