They have helped to reenergize and redefine the national policy debate about cities. All three of these groups have done landmark work in promoting the market potential of our distressed neighborhoods. And for our Working Families initiative, we will be partnering with the Progressive Policy Institute. Under the leadership of president Will Marshall, the Progressive Policy Institute has fashioned a thoughtful middle ground on a wide range of issue. As mayors, we know that ideological slogans don't solve problems.
Good ideas do.
The Progressive Policy Institute has produced, I think, some of the best thinking in the country on addressing the urgent challenges of our nation's working families. In these five organizations, we have business leaders and policy experts, Republicans and Democrats, and representatives of every region in this great nation. That is how it should be. Let me say, also, that the timing is right for us to put forth a vigorous agenda on behalf of our cities. First, we are in the early stages of a presidential campaign, only the second one in 32 years in which the incumbent President is not running.