--- description: John Austin directs the Michigan Economic Center and is a nonresident senior fellow at Brookings Institution. title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # John Austin ## John Austin Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close _John Austin directs the Michigan Economic Center and is a nonresident senior fellow at Brookings Institution_. ## John Austin Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * ![A graph arrow going down with the Chinese flag in it and a graph arrow going up with the american flag in it](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfce7b8f714610e72/698a553bb21a9c5071509d15/china-us-ecomony.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1) Mar 29, 2024 ### [Why the U.S. Economy Is Surging, as China's Stumbles](https://time.com/6961199/us-china-economy/) Gone are the days when it was an established fact that China would one day surpass the U.S., economi... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) * ![U.S. President Joe Biden walks along the U.S.-Mexico border fence in El Paso, Texas, on Jan. 8, 2023 for the first time since taking office. This entry point is at the center of debates over illegal immigration and smuggling.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta074b8f6cbd76b9b/698a3a26cabb1d4cc4e51207/Biden-Immigration-El-Paso-Border-2023.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1) Feb 7, 2023 ### [7 Things That Would Fix Immigration in the U.S.](https://time.com/6253531/how-to-fix-immigration-us/) Democrats need to go on offense to win on immigration, write John Austin and Steve Tobocman. [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/john-austin/","name":"John Austin"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/john-austin/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/john-austin/"},"name":"John Austin","jobTitle":null,"description":"John Austin directs the Michigan Economic Center and is a nonresident senior fellow at Brookings Institution.","url":"https://time.com/author/john-austin/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```