Starbucks now spends more on health care than it does on coffee beans.

Prior to the founding of PPI Marshall was variously a speechwriter for Lieutenant Governor Dick Davis of Virginia Governor Jim Hunt of North Carolina and Representative Gillis Long of Louisiana. Since its founding in 1989 he has been president of the Progressive Policy Institute a think tank affiliated with the Democratic Leadership Council. "
He writes frequently on political and public policy matters especially the "Politics of Ideas" column in Blueprint the DLC's magazine.