Renewing America: Gus Speth on the New Economy
With a struggling economy, the U.S. unemployment rate remains high. The gap between the nation’s rich and poor is getting wider. American public schools are failing to provide our country’s children a good education. And the partisan warfare in Washington has led to a political gridlock that has made it even more difficult for our government to tackle national problems.
The present looks bleak, but the future is bright if we are prepared to work for it, argues Gus Speth, author of America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy. Earlier this week, the World Affairs Council invited Speth, Professor at Vermont Law School and Senior Fellow of the United Nations Association, to discuss his ideas on what can be done to get America back on track after “a bad case of ‘system failure’.”
Speth highlights key points, four imperatives, from his book on how we need to change our present; in order to better our future, it is up to the American people to exercise their freedoms and democracy effectively. He then considers America’s role in the world before participating in a Q&A with Charles L. Frankel, a Trustee of World Affairs Council of Northern California.
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