Global warming, terrorism, growing inequality and the loss of middle-class jobs, inter-generational poverty. What’s your issue? Is there a way to work together on the range of key issues or is our attention to limited? Part of the broader context for building leadership in communities is to build a foundation for tackling larger national issues, too.
Learn more:
- Climate Change
— NASA’s summary of the evidence that climate change is real
— Climate Panel Cites Near Certainty on Warming – New York Times, Aug. 20, 2013
— What You Can Do (Earth Policy Institute) - The Economy, Growing Inequality, Under- and Unemployment, & Automation
— The typical American family makes less than it did in 1989 – Wash.Post, 9/16/2013
— How Technology Wrecks the Middle Class – New York Times blog, 8/24/13, Autor & Dorn
— For retailers, low wages aren’t working out – Wash. Post, 08/20/2013 – Meyerson - Persistent Inter-generational poverty
— Status of “Dropout factories” and graduation rates
— US poverty on track to rise to highest since 1960s – Assoc. Press, July 2013
— Education Gap Grows Between Rich and Poor, Studies Say – NY Times, 2/10/2012 - A Divided Ungovernable Nation
— What Americans really want from their lawmakers – Pew Research Center, June 2013
— On the Hill, what’s happened to the art of the deal? – Wash. Post, July 2011