Al Gore has a big new book, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change. In it, he seeks to answer the question, ‘What are the drivers of global change?’ Through an at-times dizzying and often sobering ride through a complex array of issues, he tells us that the answer lies in the outcome of ‘a contest between […]
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Ann O’Leary, Sarah Jane Glynn and I have updated our policy agenda for how to create economic security for today’s families: In October 2009 the Center for American Progress teamed up with then-First Lady of California Maria Shriver to release The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything. A Woman’s Nation provided a comprehensive look at how our […]
My colleague Sarah Jane Glynn and I got to write this piece for a great blog, Spotlight on Poverty: Ensuring Low-Wage Workers Also “Benefit” from Benefits. We argue that all workers — even those who aren’t at the top of the wage scale — deserve access to family friendly policies like family and medical leave. Happy […]
New piece in The Atlantic: “We believe that America’s prosperity must rest upon the broad shoulders of a rising middle class,” President Barack Obama said in his second inaugural address Monday in Washington, D.C. It sounds like a remarkable, even wishy-washy, bromide. In fact, it’s the backbone of a bold and somewhat revolutionary new economic […]
Heather Boushey 