America 2021: Jobs and the Economy

Heather Boushey participates in a roundtable discussion on policies we must put in place now and in the coming years to make sure America will be healthy and prosperous again by 2021.

What will America’s economy look like in 10 years? Will the jobs that we lost come back? And what policies must we put in place now and in the coming years to make sure America will be healthy and prosperous again by 2021?

“America 2021” is a series that we began in our Summer 2010 issue. The idea is to bring together some of our brightest progressive minds to discuss what our country might look like roughly a decade from now.

For this edition, we take a look at jobs and the economy. We brought together five distinguished experts–Robert Atkinson, Heather Boushey, Harry J. Holzer, Thea M. Lee, and Sherle R. Schwenninger–to debate the big picture. E.J. Dionne Jr., Democracy’s editorial chair, moderated the discussion. Editors Michael Tomasky and Elbert Ventura also participated.

The above excerpt was originally published in Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. Click here to view the full article.

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