How do we keep growing not just our economy but growing our middle class?
As journalists, we distance ourselves from our subjects to avoid biases and to maintain objectiveness, but the focus of our class is centered on narrative journalism, which allows the reporter to establish a closer relationship with the people we interview.
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And so what you had was a situation in which the very top was getting very wealthy, but the middle class, which is the beating heart of our economy, and those aspiring to get into the middle class, were finding it harder and harder to get ahead.
"We have some way to go to match the public and private investment levels in research and development of some of our competitor economies but we have the advantage of already being truly world class in many areas of science, " he said.
So a lot of folks felt like that idea that we not only could live a good middle-class life, but more importantly we could pass it on to our kids, and they could succeed the way we might not have imagined.
After many meetings, strained nerves, research and late or sleepless nights, the opportunity came when, on behalf of our group, I petitioned our school board to not only fully renovate our building, but enhance it with a Career Technology wing and a first class auditorium.
Many of these international students come to our country in search of not only a world-class education, but also to find a career where they can apply their skills and experiences within the U.S. Many firms are in need of the skills and talents these international students possess.
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But above all, extending opportunity means liberating the potential of our young people, with world-class education at every level.
But it might, because so many of our billionaires, having been raised in comfortable middle-class families, are so annoyingly anodyne.
In our hearts we know we need a change in our educational system that goes deeper than new reading programs or smaller class sizes, but we can't imagine what that should look like or how it should work, and frankly, we're scared.
He is willing to make hard choices, however, but he will make hard choices that make sense for the economy and for our seniors and our middle class and our students and families with disabled children.
Startup time and disc load times are comparable to most dedicated home Blu-ray players -- certainly not best in class, but passable -- and we couldn't get the player to skip despite our best efforts.
But what we should not do is take action that does harm to our economy, does harm to our middle class, does harm to our seniors and only does well by the well-off and well-connected in order to address a deficit challenge that can be addressed appropriately in a balanced way that grows the economy, helps the middle class, and protects our seniors.
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