Restoration Roundtable


America's Crumbling Foundation And The People Who Might Fix It

Chat with us: How to Save the Middle Class

By Jim Tankersley  //  May 21, 2012 | 3:30 p.m.
The decline of the middle class is a serious and persistent threat to the American economy - on this, the evidence is convincing. We need to arrest that slide. But how? 

That's the subject of a live chat here at the Roundtable at noon on Tuesday, May 22. I'll be joined by two top-notch economists: Heather Boushey of the liberal Center for American Progress, co-author of a new report on why the middle class matters so much for growth, and Kevin Hassett of the conservative American Enterprise Institute (and an adviser to Gov. Mitt Romney's presidential campaign) who made a big splash with a recent op-ed column he co-wrote in the New York Times decrying the "human disaster" of unemployment.

Kevin and Heather will field your questions about what's happened to the middle class and how policymakers can begin to set things right. Please join us and join the conversation.

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About Restoration Calls

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in his first inaugural address, told a country struggling under the weight of the Great Depression that the nation needed to take action to rebuild and rejuvenate itself. He said: "Restoration calls, however, not for changes in ethics alone. This Nation asks for action, and action now." It was a time not unlike our own, where misbehavior on Wall Street fed a widespread credit and confidence crisis that swept like a tornado through the U.S. and global economy. And as in 1933, Washington again faces the time-sensitive task of diagnosing how its institutions are ill-equipped to fix the nation's problems, and then building a new system responsive to America's new needs. This project will tell that story, through the eyes of the Americans affected.

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