opportunity

Commonweal Institute Senior Fellow Patrick O'Heffernan interviews Alan Jenkins, Director of the Opportunity Agenda, and Nancy Cleeland, Director of External Affairs at the Economic Policy Institute, about the relationship between expanding opportunity for all Americans and achieving an economic goal of broadly shared prosperity. From the new book from the Progressive Ideas Network, Thinking Big: Progressive Ideas for a New Era.

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Defining the values that underlie and unite progressives became an urgent question in the early 21st Century. Progressives came to recognize that, to a great degree, our political choices emerge from our sense of cultural identity and our emotional responses to stories and images, not from ‘rational’ cost-benefit analyses.

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