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...take a careful look at how jobs are created - and what sorts of jobs Americans want to do. The most likely sources of job growth in the next few years are going to be confined to health care, education and restaurant/hospitality services. But we can't nurse, teach and barista our way to real national power. Service jobs alone can't support growth and innovation - which will be essential as we struggle to pay off a historic national debt and fund the retirement of the baby boomers. So in addition to a retraining push, a sensible set of policies would...
...Steve Williams, executive editor for the BBC’s Asia Pacific channels. In addition, Daniel Okrent, the first public editor of the New York Times, will be serving as the visiting Edward R. Murrow lecturer. Okrent, previously a Shorenstein fellow and an associate with the center, will teach a class on writing and reporting politics. Alex S. Jones, director of the center, said he thought this year’s class of fellows was particularly well-suited to address the polarized nature of modern political discourse. “We’re in an even more partisan, poisonous...
...school, and they're not in a position now where it's easy for them to necessarily to get placed in these law firms, making $150,000 a year, so you're starting to see more of them now interested potentially in working in public service, working in government, Teach for America - those kinds of options suddenly look a lot more attractive. So I think that the trend will change in the years to come...
...speaking of Teach for America, those applications are up. All of the AmeriCorps programs, those applications...
...through this administration and many of the initiatives that we've taking on, in addition to national service - like the President said, the garden is about that individual power; that at the end - we need strong health care reform measures, we need government to act - but how we teach and how we feed our children is a very individual power. But you have to be informed, you have to have choices, you have to have access to food...