New NIFI Issue Guide: Making Ends Meet
This new issue guide titled Making Ends Meet: How Should We Spread Prosperity and Improve Opportunity? from the Kettering Foundation and the National Issues Forums Institute (NIFI) is available as a free download. The guide will be the focus framework for a national deliberation between January and May, 2016. Results of the deliberation will be reported to policy makers and elected officials in Washington, DC. on May 5, 2016.
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For many Americans, the recovery from the 2007 recession, a recovery that officially began in 2009, feels very remote, or nonexistent. Even as the stock market surges and millions of jobs have been created, they see a very different picture. Many Americans still believe in the basic notion that anyone who works hard should be able to support a family and get ahead. What can we do to make that happen?