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Raising the Floor: How a Universal Basic Income Can Renew Our Economy and Rebuild the American Dream

AUTHOR Stern, Andy; Sorensen, Chris; Kravitz, Lee
PUBLISHER Tantor Audio (03/28/2017)
PRODUCT TYPE Audio (Compact Disc)

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Andy Stern, the former president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), spent four years traveling the country and asking economists, futurists, labor leaders, CEOs, investment bankers, entrepreneurs, and political leaders to help picture the U.S. economy twenty-five to thirty years from now. He vividly reports on people who are analyzing and creating this new economy--such as investment banker Steve Berkenfeld; David Cote, the CEO of Honeywell International; and Andy Grove of Intel. Through these stories, we come to a stark and deeper understanding of the toll technological progress will continue to take on jobs and income and its inevitable effect on tens of millions of people. But there is hope for our economy and future. The foundation of economic prosperity for all Americans, Stern believes, is a universal basic income. The idea of a universal basic income for all Americans is controversial, but American attitudes are shifting. Stern has been a game changer throughout his career, and his next goal is to create a movement that will force the political establishment to take action against something that many on both the right and the left believe is inevitable.
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ISBN-13: 9781665287104
ISBN-10: 1665287101
Binding: CD-Audio (CD Standard Audio Format)
Content Language: English
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Carton Quantity: 50
Feature Codes: Unabridged
Country of Origin: US
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Business & Economics | Economic Conditions
Business & Economics | Labor - General
Business & Economics | Public Policy - Economic Policy
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Andy Stern, the former president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), spent four years traveling the country and asking economists, futurists, labor leaders, CEOs, investment bankers, entrepreneurs, and political leaders to help picture the U.S. economy twenty-five to thirty years from now. He vividly reports on people who are analyzing and creating this new economy--such as investment banker Steve Berkenfeld; David Cote, the CEO of Honeywell International; and Andy Grove of Intel. Through these stories, we come to a stark and deeper understanding of the toll technological progress will continue to take on jobs and income and its inevitable effect on tens of millions of people. But there is hope for our economy and future. The foundation of economic prosperity for all Americans, Stern believes, is a universal basic income. The idea of a universal basic income for all Americans is controversial, but American attitudes are shifting. Stern has been a game changer throughout his career, and his next goal is to create a movement that will force the political establishment to take action against something that many on both the right and the left believe is inevitable.
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Read by: Sorensen, Chris
Chris Sorensen is the AudioFile Earphones Award winning narrator of Brian Lies "Bats at the Beach", Colum McCann s "Let the Great World Spin", and Margaret Peterson Haddix s "Sent". Other narrations include Patricia Wood s "Lottery "and Jodi Picoult s "Songs of the Humpback Whale", among many others.
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