Banter #343: Isabel Sawhill on The Forgotten Americans
This week on Banter, Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Isabel Sawhill joins the show to discuss her new book \u201cThe Forgotten Americans: An Economic Agenda for a Divided Nation.\u201d The book describes how we can promote work and increase opportunity and economic mobility for working class Americans. Following the book\u2019s publication, Sawhill published an essay describing focus groups she hosted in Syracuse, New York, Greensboro, North Carolina, and St. Louis, Missouri, where she discussed the ideas included in her book. You can read this essay and more at the links below.
\nLearn More:
\nThe Forgotten Americans | Isabel Sawhill | Yale University Press | September 25, 2018
\nWhat the forgotten Americans really want\u2014and how to give it to them | Isabel Sawhill | Brookings | October 2018
\nWork, skills, community: Restoring opportunity for the working class | Robert Doar et al. | AEI, Brookings, and Opportunity America | November 2018
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