"As Millennials become an increasingly large share of the adult population and gather more and more wealth, the generation's size and unity of belief will cause seismic shifts in the nation's financial sector," writes senior fellow Morley Winograd in a new study he co-authored with Michael Hais. Titled "How Millennials Could Upend Wall Street and Corporate America", the paper was published by The Brookings Institution and featured in The Wall Street Journal. Drawing from many different surveys and analyses, Winograd and Hais paint a picture of the generational changes that are gradually shaping America's future: "By 2020, Millennials will comprise……
Month: May 2014
Study: Millennials Poised to Shake Up Corporate America
The Wall Street Journal featured senior fellow Morley Winograd's new study on millenials. "As Millennials become an increasingly large share of the adult population and gather more and more wealth, the generation's size and unity of belief will cause seismic shifts in the nation's financial sector," writes Winograd and his colleague Michael Hais…….
Making college tuition free: Senior fellow Morley Winograd leads national campaign
"It's time to make tuition at our public colleges and universities free and it can be done without increasing the national debt," writes senior fellow Morley Winograd. To make this dream a reality, he founded the nonprofit Redeeming America's Promise (RAP), a national campaign and inter-generational alliance dedicated to making college accessible to all Americans. The RAP website recounts how the organization began: "RAP evolved from discussions that started in in 2013 among a group of former elected officials and policy experts, who wanted to make one more contribution to America's future in their retirement years. As we were coming……
Geneva Overholser: An Early Read on Baquet as New York Times Leader
This guest post was written by senior fellow Geneva Overholser. Read her personal blog at GenevaOverholser.com. In the swirl of the Jill Abramson firing, a couple of things being said about the new executive editor, Dean Baquet, didn't sync with my impression of him. I looked back at this video of a forum I hosted at USC Annenberg with Baquet when he had just become managing editor of The New York Times, and saw why. What I had found most worrisome was Glenn Greenwald's charge that Baquet has "a really disturbing history of practicing this form of journalism that……
Video: Geneva Overholser discusses Open Journalism
Senior fellow Geneva Overholser discusses open journalism in this video interview. She moderated OSCE's May 5 event in Vienna, Open Journalism and the Open Road Ahead…….
Informal diplomacy can bring results, Cowan explains at Central European University in Budapest
CCLP director Geoffrey Cowan gave a talk at Central European University in Budapest on May 21 to discuss the famous "shirt-sleeves" summit at Sunnylands between US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping, highlighting the diplomatic power of such informal meetings. Photo by CEU/Daniel Vegel. "Although the meeting between Obama and Jinping was not official, they did come to an important environmental agreement to phase out harmful hydrofluorocarbons (greenhouse gases)," reports CEU. "There's something about the importance of this kind of informal meeting and maybe we don't do enough of it," said Cowan. "It's the 'gift of time' -……
West Antarctic ice collapse ‘could drown Middle East and Asia crops’
The Guardian quotes senior fellow Dan Glickman in an article on climate change. ""Agriculture is a huge world-wide industry that requires stable weather, 'or else', and we might just be entering the 'or else' period," Dan Glickman, agriculture secretary under Bill Clinton and a co-chairman of the conference, told The Guardian."……
Independent Journalism in the US and China: From The Pentagon Papers to the Era of Snowden
CCLP director Geoffrey Cowan gave a presentation at Central European University in Budapest on May 20: "Independent Journalism in the US and China: From The Pentagon Papers to the Era of Snowden"…….
Wichita State libraries to feature professional papers of former Congressman Dan Glickman
Wichita Business Journal: Wichita State libraries to feature professional papers of former Congressman (and CCLP senior fellow) Dan Glickman…….
Senior fellow Dan Glickman quoted in article about President Obama’s Feed the Future Initiative
USAID quotes senior fellow Dan Glickman in today's press release, "USAID Unveils Results for President Obama's Feed the Future Initiative to Reduce Global Hunger and Poverty"…….