It Is Time for a New Conversation About America's Economic Future. It Is Time
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It is time for a new conversation about America’s economic future. It is time for bold actions that create paths for participation by all Americans. America is in the midst of the greatest economic Together, we are committed to expanding new ways for transformation in a hundred years. Changes brought Americans to prepare for the work of the future. We can about by technology and the networked world are creating connect to opportunity by matching qualified workers tremendous uncertainty and disrupting the dreams of to available jobs. We can recognize skills by developing millions. The defining challenge of our time is making a credentialing system to assess and demonstrate a sure that all Americans are included in the benefits of the worker’s capabilities and true potential, not just the connected age. degrees they’ve earned. And we can support lifelong learning by expanding ways for people to develop the “We have so many tools at our disposal. We are more talent and skills they will need throughout their lives. connected and more networked than ever before. But the only way we can translate that into real success tomorrow “We’re in the middle of an incredible transformation, driven is by starting to rework America today so all Americans by new social, mobile and connected cloud technologies. can have a meaningful place in the new economy.” By embracing these new technologies, we can prepare our - Zoë Baird, CEO and President of the Markle Foundation youth for the jobs of tomorrow, and encourage entrepreneurs to build new companies to propel our economy forward.” To succeed, we need a new vision of a hopeful future and - Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO of salesforce.com a new agenda for action. Rework America, a group of more than fifty leaders from across the nation, is championing We also can expand new ways to spur business growth innovative solutions and embracing new approaches and create meaningful opportunities for work. We can to create paths for good and meaningful work. Led by connect small businesses to a world of customers the Markle Foundation, these leaders asked “what can and increase exports, especially of services, to meet we do today, to make opportunity available to everyone the growing needs of a dynamic and global market of tomorrow?” buyers. We can rethink smart credit and reduce barriers to business growth by expanding access to smarter “We must reimagine the way we teach and use today’s capital and credit through new lending models. And we new tools to design educational platforms that foster can innovate the jobs through the power of information the skills today’s employers say they prize most.” sharing to generate new products and services that create - Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr., President of Purdue University and Former Governor of Indiana more opportunities for middle-skill work. Currently, there is a mismatch between workers and “In order to restore the American dream, in order to bring opportunities. It’s unclear which diplomas or credentials back hope and promise for so many people in this nation, we will be most meaningful in the fast-changing economy. And need strong visionary leadership that is ready to take risks.” businesses don’t know which industries will be created, - Reverend Calvin Butts, III, Pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church of New York City ended, or transformed. It’s time to embrace ideas and and President of the State University of New York College at Old Westbury strategies that will secure our economic future. Amidst the uncertainty of today’s networked world, one Our agenda for actions in communities around the country thing has never been clearer: innovations in work and in will prepare people to succeed by expanding jobs, education and training are essential to helping Americans opportunities, and new career paths; informing workers prepare for the life they want. about the skills employers seek and ways to demonstrate their qualifications; and helping us transition to a no-collar Join the Conversation: www.reworkamerica.org workplace. 10 Rockefeller Plaza, 16th Floor, New York, NY 10020-1903 Phone: 212.713.7600 [email protected] www.markle.org MEMBERS Madeleine K. Albright James X. Dempsey Andrew McAfee Roy Spence Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group Executive Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology Associate Director and Principal Research Scientist, Co-Founder and Chairman, GSD&M Former Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State Center for Digital Business, MIT Co-Founder & CEO, The Purpose Institute Esther Dyson Zoë Baird Chairman, EDventure Holdings Michael J. McCloskey Robert K. Steel CEO and President, Markle Co-Founder and CEO, Select Milk Producers CEO, Perella Weinberg Partners General Manager and Partner, Fair Oaks Dairy Farms John Engler Carl Bass President, Business Roundtable James B. Steinberg President and CEO, Autodesk Former Governor, State of Michigan Kenneth B. Mehlman Dean, Maxwell School, Syracuse University Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Former Deputy Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State Former Chairman, Republican National Committee Marc Benioff Michèle A. Flournoy Chairman and CEO, salesforce.com CEO, Center for a New American Security Dorothy Stoneman Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, USDOD Cheryl Mills CEO and Founder, YouthBuild USA CEO, BlackIvy Group Cory A. Booker Former Counselor & Chief of Staff, U.S. Dept. of State Member, United States Senate Antonia Hernández Ashley Swearengin Former Mayor, City of Newark President and CEO, California Community Foundation Mayor, City of Fresno Craig Mundie Senior Advisor to the CEO, Microsoft John M. Bridgeland Joichi Ito Dan Wagner CEO, Civic Enterprises Director, The Media Lab, MIT CEO and Founder, Civis Analytics Former Director, White House Domestic Policy Council Gavin Newsom Former Chief Analytics Officer, Obama for America Lieutenant Governor, State of California Shirley Ann Jackson Former Mayor, City of San Francisco Arthur C. Brooks President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Jeff Weiner President, American Enterprise Institute CEO, LinkedIn Leila Janah Tim O’Reilly Founder and CEO, O’Reilly Media John Seely Brown Founder and CEO, Sama Group Devin Wenig Visiting Scholar and Advisor to the Provost, University of President of Global Marketplaces, eBay Southern California Lewis B. Kaden (Ex Officio) L. Rafael Reif Independent Co-Chairman, Deloitte’s Center for the Edge President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Chairman, Markle Board of Directors Dave Wirtschafter Former Vice Chairman, Citigroup Board Member, WME Entertainment Erik Brynjolfsson Walter Robb Schussel Family Professor of Management Science, Co-CEO, Whole Foods Market Professor of Information Technology, and Director of Center David Kirkpatrick Philip D. Zelikow for Digital Business, MIT Founder, Host, and CEO, Techonomy Visiting Managing Director, MarkleFormer Executive Former Senior Editor, Fortune Magazine Howard Schultz Director, 9/11 Commission Chairman, President and CEO, Starbucks Sheila P. Burke Strategic Advisor, Baker Donelson Nancy F. Koehn Robert B. Zoellick Chairman, Board of International Advisors, Senior Research Fellow and Member of the Faculty, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, Clara Shih Goldman Sachs John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Harvard Business School CEO, Hearsay Social Former President, World Bank Calvin O. Butts, III Michael O. Leavitt Elizabeth H. Shuler Pastor, The Abyssinian Baptist Church of New York City Founder and Chairman, Leavitt Partners Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO Alfred Zollar Executive Partner, Siris Capital Group, LLC President, State University of New York College Former Governor, State of Utah at Old Westbury Matthew Slaughter Tara Lemmey Dean, Dartmouth Tuck School of Business Geoffrey Canada CEO, LENS Former Member, President’s Council of Economic Advisers President, Harlem Children’s Zone Gilman Louie Michael Spence Michael M. Crow Partner, Alsop Louie Partners William R. Berkley Professor in Economics & Business, President, Arizona State University Member, Markle Board of Directors Leonard N. Stern School of Business, NYU Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, 2001 Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. James Manyika President, Purdue University Director, McKinsey Global Institute Former Governor, State of Indiana EXPERTS Whit Ayres Aneesh Chopra Jeff Jonas Michael Mandel Founder & President, North Star Opinion Research Co-Founder and Executive Vice President, Hunch Analytics IBM Fellow and Chief Scientist of Context Computing Chief Economic Strategist, Progressive Policy Institute Former Chief Technology Officer of the United States Mike Berland Daphne Kis Emily Parker CEO, Edelman Berland Ping Fu Principal, DKE Digital Diplomacy Advisor and Senior Fellow, New America VP and Chief Strategy Officer, 3D Systems Corporation Managing Director, Golden Seeds Foundation Brian Bieron Senior Director, U.S. Government Relations and Global Gary Horlick Vivek Kundra Doug Sosnik Policy, eBay Inc International Trade Attorney Executive Vice President, Industries, salesforce.com Consultant Professor of Law, Georgetown University Former CIO of the United States Senior Advisor, Markle Allen Blue Vice President Product Management and Co-Founder, Louis Hyman Michael Levi Stefaan Verhulst LinkedIn Assistant Professor, Cornell University, ILR School David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Chief Research and Development Officer, Governance Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Lab @ NYU Security and Climate