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 .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.

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Madeleine K. Albright Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. James Manyika Michael Spence Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group President, Purdue University Director, McKinsey Global Institute William R. Berkley Professor in Economics & Business, Former Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State Former Governor, State of Indiana Leonard N. Stern School of Business, NYU Andrew McAfee Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations Zoë Baird James X. Dempsey Associate Director and Principal Research Scientist, CEO and President, Markle Executive Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology Center for Digital Business, MIT Roy Spence Co-chair, Markle Economic Future Initiative Co-Founder and Chairman, GSD&M Esther Dyson Michael J. McCloskey Co-Founder & CEO, The Purpose Institute Carl Bass Chairman, EDventure Holdings Co-Founder and CEO, Select Milk Producers President and Chief Executive Officer, Autodesk General Manager and Partner, Fair Oaks Dairy Farms Robert K. Steel John Engler Chief Executive Officer, Perella Weinberg Partners Marc Benioff President, Business Roundtable Kenneth B. Mehlman Chairman and CEO, salesforce.com Former Governor, State of Michigan Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Former Chairman, Republican National Committee James B. Steinberg Dean, Maxwell School, Syracuse University Laszlo Bock Michèle A. Flournoy Cheryl Mills Former Deputy Secretary of State, U.S. Senior Vice President, People Operations, Google CEO, Center for a New American Security Department of State Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, USDOD CEO, BlackIvy Group Former Counselor & Chief of Staff, U.S. Dept. of State Cory A. Booker Dorothy Stoneman Member, United States Senate Antonia Hernández CEO and Founder, YouthBuild USA Former Mayor, City of Newark President and CEO, Community Foundation Craig Mundie Senior Advisor to the CEO, Microsoft Ashley Swearengin John M. Bridgeland Joichi Ito Mayor, City of Fresno CEO, Civic Enterprises Director, The Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Gavin Newsom Technology Lieutenant Governor, State of California Former Director, White House Domestic Policy Council Dan Wagner Former Mayor, City of CEO and Founder, Civis Analytics Shirley Ann Jackson Arthur C. Brooks Former Chief Analytics Officer, Obama for America President, American Enterprise Institute President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Tim O’Reilly Founder and CEO, O’Reilly Media Jeff Weiner Leila Janah John Seely Brown Chief Executive Officer, LinkedIn Visiting Scholar and Advisor to the Provost, University of Founder and CEO, Sama Group L. Rafael Reif Southern California President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Devin Wenig Independent Co-Chairman, Deloitte’s Center for the Edge Lewis B. Kaden (Ex Officio) President of Global Marketplaces, eBay Chairman, Markle Board of Directors Walter Robb Erik Brynjolfsson Former Vice Chairman, Citigroup Co-CEO, Whole Foods Market Dave Wirtschafter Schussel Family Professor of Management Science, Board Member, WME Entertainment Professor of Information Technology, and Director of David Kirkpatrick Howard Schultz Center for Digital Business, MIT Founder, Host, and CEO, Techonomy chairman, president and ceo, Starbucks Philip D. Zelikow Former Senior Editor, Fortune Magazine Sheila P. Burke Co-chair, Markle Economic Future Initiative Visiting Managing Director, Markle Strategic Advisor, Baker Donelson White Burkett Miller Professor of History, University of Nancy F. Koehn Senior Research Fellow and Member of the Faculty, John F. Clara Shih Virginia Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, CEO, Hearsay Social Harvard Business School Robert B. Zoellick Calvin O. Butts, III Elizabeth H. Shuler Chairman, Board of International Advisors, Michael O. Leavitt Pastor, The Abyssinian Baptist Church of New York City Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO Goldman Sachs Chairman, Leavitt Partners President, State University of New York College Former President, World Bank Former Governor, State of Utah at Old Westbury Matthew Slaughter Dean, Dartmouth Tuck School of Business Alfred Zollar Tara Lemmey Geoffrey Canada Former Member, President’s Council of Economic Executive Partner, Siris Capital Group, LLC President, Harlem Children’s Zone CEO, LENS Advisers

Michael M. Crow Gilman Louie President, Partner, Alsop Louie Partners Member, Markle Board of Directors

Experts

Whit Ayres Aneesh Chopra Jeff Jonas Michael Mandel Founder & President, North Star Opinion Research Co-Founder and Executive Vice President, Hunch IBM Fellow and Chief Economic Strategist, Progressive Policy Institute Analytics Chief Scientist of Context Computing Mike Berland Former Chief Technology Officer of the United States Doug Sosnik CEO, Edelman Berland Daphne Kis Consultant Ping Fu Principal, DKE Senior Advisor, Markle Brian Bieron VP and Chief Strategy Officer, 3D Systems Corporation Managing Director, Golden Seeds Senior Director, U.S. Government Relations and Global Stefaan Verhulst Policy, eBay Inc Gary Horlick Vivek Kundra Chief Research and Development Officer, Governance International Trade Attorney Executive Vice President, Industries, salesforce.com Lab @ NYU Allen Blue Professor of Law, Georgetown University Former CIO of the United States Senior Advisor, Markle Vice President Product Management and Co-Founder, LinkedIn Louis Hyman Michael Levi Assistant Professor, Cornell University, ILR School David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Wendy Cebula Environment and Director of the Program on Energy President and COO, edX J. Bradford Jensen Security and Climate Change, Council on Foreign Relations Professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown Pablo Chavez University Vice President, Global Public Policy and Government Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics Amy Liu Affairs, LinkedIn Senior Fellow, Co-Director, and Co-Founder, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution

Former Members Who Left for Federal Appointments

Ashton B. Carter Julián Castro Secretary, U.S. Department of Defense Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Senior Executive, Markle Foundation Development Former Senior Partner, Global Technology Partners Former Mayor, City of San Antonio