Speaker Series: The Future of the American Dream

The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation Speaker Series
presents

Thursday, December 1, 2011

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A conversation with Deborah Bial, founder of The Posse Foundation, and Bob Herbert, author and Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos.

Moderated by David J. Garrow, Pulitzer Prize winning author and Research Professor of History and Law at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Americans have always believed that hard work and education open the doors to success.  Is the promise still alive for today’s generation of students?

Our Partners:

Participating Colleges and Universities:
Spelman College
Morehouse College
Clark Atlanta University
Oglethorpe University
Agnes Scott College
Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia State University

Resources:

• Demos: The State of Young America
• Center for Civil and Human Rights
• The Posse Foundation
• Atlanta Seedco/EarnBenefits
• Atlanta Seedco/EarnBenefits Video
• Heritage Foundation: Saving the American Dream
• Center for the Study of the American Dream
• A Contract for the American Dream
• Opportunity Index scores for states and counties
• Defending the American Dream Summit
• Opportunity Nation Summit
• Lemonade Stories: Arthur Blank

News:

• Washington Post: A movement to reclaim the American Dream
• The New York Times: California’s Campus Movements Dig In Their Heels
• The New York Times: Nicholas Kristof - Occupy the Agenda
• Opportunity Nation: Put the American Dream Back in Reach
• The New York Times: Older, Suburban and Struggling, ‘Near Poor’ Startle the Census
• The New York Times: Decline of American Exceptionalism
• The New York Times: Middle-Class Areas Shrink as Income Gap Grows, New Report Finds
• Huffington Post: Where is the American Dream Today?
• The New Yorker: Debt by Degrees
• The Atlantic: The End of Chinatown
• CNN's Dr. Fareed Zakaria on the American Dream
• CBS News Sunday Morning: Lending a hand to refugees in America
• Atlanta Daybook Press Release
• Tom Brokaw examines state of the American Dream
• PBS: Deepening the American Dream