When Gene
Sperling was in charge of coordinating economic policy in the Obama White
House, he found himself surprised when serious people in Washington told him
that the Obama focus on healthcare was a distraction because it was “not
focused on the economy.”
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How, he
asked, was the fear felt by millions of Americans of being one serious illness
away from financial ruin not considered an economic issue? Too often, Sperling
found that we measured economic success by metrics like GDP instead of whether
the economy was succeeding in lifting up the sense of meaning, purpose,
fulfillment, and security of people.
“Economic
Dignity” is Sperling's effort to do just that — to frame our thinking about the
way forward in a time of wrenching economic change. His argument combines moral
and intellectual seriousness with actual high-level policy experience. Economic
dignity, Sperling maintains, can be seen as resting on three pillars.
The first:
the capacity to care for family without economic deprivation denying people the
capacity to experience its greatest joys. The second: the right to the pursuit
of potential and purpose, including the right to first and second chances. The
third: economic participation with respect and without domination and
humiliation. All three pillars are rooted in the highest and most noble values
of the American project.
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