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As the new hundred years unfolds, we face a host of monetary and social issues - careers lost to "off shoring," an enormous and growing number of Americans without medical health insurance coverage, an growing gap between abundant and poor, stagnant wages, decaying public universities, and many others. They are difficult and sophisticated problems, but our government's strategy for working with them has been essentially not to offer with them by any means. Again and again, in delicate and not-so-subtle ways, we're advised that we're on our very own - "Here's a tax cut and a private bank account; now go fend yourself." As Jared Bernstein highlights, this process doesn't make any sense as a technique for solving the tremendous systemic problems we face. It's simply a way of shifting monetary risk from those most able to tolerate it - the federal government and the country's corporations - to prospects least able: individuals and households. The result has been higher wealth for the top 1% of People in america and stagnant living criteria and increasing insecurity for a large proportion. In All Together Now, Bernstein outlines a fresh strategy, one that applauds individual effort but recognizes that the issues we face as a nation can be resolved only when we have a more collaborative way. The message is simple: we are all in this along.
