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• My campaign for President of the United States was never just about electing a president. It was about transforming America. As I traveled all across this great country of ours, I had the honor of meeting countless Americans who desperately want an economy that works for the middle class and working families, not just the billionaire class.
• They are fed up with an economy in which CEOs make 300 times more than they do, while 52 percent of all new income goes to the top one percent. They are tired of not being able to afford decent, quality childcare or a college education for their kids. They want policies that create jobs, raise wages, and protect the most vulnerable people in this c...
• In this book, Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs presents a clear explanation of how America can achieve all three critically important goals and create an economy that works for all of us. Jeffrey Sachs is one of the world’s leaders in the field of sustainable development, which takes a serious look at the economic, social, and environmen...
• Trump’s pledge to make America’s infrastructure “second to none” is a correct and bold goal, for America’s competitiveness, future job creation, public health, and wellbeing. Yet as I will explain in this book, America today is
• certainly no longer “second to none.” On a recent Sustainable Development Goals Index, the United States ranked twenty-second out of thirty-four high-income countries. For Americans returning from foreign travel, the well-known sign that they’ve touched down at home is that the elevators, escalators, and moving walkways of our once-proud airports a...