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Is Social Security going bust?
According to our guest this week economist and author Allison Schrager, no.
Listen to her entire explanation on this week’s episode of What Could Go Right? with hosts TPN founder Zachary Karabell and Emma Varvaloucas 🇺🇸🇬🇷: link.chtbl.com/5J6ba4xN?sid=t…
'My gut rejects this notion that Americans should ever have their privacy violated without a search warrant,' writes TPN member Isaac Saul.
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📚More people in the world over the age of 15 can read than ever before!
📕In 1820, the World Economic Forum estimates that just 12% of the world’s adults could read and write.
📗By 2022, that number has risen to 87%!
via Matthew Kendrick for GZERO Media
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Does the US economy make you feel gloomy?
This week, TPN founder Zachary Karabell and TPN exec. director Emma Varvaloucas 🇺🇸🇬🇷 spoke with economist and author Allison Schrager, about why that is and why she sees things differently.
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'If policymakers want low-carbon, reliable electricity systems, they will need to plan for them, and they will need to invest public resources in something other than intermittent renewable energy to get there,' writes TPN member Ted Nordhaus.
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We love good news stories and Andrew Craig often discusses the enormous benefit of curating a healthy, positive set of news sources for overall happiness. This The Progress Network piece by Emma Varvaloucas 🇺🇸🇬🇷 discusses the staggering decline in worldwide mortality
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'On the issue of race in particular, I think that the problem is if you’re seen to be saying that progress has been made, you can also be construed as saying that the issue is over,' says our guest author Coleman Hughes on What Could Go Right?
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'Every problem we have levied on young people can be addressed,' writes TPN member Scott Galloway.
'We have the hard part figured out: how to grow the economy at a sustained rate to pay for programs that might turn things around.'
profgalloway.com/war-on-the-you…