Bracketed between the Acela Corridor and the California coast, America’s heartland continues to assert that the Great Recovery has largely bypassed the region. Unfortunate political rhetoric has exploited resentments and focused on facile solutions. But coal and steel jobs alone are not going to cut it. How can Middle America rejoin the coastal regions in a shared sense of prosperity and optimism?
Moderator
Gillian Tett U.S. Managing Editor, Financial Times
Speakers
Steve Bullock
Governor, Montana
Steven Rattner
Chairman and CEO, Willett Advisors LLC
Rick Snyder
Governor, Michigan
Lawrence H. Summers
Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus, Harvard University; Former Secretary, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Devin Wenig
President and CEO, eBay