Let's Find Common Ground - Introducing Let's Find Common Ground

Episode Date: April 30, 2020

As the tone of public discourse becomes increasingly angry and divisive, Common Ground Committee offers a healing path to reaching agreement and moving forward. We talk with top leaders in public policy, finance, academe and more to encourage the seeking and finding of points of agreement, and to demonstrate how combating incivility can lead us forward.

We are so divided. Our politics are broken. And now we have this coronavirus pandemic. So we're looking at ways to bring light, not heat to issues that matter. I'm Richard Davies. And I'm Ashley Melntite. Let's find common ground. Smart thinkers from different points of view. In our first episodes, we'll look at how to find common ground. Smart thinkers from different points of view. In our first

episodes we'll look at how to find common ground on the economy as we navigate the fallout from the pandemic. Jared Bernstein has advised Joe Biden. I think that this crisis has exposed a set of really intense vulnerabilities in our federal sector in particular. And boy, if we don't learn what I believe are the right lessonies, then we're going to be back here sooner than we want, and it will be our own fault. Maya McGinnis studies federal spending.

And right now, the debt is growing at an astronomical level, as somebody who worries about the debt professionally. It gives me heartburn, nonstop, but I need to be really clear. This is exactly the moment that borrowing was made for. And what about the lessons we can learn personally from the COVID crisis? We discuss with Professor Paul Light.

Maybe we get a restoration of empathy, which some people would say is the root of all common good. Let's find common ground from the Common Ground Committee. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Here I have two people on dominating this conversation, driving the nuts, but you're the first people I've seen all day. you