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Thomas L. Friedman: Kamala Harris deserves a more important job Put her in charge of closing the gaps — in opportunity, connectivity and learning, and thus in anger and alienation — between rural America and the rest of the country. (Lessons from Minnesota.) By Thomas L. Friedman New York Times December 16, 2020 — 11:24am Text si...
The US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris is smart and energetic. President-elect Joe Biden should broaden the scope of her job: make her his de facto secretary of rural development, in charge of closing the opportunity gap, the connectivity gap, the learning gap, the start-up gap — and the anger and alienation gap — between rural America and the rest of the country. It would provide a vision for American renewal and signal that Democrats were no longer going to cede rural America to Republicans but were instead going to seize it from them. And it would make Harris a super-relevant vice p...
Dec. 15, 2020 I was speaking recently to Matt Dunne, founder of the Center on Rural Innovation, which promotes digital economic development in small-town America, and he was telling me about a Vermont community near his home with a great public library: “You could drive by on any Sunday and the parking lot would be full,” he said. “There was just one problem: The library was closed on Sundays.” The parking lot was full of cars with kids doing their homework and adults doing their office work — using the wireless connectivity spilling out of the empty building because their rural hom...
The other thing i want to point out which is key is the business leaders in the united states. basically getting in touch any way they could with the president and saying can we just get this deal done? we're taking on a lot with china right now. in terms of the details, yes, those american farmers are getting more access. >> don't fight with our allies. deal with china. >> it's key, donald trump will say our u.s. foarmers do have more access to the canadian market, and second of course is that big auto deal. we lost sight of that because it was a u.s./mexico concession, but it's a big deal an...