The Challenge - Addressing Climate and Poverty
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The time for changing how we live on this planet is past due
Develop more resilient and sustainble buildings while educating low-moderate income students and returning military veterans of war
SEEDS leverages its collaborative resources between public, private, faith based and non profit community stakeholders creating experiential learning. SEEDS addresses regional economic and global environmental challenges while building a model for collegiate, workforce and apprenticeship training for returning military veterans. The SEEDS Collaborative delivers a triple bottom line of social equity, and economic development for sustainability.
The National Economic Council (NEC) was established in 1993 to advise the President on U.S. and global economic policy. It is part of the Executive Office of the President. By Executive Order, the NEC has four key functions: to coordinate policy-making for domestic and international economic issues; to give economic policy advice to the President; to ensure that policy decisions and programs are consistent with the President’s economic goals; and to monitor implementation of the President’s economic policy agenda.
Working with many department and agency heads within the administration, the NEC Director coordinates and implements the President’s economic policy objectives. The Director is supported by a staff of policy experts in various fields including: infrastructure, manufacturing, research and development, small business, financial regulation, housing, technology and innovation, and fiscal policy.
President Biden has appointed Brian Deese as the Director of the National Economic Council.
"Left unabated, these trends will leave the U.S. economy without the skilled workforce it needs to remain competitive and will likely increase the education gap between those from low-income backgrounds and the rest of the population. "
"Public higher education in the United States is at a watershed moment. As education costs rise and colleges and universities face growing financial pressures, the education gap is widening and public student financial aid systems are getting stretched to the limit—all of this at a time when our economy needs more college-educated workers than ever before.
Left unabated, these trends will leave the U.S. economy without the skilled workforce it needs to remain competitive and will likely increase the education gap between those from low-income backgrounds and the rest of the population. Given the role that higher education has historically played as an engine of social mobility and economic growth, the political and social implications for our nation, and particularly for lower-income people, are profound and unacceptable. They are also avoidable."
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Staff meetings