In an op-ed published today in the Philadelphia Daily News, The Mobility Agenda’s Margy Waller
recommends that Barack Obama focus on establishing goals that measure our progress toward an inclusive economy that works for all of us.
Waller writes that the goal of an inclusive society is a multi-dimensional concept incorporating not
only notions of adequate income, but also neighborhood
quality, access to the arts, education, health care, participation in civic
events, housing, pensions, and other factors.
She
concludes that it will take hard work and high-level attention to
develop a framework and narrative for this concept; establishing a new
cross-agency effort to develop and focus on such goals is worthy of
Presidential attention and cabinet-member status. Moreover, she argues,
in contrast a goal to cut poverty is too limited and doomed to failure
in today’s society.
Read the op-ed here.