This Q&A article on Getting Smart includes a conversation with Maria Flynn, president and CEO of JFF, and Tom Kalil, chief innovation officer of Schmidt Futures about supporting innovation and the $1 Billion Wage Gain Challenge, a call for ideas that will increase the incomes of working Americans by at least $1 billion by 2021.
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