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October 3, 2018
We need more and better ideas that have the potential to grow the middle class.
Thomas Kalil in "A Moonshot to Address Wage Stagnation"
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.
Wage stagnation—flatlining and falling wages of low- and middle-income workers over the past 40 years—is a national crisis.