Just hours before Hillary Clinton delivered her speech accepting the Democratic nomination for President at the Party’s Convention, on Thursday night, two veterans of Bill Clinton’s Administration—the pollster Stan Greenberg and the economist Joseph E. Stiglitz—appeared at an event organized by the Roosevelt Institute, a liberal think tank. The title of the session, which was held at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel, was “How to Win on the Economy in 2016.” Greenberg presented some interesting data about two possible ways to frame her domestic-policy agenda, which includes raising the minimum wage, eliminating tax breaks for hedge funds, guaranteeing paid family leave, and encouraging corporations to invest for the long term. …
After attending the panel session, I was fascinated to see how Clinton’s speech would fit into the framework that Greenberg had presented. CONT.
John Cassidy, The New Yorker