Friday, October 14, 2011 - 10:00am - 11:00am
Midwest Regional Director to teach Wisconsin economics teachers and professors about the national debt and deficits, possible solutions to use for discussion, and the many tools available from The Cocnord Coalition for their use in the classroom.
The Concord Coalition believes that only with an engaged, informed and demanding public can the nation's fiscal challenges be met. The Concord Coalition's mission is to cut through the usual partisan rhetoric and stimulate a more realistic public dialogue on what we want our nation's future to look like, along with the required trade-offs. We believe that elected leaders in Washington know there is a problem, but they are unlikely to act unless forced to by their constituents.