Good morning, everyone. Welcome back. I am beverly kirk. We are continuing our discussion this morning about strengthening democracy with a look at trust in institutions, in each other, and what the latest data have to say about all of this. To put it into perspective, i am joined by filmmaker ken burns and Pew Research Center president mike dimmick. Thank you for being here. Lets jump in with the first question. What is the overall state of american confidence in democracy. I understand you have some new numbers to share with us. Ken thank you. We dont want to get too gloomy but we do care about the facts and the facts are right now america is in kind of a gloomy place. Almost kind of surprisingly so. If you had told me two years ago we would be worried about an economy that was too hot, which wasnt even a phrase we were talking about, that we would be where we are with our covid rates, not necessarily done do ne but feeling better, addressing climate, global competitiveness, that we
Good morning, everyone. Welcome back. I am beverly kirk. We are continuing our discussion this morning about strengthening democracy with a look at trust in institutions, in each other, and what the latest data have to say about all of this. To put it into perspective, i am joined by filmmaker ken burns and Pew Research Center president mike dimmick. Thank you for being here. Lets jump in with the first question. What is the overall state of american confidence in democracy. I understand you have some new numbers to share with us. Ken thank you. We dont want to get too gloomy but we do care about the facts and the facts are right now america is in kind of a gloomy place. Almost kind of surprisingly so. If you had told me two years ago we would be worried about an economy that was too hot, which wasnt even a phrase we were talking about, that we would be where we are with our covid rates, not necessarily done do ne but feeling better, addressing climate, global competitiveness, that we
Good morning, everyone. Welcome back. I am beverly kirk. We are continuing our discussion this morning about strengthening democracy with a look at trust in institutions, in each other, and what the latest data have to say about all of this. To put it into perspective, i am joined by filmmaker ken burns and Pew Research Center president mike dimmick. Thank you for being here. Lets jump in with the first question. What is the overall state of american confidence in democracy. I understand you have some new numbers to share with us. Ken thank you. We dont want to get too gloomy but we do care about the facts and the facts are right now america is in kind of a gloomy place. Almost kind of surprisingly so. If you had told me two years ago we would be worried about an economy that was too hot, which wasnt even a phrase we were talking about, that we would be where we are with our covid rates, not necessarily done do ne but feeling better, addressing climate, global competitiveness, that we
Coming up, a conversation on International Trade relations with chair Jared Bernstein. It is hosted by the council on Foreign Relations. , i am Matthew Goodman , the director of the greenberg i Matthew Goodman, director of studies and as of two seconds ago im the director of the real econ initiative that we are rolling out today here at cfl r. Welcome to those of you in the room and those of you online as we look at reimagining American Economic leadership. Brainchild of mike roman said he wanted to emphasize a number of costcutting and this is the first we are rolling out. Make will have a chance to explain this in his own words, but i think we would agree there were two fundamental premises. It matters for americans and advancing u. S. Interests, but second ramos is a lot of things have changed in the world after world war ii, and American Economic leadership is going to look different over the years and decades ahead. I think of really, as a platform about what the challenges are wh