Background
Sperling, Gene B. was born on December 24, 1958 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.
(After two consecutive elections in which Democratic candi...)
After two consecutive elections in which Democratic candidates failed to turn clear economic advantages into electoral victory, a debate is raging over what the Democrats should donow. The narrow, red state-blue state argument between chest-beating populists and soulless centrists offers the answer to neither the country's economic future nor the political future of the Democrats. In The Pro-Growth Progressive, President Clinton's longest-serving national economic advisor, Gene Sperling, argues that the best economic strategy for our nation -- and the best strategy for progressives whether they be Democrat, Republican, or Independent -- is to pursue policies that are both progressive and pro-growth, that promote progressive values of upward mobility, fair starts, and economic dignity as well as embrace markets and innovation. Sperling describes how both parties offer the American public impoverished choices: Democrats in the-sky-is-falling party too often pretend that the way to promote progressive values and expand the American middle class is to slow the pace of the global economy, stop all outsourcing, and intervene in the market. Republicans of the don't-worry-be-happy party hold fast to the bankrupt vision that the best thing for economic growth is the smallest government possible, and have made the conservative deficit hawks of the 1990s an endangered species. But The Pro-Growth Progressive is neither an all-out assault on the Bush agenda nor a partisan call for Democrats to move further left. Both conservatives and progressives have to accept hard truths about the limitations of their approaches. Drawing on his years of policy experience, Sperling lays out a third way on the issues that are dominating the news and Bush's second term: social security, ownership, globalization, and deficit reduction. He explains the policy alternatives that respect the power of free markets while giving government a role in ensuring that the markets benefit all working families. Focused and timely, The Pro-Growth Progressive offers a realistic vision of free enterprise and economic growth in which government can improve education, reduce poverty, and restore the country to fiscal sanity.
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Sperling, Gene B. was born on December 24, 1958 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.
Bachelor in Political Science, University Minnesota, 1981. Student, University Pa.Wharton Business School. Juris Doctor, Yale University, 1985.
Economic advisory to Governor State of New York, Albany, 1990—1992. Deputy director economic policy for presidential transition & economic policy director Clinton/Gore Presidential Campaign, 1992—1993. Deputy assistant to President for economic policy The White House, Washington, 1993—1996, assistant to President for economic policy, 1997—2001, since 2011.
Deputy director The National Economic Council, 1993—1997, director, 1997—2001, since 2011. Senior fellow economic studies, director Center for Universal Education Council on Foreign Relations. Chief economic advisory Hillary Clinton's Presidential Campaign, 2008—2009.
Counselor to secretary United States Department Treasury, Washington, 2009—2011. Keynote speaker United Nations World Education Forum, Dakar, Senegal, 2000. Member education expert group Global Governance Initiative World Economic Forum, 2003—2004.
Senior fellow economic policy Center for American Progress. United States chair Global Campaign for Education. Member FTI Task Team on Education in Fragile States.
Member advisory board Gates Foundation/Hewlett Partnership on Quality Education. Governor Philadelphia Stock Exchange Board.
(After two consecutive elections in which Democratic candi...)
Married Allison Abner Sperling.