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Let's Find Common Ground

USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future

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🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

As the tone of public discourse becomes increasingly angry and divisive, Common Ground Committee offers a healing path to reaching agreement and moving forward. We talk with top leaders in public policy, finance, academe and more to encourage the seeking and finding of points of agreement, and to demonstrate how combating incivility can lead us forward.

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0:00.0	We are so divided. Our politics are broken and now we have this coronavirus pandemic.
0:11.0	So we're looking at ways to bring light, not heat, to issues that matter.
0:15.2	I'm Richard Davies. And I'm Ashley Milntight. Let's find common ground.
0:21.2	Smart thinkers from different points of view.
0:25.0	In our first episodes, we'll look at how to find common ground on the economy as we navigate the fallout from the pandemic.
0:32.0	Jared Bernstein has advised Joe Biden.
0:35.0	I think that this crisis has exposed a set of really intense vulnerabilities in our federal sector in particular and boy if we don't
0:46.6	learn what I believe are the right lessons then we're going to be back here sooner than
0:50.6	we want and it will be our own full.
0:53.3	Maya McGinnis studies federal spending.
0:55.8	And right now the debt is growing at an astronomical level.
0:59.4	As somebody who worries about the debt professionally,
1:02.4	it gives me heartburn non-stop, but I need to be really clear.
1:06.5	This is exactly the moment that borrowing was made for.
1:10.0	And what about the lessons we can learn personally from the COVID crisis.
1:14.1	We discuss with Professor Paul Light.
1:16.3	Maybe we get a restoration of empathy, which some people would say is the root of all common good.
1:24.0	Let's find common ground from the Common Ground Committee.
1:27.0	Listen, wherever you get your podcasts.
1:30.0	Here I have two people on I'm dominating this conversation, driving you nuts, but you're the first
1:36.6	people I've seen all day. you're

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