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Please join us for Education 2.0: Making Our Children and Our Country More Competitive, a unique evening hosted by Hope Street Group in New York City on February 24th from 6:00pm-8:00pm at The Yale Club.  We will be featuring NYC Schools Chancellor Joel Klein and Harlem Education Activities Fund President Dr. Danielle Moss Lee to share their brief remarks about the role that education can play in our economic recovery.

 

RSVP and purchase your tickets online now.

 

Following this, attendees will have the opportunity to network with other social entrepreneurs and policy makers or join other education thought leaders in small group discussions to learn about key education reform issues in the following areas:

 

- Early Childhood Education
- Improving Education through Technology
- 21st Century Standards & Global Competitiveness

 

In addition, HSG will present attendees with hands-on opportunities nationally and locally, including professional volunteer activities at Hope Street Group and direct service volunteer opportunities at HEAF.

 

Tickets: A minimum donation of $100 is requested, although Hope Street Group welcomes additional contributions; if you cannot attend and would like to support the event, please consider sponsoring a teacher or HEAF student for the evening.

 

Space is limited, so please RSVP and purchase your tickets online now  at  or contact Courtney Haynes at Courtney@hopestreetgroup.org by Feb. 10th.

 

Hope Street Group is a non-partisan organization founded for one reason:  to build the Opportunity Economy – an economy in which anyone who works hard and invests in themselves has the opportunity to succeed, and where our nation prospers as a result. Over the last two years, Hope Street Group has successfully convened leaders from civil society, politics, and business to build broad-based coalitions and bi-partisan consensus around policies that promote an opportunity economy. As a result of these efforts, Hope Street Group offers numerous opportunities for young professionals to play substantive roles in policy discussions and development.

 

Learn more about Hope Street Group's American Dream Agenda for the next administration, and the education and health care reform proposals that the presidential campaigns incorporated into their platforms.

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Courtney Haynes
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Sadly, almost everyone in the country is feeling the effect of the housing crisis in one way or another.  Today this article captured the devastating effect the crisis has had one particular group: homebuilders, who have the lowest index numbers since 1985. The steady decline in these numbers and sales which began in May 2006 is now also being exacerbated by the impact of the winter season on their industry, when home production and sales are already slower than the rest of the year. And all signs indicate that this trend is likely to continue.

 

It is now clear that the housing situation has spun out of control, with every stakeholder pointing the finger at someone else.  The truth is, many stakeholders are at fault for the crisis.  Accept it.

 

Right now we need a unified front and urgent action to protect the victims of the fallout and prevent this type of devastation from ever happening again.  The subprime crisis has touched not only homeowners at the risk of foreclosing on their homes, but also investors, community residents, licensed and credible mortgage brokers and homebuilders (as discussed in this article). In short, the crisis is effecting everyone from Wall Street to individual homeowners, and the forecast for coming years remains gloomy if nothing substantial is implemented to reverse the damage.  Unfortunately plans of action, like the Bush Administration's plan under Secretary Paulson or the modernization of the FHA, proposed are falling short, and indeed  will either do nothing or even increase the magnitude of the current crisis.

 

We need to approach the situation from various perspectives and bring together a broad group of people to securely protect and prevent people across the board.  My suggestion is to modify term loans to help both investors and borrowers, expand mortgage brokers' regulatory standards and most importantly build partnerships between government, business and civil groups to enhance financial literacy to all who need it.  Your ideas?

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