The Shrinking Middle Class: How We Can Fix It

Health care must be a priority, says Sachs. We could emulate Canada or Australia by adopting a single-payer system. Sachs also recommends empowering workers to organize, providing better school-to-work transition programs (e.g., Germany’s apprenticeship model), and overhauling the economics of higher education so they don’t constrain the choices of future workers. … Jeffrey Sachs, Professor of Sustainable Development, Columbia University.