Hedrick presents the Georgia Anne Geyer Lecture at Dominican University, unpacking his time in Moscow and Russia’s present posture.
Russia: Here We Go Again
December 23rd, 2017Trump and the American Dream – The White House Chronicle
December 23rd, 2017The Washington, DC-based White House Chronicle‘s Llewellyn King invites Hedrick to discuss What President Trump is doing to the American Dream.
How NonProfits Can Generate Citizen Action
November 23rd, 2015The Los Angeles, California-based Center for Non Profit Management invites Hedrick to discuss his new, pro-reform website and how grassroots civic action can achieve success.
Hedrick Smith on Moving Political Reforms
November 23rd, 2015Thom Hartmann asks Hedrick Smith, on the Thom Hartmann Program, to share ideas from his civic action website ReclaimTheAmericanDream.org.
As broadcast May 28, 2015
MinnPost’s Dave Beal reviews the Dream
March 26th, 2014As published by MinnPost on March 25, 2014:
Hedrick Smith won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his stories about Russia in the early 1970s, when he was the Moscow bureau chief for the New York Times. After he returned to the U.S., he described his many encounters with ordinary Russians in their homes, at restaurants and factories and on trains, in “The Russians.” His book was translated into 16 languages.
Now Smith has turned the tables. “I’m covering America as a foreign correspondent would cover it,” he said, discussing his latest book in a telephone interview. “I could have called it ‘The Americans.’ ”
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Hedrick Speaks at the Pearl in Portsmouth, NH
February 17th, 2014“Martin Luther King, Jr. and the American Dream Today”
Hedrick Smith covered Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement of the 1960s at racial hotpots lsuch as Birmingham and Albany, Ga., and at the March on Washington. In this lecture, he tells personal recollections of Dr. King and relates the lessons of the civil righrts movement and other grass roots movements of the 1960s and ’70s, to America’s current problems of gaping income inequalities and a polarized political system beholden to wealthy special interests.
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As given upon the occasion of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, January 20, 2014
Hedrick Speaks at The Pearl in Portsmouth, NH
February 17th, 2014“Martin Luther King, Jr. and the American Dream Today”
As given upon the occasion of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, January 20, 2014
A Crash Course in Growth Economics
February 17th, 2014First published by Reuters on February 6, 2014
By Hedrick Smith
Congressional Republicans like to talk about creating jobs and growing the economy. With the government shutdown and rigid spending cuts, however, Congress created a fiscal drag that cost the economy a full percentage point of economic growth in 2013.
Now, Congressional Republicans are again digging in their heels against measures that would ramp up the economy and generate jobs. It’s time for Congress to take a refresher course in growth economics — the economic forces and programs that power U.S. growth.
As President Barack Obama barnstorms the country, he should be making the argument that it is not only fair, but smart growth economics to raise the minimum wage, extend unemployment benefits and reduce income inequality. These steps will help accelerate economic recovery this year above its anemic 1.9 percent growth rate in 2013.
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The Boeing Vote and the Dream
January 9th, 2014As heard on NPR’s Morning Edition, January 9, 2013
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Boeing’s Hollow Victory
January 8th, 2014As first publish by the Los Angeles Times on January 7, 2014.
By Hedrick Smith
The narrowly approved contract agreement between Boeing and its Washington state workforce will be hailed by some as a victory for the canny, hardball brinkmanship of Boeing’s management and the knuckle-under economic pragmatism of the International Machinists Union.
But the steep cutbacks in retirement and health benefits that tens of thousands of Boeing workers were forced to swallow have far larger implications for middle-class America.
Boeing’s stingy treatment of its highly skilled workforce offers a vivid example of how America’s new economy has created gaping economic inequalities and steadily squeezed the economic life out of the U.S. middle class over the last three decades, even as corporate profits and CEO pay have skyrocketed.
Boeing’s case epitomizes that sharp economic divide. For just as the company was wringing concessions from its workers, its board of directors approved a 50% increase in the company’s stock dividend and a $10-billion stock buyback that will richly reward investors and executives who get paid in Boeing shares.
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