BEGIN:VCALENDAR CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//github.com/ical-org/ical.net//NONSGML ical.net 4.0//EN VERSION:2.0 X-WR-TIMEZONE:US/Eastern BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture CATEGORIES:Lyceum CATEGORIES:Museums CATEGORIES:Old Town DESCRIPTION:To verify info please see https://apps.alexandriava.gov/Calend ar/Detail.aspx?si=32314\n\nJoin local author Jim Tankersley Thursday\, Oc tober 22 at 7 p.m. via Zoom as he discusses his new book\, The Riches of This Land.\nOn a reporting journey from the rocket suburbs of Los Angeles to the tobacco fields of North Carolina\, Jim Tankersley traces the orig ins and destiny of an American middle class that is under siege in his ne w book\, The Riches of This Land. For nearly two centuries\, the best job s in the United States were walled off to everyone but white men. After W orld War II\, women\, immigrants\, and black men began to tear those wall s down\, helping to build the greatest middle class in human history. But the steady disappearance of good jobs\, followed by two once-in-a-lifeti me economic crises\, eroded that middle class and locked millions of peop le out of the American Dream. History shows how to lift workers up again\ , but not the history that elite white men have sold for decades. Tankers ley's vivid people-driven storytelling\, supported by balanced cutting-ed ge research\, reveals a path to revival and the essential heroes of what was\, and can again be\, a great American economy.\n\nJim Tankersley is a n economics reporter for the New York Times. He covers the economic polic ies of the Trump administration and their effects on working people\, the long-running and persistent inequities in the American economy\, and\, m ost recently\, the nation's spiral into recession amid the coronavirus pa ndemic. Prior to the Times\, Tankersley was the policy and politics edit or at Vox\, economic policy correspondent for the Washington Post\, and e conomic and political reporter at the National Journal. He started his ca reer with stints at The Oregonian\, The Rocky Mountain News\, and The Tol edo Blade. \nThe lecture is sponsored by the Office of Historic Alexandri a. Guests will receive an email with the Zoom meeting link\, Meeting ID\, and password by noon on October 22. Ticket sales will close at 4 p.m.\n_ _______________________________________\n\nLocation: Virtual Only\nFees: $6\nAudience: Anyone may attend\nTags: Lecture\, Lyceum\, Museums\, Old Town\n\nWeb resources:\n\nalexandriava.gov/shop\nhttps://alexandriava.gov /shop\n DTEND:20201023T010000Z DTSTAMP:20200921T151412Z DTSTART:20201022T230000Z LOCATION: Virtual Only SEQUENCE:5 STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Lecture: The Riches of this Land TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:7fc82f48-ffe5-4aa4-b25d-7f38d99401af URL:https://alexandriava.gov/shop X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:To verify info please see https://apps.alexandri ava.gov/Calendar/Detail.aspx?si=32314
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Join local author Jim Tankersley Thursday\, October 22 at 7 p.m. via Zoom as he discusses h is new book\, The Riches of This Land.\n
On a reporting journey from the rocket suburbs of Los Angeles to the tobacco fields of North Carolin a\, Jim Tankersley traces the origins and destiny of an American middle c lass that is under siege in his new book\, The Riches of This Land. For n early two centuries\, the best jobs in the United States were walled off to everyone but white men. After World War II\, women\, immigrants\, and black men began to tear those walls down\, helping to build the greatest middle class in human history. But the steady disappearance of good jobs\ , followed by two once-in-a-lifetime economic crises\, eroded that middle class and locked millions of people out of the American Dream. History s hows how to lift workers up again\, but not the history that elite white men have sold for decades. Tankersley'\;s vivid people-driven storytel ling\, supported by balanced cutting-edge research\, reveals a path to re vival and the essential heroes of what was\, and can again be\, a great A merican economy.\n
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Jim Tankersley is an economics reporter f or the New York Times. He covers the economic policies of the Trump admin istration and their effects on working people\, the long-running and pers istent inequities in the American economy\, and\, most recently\, the nat ion'\;s spiral into recession amid the coronavirus pandemic. Prior to the Times\, Tankersley was the policy and politics editor at Vox\, econo mic policy correspondent for the Washington Post\, and economic and polit ical reporter at the National Journal. He started his career with stints at The Oregonian\, The Rocky Mountain News\, and The Toledo Blade. \n
The lecture is sponsored by the Office of Historic Alexandria. Guests w ill receive an email with the Zoom meeting link\, Meeting ID\, and passwo rd by noon on October 22. Ticket sales will close at 4 p.m.\n
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Location: Virtual Only \n
Fees: $6\n
Audience: Anyone may attend\n
Tags: Lecture\ , Lyceum\, Museums\, Old Town
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