America Trends Podcast
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EP 829 The New Customer Experience: Please Hold and an Automated Attendant Will Be Right with You
Bad customer experiences are costing businesses more than ever, according to new research by experience management company Qualtrics. Its work projects global losses of $3.7 trillion annuallya st
EP 828 Aside From Hand Wringing, What’s the Road Ahead for Democrats?
While on many issuesreproductive rights, gay marriage, increasing the minimum wage, pushing back on price gouging, more support for day carepolls show overwhelming support for more progressive leani
EP 827 The Political Dividing Line: College Degree/No College Degree
Once the party of the working class, the Democratic Party is now the home of highly educated citizens with progressive social views who prefer credentialed experts to make policy decisions, while Rep
EP 826 Finding Meaning in Grief
When you experience grief, the world can feel overwhelming. It can be difficult to imagine a future. You feel lost and hopeless. This can happen because of the death of a parent, partner, sibling,
EP 825 Does America Have a Strategy to Reshore Lost Manufacturing Jobs?
We have been talking about returning manufacturing jobs to the Rust Belt of the Midwest and the once vibrant manufacturing hubs of the Northeast for a long time. Almost since much manufacturing move
EP 824 Blend of New Technologies Allows Humans to Re-Engineer Life
Interconnected technological change is happening more rapidly than at any time in history and on such a scale that its impacts will be profound in fields as diverse as health, food production, and the
EP 823 Presidents Who Met the Moment
There was a time that America sensed that the right leader came along at the right time and pulled us through many criseswar, The Depression, pandemics and other economic travails. I am not certain
EP 822 Can Math Improve Our Democracy?
Math is used by campaign strategists to help politicians decide where to travel and spend money when running for office. The same kinds of calculations can help ordinary citizens make the best use of
EP 821 Are Libraries More or Less Important in the Age of Digital Information?
When we think of institutions that define welcoming spaces to convene and conduct business in virtually every community in America the local library is first and foremost. It represents the one place
EP 820 Where Does America’s Role in the World Stand as We Change Administrations?
We have been the powerhouse on the worlds stage since WWII and we virtually stood alone as a dominant force since 1989 when the Berlin Wall came down. While there have clearly been wobbles since, li