Dec 27, 2023 MRA Weekly Goal Discussion

This weeks article focus for Goals for the Renewal of America (and UNSDG goals) places focus on Goal 7- Democracy Support Action and Goal 9  Movement for Global Literacy. Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman Supreme Court Justice passed away at age 93. Biden called her "civil and principled, gracious and wise." Exactly the kind of beneficial virtues the country needs most at the present time. Why? Shown here is the Pew Research Center's poll on Public Trust. Only 20% trust Congress and the US government today. Compare this with 70% during the FDR, Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy administration period before the sixties. It declined to 16% during the Reagan administration inspired deregulation which by 2009 led to the deep financial crisis. It was 40% by the 1980's and keeps declining. Sandra O'Connor kept a copy of the US Constitution with her at all times in her purse. She started iCivics when she retired in 2009 to teach young people the value of civic knowledge a task that Lyrarc.com has taken up following the lead of O'Connor for US and the world. See O'Connor on Lincoln's Legacy article below to understand how important was the work of Abraham Lincoln in restoring Public Trust before and during the Civil War. Something like that is needed today.

Goal No. 9- US investment by government, private +foreign is fulfilled by the New York State government working together with Micron and IBM for a $10 billion chip manufacturing complex in New York state. Cost of Living Action is shown by Treasury Secretary Yellen and Federal Reserve Bank chairman Jerome Powell achieving a soft landing for the economy. For Goal No.5  Bringing Jobs and factories to the US- in all of 2023 2.7 millions US jobs were created, according to the Labor Department, and unemployment remains steady at 3.7%.