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Pennsylvania faces notable challenges affecting economic mobility, including wage inequality, patchy access to quality jobs, persistent poverty, and educational barriers, among other issues. In addition to deploying targeted strategies to address these disparities, can public and private authorities enhance the opportunities of communities impacted by economic exclusion?
Featured:
Darrin W. Anderson, President and CEO, Urban League of Greater Philadelphia
Claire Greenwood, Executive Director, CEO Council for Growth, Senior Vice President of Economic Competitiveness, Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia
Isaac Keiser, Strategic Advisor, MediaLink
Horace Ryans III, Graduate Student & Success Coach, Temple University
Michael O'Bryan (moderator), Founder, Wealth + Work Futures Lab, Drexel University
Recorded on Oct. 16, 2025, as part of "Free Speech at the Crossroads: A Keystone Dialogue," a convening of discussions on challenges to Free Speech and other First Amendment freedoms at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the birthplace of American democracy.
Pennsylvania faces notable challenges affecting economic mobility, including wage inequality, patchy access to quality jobs, persistent poverty, and educational barriers, among other issues. In addition to deploying targeted strategies to address these disparities, can public and private authorities enhance the opportunities of communities impacted by economic exclusion?
Featured:
Darrin W. Anderson, President and CEO, Urban League of Greater Philadelphia
Claire Greenwood, Executive Director, CEO Council for Growth, Senior Vice President of Economic Competitiveness, Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia
Isaac Keiser, Strategic Advisor, MediaLink
Horace Ryans III, Graduate Student & Success Coach, Temple University
Michael O'Bryan (moderator), Founder, Wealth + Work Futures Lab, Drexel University
Recorded on Oct. 16, 2025, as part of "Free Speech at the Crossroads: A Keystone Dialogue," a convening of discussions on challenges to Free Speech and other First Amendment freedoms at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the birthplace of American democracy.
