Rise of the Creative Class
Topic: Creative Class
From Richard Florida's recent Washington Monthly article, "Creative Class War":

"America must not only stop making dumb mistakes, like starting trade wars with Europe and China; it must also put in place new policies that enhance our creative economy. Here, too, neither party quite gets it..."

"But let's get real: Demanding higher labor and environmental standards in trade agreements--the Democrats' favorite fix--is not going to keep software jobs from migrating to Eastern Europe. Our only hope is to strengthen our creative economy so that it produces more jobs to replace the ones we're losing. That will require taking on the Washington lobbyists who put the fix in for established industries at the expense of emerging ones. Millions of new jobs in the wireless networking field, for instance, could be created if unused broadcast spectrum, currently controlled by TV networks and the military, could be freed up. When's the last time you heard a presidential candidate talk about that?"

Sounds similar to the By The People dialogue yesterday (this is a paraphrase and NOT an exact quote)
Dr. David Reid- We need different kinds of jobs, higher value jobs. We need to stay ahead on the imagination curve, the innovation curve, etc.