When Hillary Clinton gave the commencement speech at her alma mater Wellesley College on May 26, her message of “Onward Together” reflected that of another Wellesley icon, Katharine Lee Bates, the woman who wrote the words to America the Beautiful.  I believe that the story of Bates and her song can inspire, inform and unite us in these harsh and polarizing times.

Winter and rural America, both holding on tenaciously, furiously, but powerless to stop the clock. 

Even as normally optimistic an economist as Larry Summers worries that there won’t be enough employment in the future, while others in his profession predict that as many as 40 percent of U.S. jobs will be history by 2030.  So what can we do?