were designed for catastrophic events but now describe the chronic, everyday vulnerability of the nation.

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Federal emergency management frameworks, such as FEMA's Community Lifelines, the National Response Framework (NRF) and the National Disaster Recovery Framework (NDRF),

Its success offers a practical model for rebuilding the country’s foundation while avoiding the paralysis that accompanies fragmented policymaking.

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Established by the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) of 1933, the PWA was designed as a massive capital-investment program that fused public credit, engineering discipline and regional planning into a single institution.

They restored civic life in places where city halls and community centers had shuttered.

If you turn on a water tap, send a letter, cross a bridge or visit a historic downtown, you are likely benefiting from WPA labor from nearly a century ago.

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And they converge on the same antidote to acedia. We need purpose, zeal, meaning, work that matters and a future worth choosing.

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History, strategy, theology and psychology converge on this point—from Sun Tzu to modern U.S. Army doctrine, from Dante’s Purgatorio to Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning.

The ancients named this condition acedia, which is a collapse of purpose, a dimming of the will, a nihilistic loss of meaning, a spiritual exhaustion that masquerades as indifference. We are living through a modern acedia.

A strong tooling sector is inseparable from a strong industrial labor movement.

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Union training centers have historically produced the world’s best machinists. Their involvement ensures:

Skilled apprenticeship pathways
High-quality training
Stable career ladders
Safety standards
Wage floors that support middle-class communities

The Political Economy Project positions economics as the study of how societies expand their productive powers, their cultural richness and the freedom of their citizens to shape their own future. Renaissance traditions recognize the centrality of human development.

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t is the direct and foreseeable consequence of a series of destructive policy shifts with the imposition of a post-industrial, financialized economy.

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in its machine-tool sector since the mid-1960s. This decline is seen as the extinguishing of the machine-tool design principle, which, unless reversed, threatens America's future. The current industrial crisis is not the result of inevitable market forces or natural economic laws. I

I left Zambia understanding that electricity is not just a utility but the foundation of freedom and prosperity in the modern world.

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