<p>The early 1980s marked the beginning of a new trend: wage and wealth stagnation for the bottom 50 percent of workers. Learn about why Carole Hoover urges us to have serious conversations about opportunity.</p>

The early 1980s marked the beginning of a new trend: wage and wealth stagnation for the bottom 50 percent of workers. Learn about why Carole Hoover urges us to have serious conversations about opportunity.

III: American Dream to American Nightmare

It's 1981. Reagan was just inaugurated. Cleveland is emerging from default. We're reeling from manufacturing losses. Racial division abounds. 

The Greater Cleveland Roundtable, a coalition of CEOs and community leaders, is searching for ways to regain their region's growth and struggling with ways to include folks of color. 

81/61 reckons with their effort by exploring the organization's lost document archive and to tell a story about where we have been in the last 40 years and how we might achieve racial equity in the next 40. 

81/61 is an original series from the Greater Cleveland Partnership. New episodes are released every two weeks between June 7th and August 16th, 2021. 81/61 is generously supported by the George Gund Foundation.

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It's 1981. Reagan was just inaugurated. Cleveland is emerging from default. We're reeling from manufacturing losses. Racial division abounds. The Greater Cleveland Roundtable, a coalition of CEOs and community leaders, is searching for ways to regain their region's growth and struggling with ways to include folks of color. 81/61 reckons with their effort by exploring the organization's lost document archive and to tell a story about where we have been in the last 40 years and how we might achieve racial equity in the next 40. 81/61 is an original series from the Greater Cleveland Partnership. New episodes are released every two weeks between June 7th and August 16th, 2021. 81/61 is generously supported by the George Gund Foundation.

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