Global Town Hall

From Civil Rights to Silver Rights; Defining Success for Financial Literacy in an Aspirationally Relevant World
Video
3:15PM - 4:45PM

The civil rights movement in America has transformed America since the 1950's, and continues to have significant relevance even to this today. While the necessary focus on civil rights continues and is essential, there is an increasing argument for the need of a new and simultaneous focus on silver rights as well. If civil rights was based around race and the color line, then silver rights will be focused around issues of class and poverty. If the 20th century, an era of increasing democracies around the world, the way to commoditize democracy in the hands of people started with the right the vote, then the 21st century, an era framed by the global economic system, will be about issues of class and poverty. In the 21st century, if you don’t understand the language of money (financial literacy), and you don’t have a bank account (more individuals do not have a bank account in 2009 than didn’t have the right to vote in 1959), then it could be argued you are still not free to pursue life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. In the 2009, the issue is not civil rights or silver rights, but both, and bridging solutions for the future between these two interconnected, and interrelated worlds. This global town hall will bring together some of the world's greatest minds around one of the biggest ideas of our day.

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