I wish you all the best in today’s presentations and deliberations and hope that we can together come up with innovative ideas in further addressing our economy’s challenges. Before I finish, please allow me to relate a brief story to you.
Part of your students’ success is their economic success as capable, creative, and productive members of the workforce and as consumers adept at managing their finances. Your students benefit from this education, but so does everyone else in society. We all benefit when better-educated citizens support economic policies that help our nation prosper.