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Monthly meetings are held at 10 a.m. on the third Friday of the month. We meet in the Franciscan Center on the Lourdes campus

Hot Topics with Norm Thal

$12/$25 per person - includes lunch

Presentations of hot topics, with lunch and lively discussion! A lunch of soup, sandwiches, and dessert is included.

Norm Thal is a veteran teacher for Life Long Learning, a current member of SCORE, and past a Chairman of the Board for both Inshield Die & Stamping as well as the Franciscan Center. He was also the Director of the Sylvania Community Services Center.

Please call 419-824-3716 or 419-824-3707 or email Deb Jovanovic at least one week before Hot Topics to register. Or send a check to Life Long Learning att. Hot/Lourdes University, 6832 Convent Blvd. Sylvania, Oh 43560

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Growing Financial Inequality in the U.S. and the World

Friday, February 15

The share of national income going to the richest 1% of Americans has doubled since 1980, from 10% to 20%. The numbers of the ultra-wealthy have soared around the globe. American inequality is a "tale of two countries." Research shows that a big driver of inequality is government policy. Consider the alternatives and the prospects for the U.S.

“Globalization 2.0” the New Economy

Friday, March 15

Remember Tom Friedman, and The World is Flat? Well, it’s getting bumpier. Things are changing, possibly for the better. Jobs are “returning” to the U.S., with even brighter prospects for the future. “Localnomics” is the new buzz-word, and local leadership reaping rewards. Education is still key, and that picture is less encouraging. In a politically volatile world, the U.S. looks safer and better.

“Love and Marriage” – It ain’t what it used to be!

Friday, April 19

Remember that old Frank Sinatra song (written by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen)? It may need to be rewritten! For women under 30, most births occur outside marriage, and in a Pew Research poll, 39% say marriage is becoming obsolete. “Marriage has become a luxury good,” according to a sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania. The effects on children are varied, and far from clear. Churches are struggling to adapt to the new reality.

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