We urge all business leaders and political actors to join us in this mission, ensuring the 2024 elections—and beyond—are a testament to our commitment to democracy and economic prosperity for all.

This piece is part of the “Virtues of Democracy” column, a series of op-eds by faculty and student contributors across Trinity College and the Sanford School of Public Policy.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is arguing that a fractured democracy can have destructive effects on the economy — an indirect jab at Donald Trump. Yellen, in an address ...

Yellen says threats to democracy risk US economic growth, an indirect jab at Trump Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen testifies during a House Ways and Means Committee hearing, Tuesday, April 30 ...

Yellen acknowledges that democracy “doesn’t seem like typical terrain for a treasury secretary,” but she adds that “democracy is critical to building and sustaining a strong economy.” ...

Democracy has long been considered a gateway to economic progress and prosperity. This was the common view in the 20th-century global experience.

The contradictory answers that emerged--one stressing economic participation in a consumer society, the other emphasizing property ownership and self-reliance--remain pressing today as contemporary ...