The scholars laid out four important tasks: improving the economy's productivity, bolstering workers' economic security, investing in education to close the opportunity deficit of low-income families, and ensuring that Middle America reaps a larger share of the spoils of growth.
So if you're interested in improving quality of life, economic growth, or security, investing in water is a no-brainer.
The budget includes tax code provisions that help low- and moderate-income families to stabilize their household budget, build their financial security, invest in their children's education and save for retirement.
"Many of these individuals had minimal prior securities investing experience," Mr. Miller said.
Newer professions are also moving online, with a majority of Koreans now doing their banking, shopping, securities investing and taxes online.
Even as he has built a reputation as a forceful Congressional advocate for business, Mr. Issa has bought up office buildings, split a holding company into separate multimillion-dollar businesses, started an insurance company, traded hundreds of millions of dollars in securities, invested in overseas funds, retained an interest in his auto-alarm company and built up a family foundation.
There are now SRI funds that are balanced, focus on equities, seek international securities, invest in bonds, track indexes and invest in money market instruments.
You can also think of delaying Social Security as investing in a guaranteed inflation-adjusted annuity with very attractive rates of return.
While Afghans must decide their future, the United States' role can be pivotal, providing security guarantees, investing in economic development, and supporting an emerging political class of Afghans who work hard to earn public legitimacy and consent to govern.
Mr. Russert noted that the Clinton-Gore budget for 2000 had proposed increasing the money for Social Security by investing some of the budget surplus set aside for Social Security "in corporate equities or other private financial instruments".
Gov. John M. Engler, a Republican from Michigan, said that it was safer than it used to be for Republicans to raise the prospect of tinkering with Social Security, including investing some of its funds in private accounts.
