Lewiston-Auburn Economic Growth Council's

27th Annual Dinner and Business Forum

Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Ramada Conference Center, Lewiston

NewsHour correspondent Paul Solman to give speech called "Our Small World: America’s Response to Globalization"

Paul Solman will deliver the keynote address at the 27th Annual Dinner and Business Forum presented by the Lewiston-Auburn Economic Growth Council on Wednesday, May 14 at the Ramada Conference Center, 490 Pleasant Street in Lewiston.

A popular Business and Economics Correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Solman has been demystifying money matters for more than 25 years. In 2004, Solman won his second Peabody Award for his NewsHour report, “Jobless Recovery: Non-Working Numbers,” and was praised for giving “easy-to-understand explanations of complicated economic issues.” He also has won Emmy Awards in every decade since the ‘70’s, including one for his reporting on Microsoft, and has been named to TV Guide’s All-Star News “dream team.” For NewsHour, he has interviewed heads of state, CEOs such as Jack Welch, Nobel laureates and inner-city kids performing Shakespeare.

In 2005, The NewsHour aired Solman’s seven-part series, "China on the Rise." In 2006, he did a series on the business response to global warming. His next NewsHour piece will be a year-long series exploring “America’s Response to Globalization.”

A graduate of Brandeis University and former editor of Mother Jones magazine, he is now the Brady-Johnson Visitor in political economy at Yale University. Solman’s TV reports are used in college economics courses throughout the world. He has helped journalists and TV producers in Russia and Poland explain American capitalism. Solman also is the author and presenter of “Discovering Economics with Paul Solman,” a series of videos released by McGraw-Hill that he hopes will transform the way America teaches introductory economics.

For more information or for tickets ($45 per person, $315 for a reserved table for 8), call the Lewiston-Auburn Economic Growth Council at (207) 784-0161 or visit their web site at www.economicgrowth.org.