We are thrilled to have our authors and conversation chief at the wall street journal and leads a team of euros across the west covering, among any one many issues with them pandemic policy and economics state and city news immigration and in her career though wall street journal and editing positions london dallas pittsburgh and featured authors melissa korn Higher Education reporter for the wall street journal. Previously will for dow jones newswire and a graduate of cornell and Columbia University graduate school of journalism. We also have Jennifer Levitz National Reporter for the wall street journal previously she wrote and has a number of two Pulitzer Prize and graduated from loyola maryland and in their review she wrote the authors highly readable expose goes well beyond the tabloid level and examination of the intersection of ambition and money and Higher Education. A fastpaced account of the massive College Admissions scam. This indictment of contemporary American Culture offe
Software developer working for a tech company. Host in addition to that you ride a column for Forbes Technology counsel. One of your recent columns he talked about this idea of a skilled gap in this country and howw apprentice programs mighte a way to bridge that gap. Explained what the skills gap is auc. Guess who absolutely. We are in the fourth industrial revolution. We are looking at urtula reality bioscience robotics and different technologies that are happening. Its really software and hardware and right now coming out of thein four year college e are not getting trained on the essential skills. In the private sector there a lot of students coming out of for a four year college and carrying 100 or 200,000 or for some of them they are carrying debt coming out of college and i cant get a job. Within the doing is they are underemployed. These are smart young people and they are all underemployed working in a lowskilled job. They get stuck so i think in the Public Sector we have to d
Proposal, as teachers in West Virginia went on strike for not having received a raise in years , and teachers are fairly underpaid. That is what is ironic, that the president , when it comes to something that he thinks is important, he wants to pay for it. As opposed to what we know is important, which is how do you attract and retain brave people into graeat people teaching . That is the issue in West Virginia this week. And it has been an issue for a while. I was in charleston this week. And i have never seen that level of anger and that number of educators in and around the capital in West Virginia. As you know, i spent a lot of time in West Virginia because the aft has started this partnership to revitalize the eighth poorest county in the country. I spent a lot of time at that capital, and i spent a lot of time in West Virginia. Here is the deal with West Virginia. Teachers in West Virginia are paid 48th out of 50 in the nation. And teachers in the surrounding counties and states
T booktv. Org. Eye unanimous in furchtgottroth and jared meyer argue that government policy are robbing millenials of their future. Thats next on booktv. [inaudible conversations] good evening. Good evening. Im Vice President for policy research at the Manhattan Institute and its my great pleasure to introduce you to to welcome you to discussion by our senior fellow, diana furchtgottroth and her colleague, jared meyer, co author 0s of the book disinherited how washington is betraying the young. The per sissents of debt of the federal government driven by the promises of entitlement programs such as Social Security and medicare have prompted Martin Feldstein to observe that fiscal deficits impose a burden on future generations. Borrowing only postpones the time when taxes will have to be paid. Even more pointedly former u. S. Comptroller general david walker has spoken of the problem of generational theft. Present consumption indulgence that robs the young of opportunities. In their imp
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