Take on students today based on your reporting. Guest well, i think youre right. I think the Democrat Students today are different, the age of students is different. Im mostly focused on students who were right out of high school, so the experience that i wanted to focus on was what is that transition out of high school and into the work force. So that definitely doesnt capture all of the college population, but i wanted to understand how the pathways diverged after high school for different students. And most of the ways that i found they diverged were by Family Income. Students who have a lot of Family Income are going down much more traditional paths, students without a lot of Family Income had many more obstacles in their path. Host can you start by telling us as we get into those different issues a little more about your own path coming out of high school . Guest yeah. So i had a rocky high school period. Right after high school, i grew up in tampa, and after finishing high school
I am fred wade, the president president of the madison institute. I want to welcome you here this afternoon tiered partnering with the festival to present this event. For those of you not familiar, nonpartisan, Nonprofit Organization that presents programs and issues of Public Policy each year. If youd like to learn more or the more aware, you can go to our website. We have a signup for future emails if you like to do that. I want to thank the Madison Public Library, the Madison Public Library foundation and on behalf of the institute, supporting what we do and the foundation, the charitable arm of the capital times. Its an honor to introduce dan kaufman who was a madison native. Grubb. The 1980s. He is also a musician. He has written for the New York Times magazine, the new yorker and the nation. The best review of his book to date is one by bill leaders. He capsulized is what the book is about as hes eventually telling how the movement grew during the century. And the way that legacy
Institute. I want to welcome you here this afternoon tiered partnering with the festival to present this event. For those of you not familiar, nonpartisan, Nonprofit Organization that presents programs and issues of Public Policy each year. If youd like to learn more or the more aware, you can go to our website. We have a signup for future emails if you like to do that. I want to thank the Madison Public Library, the Madison Public Library foundation and on behalf of the institute, supporting what we do and the foundation, the charitable arm of the capital times. Its an honor to introduce dan kaufman who was a madison native. Grubb. The 1980s. He is also a musician. He has written for the New York Times magazine, the new yorker and the nation. The best review of his book to date is one by bill leaders. He capsulized is what the book is about as hes eventually telling how the movement grew during the century. And the way that legacy has been dismantled and transformed since the governor
plans to remember that event today. on this anniversary, a debate about gun violence and what to do about it. we re interested in hearing from you. how to best reduce acts of gun violence. if you are a gun owner. if you do not own a gun, 202-748-8001. if you want to put your thoughts on how the best way to reduce gun violence can occur, you can put those thoughts on facebook and twitter. patch talks about the remembrances that will take place in sandy hook today. it has been for years since the gunman took the lives of those 20 innocent children. four years. today, the town will hold a somber, silent reminder for 15 minutes, the time the shootings took place. the superintendent said that the will bees of silence for department staff and the schools themselves. abc news looks at the efforts made by the obama administration since that shooting at sandy hook. mr. obama has made little federal progress towards what he repeatedly described as common law. the outgoing president
a finalist for the national book award this year, by the way, just announced. congratulations. other books include working parents and the revolution at home, the time bind, when home becomes work and work becomes home, and the managed heart: the commercialization of the intimate life. she s been awarded the ulysses medal from university college-dublin, ireland, wells the guggenheim-mellon fellowship. four of her books have been named notable nonfiction book of the year by the new york times , and her work appears in 16 languages. she s a sociology professor emerita at uc-berkeley. she lives in california with her husband, adam. welcome, arlie. thank you. thank you. thank you very much. [applause] it s great to be here. what i thought we could do is i ll spend a little bit of time taking you on a journey with me that i ve just come home from. and then we can open it up to questions and comments. five years ago i sensed, like so many of us did, a split between left and ri