Authors to appear in the near future on Book Tv. Joining us on Book Tv is Author Philip Magness he is the coauthor with Jason Brennan of this book, cracks in the Ivory Tower. At first about mr. Magness when you do for a living . I am an economist at the american institute for economic research. Have you been in academia before . I have it. Spent about ten years teaching college american university and very college all over the United States but. What was your experience like . It was an interesting environment to put it mildly. Many good positive things came out of it both in terms of college i work with and the research that i did. I also got to see the inside behind the scenes of what happens in the way a university runs. And what did you find . My immediate take on it is, if we judged a university just as a normal Business Operation there are things that happen in universities that would make things like enron look ethical by comparison. Give us an example. The first thing is the we
United states but. What was your experience like . It was an interesting environment to put it mildly. Many good positive things came out of it both in terms of college i work with and the research that i did. I also got to see the inside behind the scenes of what happens in the way a university runs. And what did you find . My immediate take on it is, if we judged a university just as a normal Business Operation there are things that happen in universities that would make things like enron look ethical by comparison. Give us an example. The first thing is the weight universities and market themselves through students. If you go to any university they have literature they present themselves as you are going to get a worldclass education and open up all sorts of possibilities. Their promising high and mighty things but every student that comes to their system is going to get. But when you actually look at the results was coming out of the University System its a range of degrees. Some a
Increased 5. 4 over a year earlier. Senate committee of banking will come to order. Today our economy is growing because of the american Rescue Plan. In the bidenharris administrations leadership. Putting shots and money in pockets families have extra to pay the bills. Beginning today, july 15th, most parents will see a 250 or 300 monthly payment in their Bank Account for each child. In my state 92 of children are eligible. Small businesses are reopening their doors. Workers are safely going back to work at higher wages. Last month we added 850,000 jobs to the economy since biden took office. We gained 3 million more jobs, more than in the first five moves any presidency in modern history. Not only the jobs numbers but theuality of these jobs. For the first time in decades workers are starting to gain some power in our economy, the power to negotiate higher wages, the power to get better working conditions, the power to have more control over their schedules and stronger benefits, and
The u. S. Economy, inflation, and u. S. Labor shortages. He took questions from the senate banking committee. Senate committee of banking will come to order. Today our economy is growing because of the american Rescue Plan. In the bidenharris administrations leadership. Putting shots and money in pockets families have extra to pay the bills. Beginning today, july 15th, most parents will see a 250 or 300 monthly payment in their Bank Account for each child. In my state 92 of children are eligible. Small businesses are reopening their doors. Workers are safely going back to work at higher wages. Last month we added 850,000 jobs to the economy since biden took office. We gained 3 million more jobs, more than in the first five moves any presidency in modern history. Not only the jobs numbers but theuality of these jobs. For the first time in decades workers are starting to gain some power in our economy, the power to negotiate higher wages, the power to get better working conditions, the p
I am alan weil, editorinchief of health affairs. Welcome to todays Policy Spotlight, a new series of virtual events featuring indepth conversations with influential Health Policy experts in washington and around the country. We are thrilled to have Liz Fowler as our first Policy Spotlight guest. The Policy Spotlight series is one of many changes we made at health affairs in the wake of the covid pandemic. The pandemic hit the United States just as we were about to hold an Inperson Event in conjunction with our march 2020 issue focused on the affordable Care Act at 10. We canceled that event and all of them since, and as we considered rescheduling it, we thought why not take from what we have learned over the past year and do something different . The result is Policy Spotlight with a shorter, virtual format that looks forward toward emerging issues. We are grateful to the Commonwealth Fund and the Robert Johnson Foundation for their support of the original aca at 10 issue and their wil