State and local election results in 2021 have provided pundits with a lot of fodder to make simplistic pronouncements on what voters were telling political…
Posts tagged as “education”
When students reach out during office hours it is rarely about anything I teach. The leading questions I receive: “What degrees have the best job…
If Democrats pass legislation forgiving loans, the move might be popular with their educated progressive base, yet unpopular with many working-class voters. Student debt is…
As Donald Trump pushes educated voters further and further away, he contributes to a trend that emerged during the 2004 election cycle. Believe it or…
What we are witnessing in political debates about wealth is also an intergenerational dispute. Older Americans, who are living longer and working longer than ever…
Research has indicated that first-generation students from lower- and middle-class households are more likely to select business, science, and technology degree majors than their more…
The Republicans have a perception problem of their own creation. They are perceived as the party of the rich — and the association with Donald…
I’m sick and tired of being told I’m not a liberal (in the common usage of the United States, not elsewhere) because I’m somehow from…