Natalie Kitrow
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From The New York Times, I'm Natalie Kittroweth.
This is The Daily.
As Democrats wrestle over the direction of their party, a new crop of progressive candidates has made the case that the political future is economic populism.
Among the biggest supporters of that platform are college graduates, who used to lean right politically, but over the last few decades have moved increasingly to the left.
Today, my colleague Noam Scheiber explains the economic forces that have left many college grads deeply indebted, underpaid, and angry, and how their unmet expectations are reshaping class politics in America.
It's Thursday, June 11th.
Noam, to set the stakes of the conversation that we're about to have, can you describe the political transformation of college graduates that you've just written a book about and that you've been reporting on for years now?
Okay, what are the economic forces that led to this deep sense of frustration?
Just to summarize quickly, you have this huge increase in the number of prospective students.
And as a result, the landscape of education starts to change in order to accommodate them.
You get these new colleges, both for-profit and these non-competitive ones.
And it sounds like those changes, they start to dilute the value of a college degree.
Which is significant, right?
Twice the amount of debt is no small matter.
Overall, this sounds like a pretty bad situation.
You have a generation of people who are being told that college is absolutely necessary, being hyped up on the importance of it, who then go to colleges that may not have even existed for very long, and then graduating from those schools with loads of debt.
And that is how they enter the job market.
Bailing out Wall Street is the only way to save Main Street, so says the president.
Right.
This moment amplifies this sense that there are just two tiers of society in America.
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