601 | Noam Scheiber: How the Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class Could Reshape America

About this episode

Noam Scheiber discusses the impact of the college-educated working class's revolt on America's economic landscape.

Noam Scheiber, New York Times reporter and author of Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Noam discuss how the rise and fall of the "college-for-all" economic model has left a generation of graduates (and non-graduates) feeling betrayed by the system, how downwardly-mobile college graduates are swinging to the economic left, which universities and government policies are responsible for the student debt crisis, and why the Biden administration's debt forgiveness program wasn't a political winner.

People in this episode

Host: Marshall

Guest: Noam Scheiber

Topics covered

• college-educated working class
• student debt crisis
• economic left
• Biden administration
• higher education

Keywords

• college-for-all
• economic model
• downward mobility
• student debt
• debt forgiveness

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: New York Times

Books & works: Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class

Places: Biden administration

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