{"id":1060050,"date":"2023-04-25T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=c012aaca0b41cffd0b888d91040ada2e"},"modified":"2023-04-25T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T07:00:00","slug":"how-college-broke-the-american-dream-with-will-bunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/04\/25\/how-college-broke-the-american-dream-with-will-bunch\/","title":{"rendered":"How college broke the American dream (with Will Bunch)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <p>This week we\u2019re continuing our exploration into the ways that higher education contributes to America\u2019s political, cultural, and economic divisions. Goldy chats with author Will Bunch about how our leaders almost established a university education as a public good, why the so-called \u201cknowledge economy\u201d has caused inequality to grow, and how we can possibly fix our educational divide.<\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Will Bunch is a national opinion columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer and author of several books. He has won numerous journalism awards and shared the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for spot news reporting with the New York Newsday staff.<\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Will_Bunch\">@Will_Bunch<\/a><\/p><p><br><\/p><p>After the Ivory Tower Falls <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/products\/after-the-ivory-tower-falls-will-bunch?variant=40088708907042\">https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/products\/after-the-ivory-tower-falls-will-bunch<\/a><\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Better Public Schools Won\u2019t Fix America <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2019\/07\/education-isnt-enough\/590611\/\">https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2019\/07\/education-isnt-enough\/590611<\/a><\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchforkeconomics.com\/\">http:\/\/pitchforkeconomics.com<\/a><\/p><p>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PitchforkEcon\">@PitchforkEcon<\/a><\/p><p>Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pitchforkeconomics\/?hl=en\">@pitchforkeconomics<\/a><\/p><p>Nick\u2019s twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nickhanauer?lang=en\">@NickHanauer<\/a><\/p>\n      \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"\">Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        This week we\u2019re continuing our exploration into the ways that higher education contributes to America\u2019s political, cultural, and economic divisions. Goldy chats with author Will Bunch about how our leaders almost established a university educa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1577,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1060051,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060050\/revisions\/1060051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}