Is There a Real Transformation in Urban Policy?

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Sureso: The story about stem gaps and skillsgap is more complicated than first presented. Most us. Stem majors are not working in stem post degree, he says. When we look at a labor market returns am over the life course, it's often critical thinking skills that receive the most wage pay offs compared to something like technical skills. Sureso: If you're getting a message from the top down, from the federal government, about the kind of new economic rules of the game, if that message is not particularly borne out empirically, it's often we see that you now, at the minimum, the story aboutstem gaps and skills gap is more complicated

Paris Marx is joined by Dan Greene to discuss how the Clinton administration reframed poverty through the lens of the internet and how that transformed the missions of key institutions like libraries and schools.

Dan Greene is an assistant professor at University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies. He is the author of “The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope.” Follow Dan on Twitter at @Green_DM.

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