Phillip Levine: Why Biden's Student Debt Forgiveness Proposal Isn't the Solution to the Real Economic Injustices of the American College System

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Phillip Levine: Why Biden's Student Debt Forgiveness Proposal Isn't the Solution to the Real Economic Injustices of the American College System

Andrew Keen

Aug 26, 2022

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In this episode, Andrew is joined by Phillip Levine, author of A Problem of Fit: How the Complexity of College Pricing Hurts Students–And Universities.

Phillip B. Levine is the A. Barton Hepburn and Katharine Coman Professor of Economics at Wellesley College, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the author, coauthor, or coeditor of five books devoted to statistics and the analysis of social policy and its effect on individual behavior.

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