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Streeter: US university faculty have drifted left, screening out opposing viewpoints
“It's just a matter of fact that the political leanings of faculty have really moved to the left since the 19 sixties in this country, and it's happened kind of decade by decade by decade, to the point where people do get screened out of certain colleges and sc…”
Streeter says Trump campaign spent $250M on transgender prison surgery ad
“We know now that like the Trump campaign spent like two hundred fifty million dollars on that one ad about transgender In, in prisons, when Kamala Harris was talking about supporting transgender surgery in prisons and all that, they found that that moved undec…”
Streeter says claims of universal loneliness crisis among young Americans are false
“You have to be careful when you're saying, like, all young people are suffering a crisis of loneliness, because it's actually not true. There are certain types of young people that are very lonely, and it's like, you want to tailor your response to that popula…”
Streeter predicts John Thune's Senate leadership will check Trump's MAGA appointments
“With John Thune becoming the Senate majority leader, that creates maybe a little bit of a break on the sort of MAGA elements in the Senate, because that was a hotly contested race too. Is Trump gonna be able to get all of his people rubber stamped? Is he gonna…”
Streeter predicts shifting student preferences will force elite universities to change behavior
“So something's happening in a pretty big way right now, which is gonna force some kind of accountability on, I think, some elite institutions that they haven't really felt the pressure to react to before, but I think it's actually gonna change their behavior s…”
Streeter says culture wars outranked inflation for 2024 swing voters backing Trump
“When you look at the people who identified themselves as swing voters who eventually broke for Trump, the issue, the culture wars issue outranked the inflation issue for them.”
Streeter notes UT Austin student applications are up 98 percent year-over-year
“Someone told me last week that our applications are up 98% year over year at UT.”
Streeter says conscientiousness is a top three predictor of lifetime earnings
“Conscientiousness of the big five personality traits is conscientiousness is probably, it's one of the top two or three predictors of lifetime earnings,”
Streeter notes high-trust regions with more social capital produce higher GDP
“I mean, in high trust areas, you have higher productivity rates. You have, in, in, in geographic regions where you have more social capital measured even just by Civic and voluntary participation. You have higher levels of regional GDP.”
Streeter notes federal funding is a tiny share of public school budgets
“The reality is that, you know, schools are still, public schools are still very much a function of state budgets, right? It's a, in most states, it's like, it's the biggest part, or next to maybe your Medicaid population, depending on which state you are. I me…”