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Streeter says college degrees only matter for first jobs, not career trajectory
“That degree is gonna get you your first job, maybe your second, but probably not even that as much. It's these other things that you have learned how to do that really make you capable in the workplace.”
Streeter argues broad two-for-one deregulation rules are blunt and easily gamed
“These broad ones, which in the Trump administration tried to do this, did this last time, there's talk of doing it again, like for every new regulation, we take two off the books. Well, That's, that sounds great, but you can implement one very costly regulatio…”
Streeter says Washington think tanks wield true influence in private closed-door briefings
“All think tanks in Washington have a lot of public events, you know, that, you know, you can live stream them, you can come and hear scholars talk. But I always felt like the most important work that we did was the stuff that wasn't on camera. It was the stuff…”
Streeter says most tenured professors lack experience converting research into policy briefs
“A lot of people that are tenured professors in a department, they don't have experience converting their research into kind of policy briefs or whatever. And that's what think tanks can do for them is to take their research and make it digestible for people th…”