Professor Tony Carnevale, founder and director of Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce and co-author of the seminal book The Merit Myth, has been advising U.S. presidents, both Democrat and Republican, for decades. In this episode, he addresses American colleges and the inequality he says they continue to stoke; and he discusses the Infrastructure Bill, which he sees as good for the working class... but only up to a point. The unifying theme, one we have encountered before on this podcast, is America's chronic disconnect between education and the economy.