Erik is joined on this episode by Daniel Pianko (@danielpianko), co-founder and managing director of University Ventures, and Andy Hall (@AndyHall_SD), COO of the San Diego Workforce Partnership.

They talk about:

- How ISAs have been able to transform lives through Andy’s program in San Diego.

- Why tech titans providing massive amounts of money for scholarships is a suboptimal way of getting underprivileged people into school.

- The chasm between work and school in America.

- The fact that over 50% of all private donations go to 50 schools in the US.

- Potential bottlenecks to ISA adoption and how they can be solved.

- Why only 25% of people end up with a first job related to their degree.

- How to think about public vs. private responsibility to increase access to education in the US.

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