1/2: #DoD: The Biden Administration and the demoralizing recruiting shortfall. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution
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🗓️ 8 September 2023
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1/2: #DoD: The Biden Administration and the demoralizing recruiting shortfall. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution
https://www.hoover.org/research/how-demoralization-undercuts-recruitment
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| 0:38.0 | I welcome Professor Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution, a senior fellow teaches |
| 0:42.2 | law on NYU and the University of Chicago. |
| 0:45.5 | Writing and defining ideas, observations about what can explain the shortfall of recruiting |
| 0:51.5 | for the U.S. military these last years. |
| 0:54.5 | Richard offers multiple innocent explanations, which I will list very quickly before we get |
| 1:01.2 | to the other considered factors. |
| 1:04.2 | Low unemployment means there are a lot of opportunities besides the military. |
| 1:08.8 | At the same time, college is attractive to many families in an environment where there |
| 1:14.8 | is aid and increasing emphasis on professionalism. |
| 1:20.0 | There's also the possibility that all of this could be reversed by signing bonuses. |
| 1:25.0 | However, we're setting that down as the possibility of low recruitment rates. |
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