{"id":13870,"date":"2024-05-11T08:47:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T14:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=13870"},"modified":"2024-05-11T08:47:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T14:47:05","slug":"politics-and-taxpayer-funded-truman-scholars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=13870","title":{"rendered":"Politics and taxpayer funded Truman Scholars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/truman-scholarship-overwhelmingly-awarded-to-progressive-students-for-tenth-year-in-row\/\">Benjamin Rothove:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nearly three in four recipients of this year\u2019s prestigious, federally funded Truman Scholarship have clear ties to Democratic politicians or progressive causes, a&nbsp;<em>College Fix<\/em>&nbsp;analysis found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Approximately 43 of the 60 students have worked for Democratic politicians, advocated for progressive causes, or identify as left-leaning \u2014 continuing an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/?s=%22truman+scholarship%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">annual trend exposed<\/a>&nbsp;in past&nbsp;<em>Fix<\/em>&nbsp;analyses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In contrast, only five scholars have worked for Republican politicians, advocated for conservative causes, or identify as right-leaning.&nbsp;<em>The College Fix<\/em>&nbsp;determined this information based on provided biographies, LinkedIn profiles, and email inquiries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Rothove: Nearly three in four recipients of this year\u2019s prestigious, federally funded Truman Scholarship have clear ties to Democratic politicians or progressive causes, a&nbsp;College Fix&nbsp;analysis found. Approximately 43 of the 60 students have worked for Democratic politicians, advocated for progressive causes, or identify as left-leaning \u2014 continuing an&nbsp;annual trend exposed&nbsp;in past&nbsp;Fix&nbsp;analyses. In contrast, only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13871,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13870\/revisions\/13871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}