11.25.2020
KidNuz: News for Kids
Starglow Media
4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to kid news sponsored today by Bamboo Learning. I'm Kim. |
| 0:05.3 | Today is Wednesday the 25th of November and we begin with a question. Why does |
| 0:10.8 | Thanksgiving always fall on the fourth Thursday of the month? |
| 0:15.0 | No fewer than three presidents and Congress had a hand and went to calendar it. |
| 0:19.5 | Historians say it's been celebrated in November since the days of George Washington, but it was |
| 0:24.9 | Honest Abe who pushed it to the last Thursday of the month. |
| 0:28.7 | FDR then moved it up a week to accommodate retailers who wanted a longer shopping season, but some states |
| 0:35.6 | wouldn't budge and confusion reined. |
| 0:38.3 | Forcing Congress to step in and in 1941 declare that it will forever and always be on the fourth Thursday of November. |
| 0:46.9 | As controversial as the week to celebrate Thanksgiving is the day. |
| 0:50.9 | Famed publisher F.B. Haviland even wrote to President Herbert Hoover asking him to please |
| 0:57.3 | move the holiday to a Friday so everyone could enjoy a long weekend, a request that so far has gotten no traction. |
| 1:07.7 | The recommended 14-day COVID quarantine time may be on the chopping block. |
| 1:13.2 | According to the Wall Street Journal, the Centers for Disease Control may soon cut it in |
| 1:17.4 | half to seven days, or at most ten. |
| 1:21.1 | Recent studies reportedly show less alone time would still be effective and may make |
| 1:26.2 | it easier for people to adhere to. |
| 1:28.7 | The CDC also reiterated yesterday that the second week of December is still the target date for the first round of vaccines. |
| 1:36.0 | Not everyone is sold though. Recent studies suggest only 60% of Americans are ready to get it. |
| 1:43.3 | To convince the other 40%, the nonprofit ad council |
| 1:47.1 | is about to roll out the biggest public service campaign |
| 1:50.4 | in history. |
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