Change for a 20?

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Politics, Daily News, News

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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As Washington gears up for the 2020 elections, it's fighting over who should be on the $20 bill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	When I went home for the holidays last year, I couldn't believe how much the kids were
0:03.3	into making slime.
0:05.5	They were little slime factories on top of all the slime they were already exuding.
0:09.8	Anyway, one of the Kiwi Co. crates also helps the kids make slime, but teaches them all
0:15.4	about what they're making as they go.
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0:24.4	Visit KiwiCo.com slash explain.
0:30.4	You know what might become a hot button issue in 2020?
0:39.4	The 20.
0:40.7	Like the 20 you've got in your back pocket right now or your purse right now, the one
0:44.6	with Andrew Jackson on one side and I don't know, let me see who's on the other side.
0:50.0	It's got, oh, it looks like the White House on the other side.
0:52.6	You might know it well.
0:53.8	Comes out of the ATM all the time.
0:55.7	There's a fight over whose face gets to be on the 20 right now and this wasn't supposed
1:02.2	to be a fight.
1:03.4	This was supposed to be settled.
1:05.5	The brand new $20 bill was supposed to be ready to go in 2020 to mark the 100th anniversary
1:13.0	of women's suffrage and the new face of the 20 was supposed to be Harriet Tubman.
1:19.2	This idea came up back in 2015.
1:21.4	Alan Rapp report covers economic policy for the New York Times.
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