Power and Corruption: The Devos Family | Corporate Casket

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Blair Zoń

Documentary, Education, Business, Society & Culture

4.4 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Go to http://dipseastories.com/casket to get an extended 30-day trial. Go to http://mintmobile.com/casper to cut your wireless bill to $15 a month. Welcome to the Corporate Casket, a weekly series where bad businesses go to die. Betsy DeVos became incredibly well known when she inexplicably was named the United States Secretary of Education. But, her family has been well-known in the business world for decades and sometimes for some pretty shady reasons. Connect With Me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii’ Sources: https://justpaste.it/cighe This episode was edited and mixed by: G. Thomas Craig Album cover art created by: Betsy Primes Intro Song Credits: Trauma- Will Van De Crommert Outro Song Credits: Electronica Punch- Oleksandr Koltsov Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	and mastery so that you each student is measured according to the
0:07.1	advancement that they're making in each subject area
0:10.4	well that's growth that's not proficiency in other words, the growth they're making is...
0:15.6	When Betsy Devas was tapped to be the new United States Secretary of Education in 2016,
0:20.7	we were all forced to sit through some of the most mind-boggling confirmation hearings
0:25.2	that have ever occurred.
0:26.5	Well, I'm not that surprise that you did not know this issue.
0:31.3	Ms. DeVos, your family has a long history of supporting anti-LGB.
0:34.6	Clearly, at least to most people, this was not someone meant for this job.
0:38.6	Her lack of experience, funding of private charter schools and advocacy for guns and schools in case of potential grizzlies
0:45.2	didn't exactly scream as an excellent choice.
0:48.6	But if you dig a little deeper into the DeVos family,
0:51.7	you start to understand how someone so ill-equipped for this job got the nod.
0:56.3	Betsy, who grew up in a wealthy family of her own, married into the Devas family in 1979.
1:02.1	The marriage merger, as I love to call it, brought two of the most powerful
1:05.6	families in Michigan, the Prince family and the DeVos family, together.
1:10.3	For the next few decades, their power showed and would cast a massive shadow.
1:14.0	If you looked at virtually every right-wing organization, from think tanks to colleges to
1:19.0	Republican candidates themselves, you are sure to see one of the two family names in the background.
1:24.3	While the Prince Family Fortune came from manufacturing companies, the Devoss family
1:28.5	empire was built on the backs of distributors through a massive MLM company.
1:33.0	Together, the two families pulled their money and their overwhelming influence to
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