Should schools be paying their college athletes?
The Indicator from Planet Money
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🗓️ 27 March 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Today, we break down why the Dartmouth men are pushing to unionize and what a college athletics union could mean for the future of college sports.
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| 0:00.0 | NPR Ah yeah March Madness is happening and that is why we were talking |
| 0:17.0 | college basketball today on the indicator to kick us off we got Andrea shoe |
| 0:21.6 | from NPR's Business Desk here. What's up Andrea? |
| 0:24.1 | Hey I don't want to disappoint but I'm not going to be talking about Caitlin |
| 0:27.0 | Clark or about Yukon's chances this year I am a labor reporter after all. |
| 0:31.3 | Come on everybody is talking about Caitlin Clark right now. |
| 0:35.0 | I know, but the most interesting team to me at the moment |
| 0:38.0 | is one that hasn't made it to March Madness since 1959. |
| 0:42.0 | But they did recently celebrate this sweet victory. |
| 0:45.0 | And Dartmouth ends the season with a win. |
| 0:49.0 | Dartmouth, okay? |
| 0:51.0 | Yeah, in New Hampshire. |
| 0:52.0 | And that same day, the team also had this other huge win. |
| 0:55.8 | In a 13 to 2 landslide vote the Dartmouth men's basketball team became the first team in |
| 1:01.2 | college athletics to unionize. |
| 1:03.6 | Okay, I see why you've been watching this now. |
| 1:05.7 | I love the labor reporter nerdiness. |
| 1:08.3 | Yeah, yeah, you're with me. |
| 1:09.4 | Well, two of the Dartmouth players, Romeo Myrtle and Kate Haskins, |
| 1:12.4 | talk to reporters just after their vote. |
| 1:14.6 | We want everyone to have their own voice. |
| 1:16.6 | Just having our voices heard and actually getting a see at the table really means a lot to us. |
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