The Kids Are All Right. The Adults Are F***ing Up!

UNDISTRACTED With Brittany Packnett Cunningham

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🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

It’s all about the young folk this week: We’ve got Gen Z protestors disrupting anti-abortion galas…a student reporter holding colleges to task…and clever TikTokers lobbying for debt relief. And that’s just in the first ten minutes! Then, host Brittany Packnett Cunningham talks to school librarian Jennisen Lucas and author George M. Johnson about the new wave of book banning, who’s really behind it, and the lifelong damage it does– to students, and to all of us. Note: Read Talia’s Kantor Lieber's story about how colleges in hostile states are responding to the end of Roe: https://themeteor.us/iKxc5z. AND, to donate relief aid to Pakistan, here are some useful resources: Pakistan Red Crescent Society, Muslim Aid, and International Medical Corps. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Asahi Pompeii, Global Head of Corporate Engagement and President of the Goldman Sachs Foundation.
0:12.0	I'm excited that today's episode of Undistracted
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0:40.5	visit GS.com
0:43.0	10Ks B. And Hey y'all, it's Brittany. So there was one particular episode of this
1:10.3	podcast that I could not stop thinking about all week.
1:13.0	Back in March, we spoke with Senator Elizabeth Warren
1:16.2	about student loans, remember?
1:18.0	Here's the deal.
1:19.4	About two out of every three Americans, and that includes Democrats and Republicans say we got to cancel
1:27.0	student loan debt. We just got to do this.
1:29.0	Well, I know there's been a whole lot of cheering going on this week because after years of people like
1:34.8	her and other legislators and hundreds, hundreds of organizers.
1:40.2	We finally got some traction as President Biden has agreed to cancel some student loan debt.
1:46.0	Okay, pause for applause.
1:48.0	But you know, while plenty of us, even those without student loan debt like myself, see this as an amazing moment of relief.
1:55.6	For millions, while we continue to push for more, other folks are pissed about it.
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