Wednesday, January 12th, 2022

Morning Announcements

Betches

Politics, Daily News, News, News Commentary

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🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Let’s start today’s news day with a major investigation into the Ivy League and other top colleges in the U.S. Next, we cover several Covid news stories, before moving over to the latest updates involving Biden and the filibuster. Meanwhile, the Justice Department is establishing a specialized unit focused on domestic terrorism. And finally, former American Idol runner up Clay Aiken is running for Congress again in North Carolina. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: Washington Post: “Former students sue Georgetown, Columbia and other elite universities over financial aid practices” NPR: “How to get insurance to pay for at-home COVID tests, according to the White House” Washington Post: “Pfizer plans to manufacture up to 100 million doses of omicron-specific vaccine by spring” BBC: “Covid: Half of Europe to be infected with Omicron within weeks - WHO” AP News: “Biden to back Senate rule change to pass voting rights bill” AP News: “Justice Dept. creating unit focused on domestic terrorism” Hollywood Reporter: “Clay Aiken Running for Congress Again in North Carolina” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Wednesday, January 12, and you're listening to the Morning Announcements presented
0:07.5	by Betcha's media.
0:08.9	I'm Sammy Sage.
0:12.1	We're starting today's news with a major story about the Ivy League and other top colleges
0:16.3	in the United States.
0:17.5	Apparently, the top players in the US News and World Report college rankings were doing
0:22.1	some sketchy things behind the scenes in order to make the schools more expensive and
0:26.0	exclusive.
0:27.3	In a new class action lawsuit brought by former students, 16 elite schools have been
0:31.4	accused of conspiring to limit financial aid for admitted students.
0:35.0	The complaint claims that the schools used a shared methodology to calculate financial
0:38.5	need in a way that reduced financial aid to students from working and middle-class families.
0:43.3	Attorneys estimate that more than 170,000 students who received partial financial aid over
0:48.4	the past 18 years have been harmed by the practice.
0:51.7	The complaint also states that at least nine schools still favor the wealthy by giving
0:55.4	advantages to children of potential donors, as well as students' ability to pay full tuition
1:00.2	when accepting students' off-weight lists.
1:02.5	Yeah, no shit, Sherlock.
1:04.1	Are we really surprised at the same colleges that educated Elon Musk manipulated prices
1:08.3	to make more money?
1:10.3	Next, we have a lot of COVID news, and I still can't believe I'm saying that almost every
1:15.2	episode.
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