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It's Been a Minute

Weekly Wrap: School Surveillance, That Anonymous Book, College Tuition Benefits

It's Been a Minute

NPR

Society & Culture, News, News Commentary, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.79.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Senate Republicans have introduced a bill that would expand online and other surveillance of American schoolchildren, in what they call an effort to prevent mass shootings and other violence. But is that type of surveillance effective — and what does it mean for privacy? Plus, news of a book purportedly written by a Trump administration insider, who last year published an anonymous New York Times op-ed about resisting the President's agenda. Service-industry employers such as Chipotle are expanding college tuition benefits to attract workers and reduce turnover. Sam speaks to a Starbucks employee who is close to finishing her degree through that company's program and asks whether most employees can actually take advantage of these benefits. Sam is joined by NPR education correspondent Anya Kamenetz and NPR arts editor Rose Friedman.

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0:00.0

Hey y'all, this is Sam's Aunt Betty.

0:02.8

This week on the show, NPR Education correspondent,

0:07.2

on NiccomaNet and editor for NPR's Arts Desk,

0:12.0

Rose Friedman.

0:13.3

All right, let's start the show.

0:18.8

Hey y'all, from NPR, I'm Sam Sanders.

0:21.0

It's been a minute, happy weekend.

0:23.2

Listeners, you're probably used to hearing right now.

0:26.1

Let's start the show with a song.

0:27.7

A different song every week, a song from the news

0:30.2

that tells a story from the week.

0:33.3

We're not going to do that anymore.

0:34.8

We're going to switch it up.

0:36.0

I won't bore you with the details.

0:37.4

But in lieu of a song, we're going to begin with a story

0:39.9

from this week of news that gives us the next best thing

0:43.3

to a song, Bacon.

0:44.8

Bacon.

0:46.8

OK.

0:47.6

Did you both know that America right now

0:50.9

is sitting on top of the biggest stockpile of bacon

0:54.2

it has had in the last almost half century.

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