Heather Cox Richardson
speaker
7,479 appearances
87 recordings
10 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 4d ago
Heather Cox Richardson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Austin Democratic State Senator Sarah Eckhart said the report proves this program is a billion dollar handout to exclusive private schools concentrated in big cities, while public schools across the state are underfunded and closing at an alarming rate.
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In Arizona, opponents of the voucher program tried to put onto the ballot this fall a measure that would have limited eligibility for the program by income and cracked down on the misuse of funds by homeschoolers who used voucher money for ninja warrior training centers, trampoline parks, pianos, and so on.
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But voucher supporters sued over the signatures on the ballot measure, and on Tuesday the Arizona Supreme Court decided in their favor, throwing the measure out of this fall's election.
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Elvia Diaz of the Arizona Mirror wrote, Arizona school vouchers that are pulling a billion dollars away from students in K through 12 public schools are here to stay, whether we like it or not.
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She noted that the real challenge is a public school system left underfunded and a voucher system left unchecked.
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In eighteen thirty one, Southern lawmakers tried to create a white nation by making it a crime to educate black Americans.
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In twenty twenty six, the intent to exclude certain Americans from participation in the Enlightenment principles that undergird the nation remains the same.
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Only less explicit.
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Letters from an American was written and read by Heather Cox Richardson.
It was produced at Soundscape Productions, Dedham, Massachusetts.
Recorded with music composed by Michael Moss.
August twentieth, twenty twenty six.
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On Saturday, august fifteenth, the New York Times editorial board published an op-ed noting that the Republicans are trying to hide the cuts they have made to health care in the US.
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The editorial board called the expansion of affordable health care to millions of Americans one of the great achievements of the federal government in this century.
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Before the Democrats passed the Affordable Care Act or ACA in 2010 without a single Republican vote, about 18% of Americans under 65 had no health insurance.
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With the passage and later expansion of the ACA, also known as Obamacare, the number of uninsured had fallen below ten percent.
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But now, the journalists note, Trump and the Republicans are working to uproot that achievement.
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While they extended Trump's twenty seventeen tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations in their july twenty twenty five budget reconciliation bill, the one they call the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed without a single Democratic vote.
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They refused to extend subsidies that enabled people to afford health care insurance in the ACA marketplaces.
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The Democrats shut down the government last fall to try to force Republicans to restore those cuts, foreseeing that higher prices for premiums would drive healthier people out of the markets and out of health care insurance, while the loss of those healthier people from risk pools would drive up premiums for those remaining.
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