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Al Franken On The MN Senator Against Free School Lunches | Heather McGhee

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The Story of the Drained Public Pool

Young people get it. It's this story that is of course unbelievable, but they've lived in America long enough to know that it's actually quite believable. Because they understand that over their lifetime, public goods have really been atrophying and there isn't free college the way there was. And so in the sum of us, I use a lot of data and a lot of history, but ultimately it's a series of stories. Like the story of the drained public pool. Now the cover of this is the boy jumping the pool. A white boy looks like and I think a black child there. Tell that story because that's the first story you tell these kids, right? Yeah

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