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DISGUSTING! "How's My Form" TikTok GONE WRONG, Colleges SLAMMED for Taking Aid Money, David Dobrik & - YouTube
Channel: Philip DeFranco
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- 'Sup you beautiful bastards, hope
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you've had a fantastic Wednesday.
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Welcome back to the Philip Defranco show.
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Buckle up.
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Hit that like button, and
let's just jump into it.
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And the first thing we're
going to talk about today
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is this racism controversy that has just
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blown up on TikTok.
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Right, and what we're
seeing here in general
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are tons of teenagers coming under fire
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for videos that a lot of
people that have deemed
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racist as part of the new
"how's my form" trend.
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Essentially the way this trend works
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is you have in the
video seemingly offering
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advice or information
to attract a specific
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kind of audience.
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It then cuts to a clip of "Now that I have
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- Insert blank's attention-",
with it then cutting
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to a heavily edited,
often over saturated clip,
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of them imitating that person or group,
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and asking "How's my form?"
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And with this trend
there have been some tame
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examples that have blew up,
like that of David Dobrik.
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It starts off with him
dueting a TikTok that says
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"How to get to out of the friend zone with
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your assistant", then it
cuts to the user saying
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"Now that David Dobrik's
here, can I get a tesla?"
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Right, harmless, funny;
makes fun of the fact that
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a lot of people think
he has a crush on his
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assistant and his long-time friend,
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and it references the fact
that Dobrik gives away
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a lot of cars in his videos.
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But, th- the problem with the situation is
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what we've seen is that
many teenagers have used
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racist stereotypes while
making their videos.
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I mean, some of the
videos that have blown up
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also received a ton of backlash.
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Like connected Chinese
people with eating bats.
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References to black
people eating watermelon
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and getting arrested.
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References to Mexicans mowing
lawns, jumping over fences.
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Referencing Arabs sneaking
bombs through security.
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And the thing is, in addition
to the general backlash
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a number of these creators have faced,
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it seems like some online
have made it their mission
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for these teenagers to face consequences.
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Some even going as far as
doxxing them, sharing information
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like their full names,
school, social profiles,
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even home addresses.
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Also an interesting aspect to this story
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is because a number of
the people who are a part
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of this trend are
younger, the people using
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this app are younger.
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We saw and example where
one teen, who mocked
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black people in reference
to 3/5 Compromised.
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She faced so much backlash,
thus seemingly leaking
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into her personal life,
that her father eventually
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forced her to post a video apology.
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- [Girl in Video] I didn't mean for it
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to come off as racist,
even though considering
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the context of it, I- I
didn't mean it like that.
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I was just doing a TikTok trend, and
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my- my actions, were- aren't okay.
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- And the fact the backlash
and real life consequences
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will become such a big part
of people posting things
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to TikTok, especially
when it's deemed racist.
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We've actually seen
people use the trend to
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target those people who end up getting
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backlash and real life consequences.
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And that last TikTok is
actually in reference to
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a different racist video.
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And that video reportedly featured
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Stephanie Freeman and Jeffrey Hume,
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who are high schoolers in Georgia.
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The premise of their
video was that they were
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going to make n-words.
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Jeffrey also says the n-word in the video
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before mocking black people and saying
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they don't have dads.
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They say the watermelon
fried chicken thing.
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Then going on to say
that black people don't
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make good choices.
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Then going to to say that
black people rob people,
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and specifically:
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- [Jefferey In Video] Specifically whites,
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yeah, they do that.
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- [Philip Defranco] Then
finally mocking black
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people for going to jail.
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Now, in addition to
there being overwhelming
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anger because of this
video, they were reportedly
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expelled from their high
school over this behavior.
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Hume, who is reportedly
an independent wrestler,
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being dropped by wrestling organizations
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associated with him.
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Also we see in Freeman,
specifically facing even more
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criticism spread posts
from an Instagram account,
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allegedly run by her.
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In those posts, she appears to apologize,
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saying things like "(she) believes blacks
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are humans too."
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Begging people to stop
trying to ruin her life.
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But, I- I do want to note
there while that part
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has been heavily reported, it is unclear
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whether or not these posts are really
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coming from Freeman.
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There also has been a
part of this story being
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spread around, where-
where internet people
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are apparently trying to get Freeman's
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college acceptance revoked.
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But there, I haven't been
able to independently
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verify anything, and in
fact according to Heavy
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the college people
suspected she was planning
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on attending, has said there is no record
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of her admission.
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And so, there- there's
all of that happening
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right now, and- and as
far my opinion here;
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One: I'm not cosigning any of the doxxing,
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death threats, and any general craziness.
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That's not okay, and generally horrifying.
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Two: Freedom of speech
is a thing, but that
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does not mean freedom from consequences.
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No one, generally, other
than people that fit
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that same description,
want to be associated with
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racist assholes.
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And understand, I am saying
that there is a difference
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between jokes that go
too far, people who don't
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really understand how heavy what
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they're saying hits.
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And then, there's is the
overwhelming, disgusting
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racism that we witness in that last video.
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And finally, three:
don't be stupid, stupid!
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When you post something on the internet
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it does not exist in some
different alternate world.
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It is just and extension
of your real world.
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So what you do in one can have
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consequences in both.
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And understand, I say this hoping that
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the- the people that are
in these stories, right,
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that there is a growth there.
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And hopefully people are
learning and it doesn't
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just drive them further into ugliness.
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And also understand I say
this , not from a place
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where I'm "holier than
thou", shouting from the
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top of a mountain down.
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I say this as someone
who has constantly said:
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"I hate the person I was years ago."
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Like who I am today,
would want to be the shit
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out of old me.
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And I'm thankful to the
internet, and also people
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close to me that have helped
me grow, learn, evolve.
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I've also made peace with
the fact that not everyone
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evolves, and you can't make people grow.
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Right, because that's a personal journey.
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Only that person controls if
their door is open or not.
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But yeah, with all that
said, those are the stories.
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My personal takeaway, of
course I pass the question
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Then, let's talk about
why there's been such
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a focus on businesses
in the news right now.
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And this is kind of on three fronts.
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And first up we have
an update and expansion
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on something we covered earlier this week,
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that of course we're on the
Paycheck Protection Program.
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And you know there we
talked about how tons of
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local businesses didn't
receive any of this funding
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meant to keep companies afloat
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before that fund went dry.
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But, at the same time,
and part of the reason
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the funding went away so
fast, is that you have
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these massive companies like Shake Shack
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receiving ten million in funding.
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Though, as we talked about earlier,
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they announced they
would be returning that
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ten million dollars.
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And the things is now
we have a much better
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and bigger picture about what other big
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and public companies have been receiving
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PPP funding.
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But, unlike Shake Shack,
it appears that so far
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that they are keeping it.
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You have companies like
DMC Global, a metal working
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business with a market
cap of four hundred five
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million dollars, receiving six point seven
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million from the PPP loan.
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You also the likes of Wave Life Sciences
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and MannKind, both of
which have market caps
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over two hundred seventy
million dollars accepting
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seven point two and four
point nine million dollars.
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J. Alexander's Holdings
taking in 15 million with
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a market cap of seventy four.
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Other companies taking
home ten million or more
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included Fiesta Restaurants, Potbelly,
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Quantum Core, Hallador Energy.
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And also, one of the
things we've been seeing
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is companies like Ruth's
Chris figuring out a way
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to strategize how to get even more money.
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These loans have generally
been capped at ten million
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dollars per organization,
but Ruth's Hospitality Group,
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which owns Ruth's Chris Steak
House was able to qualify
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for twenty million dollars
by seeking two separate
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loans for it two subsidiaries.
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And well they've gotten
the most attention here,
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they're also not the only one.
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You had Brazilian steakhouse
chain, Fogo de Ch茫o
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doing the same.
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Right, and so with this as expected, a lot
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of consumers are not pleased with
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these big companies.
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We've even seen a petition
growing, demanding
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that Ruth's Chris return
their twenty million dollars,
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saying "Many small
businesses are now being told
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there is no money left
for them, and they cannot
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pay their employees, and
may have to close forever."
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And adding "This is a
travesty, and a disgusting
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display of corporate greed
during a time of disaster."
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And as of reporting this
video, it has over two hundred
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twenty thousand signatures, and of course
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it's still growing.
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It's also not just consumers
who are frustrated.
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We have people like
representative Nydia Velazquez,
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who is the house small
business committee chair woman.
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And she tweeted: "We need
transparency and safeguards
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to be certain that funds from PPP reach
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true small businesses.
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Big companies shouldn't
use up resources intended
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for struggling neighborhood
small businesses,
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which are suffering so severely."
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But, all of that said, there
is some good news here.
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You know like we talked about on Monday,
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there were new plans for
more PPP funding that
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was in the works.
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And we've now seen the
senate pass a four hundred
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eighty-four billion dollar
interim coronavirus funding bill.
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And this time around it
does appear that there
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are few things being done
to help smaller businesses.
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And reportedly the way
that it's breaking down
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is you have around three
hundred ten billion set
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to replenish the PPP,
and sixty billion of that
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is set to go to small
lenders and community banks.
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Another seventy five
billion going to hospitals,
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twenty five billion going
to testing expansions,
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and then sixty billion
is going to emergency
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disaster loan grants,
which will help communities
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in under served areas.
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Now, as far as what happens
from here, the house
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expected to take a vote
on this on Thursday, so
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we're going to have to
wait and see how that goes.
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And for the sake of conversation,
let's say that it passes
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there on Thursday, it's
quickly on Trump's desk,
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it's signed, it's all good.
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One of the big questions
here is: will this round
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of money run out as quickly as
it did the first time around?
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And here I'll say, you know,
you can never perfectly
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predict the future, but
we've seen experts saying
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small business should
not be shocked if the
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funding only lasts a couple of days.
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The first time around,
one point six million
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applicants were approved.
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Right, the scale of what we're
talking about is staggering.
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I mean, you have the treasury
department evening saying:
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The SBA has processed more
than fourteen years' worth
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of loans in less than fourteen days."
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Right, even hearing
those staggering numbers;
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one point six million,
fourteen years worth,
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and fourteen days, the
thing here is we don't
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actually know how many
businesses applied or
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even tried to apply.
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But, the thing is, that
one point six million small
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businesses, that's just a fraction of the
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roughly thirty million
small businesses in this
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country that employ close to
half the country's workforce.
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Right, so it is incredibly
likely that all these loans
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get gobbled up, even without
the big players trying
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to exploit the system.
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And with all that said,
the second bit of business
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is also about the PPP
loans, though this os
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between Harvard and Donald Trump.
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You know, on the note
that we just talked about,
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people requesting that
companies give the money back,
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saying it's not meant for you.
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And yesterday, during the
press briefing, we saw
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a reporter ask Steve
Mnuchin if he was going to
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request that other companies
give the money back,
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and there we saw Trump jump in.
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- [President Donald
Trump] Harvard is going to
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going to pay back the
money, and they shouldn't
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be taking it, so Harvard is going to.
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Uh, you have a number, but I'm not going
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to mention any other names,
but when I saw Harvard,
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they're- they- one of
the largest endowments
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anywhere in the country,
maybe in the world, I guess.
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And, they're going to pay back that money.
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- [Philip DeFranco] And for
some context here, if you're
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unfamiliar, Trump is referencing
the fact that Harvard
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was recently given eight
point six million dollars,
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as part of the stimulus package.
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And the thing is, following
President Trump saying
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this during the press
conference, we say Harvard take
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to Twitter to push back the claims.
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Saying "Harvard did not
apply for, nor has it
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received any funds through
the U.S. Small Business
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Administration's Paycheck
Protection Program
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for small businesses.
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Report saying otherwise are inaccurate.
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President Trump is right
that it would be not
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have been appropriate
for our institution to
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receive funds that were designated for
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struggling small businesses."
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And further explaining
"Like most colleges and
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universities, Harvard
has been allocated funds
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as part of the CARES Act Higher Education
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Emergency Relief Fund."
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And also saying that it will be directing
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one hundred percent of
those funds to the students.
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And adding that will
be on top of additional
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financial assistance it's
already given to students
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for things like travel,
living expenses, and
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the transition to online classes.
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And so, for those
unfamiliar with what they're
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talking about here, the
Higher Education Emergency
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Relief Fund is a fund in
the stimulus bill that
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allocated fourteen billion
dollars to help higher education.
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And under that fund the
education department said
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that thousands of
colleges and universities
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will get that money.
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Saying here that it will go
to both public and private
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schools, ranging from the Ivy
Leagues to beauty schools.
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Right, and per the
directions of the education
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department, about half of
the money these schools
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get is supposed to go to
the students, with the
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other half going to
making up lost revenue and
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other costs related to the pandemic.
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And, while Harvard is definitely
the richest university
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in the United States, with
an endowment of around
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forty billion dollars, the
money that they got from
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the fund appears to be in line with
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other comparable schools.
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This, including those that
have sizable endowments,
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places like Yale.
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They have a thirty billion
dollar endowment and
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they got six point eight million.
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Stanford, which also
has an endowment of just
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under thirty billion
dollars received seven
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point three million.
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Other Ivy Leagues, like
Columbia and Cornell got
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even more from the fund,
about twelve point eight
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million dollars each.
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But, the way that this way
the program was set up,
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the money isn't given
out based on how much the
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money these schools already have.
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The way that it's set up
is actually allocated based
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on a formula that takes into
account the overall student
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enrollment and income
level of that student body.
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And that was specifically
measured by how many
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students at each school are
receiving federal financial
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aid through federal Pell Grant.
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Right, and so looking
at Harvard specifically,
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according to Harvard
sixteen percent of their
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six thousand six hundred
undergraduates are
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Pell Grant recipients.
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And so in the twenty
eighteen, twenty nineteen
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academic year, the school
have two hundred million
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dollars in scholarships
to undergrads alone.
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And that's why we also
saw plenty of schools with
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less money getting bigger chunks
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of the stimulus as well.
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Right, for example,
the biggest sum went to
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Arizona State University, which got
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sixty three point five million dollars.
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And that's because they
have eighty three thousand
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students, and about half of them are
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considered low income.
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Right about, with all that
said, one of the main focuses
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with this story is that
Harvard was the one that
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a ton of backlash from
others, not just Trump.
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This included the likes of
Republican Senators like
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Rick Scott, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz.
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Even education secretary
Betsy DeVos seemed to
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echo this sentiment.
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With the spokesperson for the department
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saying "Sending millions to schools with
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significant endowments is a poor use
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of taxpayer money."
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With the spokesperson
also saying that DeVos
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sent a letter to the
college and university
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presidents, asking them
to send the money back
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if they don't need it.
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But also with this situation
we've seen DeVos take
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some heat herself.
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And that is on par
because she's in charge of
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distributing an additional
six billion dollars from
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the stimulus bill that's
separate from the relief fund.
[792]
And this money is
specifically ear-marked to
[793]
directly help college students pay for
[795]
food, childcare, and housing.
[796]
Now on April 9th, we
saw DeVos say that the
[798]
six billion dollars would be immediately
[800]
distributed to the students.
[801]
But, according to a report
that came out on Monday
[803]
right, just under two weeks
later, only six million
[805]
dollars of that six
billion had been given out.
[808]
Which, I mean, that's not
one percent, it doesn't
[810]
even feel right to say
less than one percent.
[812]
It is point one percent.
[813]
Right, and so that
prompted a lot of backlash
[815]
from leaders in higher education, many
[816]
of whom said that they
have been struggling with
[818]
bureaucracy and lack of guidance.
[819]
There were also reportedly glitches
[820]
in the process early on.
[822]
And according to reports,
the website where schools
[823]
submit documents would go
down for hours at a time.
[825]
And you also add some schools who hadn't
[827]
used this portal before
having trouble registering.
[829]
But, what we saw there is
in a statement last week,
[830]
the department of education spokesperson
[832]
blamed the schools.
[833]
Saying "It's tragic that
at a time when students
[835]
are struggling to make
ends meet, too many highly
[837]
capable and intelligent
leaders of higher-ed
[838]
institutions are dragging
their feet and claiming
[840]
it's because there's some lack of
[841]
clarity in the law."
[842]
Also just yesterday we
saw DeVos issue a new
[844]
guidance mandating that the money can only
[846]
be given to students to qualify
for federal financial aid.
[848]
Right, meaning only US
citizens and some legal
[849]
permanent residents are
eligible, and the hundreds
[852]
of thousands of
undocumented students, right
[853]
people like DACA recipients.
[855]
They will not have access
to the money, they will
[856]
be excluded because they
are not eligible for
[858]
federal financial aid.
[859]
And ultimately, that's where
we are with this aspect
[860]
of the story right now.
[861]
We're going to be keeping
our eyes on this to
[863]
see if anything changes,
what happens with that
[865]
six billion dollars.
[866]
And actually, as I was
recording, we got the update
[868]
that Harvard has now
said that it is not going
[870]
to accept that money.
[871]
Saying that to each of
their concern, that the
[872]
intense focus by politicians
and others on Harvard
[875]
and others in connection
with the program may
[876]
undermine participation and relief effort.
[878]
And adding for this reason
"Harvard has decided
[880]
not to seek or accept the funds allocated
[881]
to it by statute."
[883]
And notably here that
decision came just hours
[884]
after Princeton also announced it will
[886]
not be accepting the funding, and Stanford
[888]
said on Twitter that
they've withdrawn their
[889]
application for the money on Monday.
[890]
So the situation is changing very rapidly,
[892]
a lot of it obviously affected by public
[894]
and political pressure.
[895]
So it's going to be
really interesting to see
[896]
if more schools will be
pressured to do the same.
[898]
You know there, of course
I would to know your
[899]
thoughts in the comment down below, but
[901]
this also brings us the
final bit of business news,
[903]
and that is business in Georgia.
[905]
And understandably, a
big chunk of this story
[906]
revolves around Georgia
Governor Brian Kemp, who
[908]
at the beginning of this
month, famously said:
[910]
- [Brian Kemp] Those
individuals could have been
[912]
affecting people before
they ever felt bad, but
[914]
we didn't know that until
the last twenty four hours,
[918]
and as doctor's tell me- told me, she goes
[920]
"this is a game changer".
[922]
- [Philip DeFranco] And
there, of course as we've
[923]
discussed in the past, that is absolutely
[924]
just not true.
[925]
Experts have literally
said that for months,
[927]
so it's either a bold
faced lie, or he is the
[928]
dumbest man in Georgia.
[930]
Though, to be fair to Brian
Kemp, it could be both.
[933]
But, that announcement,
that statement from Kemp,
[935]
that's not what we're talking about today.
[936]
What we're talking about is that on Monday
[938]
Governor Brian Kemp
announced that the state will
[939]
be reopening on Friday.
[941]
And notably here, that
would include reopening
[942]
gyms, bowling alleys,
tattoo parlors, barbers,
[944]
hair and nail salons, as well as massage
[947]
therapy businesses.
[947]
With the second wave of re-openings coming
[949]
a few days later on the following Monday.
[950]
That including dine-in restaurants,
[951]
and movie theaters.
[952]
While those businesses will need to follow
[954]
social distancing and
sanitation guidelines,
[956]
this is still the
broadest rollback of state
[957]
home orders that we've seen in the
[958]
states so far.
[959]
Because that order was so
broad, you had a lot of
[961]
small business owners saying they were
[962]
caught off guard.
[963]
They weren't expecting to re-open in the
[964]
state so soon.
[965]
Some saying that is was
so fast that they would
[966]
need a few days to ramp back up.
[967]
And you also had others
critical of the move in general.
[969]
Some saying that they'd
refuse to re-open before
[971]
health experts said it was safe to do so.
[972]
For example we saw people
like Diane Fall, owner
[974]
of Maxim Barbers in
suburban Atlanta, saying
[976]
"It's putting economics
before lives. Kemp's
[978]
putting it out there like
he's doing us a favor,
[980]
but I'd rather be alive than run my
[981]
business right now."
[982]
We also have people
saying how could they keep
[983]
social distancing rules
in place when you have
[985]
places like a barbershop
or nail salon, or- the
[987]
the number of places
where people will have
[989]
to be close or use the same
products over and over.
[992]
We also saw examples of
like that of Alan Marsh,
[994]
she's a pet shop owner,
and he said that even
[996]
though revenue is down a
third, he's lost employees,
[998]
he would continue to fill online and
[1000]
phone orders only.
[1001]
But also, Marsh
specifically took it even a
[1003]
step further saying that
if he found out that
[1004]
one of his employees had
been out to a restaurant,
[1006]
or a shop, he would take
them off the schedule.
[1008]
Right, but that said, as far
reactions, not all negative.
[1011]
The other business owners
welcoming the move, some
[1013]
saying that they were
cautiously optimistic
[1014]
about re-opening.
[1015]
Owners like that noting
"We're going to test
[1016]
this out and see, all it takes is
[1018]
one or two facilities
that don't handle it well,
[1019]
and we'll all be shut back down again."
[1021]
Now with all that said,
notably here it's not just
[1023]
the business owners who
were caught off guard
[1024]
by this decision.
[1025]
Reportedly the mayors of Savannah, Augusta
[1026]
and Atlanta all said
that they hadn't heard
[1028]
Kemp's plan until he
publicly announced it.
[1030]
And like many business, those mayors
[1031]
criticized Kemp's decision.
[1033]
With Atlanta mayor, Keisha Bottoms saying:
[1035]
- [Keisha Bottoms] Um,
perplexed- um that's we've
[1038]
opened up in this way
again. I can't stress enough
[1041]
I work very well with
our governor, and I look
[1044]
forward to having a
better understanding of
[1046]
what his reasoning is,
but as I look at the
[1049]
data, and I talk with our
public health officials,
[1052]
I don't see what that it's
based on anything, uh-
[1056]
that's logical.
[1058]
- [Philip DeFranco] You
also had Savannah mayor,
[1059]
Van Johnson calling the move "reckless,
[1061]
premature and dangerous."
[1062]
But ultimately right now,
those mayors actually
[1064]
have less power than the
businesses themselves do
[1066]
with this decision.
[1066]
Right, and that's because
Kemp's order will be
[1068]
implemented state wide,
meaning that local governments
[1069]
can't overturn or restrict it.
[1071]
But, that still hasn't
stopped these mayors from
[1072]
continuing to urge people to stay home.
[1074]
With Albany's mayor
also saying the he plans
[1075]
to ask Kemp to make an
acception for his city.
[1077]
This because Albany has
become one of the worst
[1079]
coronavirus hotspots in the country.
[1080]
Now with all of this
happening, so many reactions
[1082]
we saw Kemp defending his decision with a
[1084]
spokesperson saying
"We can't have shelter-
[1086]
in-place forever and we
can't have how businesses
[1087]
operated last fall, or even a month ago.
[1089]
We have to find a way to a happy medium."
[1091]
But also here, it is
important to point out that
[1092]
even though Georgia is
opening the fastest,
[1094]
it's definitely not the
only state we've started
[1096]
to see re-open.
[1097]
We also had Tennessee
announcing that it's state wide
[1098]
stay at home order will
be lifted by the end
[1100]
of the month, and that most
businesses will re-open
[1101]
by May 1st.
[1102]
Ohio for their part,
planning to roll out a
[1103]
gradual re-opening on May 1st.
[1104]
South Carolina, as of
yesterday, we're already
[1106]
seeing places like beaches
and department stores
[1108]
re-open and reduce capacity.
[1110]
Like we've seen in Georgia, there has been
[1111]
criticism for opening
non-essential businesses
[1113]
so early.
[1113]
However, unlike in Georgia,
those municipalities
[1115]
can still restrict some
re-openings, such as beaches.
[1117]
But ultimately, that's
where we are with this
[1119]
story right now.
[1119]
And I will say it's
going to be interesting
[1121]
to see what happens from
here, right, how the
[1122]
states handle re-openings.
[1123]
And I mean, especially
in places like Georgia,
[1125]
South Carolina, and Tennessee
because they haven't
[1127]
even met white house
guidelines recommend that
[1129]
states begin a phased
re-opening only after
[1131]
fourteen days of sustained decrease in
[1133]
coronavirus cases.
[1134]
And so with all that said,
of course, for everyone
[1136]
I'd love to know your thoughts in general.
[1138]
But also, more specifically
if you're living in
[1139]
one of the states we
were talking about right
[1141]
now on the show, I'd love
to know your thoughts,
[1143]
your concerns, your fears,
your maybe happiness
[1146]
of what's happening or
the decisions being made
[1148]
to re-open the way they're
being made to re-open.
[1150]
And that is where I'm
going to end today's show.
[1152]
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[1168]
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[1170]
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[1172]
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[1173]
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