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The Octagon, The Cuts, and The Tiny Desk Tribute · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: A USC octagon is being built on the White House
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  Speaker 1: lawn for President Trump's birthday. I'm not a fan, but
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  Speaker 1: this is me and millions of Americans are preparing for
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  Speaker 1: cuts to snap medicaid and student loans.
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  Speaker 2: The minimum payment that any bar will have to make
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  Speaker 2: is at least ten dollars per month.
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  Speaker 1: And NPR Tiny Desk is giving bet its flowers for
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  Speaker 1: Black Music Month.
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  Speaker 3: So would love to be et we played those games.
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  Speaker 1: It's Thursday, May twenty eighth, from the Black Effect Podcast Network.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Mimi Brown. This is front page, and here are
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  Speaker 1: the day's biggest stories. Plus today on headlines, we didn't
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  Speaker 1: take seriously enough the nineteen ninety six law that helps
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  Speaker 1: shape the safety net. Fights happening right now, Stay with me.
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  Speaker 1: Construction crews are building a UFC fighting cage on the
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  Speaker 1: south lawn of the White House. The lawn is being
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  Speaker 1: transformed into a full fight venue expected to hold thousands
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  Speaker 1: of spectators. The event is called UFC Freedom two fifty,
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  Speaker 1: scheduled for June fourteenth, President Trump's eightieth birthday, and reaction
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  Speaker 1: to the event is mixed.
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  Speaker 3: I think it'd be awesome, I really do.
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  Speaker 4: Oh if it wasn't Trump, I might like it.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, UFC has always been a fun thing.
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  Speaker 2: I guess, so how's wanna make a.
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  Speaker 1: Big I'm not a fan, but does mean. UFC President
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  Speaker 1: Dana White says the company will pay to repair the
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  Speaker 1: lawn afterward. But what's really getting attention is the bigger
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  Speaker 1: picture around all of this. This is all happening while
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  Speaker 1: the White House is also in the middle of a
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  Speaker 1: massive billion dollar renovation project involving a brand new East
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  Speaker 1: Wing ballroom and expanded security infrastructure. The administration originally said
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  Speaker 1: private donors would help cover costs tied to the ballroom project,
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  Speaker 1: but lawmakers later approved hundreds of millions of dollars connected
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  Speaker 1: to security and construction through federal legislation, meaning taxpayers are
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  Speaker 1: now helping fund parts of the expansion, and now critics
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  Speaker 1: are questioning everything from the cost the symbolism to whether
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  Speaker 1: the White House is starting to blur the lines between
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  Speaker 1: government entertainment and political branding. Meanwhile, supporters say the UFC
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  Speaker 1: event is simply part of a larger celebration tied to
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  Speaker 1: America's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. Millions of Americans are
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  Speaker 1: about to feel the impact of major changes to student loans,
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  Speaker 1: food assistants, and healthcare first student loans. Starting July first,
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  Speaker 1: a new Department of Education rule will pap how much
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  Speaker 1: graduate students can borrow and federal loans and eliminate the
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  Speaker 1: graduate plus loan program entirely.
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  Speaker 2: It's a maximum of twenty thousand dollars per year per
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  Speaker 2: child and a lifetime maximum of sixty five thousand per child.
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  Speaker 1: That could hit students in fields like nursing, social work,
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  Speaker 1: physical therapy, occupational therapy, and public health especially hard, and
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  Speaker 1: advocates say black women could feel the impact disproportionately because
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  Speaker 1: they are heavily represented in many of those professions. Second,
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  Speaker 1: snap food assistants. New restrictions and work requirements tied to
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  Speaker 1: the Trump backed tax and spending package are expected to
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  Speaker 1: reduce or eliminate food assistants for millions of Americans over time.
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  Speaker 4: The folks who are going to be impacted by these
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  Speaker 4: changes are families with children under eighteen, older Americans of
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  Speaker 4: the ACC five. And what these work requirements are going
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  Speaker 4: to do is basically make that population was the population
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  Speaker 4: that typically is the hardest to try to find a
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  Speaker 4: steady employment to now be burdened with trying to prove
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  Speaker 4: that they are working twenty hours a week just to
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  Speaker 4: be able to be fed.
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  Speaker 1: Advocates warned states across the South, especially poor states with
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  Speaker 1: high SNAP usage, may feel the impact the most. And
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  Speaker 1: third Medicaid federal projections estimate millions of Americans could eventually
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  Speaker 1: lose health care coverage under the new medical changes, tied
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  Speaker 1: to work requirements, eligibility reviews, and reduce federal support to stay.
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  Speaker 1: Critics also warn rural hospitals, low income families, seniors, and
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  Speaker 1: black communities could be hit especially hard. Every Thursday on
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  Speaker 1: Front Page, we pulled back to look at a story
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  Speaker 1: that was treated as small or popular at the time,
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  Speaker 1: but ended up shaping the world we live in right now.
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  Speaker 3: Today's pick.
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  Speaker 1: August twenty second, nineteen ninety six, President Clinton walked into
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  Speaker 1: the Rose Garden and signed a bill called the Personal
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  Speaker 1: Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. You probably remember the
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  Speaker 1: slogan Clinton said it was time to quote in welfare
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  Speaker 1: as we know it. The reaction was mostly positive. Both
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  Speaker 1: parties celebrated. The bill imposed strict work requirements on welfare recipients,
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  Speaker 1: It capped lifetime benefits at five years, and turned cash
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  Speaker 1: assistance from a federal entitlement into a block grant to states.
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  Speaker 1: The political class that it was tough, it was smart,
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  Speaker 1: and it was bipartisan. But the civil rights community said
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  Speaker 1: something else. They said this bill would punish poor families,
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  Speaker 1: particularly black poor families, for being poor. They said work
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  Speaker 1: requirements were a trojan horse for cutting the safety net.
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  Speaker 1: The country mostly did not listen, And thirty years later,
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  Speaker 1: let's check the map. The work requirements expanded in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety six are the same template the Trump administration is
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  Speaker 1: now applying to snap and to medicate. Those new requirements
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  Speaker 1: we just walked you through in story two look exactly
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  Speaker 1: like the ones from nineteen ninety six. The lifetime caps
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  Speaker 1: from nineteen ninety six are now the model for limiting
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  Speaker 1: eligibility on other programs. The block grant structure from nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety six made it possible for states to refuse to
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  Speaker 1: serve their poorest residents, and now those same states had
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  Speaker 1: the highest uninsured rates and the highest food insecurity. The
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  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six bill did not stop poverty. It hid
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  Speaker 1: the cost of poverty inside families, inside churches, and inside
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  Speaker 1: food banks. And it built the legal infrastructure for everything
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  Speaker 1: happening to the safety net this summer. That's the throwback.
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  Speaker 1: Let's end the show with something good. NPR, Tiny Desk
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  Speaker 1: and b Et are teaming up for Black Music Month,
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  Speaker 1: and honestly, for a lot of people who grew up
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  Speaker 1: on one O six in Park in rhyp City, this
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  Speaker 1: is going to fail a little nostalgic. NPR just announced
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  Speaker 1: a Tiny Desk concert series honoring be ET's impact on
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  Speaker 1: black music and culture, and Big Tigger himself announced the lineup.
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  Speaker 3: I've got a newsflash.
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  Speaker 5: Newsflash, it reads, coming soon to NPR in the Black
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  Speaker 5: Music Month of June.
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  Speaker 3: We got Gina would.
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  Speaker 5: Live in Kareem Riggins the Star, followed by Shaboozie Joe
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  Speaker 5: and Ira Star Pup, next the Paradox in eve E
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  Speaker 5: and we shut it down with Fred.
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  Speaker 3: Hammond, Bow Wow and Flowtry.
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  Speaker 5: They'll all be right here and they'll be live in
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  Speaker 5: the flesh representing Black Music Month behind this Tiny Desk.
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  Speaker 1: The performances will roll out throughout the month of June.
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  Speaker 1: So if you grew up in Alaska like I did,
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  Speaker 1: rushing home to watch one oh six in Park after school,
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  Speaker 1: this one is probably for you too. That's your front page.
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  Speaker 1: I Mimi Brown. This podcast was brought to you by
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  Speaker 1: the Black Effect Podcast Network.