Thank you for listening to today's episode on education! Here are the sources that were used:

Beshay. “Growing Share of Americans Say the U.S. Higher Education System Is Headed in the Wrong Direction.” Pew Research Center, 15 Oct. 2025, www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/15/growing-share-of-americans-say-the-us-higher-education-system-is-headed-in-the-wrong-direction/. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.

Brown, Courtney. “Crisis of Confidence in U.S. Higher Education: A Call for Renewed Focus and Reform.” Lumina Foundation, 8 July 2024, www.luminafoundation.org/news-and-views/crisis-of-confidence-in-u-s-higher-education-a-call-for-renewed-focus-and-reform/. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.

Cropf, Robert. “Rising Costs, Falling Trust: The Crisis inside American Higher Education.” The Fulcrum, 15 July 2025, thefulcrum.us/civic-engagement-education/american-higher-education. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.

Darrow, Melanie. “Americans’ Changing Relationship with Higher Education.” AGB, 13 Mar. 2024, agb.org/trusteeship-article/americans-changing-relationship-with-higher-education/. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.

Elevate K-12. “A Look at American Education Issues Today.” Elevate K12, 24 June 2024, www.elevatek12.com/blog/elevate-in-action/american-education-issues/. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.

Google Gemini. “Generational Changes in Education.” Gemini, 2026, gemini.google.com/app/bfdd35c0187f3fba. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.

Musgrave, Paul. “The End of American Higher Education.” Substack.com, Systematic Hatreds, 20 Feb. 2025, musgrave.substack.com/p/the-end-of-american-higher-education. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.

Book: Antoni Verger, et al. The Privatization of Education : A Political Economy of Global Education Reform. Teachers College Press, 2016.

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Thank you so much for listening to Spilling the Tea on Politics! Here are the sources used on today's episode:

“2017 Police Violence Report.” Policeviolencereport.org, 2017, policeviolencereport.org.

DeSilver, Drew, et al. “10 Things We Know about Race and Policing in the U.S.” Pew Research Center, 3 June 2020, www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/06/03/10-things-we-know-about-race-and-policing-in-the-u-s/.

“Mapping Police Violence.” Mapping Police Violence, 2023, mappingpoliceviolence.org/neighborhoods.

“The Fourth Amendment and Miranda in the Supreme Court Spotlight.” American Civil Liberties Union, www.aclu.org/press-releases/fourth-amendment-and-miranda-supreme-court-spotlight.

Zero, Campaign. “Mapping Police Violence: 2024 Was the Deadliest Year for Police Violence.” Campaign Zero, 27 Feb. 2025, campaignzero.org/research/mapping-police-violence-2024-was-the-deadliest-year-for-police-violence/.

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Thank you so much for listening to today's episode! Here are the sources used for today's episode:

Cornell Law School. “Second Amendment.” Legal Information Institute, www.law.cornell.edu/wex/second_amendment. Accessed 23 Jan. 2026.

John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “In Depth-Firearm Purchaser Licensing | Center for Gun Violence Solutions.” publichealth.jhu.edu/center-for-gun-violence-solutions/solutions/firearm-purchaser-licensing/in-depth-on-permit-to-purchase. Accessed 23 Jan. 2026.

RAND. “The Effects of Licensing and Permitting Requirements.” Www.rand.org, 10 Jan. 2023, www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/license-to-own.html. Accessed 23 Jan. 2026.

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Lawler, Dave, and Rummler. “A List of America’s 23 Deadliest Modern Mass Shootings.” www.axios.com/2017/12/15/deadliest-mass-shootings-modern-us-history. Accessed 23 Jan. 2026.

Wikipedia Contributors. “List of School Shootings in the United States by Death Toll.” 20 Oct. 2019, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States_by_death_toll. Accessed 23 Jan. 2026.

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Pierre, Jeffrey, and Cory Turner. “Experts Say We Can Prevent School Shootings. Here’s What the Research Says.” NPR, 26 May 2022, www.npr.org/2022/05/26/1101571302/what-schools-can-do-to-prevent-school-shootings. Accessed 23 Jan. 2026.

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Thank you so much for listening to Spilling the Tea on politics! Here are the sources we used for today's episode:

Chavez, Nicole. “Gen Z Adults Identify as LGBTQ at Much Higher Rates than Older Americans, Report Shows.” CNN, 25 Jan. 2024, www.cnn.com/2024/01/25/us/gen-z-adults-lgbtq-identity-reaj.

“Know Your Rights: Title IX for LGBTQ+ Families.” Family Equality, 31 Dec. 2025, familyequality.org/resource/know-your-rights-titleix-for-lgbtq-families/.

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Moran, Samantha A, et al. “LGBTQ+ Youth Policy and Mental Health: Indirect Effects through School Experiences.” Journal of Research on Adolescence, vol. 35, no. 1, 29 Dec. 2024, https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.13052.

NCAA. “NCAA Announces Transgender Student-Athlete Participation Policy Change.” NCAA.org, 6 Feb. 2025, www.ncaa.org/news/2025/2/6/media-center-ncaa-announces-transgender-student-athlete-participation-policy-change.aspx.

Point Foundation. “2023 Anti-LGBTQ Laws in Schools | Point Foundation.” Pointfoundation.org, 14 July 2023, pointfoundation.org/community/blog/2023-anti-lgbtq-laws.

“Resources | Parenting with Pride.” Parenting with Pride, 11 Aug. 2023, parentingwithpride.org/resources/.

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Thank you so much for listening to Spilling the tea on Politics! Here are the sources we used to gather information for today's episode:

Ranji, Usha, et al. “Health Policy Issues in Women’s Health | KFF.”

Gordon, Sherri. “The #MeToo Movement: History, Sexual Assault Statistics, Impact.” Verywell Mind, 28 Apr. 2023, www.verywellmind.com/what-is-the-metoo-movement-4774817. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

Buchholz, Katharina. “Which Countries Have Full Equal Rights for Women? Only 14.” World Economic Forum, 10 Mar. 2023, www.weforum.org/stories/2023/03/only-14-countries-have-full-equal-rights-for-women/. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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Thank you so much for listening to the first part of our Women's Health Series: From Suffrage to Strength here on Spilling the Tea on Politics! Today we discussed Abortion Access, Pregnancy and Birth in the U.S., and more! Here are the sources we used to put together today's episode:

World Health Organization. “Women’s Health.” www.who.int, 2023, www.who.int/health-topics/women-s-health. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

Ranji, Usha, et al. “Health Policy Issues in Women’s Health | KFF.” KFF, 28 May 2024, www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/health-policy-101-health-policy-issues-in-womens-health/?entry=table-of-contents-what-is-the-demographic-profile-of-women. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

Ranji, Usha, et al. “Health Policy Issues in Women’s Health | KFF.”

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Thank you so much for listening to Spilling the Tea on Politics! Today we discussed the difference between Medicare and Medicaid, the One Big Beautiful Bill, and more! Here are the sources we used to gather information for today's episode:

http://Congress.gov

The Commonwealth Fund. “U.S. Ranks Last among Seven Countries on Health System Performance Measures | Commonwealth Fund.” Www.commonwealthfund.org, 2024, www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/newsletter-article/us-ranks-last-among-seven-countries-health-system-performance. Accessed 26 Aug. 2025.

Mitchell, Alison. “Overview of the ACA Medicaid Expansion.” Congress.gov, 2025, www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF10399?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22aca%22%7D&s=1&r=1. Accessed 26 Aug. 2025.

kffcarenec. “How Will the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Affect the ACA, Medicaid, and the Uninsured Rate? | KFF.” KFF, 18 June 2025, www.kff.org/medicaid/how-will-the-2025-budget-reconciliation-affect-the-aca-medicaid-and-the-uninsured-rate/. Accessed 26 Aug. 2025.

Haeder, Simon F. “How 17M Americans Enrolled in Medicaid and ACA Plans Could Lose Their Health Insurance by 2034.” The Conversation, 15 July 2025, theconversation.com/how-17m-americans-enrolled-in-medicaid-and-aca-plans-could-lose-their-health-insurance-by-2034-260664.

MacNeil, Matt. “What Do the Looming Cuts to Medicaid Really Mean?” UC Berkeley Public Health, UC Berkeley School of Public Health, 22 July 2025, publichealth.berkeley.edu/articles/news/commentary/what-do-cuts-to-medicaid-really-mean.

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Copeland, Lindsey. “Medicaid Cuts at the State Level and Implementation Advocacy - Medicare Rights Center.” Medicare Rights Center, 10 July 2025, www.medicarerights.org/medicare-watch/2025/07/10/medicaid-cuts-at-the-state-level-and-implementation-advocacy. Accessed 26 Aug. 2025.

“Perplexity.” Perplexity AI, 2025, www.perplexity.ai/search/how-does-each-generation-from-WD8J9MkwQwuZvaLxDvbkKw. Accessed 26 Aug. 2025.

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Thank you so much for listening to Spilling the Tea on Politics! Today we went over to the second part of our U.S. Economic series: Debt with a Capital D. We discussed generational shifts and went over interviews with folks from Gen X to Gen Z. Here are the links to all of our sources:

Perplexity. “Perplexity AI.” Www.perplexity.ai, 2025, www.perplexity.ai/. Accessed 2025.

Glasmeier, Amy. “Living Wage Calculator.” Mit.edu, 2019, livingwage.mit.edu/. Accessed 2025.

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