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(Opinion) Disadvantaged kids to miss out on educational TV under Trump budget

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“Sesame Street will almost surely survive Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts, but not in a way that will allow children from low-income homes to continue watching it. Sesame Street is popular enough that someone will pay for it to continue. HBO has already shown that, but, without public funding, children from low-income homes, the ones who benefit the most from the educational content of Sesame Street, are the ones who will lose it.”

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