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How The Koch Brothers Are Targeting The Hearts & Minds Of College Studentsby David Levinthal at the Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/27/koch-brothers_n_5038281.html?&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000016
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Billionaire industrialists David and Charles Koch may rank among the nations biggest bankrollers of conservative causes and Republican campaign vehicles. But Koch proselytizing of government deregulation and pro-business civics is increasingly targeted not just at creatures of Capitol Hill, or couch sitters in swing states, but also at the hearts and minds of American college students, as well.
In all, two of the six private charitable foundations the Koch brothers control and personally fund combined in 2012 to infuse colleges and universities with more than $12.7 million, according to a Center for Public Integrity analysis of Internal Revenue Service tax filings.
The vast majority of this cash was spread among 163 U.S. colleges and universities many with reputations for liberal faculty and left-leaning patrons throughout 41 states and the District of Columbia. It came on top of tens of millions of dollars more Koch foundations have given colleges and universities during the past decade, tax filings show.
The Koch foundations together have also spent millions more to fund dozens of academic scholarships and internships, numerous think tanks and education-focused organizations, such as the Philadelphia-based Jack Miller Center. The latter is a nonprofit that used $250,000 in Koch money to help bankroll academic programs that reinvigorate the teaching of Americas founding principles and history at 45 institutes of higher education, from Harvard University to American University to the University of California, Los Angeles.
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"How The Koch Brothers Are Targeting The Hearts & Minds Of College Students" (Original Post)
applegrove
Mar 2014
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muntrv
(14,505 posts)1. Hope this person is not talking to the students.
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Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)2. All they did was bring attention to the cheap health insurance available
to younger people, good insurance at that....Obamacare at 6 million, 7 million possible, many private insurers reporting a surge of younger signups....can you say BACKFIRE?