🗞️DEI debacle in schools

...also a new prebiotic soda and the S&P 500 hits all-time high

February 18, 2025

February 18th, 2025

What happened today 🇺🇸,

Trump administration gives schools a deadline to end DEI programs or risk losing federal money

The Trump administration is giving America’s schools and universities two weeks to eliminate diversity initiatives or risk losing federal money, raising the stakes in the president’s fight against “wokeness” and sowing confusion as schools scramble to comply

www.the-independent.com/news/donald-trump-education-department-america-washington-schools-b2700249.html

  • The Trump Administration is giving schools and universities across the U.S. two weeks to eliminate DEI programs or risk losing federal funding

  • The acting head of the U.S. Social Security Administration, Michelle King, has resigned after a dispute with the Department of Government Efficiency

  • President Trump signed an executive order intending to make IVF more affordable and accessible

  • NY governor Hochul will weigh removing NYC mayor Eric Adams as she met with important leaders to discuss a “path forward” for NYC amidst the fallout over the dismissal of Mayor Eric Adams’s corruption charges and all the people from his administration who had resigned because of it

  • President Trump today indicated he would put tariffs on imports of automobiles, semiconductors and pharmaceuticals in early April, starting at 25%

  • Coca-Cola is launching its own prebiotic soda brand called Simply Pop to compete with Olipop and Poppi, they will roll out 5 flavors this month which include strawberry, lime, pineapple mango, fruit punch, and citrus punch

  • 77% of companies are planning to reskill and upskill their existing workers between 2025-2030 to better work alongside AI, according to findings published in the WEF’s Future of Jobs Report

  • 70% of single people struggle to afford housing payments, compared to 52% of married people, per Redfin

  • Southwest Airlines is cutting 15% of its corporate workforce which is about 1700 jobs in an attempt to cut costs

  • DOW up .02%/ S&P up .24%

  • The S&P 500 officially hit a new all-time high today

  • U.S. and Russian diplomatic officials met today and agreed to start laying the groundwork for ending the war in Ukraine…read more about it here

  • Israel and Hamas have reached an agreement to release the 6 remaining hostages on Saturday, this agreement speeds up the release of 3 hostages by a week and finishes the release of all the living hostages that were apart of the first phase of the ceasefire deal

  • Pope Francis has been diagnosed with pneumonia in both lungs and he remains hospitalized

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