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Cory Booker: Modern college athletics is a de facto, for profit industry that is just too often exploiting men and women.

On the recordJune 8, 2021
Modern college athletics is a de facto, for profit industry that is just too often exploiting men and women.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

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Booker emphasizes the exploitative nature of college athletics.

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