{"id":21350,"date":"2019-09-12T10:55:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T10:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=21350"},"modified":"2019-09-12T10:55:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T10:55:54","slug":"bernie-sanders-college-athletes-paid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/bernie-sanders-college-athletes-paid\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders wants college athletes paid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bernie Sanders, the Vermont Senator, hopes to clinch the Democratic presidential ticket. Notably, he has been airing various concerns.\u00a0<\/b>One of them entails the contentious issue of whether college athletes should be paid as it has been prevalent in American society.\u00a0<\/b>
\nExpressly, this issue had instigated controversy between college sports and NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association).<\/span><\/p>\n

Bernie Sanders\u2019s sentiments<\/b><\/h2>\n

Through a <\/b>tweet<\/b><\/a> he posted on September 6, Bernie Sanders asserted that college athletes ought to be viewed as workers; hence, they should be remunerated for the services rendered.\u00a0 Expressly, he did not miss his words as he boldly stated: \u201cPay them.\u201d<\/b>
\nSanders tweet was a response to one posted by Lebron James, an accomplished professional basketball player belonging to the Los Angeles Lakers.\u00a0<\/span>
\nExplicitly, James had aired his sentiments about California\u2019s Fair Pay to Play Act that would be instrumental in granting student-athletes monetary compensations once their likeness, image, or name is used.\u00a0<\/b>
\nThe bill got overwhelming support at California\u2019s Senate back in May. Once approved by the California Assembly, it will be enacted in 2023, and it will be applicable in all private colleges found in the University of California and Golden State system.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bernie Sanders believes that payment is prudent<\/b><\/h2>\n

Despite NCAA\u2019s objection of the bill, Bernie Sanders believes that all workers should be paid for services or tasks rendered and college athletes should not be an exemption.\u00a0<\/b>
\nNCAA\u2019s opposition is based on the notion that if the bill got passed, the best athletes in the United States will congregate in California schools.\u00a0<\/b>
\nThe issue raised by NCAA has been serious to the extent that its president Mark Emmert stipulated that college teams in California could be barred from taking part in national championships.\u00a0<\/span>
\nThe ballooning of college athletics in the last twenty (20) years has prompted Bernie Sanders. As a result, it has emerged to be a fourteen billion dollars (US<\/b>$14B)<\/b> sector. Nevertheless, just twelve percent (12%) of this value is availed to students as academic scholarships.\u00a0<\/b>
\nNotably, Bernie Sanders has not been shying away from dealing with contentious issues in the American society head-on. For instance, he has been continuously <\/span>proposing for tuition-free colleges.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bernie Sanders, the Vermont Senator, hopes to clinch the Democratic presidential ticket. Notably, he has been airing various concerns.\u00a0One of them entails the contentious issue of whether college athletes should be paid as it has been prevalent in American society.\u00a0 Expressly, this issue had instigated controversy between college sports and NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":21351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}