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Podcast: WBEZ News
Episode: A suburban family promised Chicago students help paying for college. Then they backed out.
Description: Scholarship programs funded by private donors are sometimes the only ticket to college for low-income and first-generation students.
But what happens when the donors change their minds?
WBEZ’s Lisa Kurian Philip reports on the abrupt end of a scholarship program that’s left hundreds of Chicago students in the lurch. HOST: LABUZ