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9.6.25 · Washington Post

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the reading of today's Washington Post. It is Saturday,
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the sixth of September of twenty twenty five. Your reader
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is Alistaina, with the reminder that RADIOI is a program
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for those blind or with other difficulties in holding or
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reading the printed material. So I will start with a
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good old front page of which I read the articles
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when I feel they really are important to us. And
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on the far left, underneath clouds and lightning and thunder
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for the area we might get some too. Maryland surges
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law officers to Baltimore Mayo Governor act to combat crime
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as Trump threatens to send troops in the Middle. There
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is a picture of a group of gentlemen sitting on
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a beechy area with a stone wall behind them, and
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they're all looking at something.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what they're looking at, but.
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Speaker 1: It says people on an LGBTQ pilgrimage to the Vatican
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take a something break during their eighty mile trek in
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central Italy on August thirtieth.
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Speaker 2: I'll see it later.
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Speaker 1: One has on a blue shirt with a looks like
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one of those fun hats that one wears on a hike.
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Another with a red shirt they're wearing crosses. They're all
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just sort of sitting along with a dark blue sky
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with clouds in the background. And it's a pilgrimage as
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a test of faith. And Leo LGBTQ plus Catholics meet
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for Vatican approved mass as many away pope stance on
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divisive topic to the far right. Growth in jobs lags
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over summer June loses a first, Singe loses of loses
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a first since pandemic. It says slow down is a
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temporary blip.
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Speaker 2: Trump says.
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Speaker 1: Below the fold on the left, Miller rises as key
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inforsa in President's DC takeover. Behind the scenes, glimpse of
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a trusted aid steering a top priority. Harvard gets a win,
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but war with Trump goes on. Administration has many tactics
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for attack after School's court victory. And then at the
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very bottom below Harvard and below the article on the
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jobs is a picture of two people workers in Georgia
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assembling a Hyun dived.
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Speaker 2: V hickel in June.
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Speaker 1: Most of those arrested are from South Korea. Hyundai is
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a Korean thing. Nearly five hundred arrested in raid at
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Hyundai factory work site operation in Georgia is largest to
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date under this administration. We'll start with the growth in
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jobs week summer labor market flashes warning signs for the economy.
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Employers added twenty two thousand jobs in August, but shed
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jobs in June for the first time since the pandemic.
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And there is a picture of a man walking with
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a water bottle in his hand, pasted a sign that's
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in red and yellow, and the top part is in
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red with yellow writing now hiring, and the bottom part
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is yellow with red writing. All positions submit resume t
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info at MBIHSCA dot com. And that is a now
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hiring son posted at a business in Los Angeles on
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August the thirteenth, by Lauren Coyort Gurley and Abba batari
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Us labor market created few jobs in August and shrank
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earlier in the summer, our first since the pandemic. As
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the economy's engine sputters under the weight of President Donald
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Trump's policies, Employers added twenty two thousand jobs in August,
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far fewer than expected. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported
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Friday morning the unemployment rate ticked up to four point
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three percent, the highest since late twenty twenty one. The
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drop off capped four months of significantly slower jobs growth
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learning point after years of steady post pandemic gains. Until now,
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economists have largely credited the jobs market resilience for keeping
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the country out of a recession. But with hiring slowing
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and industries across the economy, including manufacturing, construction, professional and
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business services, and the government cutting jobs in August, there
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are growing concerns that the labor market's decline could set off.
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Speaker 2: Broader economic trouble.
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Speaker 1: At this point, the job market is at stalled speed,
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said Claudia Scham, chief economist at New Century Advisors and
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a former Federal Reserve economist. She added, it's hanging out
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in a place of very, very slow.
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Speaker 2: Growth, and that makes the economy vulnerable to a recession.
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Speaker 1: Recent updates to jobs numbers, which are revised as new
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survey responses come in, have pointed to a weaker summer
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labor market than previously thought.
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Speaker 2: On Friday, new.
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Speaker 1: Data for June showed a loss of thirteen thousand jobs
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that month, the first negative reading since December twenty twenty,
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in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. Overall, employers have
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added eighty eight thousand jobs in the past three months,
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roughly one third of last summer's count. The Trump administration
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has shrugged off the recent slow down as a temporary blip,
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saying it expects a resurgence of new jobs and advanced
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manufacturing as a result of the president's policies.
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Speaker 2: The White House has.
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Speaker 1: Long maintained that new tariffs and fewer immigrants will help
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boost prospects for American workers and businesses. The real numbers
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that I'm talking about, dot dot DoD will be in
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a year from now when new factories begin opening, Trump
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said to reporters on Thursday, adding do dot You'll see
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job numbers that are going to be absolutely incredible, dot
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dot dot, like our country has never seen. On Friday,
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following the release of gloomy jobs news, Trump took to
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social media to lambast high interest rates that he has
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argued for months should be lowered, writing Jerome too late,
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Powells should have lowered rates long ago. The Federal Reserve
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has held off on interest rates cut so far this year,
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citing increased economic uncertainty from the president's trade and immigration policies,
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but meaning signs of a slower job market have made
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it all but certain that the Central Bank will begin
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slashing by boring costs later this month. The three major
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Wall Street stock exchanges traded up early Friday as investors
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pinned their hopes on more aggressive interest rate cuts, but
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stocks soured later in the day as they grappled with
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new evidence that the economy should be on the brink
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of a downturn.
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Speaker 2: July's job gains.
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Speaker 1: Were revised upwards slightly to seventy nine thousand. Wage growth cooled,
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with average hourly earnings rising by three point seven percent
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over the past year. Opportunities for US job seekers have
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become increasingly scarce, even though layoffs remain low, as high
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interest rates have weighed on the economy and employers nationwide
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pull back on hiring in response to new international trade
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levees and a crackdown on immigration that has curbed labor supply.
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These jobs report is not good news for the economy,
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said Laura Ulrich, director of economic research for North America
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at Indeed, this is the slowest labor market we've seen
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in fifteen years outside of the pandemic. The softening in
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the labor market coincides with other signs of cooling the
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US economy expanded by one point four percent in the
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early half in the first half of the year, but
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many economists expect that growth to taper off in the
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coming months. Manufacturing activity has contracted for six months in
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a row, and Americans are spending less on dining out,
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hotels and other nice to haves. Economists worry that rising
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unemployment or simply that fear of a job loss, could
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cause families to pull back even more, adding further strain
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to the economy. In June, healthcare and social assistance continued
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to lead job gains, adding a combined forty seven thousand positions,
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reflecting demand from aging baby boomers. Leisure and hospitality payrolls
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rose by twenty eight thousand positions, but nearly all other
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sectors lost jobs or stalled. Manufacturing and wholesale trade each
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lost twelve thousand positions. Our construction shed seven thousand positions,
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reflecting the impact of tariffs. Corporations are having to wrestle
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with the impact of the tariffs, though it is industry
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specific that's resulted in lower profit margins, which could slow
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down job creation, said Eric Teele, chief investment officer ATCH
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America Wealth Management. White Kalla Industries continued to cut jobs
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in August. The unemployment rate for recent college graduates rose
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to nine point three percent in August, up from five
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point four percent in January, according to Labor Department data. Meanwhile,
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the federal government, facing cuts from the Trump administration, lost
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fifteen thousand positions in August and has shared nearly one
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hundred thousand jobs since January. The job cuts could grow
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this fall, as many civil servants took a resignation package
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that pays them through September. Friday's data offer a offered
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ammunition for the FED to cut interest rates in mid
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September for the first time since December, as was widely anticipated.
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Futures market investors now expect the FED to cut rates
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at the end at each of it it's next three
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meetings in September, October, and December as confidence in the
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labor market wanes. That would bring the FED short term
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rates down to a range of three point five to
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three point seven five by the end of the year.
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Speaker 2: FED Chair Jerome H.
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Speaker 1: Powell said during a speech last month in Jackson Hole, Wyoming,
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that the weaker labor market may warrant rate cuts. He
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also noted that the labor market is in a curious
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kind of balance as labor supply and demand have softened
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in tandem amid declining levels of emigration. In recent years.
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Economists have said that US employers need to add about
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one hundred thousand jobs each month to keep up with
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population growth, but the break even rate needed to keep
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the unemployment rate constant may be all and closer to
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fifty thousand as the Trump administration cracks down on unauthorized
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immigration and moves to strip millions of immigrants of their
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legal status.
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Speaker 2: We're not seeing a collapse, but there's a.
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Speaker 1: Clear softening that will likely continue, said Lydia Boussa, senior
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economist at e Y Parthenon, who expects the unemployment rate
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to edge up to four point seven percent by the
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end of the year. The previous Job's report from July
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had shone downward revisions of two hundred and fifty eight
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thousand from May and June, prompting Trump last month to
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fire the head of the b LS, accusing her without
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evidence of doctoring jobs data. Large revisions are more likely
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when there's a discernible change in the labor market. People
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are not going to fill out surveys right away. If
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the ground is shifting under them. Seam said. The labor
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market is showing other signs of weakness too. New filings
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for unemployment benefits rose last week to the highest level
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since June. According to the Labor Department. Unemployment rates for
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African Americans have also climbed sharply in recent months, plus
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the number of workers who have been unemployed long term
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for twenty seven weeks longer climbed to one point nine
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three million in August, at the highest level since twenty
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twenty one. The labor market is in a somewhat precarious
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state and is very vulnerable to a downturn, said Luke Tilley,
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chief economist at Wolmington Trust, noting that the economy could
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shrink and financial markets could fall even if job creation
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continues at a break even pace, adding, if we fall
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to five fifty thousand jobs per month as a new normal,
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I don't think that we be able to achieve the
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kind of economic growth, numbers and revenue that has been
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priced into the market. Leah Bailey, twenty six, graduated from
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college in twenty twenty three and has struggled to find
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a job in human resources, recruitment, or any field relevant
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to her bachelor's degree in psychology and business administration. Bailey,
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who lives in the Atlanta area, has strung together jobs
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in retail, temporary services, and customer service while she haunts
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hunts for a better paying job that is relevant to
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her degree. During the past four months, she has applied
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to around two hundred jobs but hasn't received an offer,
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she said. Bailey said, it feels like I was lied
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to as a child when they say if you got
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a degree, you'd probably.
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Speaker 2: Have a job.
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Speaker 1: I feel like people who went and got a job
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right after high school probably have a leg up on me. Now,
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my granddaughter is graduating from American University this coming spring
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twenty twenty six, and she has decided not to face
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the job market but go on and is applying to
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postgrad colleges.
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Speaker 2: For higher education in law down the road.
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Speaker 1: Wish your luck. Harvard beat Trump in court. Here's what
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could happen next. Harvard faces an appeal in court, the
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prospect of more attacks and a possible delay in restoring
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the more than two billion dollars in frozen federal funding,
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experts say. And there's a picture of the campus of
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Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts with the Harvard flag flying
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in front of the building by Susans fir Yuga, Joanna Slada,
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and Laura Mecklo. A federal judge's ruling Wednesday was a
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resounding win for Harvard, a sweeping finding that the Trump
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administration had violated the Constitution in freezing federal research funding
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to the school. It was immediately cheered by faculty, alumni,
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and student groups, with many urging Harvard to keep fighting.
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But despite the victory, Harvard faces daunting hurdles and it
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stand off against an administration determined to force change on
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higher education, and the final outcome from the nation's oldest
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university is far from clear. The challenges are unprecedented. They
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include a promised appeal in court, worry that the government
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who slow walk restoring frozen research funds, threats to future grants,
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complicated settlement negotiations, and the prospect of another three and
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a half years of a hostile White House with a
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bevy of arrows in its quibble and a proven willingness
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to aim them at its opponents. The Trump administration, which
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has already opened numerous investigations at Harvard, has threatened to
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revoke its non profit status and to borrow international students
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and scholars from campus. On Thursday, it signaled new plans
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to eventually streamline the process of denying funding for schools
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found to have violated civil rights law. Yesterday's court ruling
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is a victory for Harvard, but even beyond an appeal,
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the government still has many means of pressure, said Alison wou,
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a Harvard Business School graduate who leads a group of alumni,
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the sixteen thirty sixth Forum, that has pressed.
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Speaker 2: The university to change.
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Speaker 1: She mentioned terminating grants, denying visas, seizing patents, and turning
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threats into action. The White House made clear the fight
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is by no means over. Harvard does not have a
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constitutional right to taxpayer dollars, spokeswoman Liz Hudson said, and
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remains ineligible for grants in the future Trump's next move.
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On Wednesday, US District Judge Allison D. Borough's ruled that
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freezing more than two billion in research grants and other
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federal actions violated Harvard's right to freedom of speech and
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federal laws. She vacated the freeze and barred the Trump
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administration from using similar reasoning to block grants to Harvard
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in the future. In a strongly worded ruling. She said
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the government used anti Semitism as a smoke screen for
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a targeted, ideologically motivated assault on this country's premier universities,
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jeopardizing decades of research. The White Eye said it will
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appeal the ruling, and many expect the case to advance
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to the Supreme Court. Experts said that Trump's administration first
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move could be to ask that Wednesday's or to be
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paused pending the outcome of an appeal, which would allow
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the government to delay resuming any payments to Harvard. That
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request would be considered by both Boroughs and the US
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Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, said David super,
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a law professor at Georgetown University. If Borough's order is
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not stayed, then the government is likely to take the
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same request to the Supreme Court for a immediate relief
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via what is known as the emergency docket. Wednesday's ruling
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was nearly a complete victory for Harvard, said Michael Gerhardt,
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a law professor at the University of North Carolina. As
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a result, the Trump administration's goal will be to get
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its arguments before the Supreme Court, where it expects a
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favorable hearing.
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Speaker 2: As soon as possible.
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Speaker 1: Gerhardt said in her order, Burroughs was scrupulous about addressing
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every single issue raised for the government and nearly every
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issue raised by Harvard and its allies, Super said, which
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will reduce the possibility of any confusion on appeal. The
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most important thing about the ruling is how careful it is.
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Super said. There is just no room for miss understanding
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the issues after what Judge Burroughs wrote. Noah Feldman, a
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law professor at Harbert, said parts of Burrough's ruling appeared
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taylor to address guidance provided by Justice Amy Cony Barrett,
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who proved a key swing vote in an August ruling
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in a somewhat similar case. Wednesday's order is a masterful
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piece of technical legal craftsmanship. Feldman said a full appeal
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of Burrough's ruling would probably take months. Super predicted there
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could be an appellate Court decision in the case by Thanksgiving,
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which would allow for a Supreme Court hearing in the spring.
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Grants may not be restored soon. This wouldn't be the
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first case about federal funding cuts to make it to
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the Supreme Court this year. In June, another Federal Court
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judge in Boston ordered the Trump administration to restore cuts
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made by the National Institutes of Health to hundreds of
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grants to colleges nationwide related to topics such as race
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and gender identity.
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Speaker 2: It took more than a.
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Speaker 1: Month for most of the grants to be reinstated, said
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a person familiar with the matter, speaking on the condition
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of anonymity because the case is ongoing. The Supreme Court
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subsequently stayed the lower court's order, in part, clearing the
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way for the Trump administration to proceed with the cuts. However,
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in IH does not appear to have clawed back the
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restored grants, the person said. Even if higher courts affirmed
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that Harvard's funding must be restored, there are ways for
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the administration to drag its feet. The grant funding does
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not automatically resume. Rather, someone in the government needs to
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reauthorize payments and reactivate grants, said Scott Deliny, a research
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scientist at Harvard's THH. Chan School of Public Health. There
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are no shortages of strategies that tow the legal line
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that the Trump administration might employ, he said.
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Speaker 2: He added that every day.
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Speaker 1: That passes is another day without funding for researchers. Time
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is not on Harvard's side. Nancy Krieger is a social
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epidomologist at Harvard School of Public Health who had two
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research grants thrown into turmoil by the Trump administration, one
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related to health impacts of discrimination. She's optimistic they will
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be restored, but also cautious given the legal turbulence. She
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says she has already reached out to the university's grant administrators.
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Speaker 2: I'm eager to find out.
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Speaker 1: The news when there is news. Who knows what the
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timelines will Beager said. Negotiating a settlement, White House officials
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and President Donald Trump himself have been saying for months
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that they are likely to reach a deal with Harvard soon.
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Speaker 2: Some experts said Thursday.
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Speaker 1: That the court victory could improve the school's chances for
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a favorable settlement. Jay Green, a senior research fellow at
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the conservative Heritage Foundation, said Wednesday's ruling may have improved
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Harvard's negotiating positions somewhat. Still, any settlement would be a
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victory for the administration, he said. Green noted that the
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judge concluded Harvard did not appropriately handle anaseemitism on campus,
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and said the university will whine away or another pay
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for that. Agreeing to any of the terms the administration
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is pressing for would be complicated for Harvard, which faces
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pressure from inside the university and from the broad field
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of higher education, to hang tough. A faculty union, which
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had also sued the Trump administration and a case heard
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concurrently cheered the win, so did alumni and student groups
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formed to urge Harvard to keep fighting. Some experts said
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Wednesday's decision made a settlement less likely. It's very hard
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for Harvard to settle at this point, said Georgetown super
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If the university gave the appearance of capitulating after winning
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in court on First Amendment grounds, I just don't think
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Harvard could survive that. Harvard's president, Allen M. Garber, set
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in a message to the campus community Wednesday that the
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ruling validates the school's arguments in defense of academic freedom,
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scientific research, and core principles of higher education. But he
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also said that the diversity will continue to assess the
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implications of the opinion, monitor further legal developments, and be
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mindful of the changing landscape in which we seek to
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fulfill our mission of a possible attacks. Four months the
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Trump administration unleashed federal efforts to compel Harvard to do
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more to combat anti semitism, and to make other changes
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on campus using a ride variety of tactics and threats,
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It has shown no sign it is willing to stop
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that campaign. On Thursday, the Education Department signaled that it
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intends to streamline the process of punishing universities found to
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have violated civil rights laws barring discrimination on the basis
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of sex, race, and national origin. These plans, which were
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only briefly summarized, were included in the administration spring regulatory Agenda,
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a list of actions expected in coming months. It was
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not clear exactly how the administration will seek to expedite
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the process. The government is required to follow numerous steps
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before cutting off federal funding, many of which the administration
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has ignored in withholding funding from several universities. The administration
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said it aimed to publish its new rules in June
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twenty twenty six. A department spokeswoman did not reply to
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her request for comment. Green of the Heritage Foundation said
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the administration can also launch new efforts to pull Harvard's
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funding using well established civil rights laws and procedures that
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would stand in contrast to the abrupt cancelation of grants
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that is being challenged in the case being litigated. Feldmann,
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the Harvard law professor, said the Universe City, which will
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be four hundred years old in twenty thirty six, should
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approach its confrontation with the government with an eye toward
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the very long term. Scientific research needs to thrive at
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the university.
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Speaker 2: He said, but.
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Speaker 1: If we could get there without knuckling under to the
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Trump administration, that would be the optimal result. Carolyn Johnson
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contributed to this report. Raid at Hyundai factory in Georgia
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is Trump administration's largest yet. Nearly five hundred people, the
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majority from South Korea, were addrested in the operation, which
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officials said involved allegations of serious federal crimes. And there's
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a picture again of the workers assembling vehicles at the
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hundred electric vehicle Manu manufacturing facility in Eliabel, Georgia on
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June eleventh, by Mary Anne Levine and Lauren Kellery Girling.
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Federal law enforcement agents this week rated a Hyundai factory in.
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Speaker 2: Pop Up, oh Sorry.
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Speaker 1: In Bryan County, Georgia, arresting hundreds of immigrant workers in
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the largest work site raid in President Donald Trump's second term.
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Speaker 2: A total of four hundred and seventy five.
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Speaker 1: People were arrested in the operation, which took place Thursday,
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authorities said. At a news conference on Friday, Stephen Shrink,
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special Agent in charge of Homeland Security investigations in Atlanta,
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called it the largest single site enforcement operation in the
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agency's history. At least one coordinated work site rade by
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federal agencies in Trump's first term resulted in more arrest
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The majority of those arrested Thursday were South Korea nationals,
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Shrank added, saying that some workers had crossed the border illegally,
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and others did not have permission to work or had
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overstayed their visas. Hyundai is a major international auto company
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based in Seoul that operates two auto manufacturing plants in
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the United States. The other is Montgomery, Alabama. This was
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not an immigration operation where agents went into the premises,
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rounded up folks and put them on buses, Shrank said,
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adding this has been a multi month criminal investigation where
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we have developed evidence, conducted interviews, gathered documents, and presented
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that evidence to the court to obtain a judicial warrant.
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In a statement, Hyundai said none of those arrested were
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employed directly by the company. Hyundai is committed to full
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compliance with all laws and regulations in every market where
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we operate. The company said, this includes employment verification requirements
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and immigration laws. We expect this same commitment from all
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our partners, suppliers, contractors, and subcontractors. The raid follows months
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of strained negotiations between Washington and Seoul over tariffs and investments.
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In late August, Trump and South Korean President Lie Jiang
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meeoung met at the White House after Trump suggested on
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social media that the US might stop doing business with
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South Korea. That meeting came after both countries agreed on
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the outline of a deal reached the summer that would
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have South Korea potentially best hundreds of billions of dollars
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in business with the United States. In recent weeks, Hyundai
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has pledged to invest twenty six billion dollars in the
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country and already has announced plans to open a five
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point eight billion dollars steel plant in Louisiana. The work
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site raid prompted South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesperson Li Jauong
33:25
to warrant that the economic activities of our companies investing
33:31
in the US and the rights and interest of our
33:34
nationals must not be unfairly violated. According to the South
33:39
Korea based Yonhap News agency, the United States is proud
33:45
to be a home for major investments and looks forward
33:48
to continuing to build on those historic investments and partnerships
33:53
that President Trump has secured. Whitehouse spokesman Abigail Jackson said
33:59
in his statement, adding any foreign workers brought in for
34:03
specific projects must enter the United States legally and with
34:07
proper work authorizations. President Donald Trump will continue delivering on
34:13
his promise to make the United States the best place
34:16
in the world to do business while also enforcing federal
34:19
immigration laws. During Trump's first term, immigration officials conducted several
34:26
large scale work site raids, with more than one hundred
34:29
arrests each, but so far this year, the administration has
34:33
focused largely.
34:34
Speaker 2: On smaller work sites.
34:36
Speaker 1: Large raids typically require months of planning, including collecting surveillance footage,
34:42
affidadesifts from witnesses, and other evidence that can be used
34:46
to obtain judicial search warrants required to enter a private
34:51
work site and search people. The largest of those raids
34:55
during the first Trump administration targeted a cell phone refurbisher
34:59
in ana On, Texas, where about two hundred and eighty
35:02
workers were arrested.
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Speaker 2: In twenty nineteen.
35:06
Speaker 1: A separate set of coordinated raids on multiple poultry plants
35:10
in Mississippi that year resulted in about six hundred.
35:14
Speaker 2: And eighty arrests.
35:16
Speaker 1: Many of the workplace arrests during Trump's second term have
35:19
focused on businesses like car washes. Immigration officers have also
35:25
targeted home depot, parking lots, and food delivery workers. Those
35:30
arrests generally are easier to execute, and DHS is under
35:35
pressure from a White House to boost arrest and deportations.
35:40
One of the largest recent work site raids before the
35:43
Hondai raid Thursday, took place in June at a meat
35:47
production plant in Omaha, where ICE officials arrested more than
35:51
seventy people they said we're working illegally. Arraid at a
35:55
cannabis company in southern California in July resulted in the
36:01
arrest of three hundred and sixty one undocumented workers, according
36:05
to DHS. Shrank, the special agent with HSI, said the
36:12
arrested employees worked for a variety of different companies that
36:16
were on the site, and that it was not just
36:21
the parent company but also the subcontractors. He added that
36:25
several agencies participated in the investigation, including the Labor Department,
36:31
the FBI, and the Drug Enforcement Administration, among others. A
36:37
DHS spokesperson said that the judicial warrant was part of
36:42
a criminal investigation into allegations of unlawful employment practices and
36:48
other serious federal crimes. In a statement, Charlie Bailey, chair
36:55
of the Democratic Party of Georgia, condemned the federal action
36:59
and said such raids are politically motivated fear tactics designed
37:04
to terrorize people who work hard for a living power
37:08
economy and contribute to the communities across Georgia that they
37:13
had made their homes. State Republican leaders sided with the
37:17
Trump administration. I applaud the Trump administration in our brave
37:22
law enforcement officers for taking bold action to put American
37:27
workers first and protect their communities from the scourge of
37:30
a legal immigration. US Representative Buddy Carter said in the statement, adding,
37:38
for anyone who thinks they can take jobs from hard
37:41
working Americans and give them to illegal immigrants, take note,
37:45
not under Donald Trump's watch. John Sandweg, the acting Director
37:52
of ICE under President Barack Obama, predicted that there would
37:57
be similar worksite raids in the few.
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Speaker 2: This is different from some of.
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Speaker 1: The smaller ones we were seeing in LA. Those were
38:06
almost exclusively designed for immigration enforcement purposes, Sandweg said, adding
38:14
here in something like this, the immigration enforcement the opportunity
38:19
to make a large number of arrest is a big
38:22
part of it. But this is a more traditional work
38:25
site rate, similar to what we saw in the Bush administration.
38:29
A lot of groundwork would have gone into this in advance.
38:34
The electric vehicle battery factory is being built in a
38:38
joint venture between Hyundai and South Korean manufacturer LG Energy Solution.
38:44
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, Republican has called the complex the
38:49
largest project in state history. In twenty twenty two, a
38:54
Hyundai Auto park subsidiary was found to have illegally employed
38:59
migrant children as young as thirteen in an Alabama assembly
39:03
plant and was fined.
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Speaker 2: That ended that article.
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Speaker 1: I'm going into the first section of the Washington Post.
39:14
Speaker 2: This is an interesting article. This is how much we can.
39:18
Speaker 1: Cool the planet by burying carbon underground. Carbon storage is
39:25
becoming a more mainstream climate solution. A news study says
39:29
we won't have enough room to bury all our CEO
39:33
two and there's a picture of the Northern Lights carbon
39:37
storage site in Norway. The article is by Nicholas Rivero.
39:44
There's a big question hanging over the global fight against
39:47
climate change. Just how much carbon dioxide can humanity bury
39:53
To stave off the drought, famine, poverty, and deadly disasters
39:57
that come from overheating the planet. People need to stop
40:01
putting greenhaze gases into the atmosphere.
40:05
Speaker 2: But at this point we've already polluted.
40:08
Speaker 1: The planet so much that even in the best case,
40:11
experts say we will shoot past safe temperatures and then
40:15
have to slowly turn the planet's thermostat back down by
40:19
removing carbon dioxide from the air and storing it somewhere.
40:24
Most plans for fighting climate change rely on bearing CO
40:28
two deep underground for thousands of years. United Nations scientists
40:34
have said some carbon storage is unavoidable to meet international
40:40
climate golds, but we might not be able to bury
40:43
as much climate pollution as previously thought, according to a
40:47
study published Wednesday in Nature, the researchers started with a
40:52
map of all the places on Earth where it's technically
40:56
possible to pump CO two into spongy layers of settlement
41:00
terry rock. Then they crossed out all of the spots
41:04
near cities and drinking water reservoirs, next to fault lines
41:08
where pumping carbon underground could trigger earthquakes, within nature preserves,
41:13
and in places where storing carbon would be unrealistically expensive
41:18
or possibly illegal under international treaties. After all those places
41:24
were eliminated in the analysis, Earth's total carbon storage capacity
41:30
shrank from thirteen trillion tons to about one point six
41:34
trillion tons. That's the difference between being able to cool
41:38
the planet by about five degrees celsius under the most
41:42
optimistic projections, or being able to drop global temperatures by
41:47
only zero point seven degrees celsius in what the scientists
41:51
say is a more realistic scenario. It puts a ceiling
41:57
on how high we can go, and still we will
42:00
reduce temperatures back down to the long term temperature goal
42:03
of the Paris Agreement, said Matthew Giddon, an associate research
42:09
professor at the University of Maryland Center for Global Sustainability
42:13
and the lead author of the study. The global goal
42:18
is to keep roaming to one point five degrees and
42:21
right now the planet is on track to warm as
42:24
much as three point one degrees celsius. By the end
42:28
of the century. If the planet heats up that much,
42:32
we'll never be able to cool it down to a
42:34
safe level with our limited carbon storage capacity, Gideon said.
42:41
In the United States, some companies have experimented with using
42:46
carbon capture equipment to keep running fossil fuel power plants
42:51
while bearing their admissions underground, but the study argues there
42:56
isn't enough storage space to keep bearing those plants pollution forever. Instead,
43:02
companies should stop CO two emissions as soon as possible
43:06
and focus on using carbon storage to remove the climate
43:10
pollution we've already emitted. If we consider this a finite resource,
43:17
we need to be thinking very hard about what is
43:20
the best way to use it, Gideon said. Other scientists
43:27
to study carbon storage think the limit is much higher
43:30
than what Gideon's team proposed. Giddon's team reposed companies that
43:35
store carbon mostly oil and gas drillers who inject CO
43:40
two into wells to push out more fuel have figured
43:44
out ways to bury CO two without setting off earthquakes
43:48
or poisoning drinking water, even in areas near fault lines
43:52
and aquifers. According to Susan Havorka, a senior research scientist
43:57
at the University of Texas at Austin. I don't think
44:02
this paper was very up to date on what pretiction,
44:05
what practitioners are using these days, she said. These things
44:10
that they're pointing out are things that were being dealt
44:13
with successfully. Plus, the Nature analysis considers storing carbon only
44:19
in sedimentary rock. That's by far the most common way
44:23
to do it, and projects to store millions of tons
44:27
of CO two per year in sedimentary rock are underway
44:30
in places such as Norway, but other rocks, such as basalt,
44:34
can also store carbon. An early demonstration project is reportedly
44:39
storing thousands of tons of CO two this way in Iceland.
44:45
Sedimentary rocks are not the only storage stites, said Grishma Dakota,
44:52
a professor of Earth and Environmental engineering at Columbia University.
44:58
It's a huge under estimate of the limit, but even
45:03
experts who think Gidden and Company's low ball to the
45:06
world's carbon storage capacity agree there's a limit to how
45:10
much climate pollution humanity can beary and people will soon
45:15
have to stop producing so much pollution. This paper usly
45:22
usefully reminds us that geological carbon storage is large, but
45:27
not limitless, and should be prioritized. Jennifer Wilcox, a professor
45:33
of chemical engineering and energy policy at the University of Pennsylvania,
45:37
wrote in an email, adding, we shouldn't use storage as
45:42
a license to pollute when cleaner options exist. Still, Wilcox
45:48
believes the situation is less dire than does Giddon, who
45:52
estimated the world may run out of carbon storage base
45:55
about twenty two hundred if we ever approach prudent global limit.
46:01
That would likely be after we've already cut gross emissions deeply,
46:06
and they're using storage mainly for hard to abate industrial
46:10
emissions and durable removals. A high class problem to have,
46:16
Wilcox wrote in fact, US spending on cutting greenhouse emissions
46:22
and on storing CO two have been slashed as part
46:26
of the Trump administration's rollback of former President Joe Biden's
46:30
climate spending.
46:32
Speaker 2: It's not the.
46:33
Speaker 1: Show stopper that we're going to run out of space
46:35
for storage, Habaker said. We've had the reverse problem. We
46:41
can't seem to get it funded. Some suggest thailanol is
46:48
linked to autism. Here's what to know. M AHA activists
46:54
have been pushing for more investigation into use of the
46:58
common painkiller during press and there's a picture of rows
47:02
of thailandol displayed for sale behind a locked anti theft
47:07
area at a pharmacy in Washington on Friday by Ariana
47:12
Eugene Chah, Caitlin Gilbert, and Lauren Webber. Conservative media and
47:19
influencers have seized on new research suggesting a connection between
47:24
thailanol used during pregnancy and autism, fueling online debate and
47:29
calls for regulatory action in recent days.
47:33
Speaker 2: Robert F.
47:34
Speaker 1: Kennedy, Junior Secretary of Department of Health and Human Services,
47:38
has made autism a key focus.
47:40
Speaker 2: Of his Make America Healthy Again plan.
47:44
Speaker 1: And there has been speculation that his agency would emphasize
47:47
the link in a highly anticipated report that is expected
47:51
this month about efforts to uncover causes of autism.
47:56
Speaker 2: Public health experts have feared.
47:58
Speaker 1: That Kennedy and anti vasvaccine activists would also link autism
48:02
to vaccines, a false claim that he has made repeatedly.
48:07
Shares of Canview, which makes tylanol, fell ten percent in
48:12
late afternoon trading Friday, following over a report in The
48:16
Wall Street Journal Thats plans to mention the possibility that
48:21
use of the pain reliever during pregnancy may be linked
48:24
to the developmental disorder in offspring. An HHS spokeswoman declined
48:29
to comment, except to say that the department is using
48:34
gold standard science to get to the bottom of America's
48:37
unprecedented rise in autism rates. About one in thirty six
48:43
children have an autism diagnosis, according to data from the
48:46
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, compared with one in
48:50
one hundred and fifty children in two thousand. The reasons
48:55
behind this sharp increase remain widely debated. Increased awareness and
49:00
testing almost certainly play a role, but many researchers believe
49:04
there are additional factors, likely something in our environment or
49:08
lifestyles at play. In addition to more than one hundred
49:12
genes that have been linked to the condition, researchers have
49:17
not found a link between vaccines and autism in dozens
49:21
of studies across the globe. Can Views said leading medical
49:26
groups have agreed that ani and cidophetamine is safe to
49:31
use during pregnancy. We have continuously evaluated the science and
49:37
continue to believe there is no causal link between ana
49:41
set of fetamine used during pregnancy and autism. The company said.
49:48
Proponents of Kennedy's position have been actively pushing for more
49:53
investigation into the common painkiller. What we might hear is
49:59
something about the interaction of tail and all in the
50:02
very young altogether with things that are pro inflammatory, like say,
50:07
for example, multiple vaccination, that may be part of the
50:11
issue associated with autism, said Robert Malone this week on
50:15
One America News to host and former Republican Congressman Matt
50:20
Getz or Gates. Malone, a controversial scientist, and Kennedy Allen,
50:26
was named this summer to serve on a key vaccine
50:29
panel that has promised to examine the childhood vaccine schedule,
50:33
a long time goal of Kennedy's.
50:36
Speaker 2: Malone told The Washington.
50:37
Speaker 1: Post that he had not discussed the issue with Kennedy's,
50:40
saying that speculation on my part. I'm not part of
50:44
any team that's data mining, but that's what I'm hearing.
50:49
Is unclear whether the September report will mention vaccines. The
50:54
recent interest in an acidophetamine the.
51:03
Speaker 2: I can't think of it.
51:05
Speaker 1: The active ingredient in thailanol was ignited by a National
51:09
Institutes of Health study published in August fourteenth in b
51:15
MC Environmental Health. The new study, led by the Icon
51:21
School of.
51:21
Speaker 2: Medicine and Mount Sinai.
51:23
Speaker 1: Researcher Didier Prada and colleagues at Harvard's THH. Chan School
51:29
of Public Health involved a rigorous review of forty six
51:33
previously published a pandemoguarical studies. Of these, twenty seven reported
51:39
links between use of the medication by pregnant women and
51:43
an increased risk of autism over ADHD and their children,
51:48
Nine showed no link, and four indicated protective effects, With
51:53
the higher quality studies more likely to show a connection.
51:57
Prada stress that the findings do not prove a causal link.
52:02
We show that anti a set of menifine is associated
52:08
with a higher risk, but not causing it. Those are
52:12
very different things, he said in an interview. He noted
52:16
that further research is needed to determine whether the risk
52:20
is due to the medication itself or to underlying maternal
52:24
conditions such as inflammation from fever or infection that might
52:28
prompt its use. This is still in the area under investigation,
52:34
Prada said. David Kreebele, Professor emeritus of public health at
52:39
the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, said that although the
52:43
evidence is far from conclusive, it is strong enough to
52:47
warrant awareness. He said, pregnant women may want to limit
52:51
their use of acidiphetamine and consult with their health care providers.
52:57
There is a growing body of evidence suggesting we should
53:01
be concerned about this possibility.
53:03
Speaker 2: Kreebel said.
53:05
Speaker 1: Both Kreebel and Xan Lieu, an associate professor of epidomology
53:10
at the Yale School Union of Public Health, pointed to
53:15
growing evidence from lab and animal studies suggesting that acid
53:19
of fetamine may negatively affect fetal development. Leu said research
53:26
suggests that the possibility that high doses of the drug
53:30
could interfere with the body's hormone system or trigger oxidative
53:36
oxidative stress, a condition that where harmful substances build up
53:42
and begin to damage cells. These are all unwanted biological
53:48
effects that we don't want happening during brain development, Lou said.
53:53
He added that one of the key takeaways from protest
53:56
study is the need for greater research on how medications, diet, chemicals,
54:01
and other non genetic factors influence neurodevelopment conditions in children.
54:10
Thailand all came into the picture because its use very
54:13
rapidly increased, but it's just one of many thousands of
54:17
environmental factors we need to study, Lucid said. The current
54:23
guidance on it and a set of fetamen used by
54:27
the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists is similar to
54:31
that for all medications, which is to consult with their physicians.
54:37
Speaker 2: But as far.
54:38
Speaker 1: Back as twenty twenty one, ninety one scientists, clinicians, and
54:42
public health professionals from around the globe got together to
54:45
urge stricter guidelines in a statement published in Nature Reserves Indracinology.
54:52
They recommend that pregnant women should be cautioned at the
54:55
beginning of pregnancy to forego a set of fetamine unless
54:59
its uses medically indicated, consult with the precision or pharmacist
55:05
if they are uncertain and before using on a long
55:09
term basis, and use the lowest effective dose for the
55:13
shortest possible time. In recent weeks, major anti vaccine Right
55:19
Ring and Make America Health Again influences have been highlighting
55:24
a link between Thailandol and autism. Mentions of Thailandol were
55:30
fifteen times more common and among MAHA influences in August
55:35
compared to April, according to a post analysis of social
55:39
media post and podcasts from over eighty influences the Earlier
55:46
this week on x, far right political activist Laura Lomer
55:51
shared a clip from a Fox News show covering the study, writing,
55:56
if thailanol and a sid of fetamine US, which by
56:00
pregnant women, is one of the interventions announced this September
56:04
by at Robert Kennedy Junior, it could offer a simple
56:09
step to curb autism epidemic in America and around the world,
56:14
one pill at a time. Alex Clark, host of the
56:19
popular culture Apothecary podcast, tweeted never give your baby tylanall
56:26
and discuss the potential harms of the drug in an
56:30
episode of her show. In August, in a post on Facebook,
56:35
Moms Across America, which is promoted the false idea that
56:39
vaccines cause autism, wrote that higher a set of fetamine
56:44
exposure was linked to three point five times the risk
56:48
of autism and encouraged followers to be embracing the fever
56:53
as a healing tool. The post also advertised in herbal
56:59
supplement with a custom discount code to take instead of tailanol.
57:05
Children's Health Defense and anti vaccine organization that Kennedy founded,
57:09
has been spreading claims about a leading between autism and
57:13
vaccines for several years. Most recently it has claimed that
57:17
tailand all is dangerous both during pregnancy and to newborns.
57:21
This week, it mischaracterized the results of the new study
57:25
by writing on x they told us taylanol was harmless.
57:30
Now Harvard research shows an eighty percent spike in autism
57:34
risk when used in pregnancy. In twenty twenty two, Kennedy
57:41
himself shared an article calling for the end of a
57:44
sid of fetamine use in infants and children, as the
57:49
authors claimed it was a potential drival of the autism epidemic.
57:56
Page Winfield Cunningham contributed to this report, and with that,
58:02
I am absolutely end of the article and end of
58:06
my time for the Washington Post reading for today, the
58:09
sixth of September of twenty twenty five. I hope we
58:13
get the rain that is needed for the weekend. Its
58:17
shore was nice to have the other morning when I
58:19
woke up and it was raining outside. Have a good
58:23
rest of your weekend. We'll be back on Thursday. And
58:27
if you can get to the open house for RADIOI,
58:30
please come. This space is just delightful and very welcoming
58:35
in a great location. Take care all.
58:38
Speaker 2: Bye.