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KPCR-NEWS-2026-07-24 · KPCR News

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  This is your KPCR News Update with Scott Puckett.
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  In national news, the House passed a resolution
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  to stop U .S. military action in Iran. The 214
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  -208 vote requiring congressional approval for
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  the war comes before the Senate by the end of
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  this week. This is the second of such resolutions,
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  which, if blocked by the Senate, will be largely
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  symbolic rather than tangible. Previously, the
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  House adopted a Republican -sponsored $95 billion
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  budget proposal in a long -shot effort to fund
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  the war in Iran and other White House priorities,
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  despite objections from Democrats and a few Republican
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  lawmakers. This resolution, as well, must be
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  met with agreement in the Senate for it to pass.
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  Regionally, the National Low -Income Housing
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  Coalition has spotlighted the Santa Cruz -Watsonville
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  metro area as the nation's most expensive rental
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  market. The report finds that a comfortable,
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  though not luxurious, rental home in the area
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  would require an average worker to earn at least
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  $81 per hour, provided they did not spend more
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  than 30 % of their income on housing. Oregon
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  Public Broadcasting reports that a third -party
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  candidate may shake up the impending governor's
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  race. Brett Smith of Malala is running under
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  the Pacific Green Party of Oregon, which describes
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  itself as pro -environment and anti -war. That
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  was your KPCR News Update. I'm Scott Puckett.
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