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9.16.25 · Washington Post

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the reading of the Washington Post for Tuesday,
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September sixteenth, twenty twenty five. As a reminder, radio Y
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is a reading service intended for people who are blind
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or have other disabilities that make it difficult to read
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printed material. Your reader for today is Cindy Fraser. Today's
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front page headlines from The Washington Post are long stints
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out of work are on the rise. In the US.
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Share of workers jobless for at least six months is
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at a post pandemic high. Our next headline, Kirk suspect
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appeared to confess posted quote it was me on discord Chat.
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A led shooter turned himself in later that night. Next
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pole finds one in six US parents are delaying or
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skipping vaccines. Our next headline, Court allows Cook to keep
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her position as Fed governor. Next, Trump orders removal of
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park exhibits about slavery. The final headline from today's front
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page reads cuts impede climate health work in black communities.
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In addition, on the front page is a photo entitled
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Trump orders deployment of National Guard to Memphis. The caption
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under the photo reads President Donald Trump joined by Cabinet
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members and Tennessee officials. Ordered the mobilization Monday, expanding his
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administration's use of the military to crack down on violent crime.
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Trump said the effort would be a replica of the
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federal surge in DC. Tennessee's Republican Governor Bill Lee is
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supportive of the deployment. Now, let's turn to our first
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article entitled long stints out of work are on the
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rise in US. Share of workers jobless for at least
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six months is at post pandemic high. By Appabatari, More
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Americans are facing stretches of unemployment of six months or more,
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a worrisome sign for the US economy. More than one
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in four workers without jobs have been employed for at
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least half a year. New data shows that number is
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a post pandemic high and a level typically only seen
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during periods of economic turmoil. In all, more than one
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point nine million Americans had been unemployed long term in August,
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meaning that they have been out of work for twenty
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seven weeks or more, a critical cliff when it comes
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to finding a job. That's nearly double the one million
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people who were in a similar position in early twenty
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twenty three. We have a low higher, low fire environment,
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and that stagnancy means there aren't a lot of new
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positions for people to move into, said Laura Ulrich, director
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of economic research at the Job Site. Indeed, the probability
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of becoming unemployed has not gone up that much, but
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if you become unemployed, it's much harder to find a job.
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Six months of unemployment often signals a turning point in
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a person's job search. According to economists, they've probably run
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out of unemployment insurance benefits and severance payments by then,
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leaving them on shake your financial ground. People who have
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been unemployed for more than six months are also more
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likely to become discouraged and stop looking for work altogether.
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The data shows how broadly the job market has cooled
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ahead of the Federal Reserve's highly anticipated meeting this week,
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when policy makers are expected to lower interest rates for
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the first time this year. Two months of weaker than
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expected jobs numbers, including widespread revisions, have led policy makers
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to voice concerns that the labor market could continue deteriorating.
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Since nineteen fifty, the long term unemployment rate has exceeded
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twenty five percent in only a few other instances, and
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always after a recession. For one month June nineteen eighty three,
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after an inflation fueled recession for an eight year stretch
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following the Great Recession in two thousand and nine, and
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for about a year and a half during the coronavirus pandemic.
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The pick up in months long unemployment coincides with broader
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cooling in the labor market. Although the overall unemployment rate
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four point three percent is near longtime lows, many employers
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have frozen hiring as a wait to see how new
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tariffs and other economic policies will affect business. Layoffs are rising, too,
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with weekly claims for unemployment insurance reaching the highest level
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since October twenty twenty one. For the unemployed, it's becoming
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increasingly difficult to find new work, now taking an average
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of six months a month longer than before the pandemic,
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according to Labor Department data, and for the first time
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in four years, there are more unemployed people in the
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United States than there are job openings. I have fifteen
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plus years I thought I should be able to step
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into any job, said Steve Beale, forty seven, who has
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been unemployed since March twenty twenty four, when he was
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laid off from a six figure job at best Buy's
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corporate office in Minnesota. But so far, I've applied to
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at least three hundred jobs and it's all rejections. Even
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with referrals networking resume services, I haven't gotten anywhere. Separate
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data this week showed that American's confidence in their ability
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to find a new job is at a record low.
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A survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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found that people say there is less than a forty
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five percent chance they could find a job in the
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next three months if they were to suddenly become unemployed,
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which is the lowest reading since the survey began in
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twenty thirteen. Felicia Henriquez, a paralegal in Los Angeles, lost
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her job in July twenty twenty four. In the fourteen
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months since, she has applied to hundreds of openings without success.
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Local government jobs have dried up, and even temp agencies
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are coming up empty. She said her unemployment benefits four
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hundred dollars a week. Rent out in February and she
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is six months behind on rent so far. Lyrique's landlord
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has been understanding, but she says she worries about what
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will happen to her and her sixteen year old daughter.
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When that good will runs out already she is relying
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on food stamps to buy groceries. It gets harder the
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longer it gets. That's the vicious part, the forty seven
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year old said. At the beginning, when you lose your job,
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you have money saved up, you get unemployment. Things are okay,
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But when that runs out, then you really have to worry.
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Studies have found that workers who are unemployed long term
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are less likely to find jobs than others. There are
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also more likely to drop out of the workforce entirely.
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A twenty fourteen study by economists at Princeton University found
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that nearly half of those unemployed for seven months or
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longer in the aftermath of the Great Recession ended up
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leaving the labor force. The longer people linger in unemployment,
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the more likely they are to lose their contacts and connections,
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and after an extended period of time, their skills can appreciate,
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said Francine Blau, a labor economist and professor emeritus at
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Cornell University. And there is a possibility that employers see
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long term unemployment as a sign of a less desirable worker.
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Finding work has been especially tough for younger workers and
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recent college graduates who are entering a job market with
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few entry level openings. The share of unemployed workers who
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are new to the labor force remains elevated after hitting
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a thirty seven year high this summer. Cabrielero graduated in
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December with a degree in communications from Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia.
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He said he has emailed his resume and cover letter
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to every public relations firm in the DC area with
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entry level openings, but has gotten just three responses in
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nine months, all telling him they're not hiring. At the moment,
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the twenty seven year old is living with his parents
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and fretting about what comes next. I feel stuck, Cabrierero said,
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moving out, buying a car, getting married, it all feels
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like a pipe dream right now. I don't mind living
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with mom and dad, but they can't keep supporting me forever.
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In Gransville, Utah, Jessica Howard lost her job seven months
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ago at a healthcare technology company after seventeen years there.
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Since then, she has spruced up her resume several times
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and applied to nearly four hundred jobs, but finding a
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new position feels impossible, she said, especially because she's competing
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with many others laid off this year. For now, Howard
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has temporarily put her mortgage on hold and is using
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savings to pay for food, gas and other necessities. But
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it's been tough to keep sending out applications and preparing
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for interviews after months of trying. They say not to
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take it personally, but after a while, the rejections really
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get to you, she said. It kills your confidence and
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you start to wonder, do I really have these skills?
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Have I ever had these skills? It starts to break
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you down emotionally. The next autumn from today's front page
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is entitled Kirk suspect appeared to confess posted quote it
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was me on discord Chat A led shooter turned himself
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in later that night by Hannah Knowles, Sean Boberg, and
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Aaron Schaeffer. The twenty two year old suspect in Charlie
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Kirk's appears to have confessed to friends in an online
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chat shortly before turning himself into law enforcement. According to
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two people familiar with the chat and screenshots obtained by
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The Washington Post, Hey guys, I have bad news for
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you all. Said a message from an account belonging to
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the suspect, Tyler Robinson, on the online platform Discord. It
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was me at u v U yesterday. I'm sorry for
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all of this. The message was sent Thursday night, about
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two hours before officials said Robinson was taken into custody.
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A member of the group chat shared an image of
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the conversation with the post and confirmed that it came
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from Robinson's account. The person spoke on the condition of
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anonymity out of fear of harassment. Discord provided a copy
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of the message with the confession to authorities. According to
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a person familiar with the company's interaction with law enforcement,
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the person spoke on the condition of anonymity because they
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were not authorized to publicly discuss details of the investigation.
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The message was sent from Robinson's account to a small
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private group of online friends, the person said. Discord is
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working closely with the FBI and local authorities providing information
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about Robinson's online activities on the platform. The person added,
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Discord has said that an internal investigation found no evidence
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that the suspect planned this incident or promoted violence on Discord.
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The Utah County Sheriff's Office referred the post to the
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Utah Department of Public Safety, which did not respond to
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a request for comment. Spokespeople for the Utah DPS, as
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well as for the FBI and the Justice Department, declined
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to comment. Robinson was arrested last week after a thirty
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three hour manhunt, accused of fatally shooting one of the
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country's most prominent conservative activists at a Utah Valley University event.
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Authorities have said one of Robinson's family members reached out
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to a friend, who then contacted law enforcement, saying Robinson
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had confess or implied that he committed the crime. Utah
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Governor Spencer Cox, a Republican, said over the weekend that
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Robinson's motive is still under investigation, but that the suspect
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appears to have held a quote leftist ideology. Officials say
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their interviews indicate that Robinson became more political in recent
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years and had criticized Kerk. The discord conversation shared with
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a post shows members of the group chat reacting to
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Kirk's shooting Wednesday, before the news broke that Robinson was
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allegedly involved. The group included about thirty people, according to
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the person who provided screenshots. Charlie Kirk got shot, one
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friend wrote Wednesday afternoon, According to an image of the messages,
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I just saw the video. Holy s Another user wrote
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about an hour and a half later, adding of kerk
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Broe didn't deserve to go out like that. Sad. The
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only response from Robinson's account came the next day, with
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a message announcing bad news. I'm surrendering through his shrif
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friend in a few moments. The message, posted at seven
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fifty seven p m Local time in Utah, continued thanks
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for all the good times and laughs. You've all been
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so amazing. Thank you all for everything. Robinson was taken
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into custody at ten pm that night, according to FBI
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director Cash Patel. No one responded to Robinson that night,
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according to the screenshots obtained by the Post, but the
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next day one friend wrote that the apparent confession seemed
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to be true. The friend asked group members to quote
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pray for Tyler and his repentance, and then turned to Kirk.
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While Charlie Kirk's politics were not acceptable to some, I
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asked that we all say a prayer for him and
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his family during these confusing times, the friend added. The
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New York Times reported on a conversation in a different
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discord check group earlier the same day. In that conversation,
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Robinson joked that a doppelganger was trying to get him
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in trouble after law enforcement released images of a shooting
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suspect who resembled Robinson. Cox confirmed the existence of that
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conversation on Sunday and said Robinson's friends did not believe
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it was actually him at that point. The person who
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provided other discord messages to the Post said they are
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from a different group. Chris de garinpour, Evan Hill, Jeremy Roebuck, Pravina, Samonsundaram,
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and Perry Stein contributed to this report. Next an OTEMN
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titled Pole Finds one in six US parents are delaying
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or skipping vaccines by Lauren Webber, Scott Clement, Emily Guskin,
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and Lena H. Sun. The American parents who are choosing
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to skip or delay vaccines for their children are more
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likely to homeschool their children, be white and very religious,
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identify as Republican, or be under thirty five. According to
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a wide ranging Washington Post KFF, Pole that shed's new
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light on what drives vaccine hesitancy. The poll the most
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detailed recent look at the childhood vaccination practices and opinions
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of American parents shows that one in six parents have
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delayed or skipped some vaccines for their children, excluding for
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coronavirus or flu. Nine percent have skipped the polio or measles,
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mumps and rubella, that is, MMR shots, which public health
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experts say risks large outbreaks of potentially fatal diseases that
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have been curbed through widespread vaccination. The pole finds concerns
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about the vaccines themselves are driving these decisions. Parents who
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reject vaccine recommendations are primarily worried about side effects and
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the risks of the shots, rather than facing challenges getting them.
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About half of parents over all lack faiths in federal
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health agencies to ensure vaccine's safety, mirroring the findings of
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other surveys. Several major polls have shown a decline in
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trust in childhood vaccines since the coronavirus pandemic among the
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broader public, largely among self identified Republicans. The Post and KFF,
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a health policy research and news organization, survey two thousand,
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seven hundred sixteen parents this summer, providing a detailed breakdown
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of why some people are avoiding childhood vaccines. It also
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shows that the vast majority of American parents still support immunizations.
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We still have strong support for vaccines among parents in
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this country, said Liz hammil KFF, Vice president and director
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of Public Opinion and Survey Research. What we don't know
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yet is whether those slight cracks were starting to see
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in confidence among younger parents are going to translate into
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actual decisions around vaccines. Compared with routine vaccines required to
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attend schools, parents are less likely to have their children
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receive coronavirus or flu vaccines, which reduce the risk of
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hospitalization and death but offer limited protection against infection and transmission.
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About half of parents fifty two percent did not vaccinate
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their children for flu in the past year, compared with
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forty one percent who did so. The Pole Finds Centers
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for Disease Control and Prevention estimates show that a majority
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of children received flu shots every year since twenty ten,
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and that the coverage started declining after twenty nineteen. Roughly
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thirteen percent of eligible children received last year's coronavirus vaccine,
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according to federal estimates. The urgency around vaccination is greater
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for vaccines that are very effective in preventing infections from
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highly infectious pathogens such as measles. More than ninety five
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percent of a community needs to be vaccinated to achieve
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heard immunity to prevent measles outbreaks. The CDC says ninety
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two point five percent of kindergarteners received their MMR vaccines
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last school year, but those rates are lower in parts
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of the country, including in West Texas, which experienced the
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nation's worst measles outbreak in more than thirty years. The
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number of parents claiming religious or other exemptions to school
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mandates has been slowly rising. Many public health experts say
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vaccination rates could decline further with the appointment of Health
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and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior, a long
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time anti vaccine activist, as the nation's top health official.
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In office, Kennedy has taken steps to revisit and revise
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immunization practices and raise concerns about the safety of vaccines
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that medical associations and the CDC had long said were baseless. Pediatricians,
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the CDC and medical experts say recommended vaccines are proved
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to be safe and effective through extensive research and monitoring.
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Delaying or spreading out vaccine does leave your child unprotected
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during the time when they need vaccine protection the most.
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The CDC rights on its website whose skips or delay shots.
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While past polling and research have shown the vast majority
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of Americans choose to vaccinate, the post KFF poll offers
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a closer look at the demographics of those who do
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and don't. Democrats and Asian parents are some of the
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least likely to skip or delay any vaccine for their
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children besides coronavirus or flu, with eight percent and five
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percent doing so, respectively. Parents who homeschool a child forty
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six percent and white parents who identifies very religious thirty
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six percent are most likely to skip or delay vaccines.
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More than one in five of both groups of parents
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skip to delay the MMR or polio vaccines. Anna Hulkow,
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thirty nine, moved her five children to Arizona in part
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for its looser school vaccine requirements. She could no longer
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send her kids to public school in California because they
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were not vaccinated against chicken pox, polio, or pertussis. Hokkau,
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who teaches at a private Christian school, said she doesn't
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consider herself anti vaccine as her children have received some musations,
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but she said she distrusts the health care system as
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profit motivated and believes severe reactions to vaccines have gone unreported.
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After switching pediatricians a few times, she now takes her
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children to a physician who has her own children on
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a delayed vaccine schedule. She wonders whether her kids are
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better off gaining immunity to a disease like chicken pox
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by getting infected rather than vaccinated. I don't think my
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kids are worse off to get at first hand, Holkow said,
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why by people skip or delay shots. Most pediatricians and
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public health officials say the childhood immunization schedule has been
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designed to save lives and protect the vulnerable. They caution
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against assuming that natural immunity is superior to vaccine induced immunity,
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which does not carry the complications and risks of the
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disease itself. Before vaccination, chicken pox killed one hundred to
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one hundred fifty people a year and left thousands hospitalized.
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According to the CDC, Many immunizations are recommended in the
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first two years of life, when a child is at
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most risk of severe disease and could infect others such
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as a daycare. The post KFF polls find side effects
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and concerns about safety are the primary reasons parents chose
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to skip or delay vaccination, along with doubts about whether
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all recommended vaccines are necessary. Those health concerns far outweigh
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challenges to access the health care system him by factors
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of more than four to one. Costs and securing appointments
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rank as the least common reasons. Ali Barlow, who has
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a pH d in civil engineering, said she believes vaccines
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are a modern day medical miracle and Kennedy's views on
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them are not research based. But the thirty one year
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old Arizona mother of two said she thinks a childhood
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immunization schedule a timeline for which vaccine's kids should receive
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and when, favors the convenience of multiple shots in a
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visit over allowing parents to minimize risk. She delayed some
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shots for her four year old daughter, including for chicken pox.
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She said she has only vaccinated her two year old
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son for measles and tetanus so far because he has
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had a host of health and growth issues. Let's talk
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about what the actual documented side effects are and be
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honest about it, Barlow said, instead of being like, you
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have to do this if you're a good parent, this
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is what the government says the influence of RFK junior.
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All vaccines have side effects, the CDC says they are
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mostly minor, such as sore arms or low grade fevers,
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and must be weighed against the risks of the diseases
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themselves to the child and broader community. After vaccines are
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in use, they are continually monitored for additional reports of complications.
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As Kennedy and his allies reorient national vaccine policy, including
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scrutinizing the number of shots on the childhood schedule. Few
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embrace their false claims about vaccines causing autism or chronic disease,
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but at least four in ten parents say they don't
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know enough to say whether those claims are true or false.
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Public health experts have expressed concern that people are receiving
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misinformation and anti vaccine rhetoric from government officials and channels.
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The Pole finds forty nine percent of parents are confident
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in the CDC and Food and Drug Administration to ensure
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this safety and effectiveness of vaccines, while fifty one percent
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are not. Six and ten Democrats are confident in federal
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health agencies overseeing vaccine safety, compared with forty eight percent
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of independence and forty one percent of Republicans. More than
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half of Republican parents, fifty four percent and thirty six
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percent of parents overall say they trust Kennedy to provide
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reliable information about vaccines, and of those, twenty two percent
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skipped or delayed a vaccine for their child. Several interviewed
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by the Posts said they felt he was giving them
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a voice. Amani Schad, twenty eight, of Las Vegas, said
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she believes vaccines caused her two daughters autism, a link
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promoted by Kennedy that medical experts say has been disproved
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by dozens of studies as well as allergic reactions. After
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losing faith in the medical establishment, she turned to a
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mom's group on Facebook and followed to delay vaccinating her infant.
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She ultimately decided to get her son, now three, through
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required vaccines to attend public school. While she doesn't agree
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with everything Kennedy says, Shadi said she believes his critique
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of vaccines speaks for moms like her who watch their
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artistic children regress. That created a wave of people coming
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out and being able to speak out about them about vaccines,
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and people have an opinion, said Shade, who considers herself
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a political independent, vaccinating with concerns. Many parents in the
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poll fall into a mushy middle on vaccines, choosing to
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vaccinate their children while expressing some skepticism towards vaccines as
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a whole. While about half of parents consider themselves pro
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vaccine forty eight percent and just six percent said they
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are anti vaccine forty five percent, they are somewhere in
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the middle, and those parents in the middle are more
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likely than pro vaccine parents to ex press vaccine hesitancy,
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including lacking confidence in the safety of routine vaccines, saying
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that there is not enough testing and that the CDC
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recommends too many vaccines. Kennedy has repeatedly stated that vaccines
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are not tested enough, a claim that the American Academy
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of Pediatrics and federal health agencies before Kennedy's leadership said
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is baseless. Vaccines go through several stages of clinical trials
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before approval, with thousands of people studied before they are
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rolled out to the public. The coronavirus pandemic took a
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toll on Americans views of vaccinations in general, with Gallup
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polls finding sixty nine percent of Americans thought childhood vaccinations
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were important in twenty twenty four, down from eighty four
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per cent in twenty nineteen. The Post KFF poll finds
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fifty six per cent appearance are not confident coronavirus vaccines
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are safe for children, but the lack of confidence in
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coronavirus vaccines has not translated to doubts in MMR and
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polio vaccines. About nine and ten parents say it is
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important for children in their community to get the m
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m R and polio vaccines, and more than eight in
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ten to the air confident they are safe for children.
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Casey Mortenson's daughter received all of her recommended vaccines, and
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he said he'll probably keep vaccinating her, But the forty
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two year old Navy veteran from Idaho Falls, Idaho, said
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he is starting to question vaccine recommendations as he becomes
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exposed to influential critics of coronavirus vaccines with large online followings.
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The bigger things I've been informed by a couple of
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those guys is the corruption and some of the bad actors.
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Mortensen said there was obviously a suppression campaign for a
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little while there, but I feel like we're in a
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new age now, bipartisan support. Despite Republican parents being more
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likely to skip vaccines, seventy seven percent still fall of
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vaccine recommendations, and eighty four percent did so for measles
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and polio. A conservative polling firm privately warned go P
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lawmakers that overhauling vaccine policies is politically dangerous, as most
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of President Donald Trump's voters believe vaccines save lives. Elizabeth Stratford,
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fifty five, retired in January from her job as an
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ICU nurse. The Republican mother of six said she feels
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strongly about vaccinating children to protect them. In her mostly
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Republican community in Utah, she said she feels like an outlier.
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She said she blames quack doctors for spreading false information
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that dissuade some of her neighbors from vaccinating their children
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and believing their children can naturally fight viruses. I've taken
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care of people with polio and with rubella and with
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measles in my thirty five years of nursing, and I
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don't know why anybody would ever want those diseases, Stratford said,
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if people knew what these diseases were about, they would
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probably be more responsible. Caitlin Gilbert contributed to this report
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about the pole. This Washington Post KFF Pole of US
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Parents is the thirty seventh in the partnership combining survey
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research and reporting to better inform the public. The survey
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was conducted July eighteenth to August fourth, twenty twenty five
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among two thousand, seven hundred sixteen US parents and guardians
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of children under eighteen years old living in their household
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via the probability based ipso's Knowledge Panel. Overall results have
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a margin of sampling error of plus or minus two
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percentage points, including design effects due to waiting air. Margins
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are larger for subgroups. In collaboration with a Post, KFF
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researchers work to design the survey sample and questionnaire, analyze
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and report the findings. The project team from KFF included
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Molly Ambrody, Audrey Carney, Ashley Kerzinger, Liz Hamill, Alex Montero,
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and Isabel Valdes. This article does include several graphs of
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the data included in the poll. Our next item is
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entitled court allows Cook to keep her position as Fed
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Governor by justin juvenal. A divided federal appeals court on
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Monday ruled Federal Reserved Governor Lisa Cook can keep her job,
30:24
turning aside an appeal by the Trump administration that sought
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to fire her ahead of the Central Bank's key meeting
30:31
this week on setting interest rates. The Trump administration was
30:34
expected to quickly appeal the decision to the Supreme Court.
30:38
Trump has accused Cook of mortgage fraud, a charge she denies,
30:42
and has sought her dismissal. But the three judge panel
30:45
said the President violated Cook's rights by not giving her
30:49
a chance to defend herself against the accusations. The government
30:53
does not dispute that it failed to provide Cook even
30:56
a minimal process, that is, notice of the allecation against
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her and a meaningful opportunity to respond before she was
31:04
purportedly removed, the majority wrote. In the two to one ruling,
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Judges Bradley and Garcia and J. Michael Childs, both Biden appointees,
31:13
ruled against the Trump administration. Judge Gregory G. Kotsus, a
31:18
Trump appointee, dissented. Kotis wrote that a federal judge was
31:22
wrong to grant Cook an injunction against her removal on
31:25
grounds of the alleged mortgage fraud occurred before she was
31:28
nominated to the FED. He also said Cook did not
31:32
have a right to do process. Both holdings are mistaken,
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and the equitable balance here tips in favor of the government,
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Kotsus wrote. Attorneys for Cook wrote in filings that trying
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to remove her so close to this week's meeting could
31:45
throw the Central Bank's vote on interest rates into chaos
31:49
and has the real potential of impacting domestic and foreign markets.
31:54
Cook's attorneys added in a Saturday filing that allowing Trump's
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firing would transform the FED from a historically independent institution
32:03
into an atwill body, leaving the nation's central bank and
32:07
its monetary policy at the mercy of the White House
32:10
and its political whims. The Central Bank is expected to
32:14
decide at a meeting Tuesday and Wednesday how much to
32:17
cut interest rates for the first time this year, amid
32:21
signs of a softening labor market. No president in the
32:25
one hundred eleven year history of the FED has tried
32:28
to fire a governor from the seven member board, which
32:31
is tasked with maintaining maximum employment as well as low
32:35
and stable inflation. Congress set up the agency to act
32:39
with political autonomy from the president so it could be
32:42
free to make necessary but often unpopular decisions, such as
32:46
raising interest rates. The Federal Reserve Act allows presidents to
32:50
fire governors only for cause. Trump accused Cook of martgage
32:55
fraud in late August, saying the alleged wrongdoing gave him
32:58
a reason to oust. The Justice Department has opened an investigation,
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but no charges have been filed. On Friday, the Washington
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Post obtained documents that raised questions about Trump's assertions that
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Cook committed mortgage fraud. Cook has denied the allegations ensued
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to keep her job, saying her removal was illegal and
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a pretext for Trump to have a FED board that
33:20
would accede to his wishes to lower interest rates. Trump
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has loudly complained for months that the Fed should lower
33:28
interest rates to boost the economy, and had previously considered
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firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell. U S. District
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Judge GEO Cobb, a Biden appointee, issued a temporary restraining
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order September ninth, allowing Cook to remain on the board.
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Cob wrote in an opinion that the alleged mortgage fraud
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occurred in twenty twenty one before President Joe Biden nominated
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Cook to the FED, so Trump didn't have good reason
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to fire her. The best reading of the four Caused
33:58
provision is that the basies removal of a member of
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the Board of Governors are limited to grounds concerning a
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governor's behavior in office and whether they have been faithfully
34:07
and effectively executing their statutory duties, Cob wrote. Cobb also
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said Trump probably violated Cook's due process rights because the
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President had not given her prior notice of his intent
34:19
to fire her and a chance to defend herself. Administration
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attorneys argued in a court filing Sunday that judges did
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not have the discretion to review Trump's decision to remove Cook.
34:31
Removal for cause is a capacious standard that Congress has
34:35
vested in the president's discretion, the attorneys wrote. Even if
34:39
the president's determination were reviewable and over a century if
34:42
case law suggests it is not, review would be limited.
34:47
If the Trump administration appeals and the Supreme Court takes
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the case, it's unclear how the justices might rule given
34:54
the lack of precedent. The majority of Monday's decisions said
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they did not need to rule on the means for
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cause because Cook's due process claims had merit. The Supreme
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Court has shown strong support for Trump's broad assertion of
35:08
power over independent agencies. In recent rulings, It has permitted
35:13
the president to fire members of boards dealing with labor issues,
35:16
consumer products safety, and federal workers as a challenger removals
35:21
in court. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Junior also allowed
35:26
Trump to go forward with the removal of the Democratic
35:28
member of the Federal Trade Commission while the Court considers
35:32
whether to weigh in on the case challenging her removal.
35:36
The court's conservative majority has ruled Trump could fire agency
35:39
heads without cause, even though Congress set them up to
35:43
be insulated from political interference, because the Constitution vests the
35:48
executive power in the president, the conservative majority wrote in
35:52
one case, he may remove without cause executive officers who
35:56
exercise that power on his behalf, subject to no narrow
36:00
exceptions recognized by our precedents. The decisions cut against a
36:05
nineteen thirty five ruling by the High Court known as
36:08
Humphrey's Executor, that found Congress could limit the president's power
36:12
to remove the heads of independent agencies. Justice Brett M.
36:16
Cavanaugh has indicated the Court could soon overturn or limit
36:21
that precedent. The Justices also signaled in a case allowing
36:25
Trump to temporarily remove the members of the National Labor
36:28
Relations Board and Merit Systems Protection Board in May that
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the President does not have unlimited authority to fire governors
36:36
of the FED because it is set up differently from
36:39
other independent agencies. The Federal Reserve is a uniquely structured,
36:44
quasi private entity that follows in the distinct historical tradition
36:48
of the First and Second Banks of the United States.
36:51
The majority road the ruling came the same night the
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Senate narrowly approved the nomination of Stephen Mirren, a Trump
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economic adv visor, to fill a separate seat on the
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Fed's board. Andrew Ackerman contributed to this report Next and
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I Am entitled cuts impede climate health work in Black
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communities Bonomita Kauer and Emmanuel Felton. The Trump administration has
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axed nearly two dozen projects addressing health and environmental issues
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in southern Black communities. A Washington Post analysis found reversing
37:28
years of work to address pollution sewage leagues flooding and more.
37:34
Rural Alabama counties lost a fourteen million dollar grant to
37:38
upgrade sanitation systems so decrepit that some residents have contracted hookworm.
37:44
A historically black Virginia neighborhood won't receive a twenty million
37:48
dollar grant to stop severe flooding. In Louisiana, multiple federal
37:52
efforts have been halted, a Justice Department lawsuit against a
37:56
corporation accused of worsening cancer risks in a predominantly black neighborhood,
38:02
the designation of one area as a National Historic Landmark
38:05
to limit industrialization, and grants from the Environmental Protection Agency
38:10
to support monitoring air quality in Cancer Alley, an eighty
38:14
mile stretch of mostly black towns and villages hit hard
38:18
by industrial pollution. The Trump administration said the changes are
38:22
needed to curb government spending. Officials have also linked some
38:27
Biden air climate programs to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
38:31
that President Donald Trump and his top aides have said
38:34
amount to illegal discrimination. President Trump was given an overwhelming
38:40
mandate to stop spending hard earned taxpayer dollars on the
38:43
less radical climate agenda and restore common sense to the
38:47
federal governments out of control spending, Taylor Rogers, a White
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House spokeswoman, said in his statement. Residents and racial justice
38:55
and environmental advocates say the cuts and cancellations leave black
38:59
community without the resources to solve long term problems and
39:03
neglect that have contributed to deep racial inequities across the region.
39:08
Many of the efforts had been in the works for years,
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but gain steam after the twenty twenty racial justice movement.
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Those who have pushed for them say that Trump administration
39:19
is unfairly dismissing the initiatives as DEI. Old and crumbling
39:25
infrastructure in these southern communities that should keep everyone safe
39:28
and healthy is not going to be repaired or upgraded,
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said Jen Dugan, executive director of the Environmental Integrity Project,
39:36
an advocacy group. It is incredibly cruel and it is
39:40
lazy for the Trump administration to destroy and tear down
39:44
these programs. The plus analysis of grant databases and interviews
39:49
with advocates and nonprofits that spearheaded the efforts identified twenty
39:53
two affected projects that lost grant funding or were undertaken
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by agency led lawsuits, order and protections. The effort spanned
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several federal agencies, including the EPA and the Departments of Justice, Interior,
40:08
and Agriculture. The cuts were wide ranging, largely ceasing projects
40:13
that sought to rectify environmental plight and health and safety hazards.
40:18
Others included building a park in Louisville and a community
40:22
garden in Richmond. Nearly two dozen climate justice programs acts
40:28
under Trump. Here's a sampling of the projects addressing health
40:31
and environmental issues in southern Black communities that have been
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canceled this year. Jackson, Mississippi, EPA cost twenty million dollars
40:42
grant to fund construction of a resiliency hub providing shelter,
40:46
water and support during climate disaster. Thomasville, Georgia, EPA twenty
40:51
million dollars grant to fix aging sewer systems, provide home repairs,
40:56
and build a new health clinic, Union Heights, North Charleston,
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South Carolina EPA eleven point four million dollars grant to
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support weatherization of homes. Savannah, Georgia EPA one million dollars
41:13
grant to offer low or no cost energy efficiency services
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to vulnerable residents. North Birmingham, Alabama, EPA seventy five thousand
41:23
dollars grant to support air quality monitoring efforts. Lounda's County, Alabama,
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DOJ no dollar amount. Agreement to help upgrade county sanitation services,
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Mobile County, Alabama, EPA one million dollars grant to expand
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lead poisoning prevention program Saint John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana,
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DOI no dollar amount, Historic National Landmark consideration to preserve
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land La Place, Louisiana. DOJ no dollar amount. DOJ lawsuit
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against a company accused of worsening cancer risks. Source Washington
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Post reporting USA spending, dot gov government news releases. Some
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federal notices canceling the projects pointing to a general shift
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in agency priorities, but many cited a Trump executive order
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to eradicate DEI programs, which it described as radical, wasteful
42:23
at amounting to forced, illegal, and immoral discrimination. The order
42:28
demands federal agencies eliminate any positions, offices, initiatives, grants, and
42:34
contracts related to DEI or environmental justice, which refers to
42:38
efforts to address disproportionate levels of pollution in poor, often
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non white areas. Here is a close look at some
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of the cancelations, several of which are being challenged in court.
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A landmark no more. J Banner and her neighbors in Wallace, Louisiana,
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for years watched the industrial transformation of their region. A
43:00
rural landscape along the Mississippi River was centuries old sugar
43:04
cane fields where enslaved people once labored and then cultivated
43:08
their own crops. Once freed, gray buildings replaced greenery. Smoke
43:13
clouded the air, pollutants muddied the waters. Then a company
43:18
announced plans to build a four hundred million dollar grain
43:21
export terminal. Community members appealed to the National Park Service
43:26
to have an eleven mile swath of land running through
43:29
their town and county designated a National Historic Landmark that
43:34
would prevent companies from setting up shop, safeguarding residents, air, water,
43:39
and land, Banner said. After emancipation, black communities put together
43:44
their resources to purchase a land. Banner said, the plantations
43:48
around us have historic status, but we argued that it
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is not just the plantations, but especially these black communities,
43:56
these black villages, free town communities that are nestled Twain,
44:00
these plantations that are also historic. In October, the National
44:05
Park Service determined the land was eligible for federal protection.
44:09
Stating in its year long study that the area presents
44:12
a remarkably unique rural historic landscape that has remained rural, agricultural,
44:18
and stable for more than three centuries. The agency said
44:22
the district also illustrates an alternative narrative to the stories
44:26
of sharecropping and the Great Migration, and slave laborers eventually
44:30
became landholders, remaining in the area for generations. Four months later,
44:36
after the company behind the planned grained export terminal dropped
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its proposal, the Trump administration rescinded the notice of eligibility
44:44
at the request of state leaders. The Interior Department said
44:48
the process to deem the area eligible as a historic
44:51
landmark was moot. I am grateful that the Trump administration
44:55
understands that states and localities are better at determining their
44:59
intri relating to clean air, water, and developing industry, then
45:03
leaving crucial decisions like those to Washington. Cederelia S. Giocometto,
45:08
then Secretary of Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, Banner, called
45:14
the decision of political stunt that undermines the preservation of
45:17
black history. It is twenty two thousand acres of land
45:21
that would have been protected now some greedy developer is
45:24
going to come in and still be able to develop
45:27
that land. Banner said, de EI is just an easy
45:31
excuse to target vulnerable communities impassable roads in Virginia. Shelton
45:38
Tucker just wants the floods to stop. Tucker grew up
45:42
in the late nineteen sixties in Hampton's Aberdeen Gardens neighborhood.
45:46
It was built by black architects for black residents under
45:49
a New Deal program that offered people coming from overcrowded
45:53
urban centers the opportunity to farm and own a home.
45:57
He recalls a childhood of playing an open green space,
46:01
running around a basketball court and picking the fruit that
46:04
grew in abundance. But in recent years, he said, every
46:08
time it rains, they're standing water. Climate experts have said
46:13
the historic neighborhood's infrastructure wasn't built for the modern climate,
46:17
where deluges are increasing in frequency. The storm drains are
46:21
too narrow and too few and far between. Now, when
46:25
it rains, roads become impassable. The flooding has paralyzed a
46:30
community at least three to four times in the past year,
46:33
Tucker said, describing water that reached the hood of his car,
46:37
in some storms were like sitting ducks if we don't
46:40
address it. The EPA in December awarded the neighborhood twenty
46:44
million dollars to remedy the dated water infrastructure. The money
46:48
came from Biden era environmental justice grants, designed to address
46:52
problems created by discriminatory government policies, including segregation, red lining,
46:58
and exclusionary zoning. But the Trump administration shuddered the EPA's
47:03
environmental Justice arm in March, saying it had been used
47:07
to fund left wing activists and didn't directly help communities.
47:12
In June, the city of Hampton received a notice that
47:14
its grant was canceled because the effort was no longer
47:18
consistent with the EPA funding priorities. I'm disappointed, Tucker said,
47:23
it's putting politics over the safety of human beings. Millions
47:28
for septic tanks in Alabama's Loundes County, residents fear the
47:33
loss of federal grants means a future riddled with parasites.
47:37
The county is in the heart of the Alabama black Belt,
47:40
a string of mostly rural counties once home to cotton plantations.
47:45
For decades, residents have struggled with raw sewage coming up
47:49
through the ground and pooling on their properties. Standard private
47:53
septic tank systems are no match for the county's heavy
47:56
clay soil. The sewage produces noxious vapors and a fertile
48:00
habitat for hookworms, a gastrointestinal parasite more often found than
48:05
sub Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. Over the years, these
48:10
little worms have created a full blown public health crisis
48:13
in Alabama. During the Biden administration, the Justice Department found
48:18
the state government had been unwilling to provide Lounda's county
48:22
with access to public sewage systems or assistance in installing
48:26
better private systems. State officials had previously prosecuted poor black
48:31
residents who couldn't foot the bill for installing more expensive systems.
48:36
Alabama was aware of the issues and disproportionate burden and
48:40
impact placed on black residents in Luanda's county, but failed
48:44
to take meaningful actions to remedy these conditions. Justice Department
48:48
officials said in twenty twenty three, when they reached an
48:51
agreement to work toward improving access to adequate sanitation systems
48:56
and addressing the health risks associated with raw sewage exposure
49:00
in April, the Justice Department announced it was terminating the agreement,
49:04
citing Trump's executive order calling for the end of DEI
49:08
programs and forbidding the agency from pursuing environmental justice programs.
49:13
The EPA, also citing Trump's anti DEI stance, canceled a
49:18
fourteen million dollar grant awarded to Texas A and M
49:21
University to install hundreds of septic tanks in Londa's County
49:25
and other Black Belt counties. Some Landa's County nonprofits have
49:30
since turned to five million dollars in funding remaining from
49:33
President Joe Biden's Pandemic era American Rescue Plan ACT advocates
49:38
say that's not enough and are calling for more government support.
49:42
Each septic system costs as much as seventy thousand dollars
49:45
to install. The Lundas County Unincorporated Wastewater Program has installed
49:51
three private septic systems using the pandemic funds and is
49:54
working on twelve other homes, said Carmelida Arnold, the organization's president,
49:59
But there are at least five hundred families that still
50:03
need help, she said, I just felt we had more
50:06
support when we had the d o J keeping track.
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Arnold said, we feel left behind again, like so many
50:14
other times. The final item from to day's front page
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is entitled Trump orders removal of park exhibits about slavery
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by Jake Spring and Hannah n Atenson. The Trump administration
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has ordered the removal of signs and exhibits related to
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slavery at multiple national parks, according to four people familiar
50:34
with the matter, including a historic photograph of a formerly
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enslaved man showing scars on his back. The article does
50:42
include a copy of that photo. The individuals who spoke
50:46
on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized
50:49
to speak with the media. So the removals were in
50:52
line with President Donald Trump's March executive order directing the
50:56
Interior Department to eliminate information that reflects a quote corrosive
51:00
ideology that disparages historic Americans. National Park Service officials are
51:06
broadly interpreting that directive to apply to information on racism, sexism, slavery,
51:12
gay rights, or persecution of Indigenous people. Following Trump's order,
51:17
Interior Department officials issued policies ordering agency employees to report
51:23
any information, including signage and gift shop items, that might
51:27
be out of compliance. Trump officials also launched an effort
51:31
asking park visitors to report offending material, but they mostly
51:36
received criticisms of the administration and praise for the parks.
51:40
The latest orders include removing information at Harper's Ferry National
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Historic Park in West Virginia, two people familiar with the
51:47
matter said, where the abolitionist John Brown led a raid
51:51
seeking to arm slaves for a revolt. Staff have also
51:55
been told that information in the President's House site in Philadelphia,
51:59
where George Washing kept slaves, does not comply with a policy.
52:03
According to a third individual, Jonathan Zimmerman, a University of
52:07
Pennsylvania professor who studies the history of education, said this
52:12
is the latest installment in the Trump administration's unprecedented interference
52:16
with the nation's civic institutions, a campaign which also includes
52:21
Trump's takeover of the Kennedy Center and attempts to pressure
52:24
the Smithsonian. This represents an enormous increase in federal power
52:29
and control over the things we learned, Zimmerman said, brought
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to you by the team that says education should be
52:36
state and local park service folkspurst In Rachel Pollitz said
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in a statement that all signage is under review. Interpretive
52:45
materials that disproportionately emphasize negative aspects of u S history
52:49
or historical figures without acknowledging broader contacts or national progress
52:54
can unintentionally distored understanding rather than enrich it, Pollitt said.
53:00
At Harper's Ferry, staff lagged more than thirty signs. According
53:03
to a person familiar with the matter and documents reviewed
53:06
by the Post, that highlight information potentially in violation of
53:10
Trump's policy, they include signs referring to racial discrimination and
53:15
the hostility of white people to people who were formerly enslaved.
53:20
Park Service officials marked the submission as out of compliance,
53:24
with staff now expected to cover up parts of signs
53:26
or remove them, the person said. Separately, park Service officials
53:31
have ordered the removal of a photograph illustrating violence against slaves,
53:35
known as the Scourged Back at one National Park. The photograph,
53:40
taken in eighteen sixty three, shows scars on the back
53:43
of a man probably named Peter Gordon, from wounds inflicted
53:47
by his masters before he escaped slavery. The photo was
53:51
circulated widely at the time, and Northern audiences were shocked
53:55
at what the photos showed, said Anne Cross, a scholar
53:59
of nineteenth century foot photography at Bowden College Museum of Art.
54:03
The bodies of enslaved people like Peter Gordon revealed to
54:07
them realities they had never seen with their own eyes before,
54:11
Cross said, and in many cases it altered their political
54:15
opinions about the need to defeat the Confederacy and preserve
54:18
the Union. The photo has since become famous, taking on
54:23
a greater meaning in the struggle for black liberation, Cross said.
54:27
The New Yorker integrated the image into a collage on
54:30
its cover commemorating George Floyd a month after his death
54:34
at the hands of police. Later that year, Viola Davis
54:38
appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair showing her back
54:41
with photographer Dario calms acknowledging that he sought to replicate
54:45
the historic photo. In his executive order, Trump singled out
54:50
the quote corrosive ideology. At Philadelphia's Independence National Historic Park,
54:55
where the founders signed the Declaration of Independence. The parka
54:59
cl is the President's House site where George Washington served
55:03
as president before the capital moved to Washington, d c.
55:06
The house was demolished in the eighteen hundreds, but an
55:09
exhibit opened there in twenty ten based on archeological excavations.
55:15
Local advocates had pushed for the exhibit to provide in
55:18
depth information on the lives of nine people who were
55:21
enslaved by George Washington while he lived in the House
55:24
as president. The exhibit includes their names carved into a
55:27
granite wall. This is not just a handful of signs
55:32
that tell the story of slavery, said Ed Steerly, Senior
55:35
min Atlantic Regional director at the advocacy group National Parks
55:39
Conservation Association. This is a place that tells the complete story,
55:45
not just of slavery in America, but what it was
55:48
like for those who were enslaved by George Washington. Trying
55:51
to extricate slavery from the President's House exhibit would fundamentally
55:56
change the nature of the site, said Sidney mc lloyd,
55:59
who was super tenant of Independence National Historic Park for
56:02
fifteen years until twenty twenty three. This is just one
56:06
of many exhibits an Independence National Historical Park, mc cloyd said,
56:11
and to me, it's a vital one. Next from inside
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the a section is an iteman titled White House says.
56:18
Deal on sale of tik Tok has been reached by
56:22
Drew Harwell President Donald Trump said Monday that the United
56:26
States and China have reached a deal over TikTok that
56:29
would mark a shift in ownership for the wildly popular
56:32
video app and avoid its nationwide band. Trump said he
56:36
would speak with Chinese leader Jijinping on Friday, adding that
56:40
the agreement over the app, now owned by the Beijing
56:43
based tech giant Byte Dance, would make young people in
56:47
our country very happy. The President provided no details about
56:51
the agreement, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant on Monday said
56:56
only that a framework of the deal was in place.
56:59
Chinese government officials said Monday in a news conference that
57:03
the two sides had reached a basic consensus and would
57:06
work to examine and approve matters related to the deal.
57:10
By Dance in TikTok did not immediately respond to requests
57:14
for comment. Oracle, which could hold a stake as part
57:18
of the deal, currently hosts Americans TikTok data on its
57:21
service in Texas and reviews the code for potential security flaws.
57:26
Oracle co founder Larry Ellison, the world's richest person, is
57:30
a close Trump ally. Oracle did not immediately respond to
57:34
requests for comment. Besson discussed TikTok with Chinese Premier Hi
57:39
Lising and other officials at a meeting this weekend in Spain,
57:43
Treasury officials said in a statement. Besson said that while
57:47
both sides were very close on the TikTok deal, Chinese
57:51
officials had made aggressive asks during the negotiations, which also
57:55
touched more broadly on tariffs and tray Wang jing Tao,
58:00
the Deputy Director of the Cyberspace Administration of China, said
58:04
that the U S and China had engaged in candid,
58:07
in depth and constructive talks and that bull sides had
58:11
reached agreement regarding our full respect for the will of
58:14
the business as well as the law of the market.
58:18
Due to the constraints of time, we will be unable
58:20
to complete this item. This concludes excerpts from the Courier
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Journal for Tuesday, September sixteenth, twenty twenty five. Your reader
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has been Cindy Fraser. Please stay tuned for continued programming
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