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But it's not the only state struggling to pay for attorneys to represent defendants who can't afford their own.","\" There are problems all over the country, and they're all the same problem,\" said Jennifer Nash, chair of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oregon.gov/opdc/pages/default.aspx\"\u003eOregon public defense commission\u003c/a\u003e. \"It's extremely difficult to recruit and retain public defense lawyers. The pay is too low, and the caseload is too high, and the work is very difficult.\"","Across the country, states are struggling to maintain a roster of attorneys to take on public defense cases. The number of criminal cases is rising while more attorneys are balking at what they say are low rates of pay to do the work.","The legal bills for indigent defendants largely fall on the states. The 1963 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Gideon vs. Wainwright said the 6th Amendment right to counsel applies to criminal defendants in state, as well as federal, courts. But the ruling left it up to each state to determine how to provide legal representation for those who can't afford it.","Twenty three states, including Massachusetts, have a state agency that employs public defenders, according to the\u003ca href=\"https://6ac.org/\"\u003e 6th Amendment Center\u003c/a\u003e, which tracks public defender spending. Each state has a different patchwork of state agencies, private attorneys and nonprofits helping provide attorneys for indigent defendants.","\"States have the obligation of making sure that every person receives an effective attorney,\" said Aditi Goel, executive director of the 6th Amendment Center. \"So the question is: how much and why should defendants pay the price for the state not being able to meet its mandate?\"","For defendants, the lack of an attorney can result in a case languishing for months, sometimes longer. Several states have faced lawsuits in recent years over the number of people without legal representation and the length of time it takes to adjudicate their cases.","\"America's dirty little secret is that there are thousands of people who go to jail without ever speaking to a lawyer,\" Goel said.","The pay for public representation is often much lower than what an attorney earns working for a private client, so many attorneys are opting out. Massachusetts attorneys who take public defense cases, called \"bar advocates,\" say they're paid the lowest rate in New England: $65 per hour in district court, $85 in superior court and $120 for homicide cases. Maine and New York both pay about $150 an hour, New Hampshire pays $125 to $150, and Rhode Island pays between $112 and $142. These attorneys are essentially independent contractors, and most pay to run their own offices.","\"If you want the right to counsel to continue, then you have to fund the defense program and there's a shortage of lawyers that are willing to do this for the current rate,\" said bar advocate Jennifer O'Brien, who is among the leaders of the effort to increase bar advocates' pay.","\"The state certainly prosecutes enough people,\" O'Brien said. \"They can't just pay for the prosecution side of it and then underfund the defense side of it.\"","\u003cspan data-index=\"1\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Bar advocates in Massachusetts have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/05/27/attorney-criminal-defense-work-stoppage\"\u003erefusing to take new cases\u003c/a\u003e for more than two months as they push for higher pay. That's led to more than 100 cases \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/07/22/charges-dismissed-against-dozens-of-defendants-due-to-public-defender-work-stoppage\"\u003ebeing dismissed\u003c/a\u003e and dozens of people released from jail because of a shortage of attorneys.","Judges in Massachusetts are following \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/07/03/sjc-order-release-unrepresented-criminal-defendants\"\u003eemergency protocols\u003c/a\u003e from a state Supreme Judicial Court ruling that says if a defendant is not appointed counsel within 45 days, the charges are to be dismissed. If someone in custody does not have legal representation within seven days, they must be released.","At least one Massachusetts prosecutor says the office will refile the cases once attorneys are available. More hearings are expected that could result in additional dismissals without a resolution of the wage dispute.","The state public defender agency, the Committee for Public Counsel Services, estimates more than 3,100 people in Massachusetts currently do not have legal representation.","\u003cspan data-index=\"2\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Other states facing this challenge include Oregon, where litigation is pending over unrepresented defendants. Jennifer Nash, chair of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oregon.gov/opdc/pages/default.aspx\"\u003eOregon public defense commission\u003c/a\u003e says \u003ca href=\"https://www.opb.org/article/2025/06/24/oregon-public-defense-lawyers-defender-law-politics-attorneys-crime/\"\u003emore than 4,000 people in Oregon currently do not have an attorney.\u003c/a\u003e The state made efforts to reduce the backlog and temporarily increased the hourly rate for private attorneys who take public cases to start at $164 an hour. Oregon lawmakers, however, let the increase lapse, and the starting rate will go back down to $140 an hour.","\" The system is broken,\" Nash said. \"We are denying defendants the right to counsel when they don't have a lawyer and it is very problematic for crime victims who aren't having any resolution of their cases.\"","Maine is facing a similar crisis. The state expanded its public defender program two years ago, but lawmakers recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.mainepublic.org/courts-and-crime/2025-04-10/bill-to-expand-maine-public-defender-office-passes-the-legislature\"\u003evoted not to continue the same level of funding long-term\u003c/a\u003e. That's despite a high-profile incident last year when a judge reduced bail for a defendant because there were \u003ca href=\"https://www.mainepublic.org/courts-and-crime/2024-06-17/suspect-in-deadly-auburn-police-standoff-was-released-from-jail-over-das-objection\"\u003eno attorneys available\u003c/a\u003e. Within days the man committed a violent crime and was killed in an armed police standoff.","Logan Perkins, a public defender in Bangor, says part of the problem is there are too many cases.","\"The politicians and the prosecutors think that we need to be tough on crime, and we need to prosecute more people,\" Perkins said. \"And they're increasingly unwilling to pay the cost to do that while providing them counsel.\"","In New York City, unionized public defenders \u003ca href=\"https://gothamist.com/news/legal-aid-society-attorneys-union-reach-tentative-deal-as-nyc-court-strike-loomed\"\u003eaverted\u003c/a\u003e a strike after reaching a tentative deal last month over better pay and smaller caseloads.","Attorneys say there are several reasons why this issue is coming to a head now. They cite a pandemic-induced backlog of cases, poor defendants' lack of political power, law school debt and a high cost of living.","Massachusetts attorney Lisa Newman-Polk says she stopped taking lower-level public defender cases eight years ago because of the pay.","\"The rate is just so abysmal,\" Newman-Polk said. \"Inflation has raised the cost of everything, and I think all of us know that just getting somebody to come to your house to fix something often costs substantially more than $65 an hour.\"","Massachusetts lawmakers have \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/07/30/bar-advocate-work-stoppage-criminal-defense\"\u003eoffered\u003c/a\u003e bar advocates a $20 hourly raise over two years. The \u003ca href=\"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2025/07/Bar-Advocates-Fact-Sheet.pdf\"\u003eoffer\u003c/a\u003e calls for private attorneys to agree that another work stoppage would constitute evidence of anti-trust violations. Several attorneys say they won't accept that, and they want at least a $35 hourly wage hike.","\"It's not sustainable,\" O'Brien, the bar advocate, said. \"I will not go back if it's under the $35, and there are a great deal of attorneys like me who will not go back unless it's $35.\"","The jury is still out on whether some bar advocates might begin taking new cases and whether more charges will be dismissed."],"enhanced":false,"seriesMeta":null,"iframeHero":null,"postType":"post","isBreaking":false,"isDeveloping":false,"relatedLinks":[{"id":273655,"url":"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/07/30/bar-advocate-work-stoppage-criminal-defense","prefix":"","title":"Lawmakers outline plan to raise bar advocate wages, hire more public defenders","index":1},{"id":273656,"url":"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/07/22/charges-dismissed-against-dozens-of-defendants-due-to-public-defender-work-stoppage","prefix":"","title":"Charges dismissed against dozens of defendants due to public defender work stoppage","index":2},{"id":273657,"url":"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/07/03/sjc-order-release-unrepresented-criminal-defendants","prefix":"","title":"SJC rules Mass. must begin releasing unrepresented defendants from custody","index":3}],"relatedLinksLabel":"Related:","broadcastType":"","broadcastDate":"","broadcastTime":"","itunesEpType":"","itunesEpNum":0,"itunesSeason":0,"itunesTitle":"","itunesSummary":"","itunesExplicit":false,"socialTease":null,"volume":3,"enableRecirculation":true,"suppressAudio":false,"hideArchiveMsg":false,"disableAds":"enabled","audioDatetime":null,"taxonomy":[{"id":64,"type":"category","name":"Crime \u0026 Justice","description":"","slug":"crime-justice","series":false,"global":false,"count":12981,"hide":false,"primary":true},{"id":73,"type":"category","name":"News","description":"","slug":"news","series":false,"global":false,"count":76153,"hide":false,"primary":false}],"audio":[],"embedMeta":{"embed-1":{"id":1,"parentID":1031413,"type":"pullquote","attributes":{"author":"Aditi Goel, executive director of the 6th Amendment Center"},"body":"\"America's dirty little secret is that there are thousands of people who go to jail without ever speaking to a lawyer.\"","placeholder":"\u003cspan data-index=\"1\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e"},"embed-2":{"id":2,"parentID":1031413,"type":"caption","attributes":{"id":"attachment_1031999","align":"aligncenter","width":"3000","caption":"Bar advocates in Massachusetts held a protest at the State House this week. 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Here's a breakdown on the new rules for those in the midst of apartment hunting, with the Sept. 1 moving day looming.","bylines":[{"comment_status":"closed","comment_count":0,"name":"Nik DeCosta-Klipa","nameLastFirst":"DeCosta-Klipa, Nik","slug":"nik-decosta-klipa","wordpressID":747297,"content":["Nik DeCosta-Klipa is a senior editor for newsletters at WBUR.","Nik wakes up early each morning to write WBUR's flagship newsletter, WBUR Today. He runs the day-to-day of all things email. He joined WBUR in 2022 from Boston.com, where he was a staff writer covering local news, politics, and transportation. Nik holds bachelor's degrees in journalism and politics from Ithaca College.","\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\"\u003eSign up for WBUR newsletters \u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\"\u003e\u003ca class=\"c-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https://www.wbur.org/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.wbur.org/inside/newsletters\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\"\u003ehere\u003c/a\u003e\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\"\u003e.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/em\u003e"],"apiURL":"https://api.wbur.org/people/nik-decosta-klipa","relativeURL":"/inside/staff/nik-decosta-klipa","organization":"wbur","embedMeta":null,"shortBio":"Nik DeCosta-Klipa is a senior editor for newsletters at WBUR. ","bluesky":null,"facebook":null,"title":"Senior Editor, Newsletters","type":"newsroom","channels":["news"],"thumbnail":"https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/nik-decosta-klipa-new-hs-600x600.jpg","photo":null,"website":null,"email":"ndk@bu.edu"}],"nprID":null,"nprTranscriptID":null,"nprURL":null,"dateline":"","superTitle":"Boston's Morning Newsletter","superTitleURL":"/tag/wbur-today-newsletter","content":["\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEditor's Note:\u003c/strong\u003e This is an excerpt from WBUR's daily morning newsletter, WBUR Today. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/wburtoday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003esign up here\u003c/a\u003e. \u003c/em\u003e","\u003chr /\u003e","It's Friday. Before we get to the news, a quick programming note: WBUR Today is taking a summer break next week. But don't worry; unlike the Massachusetts Legislature, we'll only be off for a week. See you back in your inboxes on Aug. 11.","Now, to the news:","\u003cstrong\u003eBroker's fees be gone: \u003c/strong\u003eMassachusetts' \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/07/02/brokers-fees-renters-landlord-change-massachusetts-healey\"\u003enew broker's fees rules\u003c/a\u003e are officially in effect. Beginning today, the law requires the fees can only be paid by the person who first engaged and hired the broker to list or find a rental property. It's not an all-out ban on broker's fees. But it does mean renters will no longer be forced pay four-figure fees to brokers who were originally hired by a landlord. This morning, Gov. Maura Healey's office \u003ca href=\"https://www.mass.gov/info-details/frequently-asked-questions-about-residential-rental-brokers-fees\"\u003eunveiled an FAQ page on the new rules\u003c/a\u003e for those in the midst of apartment hunting, with the Sept. 1 moving day coming up fast. Here are some highlights:","\u003cul\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eAre there exceptions? Yes. Renters could still have to pay the fee if they're the ones who directly sought out and hired a broker. (For example: someone new to Boston who reaches out to a broker to help them find an apartment fast.)\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eWhat if I reach out to a broker who is advertising an apartment? Listings on websites like Zillow often include a broker contact. And you'll increasingly see agents showing off apartments on Instagram and Tiktok. State officials recommend renters ask the broker to confirm whether they're working for the landlord. You shouldn't pay the fee unless the broker is working on your behalf.\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eWhat if I \u003cem\u003ejust \u003c/em\u003esigned a lease that includes a broker's fee? Sorry, you may still be on the hook. The rules don't apply retroactively. State officials say brokers can \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.mass.gov/doc/recent-brokertenant-fee-law-guidance-2025/download\"\u003elawfully collect a fee from a tenant\u003c/a\u003e\" for recent services if the lease was signed before Aug. 1, even if the broker was originally hired by the landlord.\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eCan my landlord pass on the broker's fee in other ways? Yes and no. Landlords may chose to raise the rent to recoup the costs of the fee over time. But what they can't do is just pass it on in the form of another upfront fee.\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eHow is it being enforced? Attorney General Andrea Campbell's office says anyone who's asked to pay a broker they didn't originally hire should \u003ca href=\"https://www.mass.gov/how-to/file-a-consumer-complaint?_gl=1*nm74lx*_ga*MTE5NTQ5NTYzOC4xNjkzMjM2ODc2*_ga_MCLPEGW7WM*czE3NTM3MzA4MjUkbzcwNSRnMCR0MTc1MzczMDgyNSRqNjAkbDAkaDA.\"\u003efile a complaint\u003c/a\u003e. Landlords could face fines for illegal fees, and brokers could lose their license\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eWhy now? Greater Boston had \u003ca href=\"https://www.realtor.com/advice/rent/boston-tenant-paid-broker-fees-new-york-comparison/\"\u003erecently become\u003c/a\u003e the last remaining American metro that allowed tenant-paid broker's fees. And while no one thinks the new rules are a fix for the region's exorbitantly expensive housing market, supporters say they will provide some relief from upfront moving costs, which can be \"upwards of $10,000.\" WBUR's Zeninjor Enwemeka has \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/07/02/brokers-fees-renters-landlord-change-massachusetts-healey\"\u003emore on the reactions here\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e","\u003cstrong\u003eCutting back: \u003c/strong\u003eThe vaccine-maker Moderna is laying off about 10% of its workforce — or roughly 500 people. And a spokesperson for the Cambridge-based company told WBUR that \"substantial number\" of the job cuts are here in Massachusetts.","\u003cul\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eModerna CEO Stéphane Bancel told employees in a letter yesterday the layoffs are a \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.modernatx.com/en-US/media-center/all-media/blogs/aligning-cost-structure-to-deliver-pipeline\"\u003edifficult but necessary\u003c/a\u003e\" part of the company's effort to trim $1.5 billion by 2027, amid slowing COVID vaccine sales. It comes less than a year after the company \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/09/12/moderna-cuts-development-spending-stocks-fall\"\u003eannounced\u003c/a\u003e it was cutting research and development spending, and pushed back its timeline for breaking even from 2026 to 2028.\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eGo deeper: CNBC has \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/31/covid-vaccine-makers-moderna-biontech-stocks-mrna-strategies-diverge-.html\"\u003ea good story\u003c/a\u003e about how the two pandemic mRNA darlings — Moderna and BioNTech — are now on two different financial paths.\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e","\u003cstrong\u003eWrapping up: \u003c/strong\u003eBefore decamping for their August recess, Beacon Hill lawmakers sent a bill to bolster protections for local abortion and transgender care to the desk of Gov. Maura Healey. Both the House and Senate passed a redraft of the bill yesterday, after resolving what leaders described as some \"very minor differences.\" The bill includes a number of updates to \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/07/29/gov-baker-signs-bill-protecting-abortion-access\"\u003ethe state's 2022 shield law\u003c/a\u003e, motivated by recent actions by the Trump administration. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/06/27/massachusetts-senate-abortion-transgender-care-shield-bil\"\u003eClick here if you need a refresher on the details\u003c/a\u003e.)","\u003cul\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eMeanwhile: The Senate officially passed its bell-to-bell ban on cellphones in school yesterday by a vote of 38-2. It now heads to the House. And the plan to raise hourly pay for bar advocates (\u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/07/31/massachusetts-bar-advocates-beacon-hill-deal-pay-raises\"\u003eexplained in yesterday's newsletter\u003c/a\u003e) is now awaiting Healey's signature.\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e","\u003cstrong\u003eThat dirty water: \u003c/strong\u003eBlue-green algae is back in the Charles River. State officials say a significant cyanobacteria bloom has \u003ca href=\"https://www.crwa.org/river-current/cyanobacteria-bloom-reported-in-lower-basin-of-charles-river\"\u003eemerged in the river's lower basin\u003c/a\u003e, aka between the Mass. Ave bridge and the Charlestown locks near downtown Boston. 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expert.","bylines":[{"comment_status":"closed","comment_count":0,"name":"Vivian La","nameLastFirst":"La, Vivian","slug":"vivian-la","wordpressID":992021,"content":["Vivian La is WBUR's environmental reporting fellow.","Her previous work on this beat ranges from wildfire smoke in cities to middle school science fairs. Vivian's work has appeared in Science Magazine, the Chicago Tribune and Illinois Public Media.","Originally from the Chicago suburbs, she graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a bachelor's degree in journalism and minor in biology.","When she's not thinking about environment stories, Vivian enjoys finding new bookstores to explore and spending time outdoors."],"apiURL":"https://api.wbur.org/people/vivian-la","relativeURL":"/inside/staff/vivian-la","organization":"wbur","embedMeta":null,"shortBio":"Vivian La is WBUR's environmental reporting fellow.","bluesky":"vivianla.bsky.social","facebook":null,"title":"Environmental Reporting Fellow","type":"newsroom","channels":["news"],"thumbnail":"https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/vivian_la-1-600x600.jpg","photo":null,"website":null,"email":"vla@bu.edu"}],"nprID":null,"nprTranscriptID":null,"nprURL":null,"dateline":"","superTitle":null,"superTitleURL":null,"content":["Massachusetts environmental lawyers and advocates warned this week that a regulatory change proposed by the Trump administration will make it more difficult for the government to rein in climate change.","Lee Zeldin, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, announced Tuesday that his agency will take steps to overturn the “endangerment finding,” which gives the government the legal authority to regulate planet-warming emissions from cars and trucks, oil and gas industries and other sources.","The move comes as parts of New England are already experiencing extreme weather made worse by climate change. Such events include longer, more intense heat waves and increased \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/07/10/flash-flood-warning-boston-south-shore-quincy\"\u003eflooding from heavy rain\u003c/a\u003e, said Kate Sinding Daly, senior vice president for law and policy at the Boston-based Conservation Law Foundation.","“ This is just a stake through the heart of decades of hard work towards trying to address the most significant challenge that humanity faces today, which is climate change,” Sinding Daly said.","In a statement, Zeldin said the proposal would boost the auto industry and make cars more affordable by unwinding exhaust emissions regulations.","“With this proposal, the Trump EPA is proposing to end sixteen years of uncertainty for automakers and American consumers,” he said.","Once the federal endangerment finding is killed, Sinding Daly said, the onus to combat climate change will shift to state and city governments. But it's not clear if local leaders are able — or willing — to ramp up their efforts.","Massachusetts lawmakers in recent years have \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/07/22/massachusetts-climate-bill-baker-desk\"\u003eenacted legislation\u003c/a\u003e to address climate change. That includes initiatives to ease the transition to \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/11/04/2024-massachusetts-clean-energy-bill-solar-wind-batteries-permitting-reform\"\u003erenewable energy\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/07/05/massachusestts-climate-change-timeline\"\u003ecurb air pollution\u003c/a\u003e.","Now is the time to make sure those laws are being implemented, Sinding Daly said.","\"If the federal government isn't going to tell industry and polluters that they have to stop spewing the stuff into the air, the states do it instead,\" she said.","But tackling the global problem of climate change will require federal support, said Jody Freeman, head of the environmental and energy law program at Harvard Law School and a former White House counsel for the Obama administration.","The endangerment finding stems from a landmark 2007 Supreme Court case, Massachusetts v. EPA, in which the justices ruled greenhouse gases qualify as air pollutants. Two years later, the EPA declared that these pollutants threaten public health, and the agency could regulate them under the Clean Air Act.","The move to repeal the finding is \"really the most aggressive thing they could possibly do\" to limit the federal government's ability to regulate emissions from the largest polluters, Freeman said.","It could also hamper efforts in states like Massachusetts.","“ We're a leader state, and when you don't have a partner in the federal government, it's just a lot harder,\" she said.","New England has made strides to increase energy supplies from renewable sources such as solar and hydropower, Freeman said. For example, rooftop solar has \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/06/24/behind-the-meter-solar-peak-demand-iso-new-england\"\u003ehelped residents stay cool\u003c/a\u003e during this summer’s hottest days, relieving stress on the power grid.","Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Ed Markey condemned the Trump administration's proposal, calling it a lie to the public.","\"This decision to argue that climate change isn’t dangerous isn’t driven by the law, and certainly isn’t driven by the science\u003cstrong\u003e,\"\u003c/strong\u003e he said in a statement. \"This is nothing more than selling out Americans’ safety and future just for the convenience of polluters.\"","President Trump has argued that American car companies and consumers have suffered from overregulation of greenhouse gas emissions. Trump campaigned on a platform to end “electric vehicle mandates,” which refers to regulations on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/20/1239092833/biden-epa-auto-emissions-evs\"\u003etailpipe emissions\u003c/a\u003e designed to encourage production of more EVs and fuel-efficient vehicles.","Transportation is the largest source of direct greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S., according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions\"\u003eEPA data\u003c/a\u003e.","Steven Higashide, director of clean transportation at the Cambridge-based Union of Concerned Scientists, said more fuel-efficient vehicles have improved the economy, the environment and the health of residents.","\"Decades of vehicle fuel economy and tailpipe emission standards have saved car and truck drivers trillions of dollars at the pump, reduced our collective exposure to toxic air pollution, and avoided the extraction and burning of billions of barrels of oil,\" Higashide said in a statement.","Some critics of the administration's plan said it could set back the domestic auto industry, especially as electric vehicle sales increase in countries like China.","“It’s essentially a kill shot to the American car industry,” said Larry Chretien, head of the Boston-based Green Energy Consumers Alliance.","At the state level, Chretien said the adoption of EVs has slowed in recent months because of changes to tax credits meant to incentivize clean energy use. A massive federal spending law signed by Trump last month will \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/16/nx-s1-5462190/trump-tax-credit-solar-ev-heat-pump\"\u003eeliminate tax credits\u003c/a\u003e for people who install home solar panels or buy EVs. There's still time to take advantage of the tax credits before the program sunsets at the end of this year, Chretien said.","There were 140,000 EVs on the road in the Massachusetts last year, according to the state's \u003ca href=\"https://www.mass.gov/info-details/2024-massachusetts-climate-report-card-transportation-decarbonization\"\u003eclimate report card\u003c/a\u003e. The goal is to increase that figure to 900,000 by the end of the decade.","Chretien said there are reasons to be optimistic about some state efforts around clean energy. That includes a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mass.gov/info-details/mor-ev-rebate-program\"\u003erebate program\u003c/a\u003e for EVs, the continuing expansion of public charging infrastructure, and electricity companies \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/07/30/massachusetts-heat-pumps-electric-rate-winter-discount-newsletter\"\u003eoffering discounted rates\u003c/a\u003e for heat pump users this winter.","Still, the federal proposal to repeal the endangerment finding is a blow to environmental advocacy, many nonprofit leaders said, going against decades of scientific consensus about the harms of climate change.","The move will likely face challenges from environmental groups as the federal review process gets underway.","“ We could be supporting clean energy,” Freeman said. “And instead all of this is a giant step backwards.”"],"enhanced":false,"seriesMeta":null,"iframeHero":null,"postType":"post","isBreaking":false,"isDeveloping":false,"relatedLinks":[{"id":273629,"url":"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/24/nx-s1-5302162/climate-change-trump-epa","prefix":"","title":"Trump's EPA now says greenhouse gases don't endanger people","index":1},{"id":273630,"url":"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/07/30/massachusetts-heat-pumps-electric-rate-winter-discount-newsletter","prefix":"","title":"Massachusetts to offer discounted electric rates to heat pump owners this winter","index":2},{"id":273631,"url":"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/04/11/massachusetts-executive-order-climate-change-protecting-american-energy#:~:text=They%20include%20a%202021%20climate,carbon%2Demitting%20power%20every%20year.","prefix":"","title":"Mass. has strong climate laws. 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She is a reporter at WBUR, where she reports on Black and brown communities through the lens of art and culture. She joined WBUR in 2018 as a reporting fellow before being hired full-time. Her work examines the liminal spaces between marginalized identities to find places of possibility and creation. Her writing has appeared in NPR, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, the Boston Art Review and ZORA Magazine, and her artwork has been featured in the Boston Globe and Boston Art Review.","Arielle is a 2022-2023 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Luminary artist. In 2022, she conceived and executed the Future Archive Project at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, a community audio and photography exhibition highlighting Black LGBTQIA+ individuals in the Boston area. In 2021, she co-curated Combahee's Radical Call, a multi-modal exhibit exploring the history of Black feminism in Boston at the Boston Center for the Arts. She is a 2020 Create Well Fund awardee and a 2021 A4A artist-in-residence at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2019, she executed her first solo exhibition at VSA Massachusetts."],"apiURL":"https://api.wbur.org/people/arielle-gray","relativeURL":"/inside/staff/arielle-gray","organization":"wbur","embedMeta":null,"shortBio":"Arielle Gray is a reporter for WBUR.","bluesky":null,"facebook":null,"title":"Reporter","type":"newsroom","channels":["arts-culture"],"thumbnail":"https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/gray_arielle-600-1.jpg","photo":null,"website":null,"email":null}],"nprID":null,"nprTranscriptID":null,"nprURL":null,"dateline":"","superTitle":null,"superTitleURL":null,"content":["\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEditor's note: \u003c/strong\u003eThis story is an excerpt from WBUR's weekly arts and culture newsletter, The ARTery. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/section/arts-culture/newsletter\"\u003esign up here\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/em\u003e","\u003chr /\u003e","Tufts University Art Galleries has opened a new exhibit devoted to the work of an alumnus whose work challenges ideas of space, scale and femininity. “\u003ca href=\"https://artgalleries.tufts.edu/exhibitions/248-beverly-semmes-boulders-flag-flip-kick\"\u003eBeverly Semmes: Boulders / Flag / Flip / Kick\u003c/a\u003e” is the first comprehensive survey of Semmes’ work.","The show takes a sweeping look at the breadth of Semmes’ work. “As her alma mater, it seemed that the show should be rooted in her time here as a student,” said TUAG director and exhibition curator Dina Deitsch. “So we start it with a slide show of her long-gone student installation ‘Boulders’,” which was displayed at Tufts in 1980. The exhibition is named for the titles of other works Semmes created throughout her career.","This show brings together the different mediums that Semmes utilizes to tell a story about the world around us, including textiles, ceramics and paintings. “I was more interested in how one artist has covered such wide ground, material-wise, while retaining a core aesthetic and conceptual spine in which the awkward and irregular are fully celebrated,” Deitsch said.","\u003cspan data-index=\"1\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","That “conceptual spine” of Semmes’ oeuvre was fortified in the 1990s with her oversized dress sculptures — monumental textile pieces that not only disrupted a male-dominated field at the time but took a radical look at how much space women are allowed to take up in society. Semmes didn’t necessarily conceive of her early works as feminist. “Growing up in the ‘70s, I definitely identified as a feminist, but as an artist, I didn’t see my works as holding feminist messages,” Semmes said in an interview with art platform Elephant. “It hadn’t really occurred to me that feminism on its own was a big subject or that I would be biting off something to do for a long time.”","Works like the bright orange chiffon “Flip” dominate the gallery, forcing viewers back. With these sculptures, Semmes combats the misogynistic propensity that expects women to be “thin” or to shrink themselves to fit into spaces to accommodate others. “She describes some of the large fabric installations as ‘passive aggressive’ – they are huge and take up enormous space but with the soft power of, say, velvet,” Deitsch explained.","In this way, Semmes questions our notions and definitions of power. Is “soft power” (a method built on persuasion and influence) just as effective as more physical forms of power? How do our notions of gender and gender roles impact our understanding of what is “powerful”? Deitsch said these kinds of questions are incredibly vital at this moment in time.","“Beverly Semmes: Boulders / Flag / Flip / Kick” also includes pieces from the “Feminist Responsibility Project” that Semmes launched in 2002. The ongoing series includes hundreds of different works including video, drawings, glass and more. Some pieces are reimaginings of pornographic images from magazines like “Penthouse” and “Hustler” that are transformed and partially covered with paint and ink. These works are exercises in both the revealing and the covering of the female form. 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While public media officials had held a glimmer of hope that lawmakers would restore some of the money for the following budget year, the Senate Appropriations Committee declined to do that on Thursday.","\"Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to preserve federal funding for CPB, we now face the difficult reality of closing our operations,\" CPB President and CEO Patricia Harrison said in a statement. \"CPB remains committed to fulfilling responsibilities and supporting our partners through this transition with transparency and care.\"","\"Public media has been one of the most trusted institutions in American life, providing educational opportunity, emergency alerts, civil discourse, and cultural connection to every corner of the country,\" Harrison said.","CPB informed employees that the majority of staff positions will be eliminated with the close of the fiscal year on September 30, 2025. It said a small team would remain until January to \"focus on compliance, fiscal distributions, and resolution of long-term financial obligations including ensuring continuity for music rights and royalties that remain essential to the public media system,\" according to the CPB statement.","Harrison noted that it was the first time in nearly 60 years that Congress had refused to fund CPB. The private nonprofit corporation was set up to channel federal money to public media stations nationwide, both for programming and emergency alert systems. ","Shock and sadness reverberated through the public media system Friday. ","\"I didn't really see a day where this separate institution, which is set up to serve the public, would be shut down,\" said Tim Bruno, general manager of Radio Catskill, an NPR affiliate in upstate New York.\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c/strong\u003e\"I don't know what stage of grief I'm in right now.\"","Earlier this summer, some stations began laying off staff in anticipation of federal funding cuts. On Wednesday, WQED — which runs a TV station and classical radio station in Pittsburgh — announced plans to lay off 35% of its staff.","Other operations, including Nashville Public Media, Louisville Public Media and KUOW in Seattle, say they are seeing a big surge in donations in response to the cuts.","Trump and his allies in Congress have argued that public media — especially NPR — is unfair to conservatives and a waste of taxpayer money. Both NPR and PBS have denied bias. ","NPR, which produces news programs such as \u003cem\u003eMorning Edition\u003c/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAll Things Considered\u003c/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e \u003c/em\u003erelies on direct federal funds for only a small portion of its budget. But its approximately \u003ca href=\"/npr/178640915/npr-stations-and-public-media#:~:text=Updated%20April%2022%2C%2020246,Locally%20Owned%20and%20Operated\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cu\u003e1,000 member stations\u003c/u\u003e\u003c/a\u003e receive a heftier portion of their operating revenue through CPB. Those in rural and poor areas in particular rely on CPB grants. With its nightly \u003cem\u003ePBS News Hour\u003c/em\u003e and children's programming, such as \u003cem\u003eDaniel Tiger's Neighborhood\u003c/em\u003e, PBS gets around 15% of its revenue from federal money, as do its member stations on average.","\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003c/strong\u003eThe ripple effects of this closure will be felt across every public media organization and, more importantly, in every community across the country that relies on public broadcasting,\" NPR President and CEO Katherine Maher said in \u003ca href=\"/npr/g-s1-80660/statement-from-katherine-maher-npr-president-ceo-on-closure-of-corporation-for-public-broadcasting\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ea statement\u003c/a\u003e. ","She said NPR would respond by \"stepping up to support locally owned, nonprofit public radio stations and local journalism across the country, working to maintain public media's promise of universal service, and upholding the highest standards for independent journalism and cultural programming in service of our nation.\" The network has pledged to take $8 million from its budget to help local stations in crisis.","While Republicans in Washington have accused public media of bias, most Americans still support public broadcasting. A \u003ca href=\"/npr/g-s1-77658/national-poll-shows-widespread-american-support-for-federally-funded-public-radio\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eHarris Poll last month\u003c/a\u003e found that 66% of Americans support federal funding for public radio, with the same share calling it a good value. Support included 58% of Republicans and 77% of Democrats. The online poll surveyed 2,089 U.S. adults with a 2.5 percentage point margin of error.","\u003cem\u003eDisclosure: This story was reported and written by NPR Correspondents Scott Neuman and Frank Langfitt with contributions by NPR Correspondent David Folkenflik. It was edited by Deputy Business Editor Emily Kopp and Managing Editor Vickie Walton-James. Under NPR's protocol for reporting on itself, no NPR corporate official or news executive reviewed this story before it was posted publicly.\u003c/em\u003e"],"nprTranscriptID":"","audio":[],"relatedLinks":[{"id":273666,"url":"/npr/nx-s1-5476192/npr-news-chief-edith-chapin-to-step-down-congress-funding-trump","prefix":"","title":"NPR news chief announces she's leaving days after Congress kills federal funding","index":1},{"id":273667,"url":"/npr/nx-s1-5469920/pbs-npr-funding-rescission","prefix":"","title":"How bipartisan support for public media unraveled in the Trump era","index":2}],"superTitle":null,"bylines":[{"name":null,"relativeURL":"","id":""},{"name":"Scott Neuman","relativeURL":"https://npr.org/people/131724812/scott-neuman","id":"131724812"},{"name":"Frank Langfitt","relativeURL":"https://npr.org/people/4569077/frank-langfitt","id":"4569077"}],"channel":"NPR","fullChannel":null,"channelType":"","channelURL":"","id":"nx-s1-5489808","wordpressSlug":"","wordpressID":null,"guid":"","source":"NPR","headline":"Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it's shutting down","publishDate":"2025-08-01 14:20:15","updatedDate":"2025-08-01 18:24:43","relativeURL":"/npr/nx-s1-5489808/cpb-shut-down-public-broadcasting-trump","apiURL":"https://api.wbur.org/stories?id=nx-s1-5489808\u0026org=npr","externalURL":"","shortLink":"","miniExcerpt":"CPB to shut down after public media loses federal funding","excerpt":"The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funnels federal money to public media stations, says it's winding down operations after President Trump signed a law rescinding all funding.","nprID":"nx-s1-5489808","nprURL":"https://www.npr.org/2025/08/01/nx-s1-5489808/cpb-shut-down-public-broadcasting-trump","dateline":"","superTitleURL":"","postType":"","isBreaking":false,"isDeveloping":false,"relatedLinksLabel":"Related:","broadcastType":null,"broadcastDate":"","broadcastTime":"","itunesEpType":"","itunesEpNum":"","itunesSeason":"","itunesTitle":"","itunesSummary":"","itunesExplicit":false,"volume":3,"suppressAudio":false,"slug":"cpb-shut-down-public-broadcasting-trump","taxonomy":[{"title":"Media","link":"https://www.npr.org/sections/media/","id":1020,"type":"topic"},{"title":"Apple News","link":"","id":0,"type":"topic"},{"title":"News","link":"https://www.npr.org/sections/news/","id":1001,"type":"topic"},{"title":"Politics","link":"https://www.npr.org/sections/politics/","id":1014,"type":"topic"},{"title":"Business","link":"https://www.npr.org/sections/business/","id":1006,"type":"topic"},{"title":"National","link":"https://www.npr.org/sections/national/","id":1003,"type":"topic"},{"title":"Home Page Top Stories","link":"https://www.npr.org/","id":1002,"type":"topic"}],"embedMeta":null,"index":5,"editorCreated":true,"isAd":false,"videos":[]},{"comment_status":"closed","guid":"5f2d24ba-a348-49af-a425-59110c6e2a34","comment_count":0,"id":1031052,"channel":"WBUR News","fullChannel":null,"channelType":"section","channelID":3,"program":null,"channelURL":"/news","wordpressSlug":"5-things-to-do-this-weekend-including-music-from-a-puerto-rican-luminary-and-a-festival-celebrating-musicians-of-color","wordpressID":1031052,"source":"news","headline":"5 things to do this weekend, including music from a Puerto Rican luminary","subhead":null,"newsSection":{"name":"Arts \u0026 Culture","slug":"arts-culture"},"publishDate":"2025-07-30 05:00:29","updatedDate":"","relativeURL":"/news/2025/07/30/5-things-to-do-this-weekend-including-music-from-a-puerto-rican-luminary-and-a-festival-celebrating-musicians-of-color","apiURL":"https://api.wbur.org/stories?date=2025-07-30\u0026slug=5-things-to-do-this-weekend-including-music-from-a-puerto-rican-luminary-and-a-festival-celebrating-musicians-of-color\u0026sources=news","externalURL":"","shortLink":"https://wbur.fm/4fbXRMO","miniExcerpt":"","excerpt":"Plus, Somer Fest in Somerville and the Woods Hole Film Festival.","bylines":[{"comment_status":"closed","comment_count":0,"name":"Shira Laucharoen","nameLastFirst":"Laucharoen, Shira","slug":"shira-laucharoen","wordpressID":735795,"content":["Shira Laucharoen is a freelance arts and culture writer for WBUR. She works as an assistant director for the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism. Her pieces have also appeared in Dig Boston, Boston Magazine, Sampan newspaper, and more. She is a musician and composer."],"apiURL":"https://api.wbur.org/people/shira-laucharoen","relativeURL":"/inside/staff/shira-laucharoen","organization":"wbur","embedMeta":null,"shortBio":"Shira Laucharoen is a contributor to WBUR's arts and culture section.","bluesky":null,"facebook":null,"title":"Arts Writer","type":"contributor","channels":["arts-culture"],"thumbnail":"https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/1130_shira-square-600x600.jpg","photo":null,"website":"https://www.shiralaucharoen.com","email":null}],"nprID":null,"nprTranscriptID":null,"nprURL":null,"dateline":"","superTitle":null,"superTitleURL":null,"content":["Art helps us expand our world views. It also serves as an expression of culture, exposing us to traditions and ways of life from around the globe. This weekend, you’ll have an opportunity to watch dance performances from diverse ethnic backgrounds, and, at a different event, you might sample international cuisine to learn more about dishes from other countries. See these options and more in our weekend guide.","\u003ch2\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://artsatthearmory.org/events/feet-keep-the-beat-performance-showcase-lineage/\"\u003eFeet Keep the Beat Festival Showcase: LINEAGE\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e","\u003ch3\u003eFriday, Aug. 1 and Sunday, Aug. 3\u003c/h3\u003e","The third annual Feet Keep the Beat Festival offers a showcase production called “LINEAGE,” on stage at the Center for Arts at the Armory. The multicultural percussive dance celebration brings together styles of global dance, regaling audiences with West African, flamenco, step, tap, and Kathak performances. The festival presents works from six dancers and five musicians, including Ariaki Dandawate, Lekisha Limage, Akili Jamal Haynes, Antonio Tran, and others. After spectators have experienced LINEAGE, they’re invited to return to the Armory on Sunday for \u003ca href=\"https://artsatthearmory.org/events/feet-keep-the-beat-free-community-workshops/\"\u003efree community workshops\u003c/a\u003e. Tickets to LINEAGE are $39.25 if purchased in advance and $44.50 the day of the show.","\u003cspan data-index=\"1\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","\u003chr /\u003e","\u003ch2\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://somervilleartscouncil.org/events/somer-fest/\"\u003eSomer Fest\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e","\u003ch3\u003eSaturday, Aug. 2\u003c/h3\u003e","Somerville is rolling out another local arts fiesta, right on the heels of ArtBeat. Somer Fest is a community festival organized by the Somerville Arts Council and \u003ca href=\"https://www.citixenjoy.com/somer-fest\"\u003eCitixen Joy\u003c/a\u003e, an organization that aims \"to create equitable experiences for performers while simultaneously growing local business ties to the community,” according to founder Stephond Goler. Arrive at Seven Hills Park near the Davis Square T Station for this free event, where you’ll enjoy live music, games, and other entertainment. Somer Fest highlights the work of performers of color, including Grand Choice Records’ Billie, DJ Eliot Ness, singer-songwriter Mada Silva, and the band Further Notice, a “\u003ca href=\"https://somervilleartscouncil.org/events/somer-fest/\"\u003efunky, soulful instrumental band\u003c/a\u003e.”","\u003cspan data-index=\"2\" data-type=\"instagram\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","\u003chr /\u003e","\u003ch2\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/world-music-in-melrose-fabiola-mendez-tickets-1430797797729?utm-campaign=social\u0026utm-content=attendeeshare\u0026utm-medium=discovery\u0026utm-term=listing\u0026utm-source=cp\u0026aff=ebdsshcopyurl\"\u003eWorld Music in Melrose: Fabiola Méndez\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e","\u003ch3\u003eSaturday, Aug. 2\u003c/h3\u003e","The 2025 World Music concert series offer opportunities to hear international music — for free — outdoors across Massachusetts. When you bring a blanket or lawn chair to the gazebo at Ell Pond in Melrose, you’ll hear the melodies of Fabiola \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/world-music-in-melrose-fabiola-mendez-tickets-1430797797729?utm-campaign=social\u0026utm-content=attendeeshare\u0026utm-medium=discovery\u0026utm-term=listing\u0026utm-source=cp\u0026aff=ebdsshcopyurl\"\u003eMéndez\u003c/a\u003e, a Puerto Rican singer, composer, and cuatrista who plays a traditional Puerto Rican instrument from the lute family. \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/world-music-in-melrose-fabiola-mendez-tickets-1430797797729?utm-campaign=social\u0026utm-content=attendeeshare\u0026utm-medium=discovery\u0026utm-term=listing\u0026utm-source=cp\u0026aff=ebdsshcopyurl\"\u003eMéndez\u003c/a\u003e is an Emmy-nominated composer, and her music melds “\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/world-music-in-melrose-fabiola-mendez-tickets-1430797797729?utm-campaign=social\u0026utm-content=attendeeshare\u0026utm-medium=discovery\u0026utm-term=listing\u0026utm-source=cp\u0026aff=ebdsshcopyurl\"\u003eAfro-Caribbean rhythms, Puerto Rican folk traditions, and jazz\u003c/a\u003e,” according to the event’s listing. She has also performed in renowned spaces, including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and NPR’s Tiny Desk.","\u003cspan data-index=\"3\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","\u003chr /\u003e","\u003ch2\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://woodsholefilmfestival.org/\"\u003eWoods Hole Film Festival \u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e","\u003ch3\u003eThrough Saturday, Aug. 2\u003c/h3\u003e","This long running Cape Cod film festival honors the work of emerging and New England filmmakers, especially independent ones who have a connection to the Cape. Before the event wraps things up, audiences will be able to view movies such as “\u003ca href=\"https://woodsholefilmfestival.org/events/anxietyclub/\"\u003eAnxiety Club\u003c/a\u003e,” a study of anxiety as seen through the eyes of comedians, and “\u003ca href=\"https://woodsholefilmfestival.org/events/etchedinpavement/\"\u003eEtched in Pavement\u003c/a\u003e,” a documentary about two young men from South West Detroit. The film explores what legacy means to them when it comes to the world of combat sports. Other film screenings include “\u003ca href=\"https://woodsholefilmfestival.org/events/folktales/\"\u003eFolktales\u003c/a\u003e,” about high schoolers in Arctic Norway learning to navigate adulthood, and “\u003ca href=\"https://woodsholefilmfestival.org/events/motherland/\"\u003eMotherland\u003c/a\u003e,” about an alternate society where state-run children’s centers rear young citizens, rather than their families.","\u003cspan data-index=\"4\" data-type=\"youtube\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","\u003chr /\u003e","\u003ch2\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.meetboston.com/dine-out-boston/?adara_campaignid=22085573927\u0026adarapixelid=161266\u0026gad_source=1\u0026gad_campaignid=22085581409\u0026gbraid=0AAAAAq96bumpP0GJcbywSFdtVAY6-w1x_\u0026gclid=Cj0KCQjwnJfEBhCzARIsAIMtfKK6z6e8kha1ekUgCPGtMecatvGNMajHoL3n80PuXwqUGEsfpD0ep9YaAuoWEALw_wcB\"\u003eDine Out Boston\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e","\u003ch3\u003eThrough Aug. 16\u003c/h3\u003e","Twice a year, Dine Out Boston offers diners special prix-fixe menus at select restaurants. 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(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)\n \u003c/figcaption\u003e\n \u003c/figure\u003e","A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday blocked the Trump administration, for now, from terminating Temporary Protected Status for people from Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal.","Judge Trina Thompson's \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.452397/gov.uscourts.cand.452397.73.0_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cu\u003edecision postpones the terminations until November\u003c/u\u003e\u003c/a\u003e, when a hearing to discuss the merits will take place. It affects about 60,000 immigrants whose temporary protected status was set to expire. The protections for the Nepalese were set to terminate on Aug. 5. The protections for Nicaraguans and Hondurans would have ended Sept. 8. Most of them have been living in the U.S. for more than 20 years.","In her ruling, Thompson chided the actions of the Trump administration.","\"The freedom to live fearlessly, the opportunity of liberty, and the American dream. That is all Plaintiffs seek,\" Thompson wrote. \"Instead, they are told to atone for their race, leave because of their names, and purify their blood. The Court disagrees.\"","The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.","Under the law that created TPS, presidents have the authority to grant protected status to migrants from countries experiencing conditions that will prevent them from returning safely, such as natural disasters and civil wars.","In 1999, Hondurans and Nicaraguans were granted TPS for the first time after Hurricane Mitch caused widespread destruction. Nepal was added to the list of TPS countries after a devastating earthquake in 2015.","Since taking office, the Trump administration has moved to end the TPS designation for many countries, including \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5403712/supreme-court-tps-venezuelans\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eVenezuela\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https://www.wlrn.org/immigration/2025-07-31/haitian-tps-holders-federal-court-challenge-trump-administration\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eHaiti\u003c/a\u003e.","A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/07/07/dhs-terminates-tps-nicaragua-it-was-never-meant-last-25-years\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cu\u003esaid earlier this month\u003c/u\u003e\u003c/a\u003e the decision to end TPS for Nicaragua \"restores integrity in our immigration system and ensures that TPS remains temporary.\"","\"Temporary Protected Status was never meant to last a quarter of a century,\" the spokesperson said. \"The impacts of a natural disaster impacting Nicaragua in 1999 no longer exist. The environmental situation has improved enough that it is safe enough for Nicaraguan citizens to return home.\"","At the same time,\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c/strong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/nicaragua-travel-advisory.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cu\u003ethe Department of State has advised U.S. citizens\u003c/u\u003e\u003c/a\u003e to: \"Reconsider travel to Nicaragua due to arbitrary enforcement of laws, the risk of wrongful detention, and limited healthcare availability.\"","Regarding the ending of TPS for Hondurans, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/07/07/improved-conditions-dhs-ends-tps-honduras\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cu\u003estated in a press release earlier this month\u003c/u\u003e\u003c/a\u003e: \"It is clear that the Government of Honduras has taken all of the necessary steps to overcome the impacts of Hurricane Mitch, almost 27 years ago.\"","\"Honduran citizens can safely return home, and DHS is here to help facilitate their voluntary return,\" Noem said.","Judge Thompson said in her ruling that the Trump administration's decisions to end the programs \"were based on a preordained determination to end the TPS program, rather than an objective review of the country conditions.\"","Courts across the country,\u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5403712/supreme-court-tps-venezuelans\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e \u003cu\u003eincluding the U.S. Supreme Court\u003c/u\u003e\u003c/a\u003e, have heard challenges to the termination of TPS for different groups.","The job market weakened sharply during the late spring and early summer as President Trump's tariffs began to take effect — and Trump responded by calling for the firing of a key labor statistician.","U.S. employers added just 73,000 jobs in July, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ea report Friday from the Labor Department\u003c/a\u003e, while job gains for May and June were largely erased. The unemployment rate inched up to 4.2%.","Hours after the report, Trump advanced baseless claims about the jobs numbers, writing on \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114955222046259464\" target=\"_blank\"\u003esocial media\u003c/a\u003e that he thought they \"were RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad.\" ","In \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114954846612623858\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eanother post\u003c/a\u003e, Trump said he was firing Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which puts out the jobs report. McEntarfer was appointed to the job by former President Joe Biden.","\"She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified,\" Trump added. \"Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can't be manipulated for political purposes.\"","Data experts have \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5323155/economic-data-reliability-trump-howard-lutnick\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eraised concerns\u003c/a\u003e about the \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5397191/us-census-bureau-labor-statistics-doge-data\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eintegrity of U.S. government statistics\u003c/a\u003e under the Trump administration, which has been slashing positions and funding for statistical agencies.","McEntarfer's term at the Bureau of Labor Statistics was not set to end until early 2028. Federal law, however, allows presidents to remove commissioners of labor statistics before their four-year term is up.","\u003cdiv id=\"npr-pym-nx-s1-5488807-101\" data-pym-src=\"https://apps.npr.org/datawrapper/LYIxZ/1/\" class=\"article-section--embed\"\u003e\u003c/div\u003e","\u003ch3\u003eTariff uncertainty hits manufacturing\u003c/h3\u003e","The jobs report came a day after President Trump announced a \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5482859/trump-tariff-rates-executive-order\" target=\"_blank\"\u003enew round of tariffs\u003c/a\u003e on a wide range of countries.","Health care was one of the few sectors with solid job growth last month. ","But the federal government shed 12,000 jobs in July and has lost some 84,000 workers since the beginning of the year. Tens of thousands of additional federal workers have taken buyouts but are still counted as employed through the end of September.","Factories shed 11,000 jobs in July. Domestic manufacturers are supposed to be the beneficiaries of the president's trade policies. But factory managers complain that uncertainty over import taxes has depressed orders and other activity. The federal government has been charging a 10% tax on nearly everything the U.S. imports since April, and higher tariffs are set to take effect on many goods next week.","\"These tariff wars are beginning to wear us out,\" one anonymous factory manager said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.ismworld.org/supply-management-news-and-reports/reports/ism-report-on-business/pmi/july/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ea survey released Friday\u003c/a\u003e by the Institute for Supply Management. \"There is zero clarity about the future, and it's been a difficult few months trying to figure out where everything is going to land and the impact on our business. So far, tremendous and unexpected costs have been incurred.\"","The unemployment rate rose in July even as nearly 40,000 people dropped out of the workforce. The share of adults who are working or looking for work has fallen by half a percent in the last year. ","The share of immigrants in the workforce has fallen even more sharply, which could be making it harder for employers to fill the jobs they'd like to.","\"I think it's mostly a labor supply story,\" says Jed Kolko, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. \"When you look sector by sector, the big slowdown in employment this year is in, first of all federal government employment, of course, but also in some sectors that are particularly reliant on immigrants such as construction, home health aides and accommodation and hospitality.\" ","Despite the slowdown in hiring, wages continue to climb. Average wages in July were up 3.9% from a year ago, which is likely more than enough to outpace inflation. ","\u003cdiv id=\"npr-pym-nx-s1-5488807-103\" data-pym-src=\"https://apps.npr.org/datawrapper/sbe61/1/\" class=\"article-section--embed\"\u003e\u003c/div\u003e","\u003ch3\u003eData will likely add pressure on the Fed\u003c/h3\u003e","The weakness in the job market is likely to amplify calls for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates at its next policy meeting in September. The central bank \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5483961/federal-reserve-interest-rates-trump-pressure\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eheld rates steady earlier this week\u003c/a\u003e, out of concern that rising tariffs would put more upward pressure on prices. ","Trump has repeatedly attacked the Fed and Fed Chair Jerome Powell for not lowering interest rates sooner. But he\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c/strong\u003ewill soon have an opportunity to appoint a new member to the the Fed's seven-person governing board. Adriana Kugler, who has served as Fed governor for just under two years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/files/other20250801a1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eannounced she's stepping down next week\u003c/a\u003e, six months before her term was set to expire. ","The Fed said Kugler, a labor economist, was resigning to return to Georgetown University as professor this fall.","\u003cem\u003eNPR's Hansi Lo Wang contributed reporting.\u003c/em\u003e"],"nprTranscriptID":"","audio":[],"relatedLinks":[{"id":273664,"url":"/npr/nx-s1-5482859/trump-tariff-rates-executive-order","prefix":"","title":"The White House sets a swath of new tariff rates — and a new date — for dozens of countries","index":1},{"id":273665,"url":"/npr/nx-s1-5488804/stocks-trump-tariffs-economy","prefix":"","title":"Stock markets drop as Trump unleashes new round of global tariffs","index":2}],"superTitle":null,"bylines":[{"name":null,"relativeURL":"","id":""},{"name":"Scott Horsley","relativeURL":"https://npr.org/people/2788801/scott-horsley","id":"2788801"}],"channel":"NPR","fullChannel":null,"channelType":"","channelURL":"","id":"nx-s1-5488807","wordpressSlug":"","wordpressID":null,"guid":"","source":"NPR","headline":"Trump calls for firing of senior Labor official after job market weakens in July","publishDate":"2025-08-01 08:54:32","updatedDate":"2025-08-01 18:10:59","relativeURL":"/npr/nx-s1-5488807/jobs-employment-labor-trump-tariffs","apiURL":"https://api.wbur.org/stories?id=nx-s1-5488807\u0026org=npr","externalURL":"","shortLink":"","miniExcerpt":"Trump seeks to fire Labor official after job market weakens","excerpt":"Trump called for the firing of the Labor statistics official after data earlier showed employers added just 73,000 jobs in July, while job gains for the previous two months were largely erased.","nprID":"nx-s1-5488807","nprURL":"https://www.npr.org/2025/08/01/nx-s1-5488807/jobs-employment-labor-trump-tariffs","dateline":"","superTitleURL":"","postType":"","isBreaking":false,"isDeveloping":false,"relatedLinksLabel":"Related:","broadcastType":null,"broadcastDate":"","broadcastTime":"","itunesEpType":"","itunesEpNum":"","itunesSeason":"","itunesTitle":"","itunesSummary":"","itunesExplicit":false,"volume":3,"suppressAudio":false,"slug":"jobs-employment-labor-trump-tariffs","taxonomy":[{"title":"Economy","link":"https://www.npr.org/sections/economy/","id":1017,"type":"topic"},{"title":"Apple News","link":"","id":0,"type":"topic"},{"title":"Business","link":"https://www.npr.org/sections/business/","id":1006,"type":"topic"},{"title":"News","link":"https://www.npr.org/sections/news/","id":1001,"type":"topic"},{"title":"Home Page Top Stories","link":"https://www.npr.org/","id":1002,"type":"topic"}],"embedMeta":null,"index":1,"editorCreated":true,"isAd":false,"videos":[]},{"program":null,"images":[{"id":"g-s1-80587","title":"Financial Markets Open Ahead Of Federal Reserve's Interest Rate Announcement","caption":"Stocks slumped after President Trump unveiled a new round of global tariffs and after the U.S. created fewer jobs than expected in July. 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(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)\n \u003c/figcaption\u003e\n \u003c/figure\u003e","A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday blocked the Trump administration, for now, from terminating Temporary Protected Status for people from Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal.","Judge Trina Thompson's \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.452397/gov.uscourts.cand.452397.73.0_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cu\u003edecision postpones the terminations until November\u003c/u\u003e\u003c/a\u003e, when a hearing to discuss the merits will take place. It affects about 60,000 immigrants whose temporary protected status was set to expire. The protections for the Nepalese were set to terminate on Aug. 5. The protections for Nicaraguans and Hondurans would have ended Sept. 8. Most of them have been living in the U.S. for more than 20 years.","In her ruling, Thompson chided the actions of the Trump administration.","\"The freedom to live fearlessly, the opportunity of liberty, and the American dream. That is all Plaintiffs seek,\" Thompson wrote. \"Instead, they are told to atone for their race, leave because of their names, and purify their blood. The Court disagrees.\"","The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.","Under the law that created TPS, presidents have the authority to grant protected status to migrants from countries experiencing conditions that will prevent them from returning safely, such as natural disasters and civil wars.","In 1999, Hondurans and Nicaraguans were granted TPS for the first time after Hurricane Mitch caused widespread destruction. Nepal was added to the list of TPS countries after a devastating earthquake in 2015.","Since taking office, the Trump administration has moved to end the TPS designation for many countries, including \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5403712/supreme-court-tps-venezuelans\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eVenezuela\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https://www.wlrn.org/immigration/2025-07-31/haitian-tps-holders-federal-court-challenge-trump-administration\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eHaiti\u003c/a\u003e.","A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/07/07/dhs-terminates-tps-nicaragua-it-was-never-meant-last-25-years\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cu\u003esaid earlier this month\u003c/u\u003e\u003c/a\u003e the decision to end TPS for Nicaragua \"restores integrity in our immigration system and ensures that TPS remains temporary.\"","\"Temporary Protected Status was never meant to last a quarter of a century,\" the spokesperson said. \"The impacts of a natural disaster impacting Nicaragua in 1999 no longer exist. The environmental situation has improved enough that it is safe enough for Nicaraguan citizens to return home.\"","At the same time,\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c/strong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/nicaragua-travel-advisory.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cu\u003ethe Department of State has advised U.S. citizens\u003c/u\u003e\u003c/a\u003e to: \"Reconsider travel to Nicaragua due to arbitrary enforcement of laws, the risk of wrongful detention, and limited healthcare availability.\"","Regarding the ending of TPS for Hondurans, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/07/07/improved-conditions-dhs-ends-tps-honduras\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cu\u003estated in a press release earlier this month\u003c/u\u003e\u003c/a\u003e: \"It is clear that the Government of Honduras has taken all of the necessary steps to overcome the impacts of Hurricane Mitch, almost 27 years ago.\"","\"Honduran citizens can safely return home, and DHS is here to help facilitate their voluntary return,\" Noem said.","Judge Thompson said in her ruling that the Trump administration's decisions to end the programs \"were based on a preordained determination to end the TPS program, rather than an objective review of the country conditions.\"","Courts across the country,\u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5403712/supreme-court-tps-venezuelans\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e \u003cu\u003eincluding the U.S. Supreme Court\u003c/u\u003e\u003c/a\u003e, have heard challenges to the termination of TPS for different groups.","\u003cfigure class=\"article-fig size-large\"\u003e\n \u003cimg class=\"size-large article-image\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/5412x3522+0+0/resize/1000?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F18%2F81%2F84b2d2e14c8190cb6896dd9d705f%2Fgettyimages-1495448594.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\n \u003cfigcaption class=\"article-fig-caption\"\u003e\n The U.S. labor market was substantially weaker in the spring and early summer, according to a report Friday from the Labor Department. Employers added far fewer jobs than initially reported. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)\n \u003c/figcaption\u003e\n \u003c/figure\u003e","The job market weakened sharply during the late spring and early summer as President Trump's tariffs began to take effect — and Trump responded by calling for the firing of a key labor statistician.","U.S. employers added just 73,000 jobs in July, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ea report Friday from the Labor Department\u003c/a\u003e, while job gains for May and June were largely erased. The unemployment rate inched up to 4.2%.","Hours after the report, Trump advanced baseless claims about the jobs numbers, writing on \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114955222046259464\" target=\"_blank\"\u003esocial media\u003c/a\u003e that he thought they \"were RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad.\" ","In \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114954846612623858\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eanother post\u003c/a\u003e, Trump said he was firing Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which puts out the jobs report. McEntarfer was appointed to the job by former President Joe Biden.","\"She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified,\" Trump added. \"Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can't be manipulated for political purposes.\"","Data experts have \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5323155/economic-data-reliability-trump-howard-lutnick\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eraised concerns\u003c/a\u003e about the \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5397191/us-census-bureau-labor-statistics-doge-data\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eintegrity of U.S. government statistics\u003c/a\u003e under the Trump administration, which has been slashing positions and funding for statistical agencies.","McEntarfer's term at the Bureau of Labor Statistics was not set to end until early 2028. Federal law, however, allows presidents to remove commissioners of labor statistics before their four-year term is up.","\u003cdiv id=\"npr-pym-nx-s1-5488807-101\" data-pym-src=\"https://apps.npr.org/datawrapper/LYIxZ/1/\" class=\"article-section--embed\"\u003e\u003c/div\u003e","\u003ch3\u003eTariff uncertainty hits manufacturing\u003c/h3\u003e","The jobs report came a day after President Trump announced a \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5482859/trump-tariff-rates-executive-order\" target=\"_blank\"\u003enew round of tariffs\u003c/a\u003e on a wide range of countries.","Health care was one of the few sectors with solid job growth last month. ","But the federal government shed 12,000 jobs in July and has lost some 84,000 workers since the beginning of the year. Tens of thousands of additional federal workers have taken buyouts but are still counted as employed through the end of September.","Factories shed 11,000 jobs in July. Domestic manufacturers are supposed to be the beneficiaries of the president's trade policies. But factory managers complain that uncertainty over import taxes has depressed orders and other activity. The federal government has been charging a 10% tax on nearly everything the U.S. imports since April, and higher tariffs are set to take effect on many goods next week.","\"These tariff wars are beginning to wear us out,\" one anonymous factory manager said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.ismworld.org/supply-management-news-and-reports/reports/ism-report-on-business/pmi/july/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ea survey released Friday\u003c/a\u003e by the Institute for Supply Management. \"There is zero clarity about the future, and it's been a difficult few months trying to figure out where everything is going to land and the impact on our business. So far, tremendous and unexpected costs have been incurred.\"","The unemployment rate rose in July even as nearly 40,000 people dropped out of the workforce. The share of adults who are working or looking for work has fallen by half a percent in the last year. ","The share of immigrants in the workforce has fallen even more sharply, which could be making it harder for employers to fill the jobs they'd like to.","\"I think it's mostly a labor supply story,\" says Jed Kolko, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. \"When you look sector by sector, the big slowdown in employment this year is in, first of all federal government employment, of course, but also in some sectors that are particularly reliant on immigrants such as construction, home health aides and accommodation and hospitality.\" ","Despite the slowdown in hiring, wages continue to climb. Average wages in July were up 3.9% from a year ago, which is likely more than enough to outpace inflation. ","\u003cdiv id=\"npr-pym-nx-s1-5488807-103\" data-pym-src=\"https://apps.npr.org/datawrapper/sbe61/1/\" class=\"article-section--embed\"\u003e\u003c/div\u003e","\u003ch3\u003eData will likely add pressure on the Fed\u003c/h3\u003e","The weakness in the job market is likely to amplify calls for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates at its next policy meeting in September. The central bank \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5483961/federal-reserve-interest-rates-trump-pressure\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eheld rates steady earlier this week\u003c/a\u003e, out of concern that rising tariffs would put more upward pressure on prices. ","Trump has repeatedly attacked the Fed and Fed Chair Jerome Powell for not lowering interest rates sooner. But he\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c/strong\u003ewill soon have an opportunity to appoint a new member to the the Fed's seven-person governing board. Adriana Kugler, who has served as Fed governor for just under two years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/files/other20250801a1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eannounced she's stepping down next week\u003c/a\u003e, six months before her term was set to expire. ","The Fed said Kugler, a labor economist, was resigning to return to Georgetown University as professor this fall.","\u003cem\u003eNPR's Hansi Lo Wang contributed reporting.\u003c/em\u003e","Stock markets fell sharply on Friday, as \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5488807/jobs-employment-labor-trump-tariffs\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eU.S. unemployment rose\u003c/a\u003e and President Trump \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5482859/trump-tariff-rates-executive-order\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eunveiled steep tariffs\u003c/a\u003e on a wide range of countries.","Trump's latest tariffs, announced late Thursday, are \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5480695/corporate-america-weird-tariff-summer-earnings-investors\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ereigniting concerns\u003c/a\u003e about how these import taxes would impact the U.S. and the global economies. ","On Friday morning, a weaker-than-expected \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ejobs report\u003c/a\u003e amplified investors' fears about the consequences: Employers created only 73,000 jobs in July, fewer than the around 100,000 jobs economists had expected. The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2%.","The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S\u0026P 500 fell more than 1% each. Meanwhile, the tech-heavy Nasdaq dropped more than 2%.","\u003ch3\u003eA busy week of economic data\u003c/h3\u003e","The latest tariffs announcement and the weak jobs report come at the end of a busy economic news week. Investors have been parsing the Federal Reserve's decision to hold interest rates steady. They've also been watching the earnings reports of the largest U.S. companies, which have been \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5480695/corporate-america-weird-tariff-summer-earnings-investors\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eupdating investors\u003c/a\u003e on how tariffs are affecting their abilities to make money. ","The broad sell-off on Friday marks an abrupt reversal from \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5476238/trump-stocks-market-economy-tariffs-businesses\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWall Street's optimism\u003c/a\u003e this summer. Markets \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5352362/markets-selloff-dow-trump-tariffs\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ewent into a tailspin\u003c/a\u003e in April when Trump first unveiled his tariffs, before he started pausing and softening some of those tax rates. ","Since then, global investors have largely been shrugging off his updated plans. But on Friday, their worries came roaring back, amplified by the new evidence that these tariffs are affecting the jobs market.","The jobs weakness is likely to increase calls for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates when it next meets in September. The central bank \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5483961/federal-reserve-interest-rates-trump-pressure\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eheld rates steady\u003c/a\u003e earlier this week, out of concern that rising tariffs would put more upward pressure on prices.","\"The cracks in the labor market have widened substantially and add further pressure on the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates,\" Nationwide Chief Economist Kathy Bostjancic wrote on Friday morning."],"nprTranscriptID":"","audio":[],"relatedLinks":[],"superTitle":null,"bylines":[{"name":null,"relativeURL":"","id":""},{"name":"Rafael Nam","relativeURL":"https://npr.org/people/1241179065/rafael-nam","id":"1241179065"},{"name":"Maria Aspan","relativeURL":"https://npr.org/people/1269066554/maria-aspan","id":"1269066554"}],"channel":"NPR","fullChannel":null,"channelType":"","channelURL":"","id":"nx-s1-5488804","wordpressSlug":"","wordpressID":null,"guid":"","source":"NPR","headline":"Stock markets drop as Trump unleashes new round of global tariffs","publishDate":"2025-08-01 09:32:17","updatedDate":"2025-08-01 18:13:36","relativeURL":"/npr/nx-s1-5488804/stocks-trump-tariffs-economy","apiURL":"https://api.wbur.org/stories?id=nx-s1-5488804\u0026org=npr","externalURL":"","shortLink":"","miniExcerpt":"Stock markets drop as Trump unveils latest global tariffs","excerpt":"Investors are reacting to Trump's latest plans to impose a wide range of tariffs. A weaker-than-expected jobs report magnified concerns about how these import taxes would impact the economy.","nprID":"nx-s1-5488804","nprURL":"https://www.npr.org/2025/08/01/nx-s1-5488804/stocks-trump-tariffs-economy","dateline":"","superTitleURL":"","postType":"","isBreaking":false,"isDeveloping":false,"relatedLinksLabel":"Related:","broadcastType":null,"broadcastDate":"","broadcastTime":"","itunesEpType":"","itunesEpNum":"","itunesSeason":"","itunesTitle":"","itunesSummary":"","itunesExplicit":false,"volume":3,"suppressAudio":false,"slug":"stocks-trump-tariffs-economy","taxonomy":[{"title":"Business","link":"https://www.npr.org/sections/business/","id":1006,"type":"topic"},{"title":"News","link":"https://www.npr.org/sections/news/","id":1001,"type":"topic"},{"title":"Apple News","link":"","id":0,"type":"topic"},{"title":"Home Page Top Stories","link":"https://www.npr.org/","id":1002,"type":"topic"}],"embedMeta":null,"index":2,"editorCreated":true,"isAd":false,"videos":[]},{"comment_status":"closed","guid":"b0a1f5a7-df39-4843-81ff-b5f3aeed1fd0","comment_count":0,"id":1031986,"channel":"WBUR News","fullChannel":null,"channelType":"section","channelID":3,"program":null,"channelURL":"/news","wordpressSlug":"massachusetts-federal-court-gender-care-hospitals-lawsuit","wordpressID":1031986,"source":"news","headline":"States sue Trump in Boston, saying he is intimidating hospitals over gender-affirming care for youth","subhead":null,"newsSection":null,"publishDate":"2025-08-01 13:37:19","updatedDate":"","relativeURL":"/news/2025/08/01/massachusetts-federal-court-gender-care-hospitals-lawsuit","apiURL":"https://api.wbur.org/stories?date=2025-08-01\u0026slug=massachusetts-federal-court-gender-care-hospitals-lawsuit\u0026sources=news","externalURL":"","shortLink":"https://wbur.fm/45gZxjA","miniExcerpt":"","excerpt":"Massachusetts is among 15 states and Washington D.C. suing the Trump administration in Boston federal court over access to gender-affirming care. The Democratic officials say Trump’s policies are an attempt to impose a nationwide ban on the treatment for people under 19 — and that's unlawful because there's no federal statute that bans providing the care to minors.","bylines":[{"name":"Geoff Mulvihill, The Associated Press","slug":null,"wordpressID":null,"content":null,"apiURL":null,"relativeURL":null,"organization":"wbur","embedMeta":null,"shortBio":"","bluesky":null,"facebook":null,"title":"","type":null,"channels":null,"photo":null,"website":null,"email":null}],"nprID":null,"nprTranscriptID":null,"nprURL":null,"dateline":"","superTitle":null,"superTitleURL":null,"content":["Seventeen Democratic officials accused President Donald Trump's administration of unlawfully intimidating health care providers into stopping gender-affirming care for transgender youth in a lawsuit filed Friday.","The complaint comes after a month in which at least eight major hospitals and hospital systems — all in states where the care is allowed under state law — announced they were \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/la-trans-youth-center-closing-34d27684692c95b4f7c3266c55a71d38\"\u003estopping or restricting the care\u003c/a\u003e. The latest announcement came Thursday from UI Health in Chicago.","Trump's administration announced in July that it was sending subpoenas to providers and focusing on investigating them for fraud. It later boasted in a news release that hospitals are halting treatments.","The Democratic officials say Trump’s policies are an attempt to impose a nationwide ban on the treatment for people under 19 — and that's unlawful because there's no federal statute that bans providing the care to minors. The suit was filed by attorneys general from 15 states, including Massachusetts, plus the District of Columbia and the governor of Pennsylvania, in U.S. District Court in Boston.","“Medically necessary health care for transgender youth saves lives, and those health care decisions should be made by patients, families, and their providers – not by politicians,” Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell said in a statement. “I will continue to fight back against illegal policies that harm our residents and violate their rights.”","Campbell is co-leading the suit with the attorneys general of New York, California, Illinois and Connecticut.","\u003cspan data-index=\"1\" data-type=\"twitter\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Trump and others who oppose the care say that it makes permanent changes that people who receive it could come to regret — and maintain that it’s being driven by questionable science.","Since 2021, 28 states with Republican-controlled legislatures have adopted policies to ban or restrict gender-affirming care for minors. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states have a \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/npr/nx-s1-5421276/scotus-transgender-kids-decision\"\u003eright to enforce those laws\u003c/a\u003e.","For families with transgender children, the state laws and medical center policy changes have sparked urgent scrambles for treatment.","\u003ch3\u003eThe medical centers are responding to political and legal pressure\u003c/h3\u003e","The Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, the biggest public provider of gender-affirming care for children in teens in the U.S., closed in July.","At least seven other major hospitals and health systems have made similar announcements, including Children’s National in Washington D.C., UChicago Medicine and Yale New Haven Health.","Kaiser Permanente, which operates in California and several other states, said it would pause gender-affirming surgeries for those under 19 as of the end of August, but would continue hormone therapy.","Connecticut Children’s Medical Center cited “an increasingly complex and evolving landscape\" for winding down care.","Other hospitals, including Penn State, had already made similar decisions since Trump returned to office in January.","Alex Sheldon, executive director of GLMA, an organization that advocates for health care equity for LGBTQ+ people, said the health systems have pulled back the services for legal reasons, not medical ones.","“Not once has a hospital said they are ending care because it is not medically sound,” Sheldon said.","\u003ch3\u003eTrump’s administration has targeted the care in multiple ways\u003c/h3\u003e","Trump devoted a lot of attention to transgender people in his campaign last year as part of a growing pushback from conservatives as transgender people have gained visibility and acceptance on some fronts. Trump criticized gender-affirming care, transgender women in women’s sports, and transgender women’s use of women’s facilities such as restrooms.","On his inauguration day in January, Trump signed an executive order defining the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/npr/nx-s1-5268876/a-look-at-trumps-executive-order-that-the-government-will-recognize-only-two-sexes\"\u003esexes as only male and female\u003c/a\u003e for government purposes, setting the tone for a cascade of actions that affect transgender people. About a week later, Trump called to stop using federal money, including from Medicaid, for\u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/npr/nx-s1-5279092/trump-executive-order-gender-affirming-care\"\u003e gender-affirming care for those under 19\u003c/a\u003e.","About half of U.S. adults \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/transgender-poll-care-bathrooms-military-trump-b5c9521d3d486e87c8631a99a455df2f\"\u003eapprove of Trump's handling\u003c/a\u003e of transgender issues, an AP-NORC poll found. But the American Medical Association says that \u003ca href=\"https://policysearch.ama-assn.org/policyfinder/detail/gender%20identity?uri=%2FAMADoc%2Fdirectives.xml-D-295.312.xml\"\u003egender is on a spectrum\u003c/a\u003e, and the group opposes policies that restrict access to gender-affirming health care.","Gender-affirming care includes a range of medical and mental health services to support a person’s gender identity, including when it’s different from the sex they were assigned at birth. It includes counseling and treatment with medications that block puberty, and hormone therapy to produce physical changes, as well as surgery, which is rare for minors.","In March, a judge paused enforcement of the ban on government spending for care.","\u003ch3\u003eThe court ruling didn't stop other federal government action\u003c/h3\u003e","In April, Attorney General Pam Bondi directed government investigators to focus on providers who continue to offer gender-affirming care for transgender youth. “Under my leadership, the Department of Justice will bring these practices to an end,\" she wrote.","In May, the Department of Health and Human Services issued a report \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-hhs-rfk-transgender-therapy-53c20e8ba65b2d9e4750d5c3314492cc\"\u003ediscouraging medical interventions\u003c/a\u003e for transgender youth and instead focusing solely on talk therapy. The report questions adolescents' capacity to consent to life-changing treatments that could result in future infertility. The administration has not said who wrote the report, which has been deeply criticized by LGBTQ+ advocates.","In June, a Justice Department memo called for prioritizing civil investigations of those who provide the treatment.","In July, Justice Department announced it had sent more than 20 subpoenas to doctors and clinics involved in gender-affirming care for youth, saying they were part of investigations of health care fraud, false statements and other possible wrongdoing.","And in a statement last week, the White House celebrated decisions to end gender-affirming care, which it called a “barbaric, pseudoscientific practice”","\u003ch3\u003eFamilies worry about accessing care\u003c/h3\u003e","Kristen Salvatore’s 15-year-old child started hormone therapy late last year at Penn State Health. Salvatore said in an interview with The Associated Press before the lawsuit was announced that it was a major factor in reduced signs of anxiety and depression. Last month, the family received official notice from the health system that it would no longer offer the hormones for patients under 19 after July 31, though talk therapy can continue.","Salvatore has been struggling to find a place that’s not hours away from their Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, home that would provide the hormones and accept Medicaid coverage.","“I’m walking around blind with no guidance, and whatever breadcrumbs I was given are to a dead-end alleyway,” she said.","The family has enough testosterone stockpiled to last until January. But if they can’t find a new provider by then, Salvatore’s child could risk detransitioning, she said.","\u003cem\u003eWith reporting from WBUR's Newsroom. \u003c/em\u003e"],"enhanced":false,"seriesMeta":null,"iframeHero":null,"postType":"post","isBreaking":false,"isDeveloping":false,"relatedLinks":[{"id":273654,"url":"https://www.wbur.org/npr/nx-s1-5421276/scotus-transgender-kids-decision","prefix":"","title":"Supreme Court upholds state bans on transgender care for minors","index":1}],"relatedLinksLabel":"Related:","broadcastType":"","broadcastDate":"","broadcastTime":"","itunesEpType":"","itunesEpNum":0,"itunesSeason":0,"itunesTitle":"","itunesSummary":"","itunesExplicit":false,"socialTease":null,"volume":3,"enableRecirculation":true,"suppressAudio":false,"hideArchiveMsg":false,"disableAds":"enabled","audioDatetime":null,"taxonomy":[{"id":73,"type":"category","name":"News","description":"","slug":"news","series":false,"global":false,"count":76153,"hide":false,"primary":true},{"id":75,"type":"category","name":"Politics","description":"","slug":"politics","series":false,"global":false,"count":33728,"hide":false,"primary":false},{"id":61,"type":"category","name":"Boston","description":"","slug":"boston","series":false,"global":false,"count":61232,"hide":false,"primary":false}],"audio":[],"embedMeta":{"embed-1":{"id":1,"parentID":1031986,"type":"twitter","attributes":{"url":"https://x.com/MassAGO/status/1951324554812342711"},"body":"","placeholder":"\u003cspan data-index=\"1\" data-type=\"twitter\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e"}},"images":[{"type":"featured","url":"https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/California_Transgender_Athletes_25148515182056.jpg","width":1024,"height":683,"title":"A protester is silhouetted against a trans pride flag during a pro-transgender rights protest outside of Seattle Children's Hospital, Feb. 9, 2025, in Seattle. 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Advocates hope that early traction around this new bill is a positive sign for its future chances.","bylines":[{"comment_status":"closed","comment_count":0,"name":"Walter Wuthmann","nameLastFirst":"Wuthmann, Walter","slug":"walter-wuthmann","wordpressID":104039,"content":["Walter Wuthmann is a senior state politics reporter for WBUR.","Walter covers the State House with a focus on accountability and enterprise reporting. He previously covered Boston City Hall and breaking news.","His story on ousted Massachusetts police officers moving from one department to the next won the Public Media Journalists Association award for investigative reporting and was a finalist for the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award.","Walter graduated from Bowdoin College and then worked at the Forecaster, a weekly newspaper in Portland, Maine. 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He joined WBUR in 2018 as a producer for Radio Boston and newscast."],"apiURL":"https://api.wbur.org/people/walter-wuthmann","relativeURL":"/inside/staff/walter-wuthmann","organization":"wbur","embedMeta":null,"shortBio":"Walter Wuthmann is a senior state politics reporter for WBUR.","bluesky":null,"facebook":null,"title":"Senior State Politics Reporter","type":"newsroom","channels":["news"],"thumbnail":"https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Walter-Wuthmann-new-hs-600x600.jpg","photo":null,"website":null,"email":"wuthmann@bu.edu"}],"nprID":null,"nprTranscriptID":null,"nprURL":null,"dateline":"","superTitle":null,"superTitleURL":null,"content":["A group of lawmakers and criminal justice advocates are reviving a proposal to lift the state's $1 million cap on compensation for those who've been wrongfully convicted.","\"There's no amount of money that makes up for having lost your freedom and your life,\" said state Sen. Pat Jehlen, the bill's lead sponsor. But \"this will provide them with immediate relief.\"","The \u003ca href=\"https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/SD886\"\u003ebill\u003c/a\u003e was passed by the Joint Judiciary Committee last week and sent to the Senate Committee on Ways and Means. Advocates hope that getting a favorable report relatively early in the Legislative session is a positive sign for its future chances.","Previous \u003ca href=\"https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S1055\"\u003eversions\u003c/a\u003e of the bill have failed to pass. Jehlen said the \"big difference\" this year was explicit buy-in and support from Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell's office.","Under the new language, the attorney general's office would create an administrative process for compensating those who've been exonerated, rather than making people fight in court for settlements.","The bill sets a standard rate of $115,000 per year of wrongful incarceration. So if a person served 20 years, they'd be awarded $2.3 million.","Exonerated individuals would also immediately receive $15,000 after being released, and connected with social services.","In a statement, a spokesperson for Campbell said the attorney general \"continues to believe that the $1 million dollar cap is unreasonable.\"","Campbell \"supports raising the cap and reforming the current system to create an administrative claims process that better and more expeditiously serves those who are eligible for compensation,\" the spokesperson said.","People who've been wrongfully convicted in Massachusetts have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/10/02/compensation-wrogful-convictions-massachusetts\"\u003efighting to raise the cap\u003c/a\u003e for years. Ninety-eight people have been exonerated in Massachusetts since 1990, representing about 1,379 years of wrongful incarceration, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.mass.gov/news/ag-campbell-launches-justice-review-unit-to-lead-offices-conviction-integrity-innocence-and-wrongful-conviction-work\"\u003edata\u003c/a\u003e from the National Registry of Exonerations.","Fred Clay, who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/npr/690016359/wrongfully-convicted-and-jailed-38-years-fred-clay-gets-1-million-payout\"\u003ewrongfully convicted\u003c/a\u003e of murder and spent almost 38 years in prison, received a $1 million settlement in 2019. Michael Sullivan served 26 years for a murder he did not commit. A jury awarded him \u003ca href=\"https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2024/11/24/lowell-man-proven-innocent-of-1986-murder-awarded-13-million-but-state-law-caps-payout-at-1-million/\"\u003e$13 million\u003c/a\u003e last year, but the payout was capped at $1 million.","Sen. 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During an August 2024 hearing, Tsarnaev's attorneys pointed to what they said were comments O’Toole made about the case on podcasts and at public events during the appeals process.","In a two-page judgment released Thursday, appeals court judges ruled that O'Toole should continue to preside over the case, determining that “two panel discussions and a podcast in which Judge O’Toole discussed various aspects of organizing complex jury trials and the problems associated with social media in that context” did not constitute grounds for his removal.","One of O'Toole's attorneys, David E. Patton, didn't immediately respond to a phone message seeking comment.","A federal appeals court in March 2024 ordered O’Toole to investigate claims of juror bias by the defense and to determine whether Tsarnaev’s death sentence should stand. He was convicted of helping carry out the 2013 bombing that killed three people and injured hundreds of others near the marathon’s finish line.","It's unclear when O'Toole might rule on the juror bias issue. If he finds that jurors should have been disqualified, he should vacate Tsarnaev’s sentence and hold a new penalty-phase trial to determine if Tsarnaev should be sentenced to death, the appeals court said.","In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/03/04/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-scotus-death-penalty-reinstated\"\u003ereinstated the death sentence\u003c/a\u003e given to Tsarnaev after the 1st Circuit threw out the sentence in 2020. The circuit court found then that the trial judge did not sufficiently question jurors about their exposure to the extensive news coverage of the bombing.","The 1st Circuit \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/massachusetts-state-government-legal-proceedings-crime-boston-f32276fbfccb77fca2a08ae831d7f4df\"\u003etook another look at the case\u003c/a\u003e after Tsarnaev’s lawyers urged it to examine issues the Supreme Court didn’t consider. Among them was whether the trial judge wrongly forced the trial to be held in Boston and wrongly denied defense challenges to the seating of two jurors who they claim lied during questioning.","Tsarnaev’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/npr/398322302/jury-reaches-verdict-in-boston-bombing-trial\"\u003eguilt in the deaths\u003c/a\u003e of those killed in the bombing was not at issue in the appeal. His lawyers have argued that Tsarnaev fell under the influence of his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed in a gun battle with police days after the bombing.","Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted of all 30 charges against him. Prosecutors portrayed the brothers — ethnic Chechens who moved to the United States from Russia more than a decade ago — as full partners in a brutal and coldblooded plan to punish the U.S. for its wars in Muslim countries."],"enhanced":false,"seriesMeta":null,"iframeHero":null,"postType":"post","isBreaking":false,"isDeveloping":false,"relatedLinks":[{"id":273641,"url":"https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/08/21/defense-attorneys-for-boston-marathon-bomber-seek-recusal-of-judge-overseeing-case","prefix":"","title":"Defense attorneys for Boston Marathon bomber seek recusal of judge overseeing case","index":1},{"id":273642,"url":"https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/12/23/tsarnaev-biden-death-penalty-massachusetts-marathon-bombing","prefix":"","title":"Victims, local politicians react to Biden's decision to leave Boston Marathon bomber on death row","index":2}],"relatedLinksLabel":"Related:","broadcastType":"","broadcastDate":"","broadcastTime":"","itunesEpType":"","itunesEpNum":0,"itunesSeason":0,"itunesTitle":"","itunesSummary":"","itunesExplicit":false,"socialTease":null,"volume":3,"enableRecirculation":true,"suppressAudio":false,"hideArchiveMsg":false,"disableAds":"enabled","audioDatetime":null,"taxonomy":[{"id":73,"type":"category","name":"News","description":"","slug":"news","series":false,"global":false,"count":76153,"hide":false,"primary":true},{"id":61,"type":"category","name":"Boston","description":"","slug":"boston","series":false,"global":false,"count":61232,"hide":false,"primary":false}],"audio":[],"embedMeta":null,"images":[{"type":"featured","url":"https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Boston_Bombing_Appeal_25212752527153.jpg","width":1024,"height":675,"title":"Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officers form a line in front of the federal courthouse in Boston prior to the arraignment of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, July 10, 2013. (Steven Senne/AP File)","caption":"Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officers form a line in front of the federal courthouse in Boston prior to the arraignment of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, July 10, 2013. (Steven Senne/AP File)","description":"Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officers form a line in front of the federal courthouse in Boston prior to the arraignment of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, July 10, 2013. (Steven Senne/AP File)","alttext":"Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officers form a line in front of the federal courthouse in Boston prior to the arraignment of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, July 10, 2013. (Steven Senne/AP File)","index":0,"bgPosition":null,"sizes":{"medium":{"file":"https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Boston_Bombing_Appeal_25212752527153-400x264.jpg","width":400,"height":264},"large":{"file":"https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Boston_Bombing_Appeal_25212752527153-1000x659.jpg","width":1000,"height":659},"thumbnail":{"file":"https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Boston_Bombing_Appeal_25212752527153-200x200.jpg","width":200,"height":200},"medium_large":{"file":"https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Boston_Bombing_Appeal_25212752527153-768x506.jpg","width":768,"height":506},"square":{"file":"https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Boston_Bombing_Appeal_25212752527153-600x600.jpg","width":600,"height":600},"full":{"file":"https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Boston_Bombing_Appeal_25212752527153.jpg","width":1024,"height":675}}}],"index":5,"editorCreated":true,"isAd":false,"videos":[]},{"program":null,"images":[{"id":"g-s1-80549","title":"Trump Epstein Maxwell","caption":"Virginia Giuffre, center, holds a news conference outside a Manhattan court in New York, Aug. 27, 2019. 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(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)\n \u003c/figcaption\u003e\n \u003c/figure\u003e","A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday blocked the Trump administration, for now, from terminating Temporary Protected Status for people from Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal.","Judge Trina Thompson's \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.452397/gov.uscourts.cand.452397.73.0_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cu\u003edecision postpones the terminations until November\u003c/u\u003e\u003c/a\u003e, when a hearing to discuss the merits will take place. It affects about 60,000 immigrants whose temporary protected status was set to expire. The protections for the Nepalese were set to terminate on Aug. 5. The protections for Nicaraguans and Hondurans would have ended Sept. 8. Most of them have been living in the U.S. for more than 20 years.","In her ruling, Thompson chided the actions of the Trump administration.","\"The freedom to live fearlessly, the opportunity of liberty, and the American dream. That is all Plaintiffs seek,\" Thompson wrote. \"Instead, they are told to atone for their race, leave because of their names, and purify their blood. The Court disagrees.\"","The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.","Under the law that created TPS, presidents have the authority to grant protected status to migrants from countries experiencing conditions that will prevent them from returning safely, such as natural disasters and civil wars.","In 1999, Hondurans and Nicaraguans were granted TPS for the first time after Hurricane Mitch caused widespread destruction. Nepal was added to the list of TPS countries after a devastating earthquake in 2015.","Since taking office, the Trump administration has moved to end the TPS designation for many countries, including \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5403712/supreme-court-tps-venezuelans\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eVenezuela\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https://www.wlrn.org/immigration/2025-07-31/haitian-tps-holders-federal-court-challenge-trump-administration\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eHaiti\u003c/a\u003e.","A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/07/07/dhs-terminates-tps-nicaragua-it-was-never-meant-last-25-years\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cu\u003esaid earlier this month\u003c/u\u003e\u003c/a\u003e the decision to end TPS for Nicaragua \"restores integrity in our immigration system and ensures that TPS remains temporary.\"","\"Temporary Protected Status was never meant to last a quarter of a century,\" the spokesperson said. \"The impacts of a natural disaster impacting Nicaragua in 1999 no longer exist. The environmental situation has improved enough that it is safe enough for Nicaraguan citizens to return home.\"","At the same time,\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c/strong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/nicaragua-travel-advisory.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cu\u003ethe Department of State has advised U.S. citizens\u003c/u\u003e\u003c/a\u003e to: \"Reconsider travel to Nicaragua due to arbitrary enforcement of laws, the risk of wrongful detention, and limited healthcare availability.\"","Regarding the ending of TPS for Hondurans, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/07/07/improved-conditions-dhs-ends-tps-honduras\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cu\u003estated in a press release earlier this month\u003c/u\u003e\u003c/a\u003e: \"It is clear that the Government of Honduras has taken all of the necessary steps to overcome the impacts of Hurricane Mitch, almost 27 years ago.\"","\"Honduran citizens can safely return home, and DHS is here to help facilitate their voluntary return,\" Noem said.","Judge Thompson said in her ruling that the Trump administration's decisions to end the programs \"were based on a preordained determination to end the TPS program, rather than an objective review of the country conditions.\"","Courts across the country,\u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5403712/supreme-court-tps-venezuelans\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e \u003cu\u003eincluding the U.S. Supreme Court\u003c/u\u003e\u003c/a\u003e, have heard challenges to the termination of TPS for different groups.","\u003cfigure class=\"article-fig size-large\"\u003e\n \u003cimg class=\"size-large article-image\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/5412x3522+0+0/resize/1000?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F18%2F81%2F84b2d2e14c8190cb6896dd9d705f%2Fgettyimages-1495448594.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\n \u003cfigcaption class=\"article-fig-caption\"\u003e\n The U.S. labor market was substantially weaker in the spring and early summer, according to a report Friday from the Labor Department. Employers added far fewer jobs than initially reported. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)\n \u003c/figcaption\u003e\n \u003c/figure\u003e","The job market weakened sharply during the late spring and early summer as President Trump's tariffs began to take effect — and Trump responded by calling for the firing of a key labor statistician.","U.S. employers added just 73,000 jobs in July, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ea report Friday from the Labor Department\u003c/a\u003e, while job gains for May and June were largely erased. The unemployment rate inched up to 4.2%.","Hours after the report, Trump advanced baseless claims about the jobs numbers, writing on \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114955222046259464\" target=\"_blank\"\u003esocial media\u003c/a\u003e that he thought they \"were RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad.\" ","In \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114954846612623858\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eanother post\u003c/a\u003e, Trump said he was firing Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which puts out the jobs report. McEntarfer was appointed to the job by former President Joe Biden.","\"She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified,\" Trump added. \"Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can't be manipulated for political purposes.\"","Data experts have \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5323155/economic-data-reliability-trump-howard-lutnick\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eraised concerns\u003c/a\u003e about the \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5397191/us-census-bureau-labor-statistics-doge-data\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eintegrity of U.S. government statistics\u003c/a\u003e under the Trump administration, which has been slashing positions and funding for statistical agencies.","McEntarfer's term at the Bureau of Labor Statistics was not set to end until early 2028. Federal law, however, allows presidents to remove commissioners of labor statistics before their four-year term is up.","\u003cdiv id=\"npr-pym-nx-s1-5488807-101\" data-pym-src=\"https://apps.npr.org/datawrapper/LYIxZ/1/\" class=\"article-section--embed\"\u003e\u003c/div\u003e","\u003ch3\u003eTariff uncertainty hits manufacturing\u003c/h3\u003e","The jobs report came a day after President Trump announced a \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5482859/trump-tariff-rates-executive-order\" target=\"_blank\"\u003enew round of tariffs\u003c/a\u003e on a wide range of countries.","Health care was one of the few sectors with solid job growth last month. ","But the federal government shed 12,000 jobs in July and has lost some 84,000 workers since the beginning of the year. Tens of thousands of additional federal workers have taken buyouts but are still counted as employed through the end of September.","Factories shed 11,000 jobs in July. Domestic manufacturers are supposed to be the beneficiaries of the president's trade policies. But factory managers complain that uncertainty over import taxes has depressed orders and other activity. The federal government has been charging a 10% tax on nearly everything the U.S. imports since April, and higher tariffs are set to take effect on many goods next week.","\"These tariff wars are beginning to wear us out,\" one anonymous factory manager said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.ismworld.org/supply-management-news-and-reports/reports/ism-report-on-business/pmi/july/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ea survey released Friday\u003c/a\u003e by the Institute for Supply Management. \"There is zero clarity about the future, and it's been a difficult few months trying to figure out where everything is going to land and the impact on our business. So far, tremendous and unexpected costs have been incurred.\"","The unemployment rate rose in July even as nearly 40,000 people dropped out of the workforce. The share of adults who are working or looking for work has fallen by half a percent in the last year. ","The share of immigrants in the workforce has fallen even more sharply, which could be making it harder for employers to fill the jobs they'd like to.","\"I think it's mostly a labor supply story,\" says Jed Kolko, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. \"When you look sector by sector, the big slowdown in employment this year is in, first of all federal government employment, of course, but also in some sectors that are particularly reliant on immigrants such as construction, home health aides and accommodation and hospitality.\" ","Despite the slowdown in hiring, wages continue to climb. Average wages in July were up 3.9% from a year ago, which is likely more than enough to outpace inflation. ","\u003cdiv id=\"npr-pym-nx-s1-5488807-103\" data-pym-src=\"https://apps.npr.org/datawrapper/sbe61/1/\" class=\"article-section--embed\"\u003e\u003c/div\u003e","\u003ch3\u003eData will likely add pressure on the Fed\u003c/h3\u003e","The weakness in the job market is likely to amplify calls for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates at its next policy meeting in September. The central bank \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5483961/federal-reserve-interest-rates-trump-pressure\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eheld rates steady earlier this week\u003c/a\u003e, out of concern that rising tariffs would put more upward pressure on prices. ","Trump has repeatedly attacked the Fed and Fed Chair Jerome Powell for not lowering interest rates sooner. But he\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c/strong\u003ewill soon have an opportunity to appoint a new member to the the Fed's seven-person governing board. Adriana Kugler, who has served as Fed governor for just under two years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/files/other20250801a1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eannounced she's stepping down next week\u003c/a\u003e, six months before her term was set to expire. ","The Fed said Kugler, a labor economist, was resigning to return to Georgetown University as professor this fall.","\u003cem\u003eNPR's Hansi Lo Wang contributed reporting.\u003c/em\u003e","\u003cfigure class=\"article-fig size-large\"\u003e\n \u003cimg class=\"size-large article-image\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/6000x4000+0+0/resize/1000?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F71%2F4d%2F1b29150a4f4aa570ee182cfc995c%2Fgettyimages-2227723434-1.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\n \u003cfigcaption class=\"article-fig-caption\"\u003e\n Stocks slumped after President Trump unveiled a new round of global tariffs and after the U.S. created fewer jobs than expected in July. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)\n \u003c/figcaption\u003e\n \u003c/figure\u003e","Stock markets fell sharply on Friday, as \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5488807/jobs-employment-labor-trump-tariffs\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eU.S. unemployment rose\u003c/a\u003e and President Trump \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5482859/trump-tariff-rates-executive-order\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eunveiled steep tariffs\u003c/a\u003e on a wide range of countries.","Trump's latest tariffs, announced late Thursday, are \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5480695/corporate-america-weird-tariff-summer-earnings-investors\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ereigniting concerns\u003c/a\u003e about how these import taxes would impact the U.S. and the global economies. ","On Friday morning, a weaker-than-expected \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ejobs report\u003c/a\u003e amplified investors' fears about the consequences: Employers created only 73,000 jobs in July, fewer than the around 100,000 jobs economists had expected. The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2%.","The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S\u0026P 500 fell more than 1% each. Meanwhile, the tech-heavy Nasdaq dropped more than 2%.","\u003ch3\u003eA busy week of economic data\u003c/h3\u003e","The latest tariffs announcement and the weak jobs report come at the end of a busy economic news week. Investors have been parsing the Federal Reserve's decision to hold interest rates steady. They've also been watching the earnings reports of the largest U.S. companies, which have been \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5480695/corporate-america-weird-tariff-summer-earnings-investors\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eupdating investors\u003c/a\u003e on how tariffs are affecting their abilities to make money. ","The broad sell-off on Friday marks an abrupt reversal from \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5476238/trump-stocks-market-economy-tariffs-businesses\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWall Street's optimism\u003c/a\u003e this summer. Markets \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5352362/markets-selloff-dow-trump-tariffs\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ewent into a tailspin\u003c/a\u003e in April when Trump first unveiled his tariffs, before he started pausing and softening some of those tax rates. ","Since then, global investors have largely been shrugging off his updated plans. But on Friday, their worries came roaring back, amplified by the new evidence that these tariffs are affecting the jobs market.","The jobs weakness is likely to increase calls for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates when it next meets in September. The central bank \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5483961/federal-reserve-interest-rates-trump-pressure\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eheld rates steady\u003c/a\u003e earlier this week, out of concern that rising tariffs would put more upward pressure on prices.","\"The cracks in the labor market have widened substantially and add further pressure on the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates,\" Nationwide Chief Economist Kathy Bostjancic wrote on Friday morning.","The family of Virginia Giuffre, who was among Jeffrey Epstein's most well-known sex trafficking accusers, said that it was shocking to hear President Donald Trump say the disgraced financier \"stole\" Giuffre from him and urged that Epstein's former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, remain in prison.","Giuffre, who had accused Britain's Prince Andrew and other influential men of sexually exploiting her as a teenager trafficked by Epstein, has been a central figure in conspiracy theories tied to the case. She \u003ca href=\"/npr/g-s1-62856/virginia-giuffre-has-died\" target=\"_blank\"\u003edied by suicide this year\u003c/a\u003e.","Her family's statement is the latest development involving Epstein, who took his own life in a New York jail in 2019 while facing federal sex trafficking charges, and the Republican president, who was his one-time friend. Trump denied prior knowledge of Epstein's crimes and said he cut off their relationship years ago, but he still faces questions about the case.","Trump, responding to a reporter's question on Tuesday, said that he got upset with Epstein over his poaching of workers and that Epstein had stolen Giuffre from his Palm Beach, Florida, club.","\"It was shocking to hear President Trump invoke our sister and say that he was aware that Virginia had been 'stolen' from Mar-a-Lago,\" the family's statement said.","\"We and the public are asking for answers; survivors deserve this,\" it continued.","White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt noted the president was responding to a reporter's question and didn't bring up Giuffre himself.","\"The fact remains that President Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club for being a creep to his female employees,\" she said.","The family's statement comes shortly after the Justice Department interviewed Maxwell, who was convicted in 2021 on sex trafficking and other charges and is serving a 20-year sentence in Tallahassee, Florida. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche interviewed Maxwell in a Florida courthouse, though details about what she said haven't become public.","Maxwell's lawyers have said she testified truthfully and answered questions \"about 100 different people.\" They have said she's willing to answer more questions from Congress if she is granted immunity from future prosecution for her testimony and if lawmakers agree to satisfy other conditions.","A message seeking comment about the Giuffre family's statement was sent to Maxwell's attorney on Thursday.","In a CNN interview Thursday evening, Giuffre's family also spoke out.","\"She wasn't stolen, she was preyed upon at his property, at President Trump's property … stolen seems very impersonal. It feels very much like an object, and the survivors are not objects, women are not objects,\" said Sky Roberts, Giuffre's brother. \"She was preyed upon, and it certainly makes you kind of ask the question, you know, how much he knew during that time?\"","A Trump administration official said the president is not currently considering clemency action for Maxwell.","Giuffre said she was approached by Maxwell in 2000 and eventually was hired by her as a masseuse for Epstein. But the couple effectively made her a sexual servant, she said, pressuring her into gratifying not only Epstein but his friends and associates.","Giuffre said she was flown around the world for appointments with men including Prince Andrew while she was 17 and 18 years old.","The men, including Andrew, denied it and assailed Giuffre's credibility. She acknowledged changing some key details of her account.","The prince settled with Giuffre in 2022 for an undisclosed sum, agreeing to make a \"substantial donation\" to her survivors' organization.","The American-born Giuffre lived in Australia for years and became an advocate for sex trafficking survivors after emerging as a central figure in Epstein's prolonged downfall.","Her family's statement said she endured death threats and financial ruin over her cooperation with authorities against Epstein and Maxwell.\u003cbr\u003e"],"nprTranscriptID":"","audio":[],"relatedLinks":[{"id":273653,"url":"/npr/nx-s1-5484136/trump-jeffrey-epstein-mar-a-lago-ghislaine-maxwell","prefix":"","title":"Trump says his falling out with Jeffrey Epstein was over spa workers at Mar-a-Lago","index":1}],"superTitle":null,"bylines":[{"name":null,"relativeURL":"","id":""},{"name":"The Associated Press","relativeURL":"https://npr.org/people/101453150/the-associated-press","id":"101453150"}],"channel":"NPR","fullChannel":null,"channelType":"","channelURL":"","id":"nx-s1-5488736","wordpressSlug":"","wordpressID":null,"guid":"","source":"NPR","headline":"Virginia Giuffre's family expresses shock over Trump saying Epstein 'stole' her","publishDate":"2025-08-01 01:25:36","updatedDate":"2025-08-01 18:13:36","relativeURL":"/npr/nx-s1-5488736/virginia-giuffre-family-trump-epstein","apiURL":"https://api.wbur.org/stories?id=nx-s1-5488736\u0026org=npr","externalURL":"","shortLink":"","miniExcerpt":"","excerpt":"Her family's statement is the latest development involving Epstein, who took his own life in a New York jail in 2019 while facing federal sex trafficking charges, and the Republican president.","nprID":"nx-s1-5488736","nprURL":"https://www.npr.org/2025/08/01/nx-s1-5488736/virginia-giuffre-family-trump-epstein","dateline":"","superTitleURL":"","postType":"","isBreaking":false,"isDeveloping":false,"relatedLinksLabel":"Related:","broadcastType":null,"broadcastDate":"","broadcastTime":"","itunesEpType":"","itunesEpNum":"","itunesSeason":"","itunesTitle":"","itunesSummary":"","itunesExplicit":false,"volume":3,"suppressAudio":false,"slug":"virginia-giuffre-family-trump-epstein","taxonomy":[{"title":"Politics","link":"https://www.npr.org/sections/politics/","id":1014,"type":"topic"},{"title":"News","link":"https://www.npr.org/sections/news/","id":1001,"type":"topic"},{"title":"Home Page Top Stories","link":"https://www.npr.org/","id":1002,"type":"topic"}],"embedMeta":null,"index":6,"editorCreated":true,"isAd":false,"videos":[]},{"program":null,"images":[{"id":"g-s1-80508","title":"Rally Held In D.C. Calling For Temporary Protected Status Designation For Central Americans In The U.S.","caption":"An activist marches during a 2023 rally in Washington, D.C. for temporary protected status for Central American migrants to allow them to stay in the United States. 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Calling For Temporary Protected Status Designation For Central Americans In The U.S.","caption":"An activist marches during a 2023 rally in Washington, D.C. for temporary protected status for Central American migrants to allow them to stay in the United States. (Getty Images)","credit":"Getty Images","type":"featured","url":"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/5195x3400+0+0/resize/5195x3400!/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F0b%2F23%2F71b3e4044231b60f7275d1522986%2Ftps.jpg","sizes":{"thumb":{"width":200,"height":131,"file":"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/5195x3400+0+0/resize/200?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F0b%2F23%2F71b3e4044231b60f7275d1522986%2Ftps.jpg","type":"thumb"},"medium":{"width":400,"height":262,"file":"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/5195x3400+0+0/resize/400?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F0b%2F23%2F71b3e4044231b60f7275d1522986%2Ftps.jpg","type":"medium"},"large":{"width":1000,"height":654,"file":"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/5195x3400+0+0/resize/1000?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F0b%2F23%2F71b3e4044231b60f7275d1522986%2Ftps.jpg","type":"large"},"full":{"width":5195,"height":3400,"file":"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/5195x3400+0+0/resize/5195?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F0b%2F23%2F71b3e4044231b60f7275d1522986%2Ftps.jpg","type":"full"}}}],"content":["A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday blocked the Trump administration, for now, from terminating Temporary Protected Status for people from Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal.","Judge Trina Thompson's \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.452397/gov.uscourts.cand.452397.73.0_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cu\u003edecision postpones the terminations until November\u003c/u\u003e\u003c/a\u003e, when a hearing to discuss the merits will take place. It affects about 60,000 immigrants whose temporary protected status was set to expire. The protections for the Nepalese were set to terminate on Aug. 5. The protections for Nicaraguans and Hondurans would have ended Sept. 8. Most of them have been living in the U.S. for more than 20 years.","In her ruling, Thompson chided the actions of the Trump administration.","\"The freedom to live fearlessly, the opportunity of liberty, and the American dream. That is all Plaintiffs seek,\" Thompson wrote. \"Instead, they are told to atone for their race, leave because of their names, and purify their blood. The Court disagrees.\"","The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.","Under the law that created TPS, presidents have the authority to grant protected status to migrants from countries experiencing conditions that will prevent them from returning safely, such as natural disasters and civil wars.","In 1999, Hondurans and Nicaraguans were granted TPS for the first time after Hurricane Mitch caused widespread destruction. Nepal was added to the list of TPS countries after a devastating earthquake in 2015.","Since taking office, the Trump administration has moved to end the TPS designation for many countries, including \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5403712/supreme-court-tps-venezuelans\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eVenezuela\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https://www.wlrn.org/immigration/2025-07-31/haitian-tps-holders-federal-court-challenge-trump-administration\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eHaiti\u003c/a\u003e.","A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/07/07/dhs-terminates-tps-nicaragua-it-was-never-meant-last-25-years\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cu\u003esaid earlier this month\u003c/u\u003e\u003c/a\u003e the decision to end TPS for Nicaragua \"restores integrity in our immigration system and ensures that TPS remains temporary.\"","\"Temporary Protected Status was never meant to last a quarter of a century,\" the spokesperson said. \"The impacts of a natural disaster impacting Nicaragua in 1999 no longer exist. The environmental situation has improved enough that it is safe enough for Nicaraguan citizens to return home.\"","At the same time,\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c/strong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/nicaragua-travel-advisory.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cu\u003ethe Department of State has advised U.S. citizens\u003c/u\u003e\u003c/a\u003e to: \"Reconsider travel to Nicaragua due to arbitrary enforcement of laws, the risk of wrongful detention, and limited healthcare availability.\"","Regarding the ending of TPS for Hondurans, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/07/07/improved-conditions-dhs-ends-tps-honduras\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cu\u003estated in a press release earlier this month\u003c/u\u003e\u003c/a\u003e: \"It is clear that the Government of Honduras has taken all of the necessary steps to overcome the impacts of Hurricane Mitch, almost 27 years ago.\"","\"Honduran citizens can safely return home, and DHS is here to help facilitate their voluntary return,\" Noem said.","Judge Thompson said in her ruling that the Trump administration's decisions to end the programs \"were based on a preordained determination to end the TPS program, rather than an objective review of the country conditions.\"","Courts across the country,\u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5403712/supreme-court-tps-venezuelans\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e \u003cu\u003eincluding the U.S. Supreme Court\u003c/u\u003e\u003c/a\u003e, have heard challenges to the termination of TPS for different groups."],"nprTranscriptID":"","audio":[],"relatedLinks":[],"superTitle":null,"bylines":[{"name":null,"relativeURL":"","id":""},{"name":"Sergio Martínez-Beltrán","relativeURL":"https://npr.org/people/1241652386/sergio-martinez-beltran","id":"1241652386"}],"channel":"NPR","fullChannel":null,"channelType":"","channelURL":"","id":"nx-s1-5487637","wordpressSlug":"","wordpressID":null,"guid":"","source":"NPR","headline":"Federal judge delays expiration of TPS for Hondurans, Nicaraguans and Nepalese","publishDate":"2025-07-31 21:16:45","updatedDate":null,"relativeURL":"/npr/nx-s1-5487637/federal-judge-delays-expiration-of-tps-for-honduras-nicaragua-and-nepal-trump","apiURL":"https://api.wbur.org/stories?id=nx-s1-5487637\u0026org=npr","externalURL":"","shortLink":"","miniExcerpt":"","excerpt":"The Trump administration has said the conditions in the three countries have improved, therefore the immigrants can return back to their homelands. But federal Judge Trina Thompson suggested Trump's motives are discriminatory.","nprID":"nx-s1-5487637","nprURL":"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/31/nx-s1-5487637/federal-judge-delays-expiration-of-tps-for-honduras-nicaragua-and-nepal-trump","dateline":"","superTitleURL":"","postType":"","isBreaking":false,"isDeveloping":false,"relatedLinksLabel":"Related:","broadcastType":null,"broadcastDate":"","broadcastTime":"","itunesEpType":"","itunesEpNum":"","itunesSeason":"","itunesTitle":"","itunesSummary":"","itunesExplicit":false,"volume":3,"suppressAudio":false,"slug":"federal-judge-delays-expiration-of-tps-for-honduras-nicaragua-and-nepal-trump","taxonomy":[{"title":"Immigration","link":"https://www.npr.org/sections/immigration","id":0,"type":"topic"},{"title":"National","link":"https://www.npr.org/sections/national/","id":1003,"type":"topic"},{"title":"Apple News","link":"","id":0,"type":"topic"},{"title":"News","link":"https://www.npr.org/sections/news/","id":1001,"type":"topic"},{"title":"Home Page Top Stories","link":"https://www.npr.org/","id":1002,"type":"topic"}],"embedMeta":null,"index":7,"editorCreated":true,"isAd":false,"videos":[]},{"program":null,"images":[{"id":"g-s1-80760","title":"Tesla Miami Case","caption":"Dillon Angulo, who was seriously injured in a Florida crash involving Tesla's Autopilot driver assist technology, speaks to reporters outside the federal courthouse in Miami on Friday. 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(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)\n \u003c/figcaption\u003e\n \u003c/figure\u003e","A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday blocked the Trump administration, for now, from terminating Temporary Protected Status for people from Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal.","Judge Trina Thompson's \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.452397/gov.uscourts.cand.452397.73.0_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cu\u003edecision postpones the terminations until November\u003c/u\u003e\u003c/a\u003e, when a hearing to discuss the merits will take place. It affects about 60,000 immigrants whose temporary protected status was set to expire. The protections for the Nepalese were set to terminate on Aug. 5. The protections for Nicaraguans and Hondurans would have ended Sept. 8. Most of them have been living in the U.S. for more than 20 years.","In her ruling, Thompson chided the actions of the Trump administration.","\"The freedom to live fearlessly, the opportunity of liberty, and the American dream. That is all Plaintiffs seek,\" Thompson wrote. \"Instead, they are told to atone for their race, leave because of their names, and purify their blood. The Court disagrees.\"","The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.","Under the law that created TPS, presidents have the authority to grant protected status to migrants from countries experiencing conditions that will prevent them from returning safely, such as natural disasters and civil wars.","In 1999, Hondurans and Nicaraguans were granted TPS for the first time after Hurricane Mitch caused widespread destruction. Nepal was added to the list of TPS countries after a devastating earthquake in 2015.","Since taking office, the Trump administration has moved to end the TPS designation for many countries, including \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5403712/supreme-court-tps-venezuelans\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eVenezuela\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https://www.wlrn.org/immigration/2025-07-31/haitian-tps-holders-federal-court-challenge-trump-administration\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eHaiti\u003c/a\u003e.","A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/07/07/dhs-terminates-tps-nicaragua-it-was-never-meant-last-25-years\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cu\u003esaid earlier this month\u003c/u\u003e\u003c/a\u003e the decision to end TPS for Nicaragua \"restores integrity in our immigration system and ensures that TPS remains temporary.\"","\"Temporary Protected Status was never meant to last a quarter of a century,\" the spokesperson said. \"The impacts of a natural disaster impacting Nicaragua in 1999 no longer exist. The environmental situation has improved enough that it is safe enough for Nicaraguan citizens to return home.\"","At the same time,\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c/strong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/nicaragua-travel-advisory.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cu\u003ethe Department of State has advised U.S. citizens\u003c/u\u003e\u003c/a\u003e to: \"Reconsider travel to Nicaragua due to arbitrary enforcement of laws, the risk of wrongful detention, and limited healthcare availability.\"","Regarding the ending of TPS for Hondurans, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/07/07/improved-conditions-dhs-ends-tps-honduras\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cu\u003estated in a press release earlier this month\u003c/u\u003e\u003c/a\u003e: \"It is clear that the Government of Honduras has taken all of the necessary steps to overcome the impacts of Hurricane Mitch, almost 27 years ago.\"","\"Honduran citizens can safely return home, and DHS is here to help facilitate their voluntary return,\" Noem said.","Judge Thompson said in her ruling that the Trump administration's decisions to end the programs \"were based on a preordained determination to end the TPS program, rather than an objective review of the country conditions.\"","Courts across the country,\u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5403712/supreme-court-tps-venezuelans\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e \u003cu\u003eincluding the U.S. Supreme Court\u003c/u\u003e\u003c/a\u003e, have heard challenges to the termination of TPS for different groups.","\u003cfigure class=\"article-fig size-large\"\u003e\n \u003cimg class=\"size-large article-image\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/5412x3522+0+0/resize/1000?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F18%2F81%2F84b2d2e14c8190cb6896dd9d705f%2Fgettyimages-1495448594.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\n \u003cfigcaption class=\"article-fig-caption\"\u003e\n The U.S. labor market was substantially weaker in the spring and early summer, according to a report Friday from the Labor Department. Employers added far fewer jobs than initially reported. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)\n \u003c/figcaption\u003e\n \u003c/figure\u003e","The job market weakened sharply during the late spring and early summer as President Trump's tariffs began to take effect — and Trump responded by calling for the firing of a key labor statistician.","U.S. employers added just 73,000 jobs in July, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ea report Friday from the Labor Department\u003c/a\u003e, while job gains for May and June were largely erased. The unemployment rate inched up to 4.2%.","Hours after the report, Trump advanced baseless claims about the jobs numbers, writing on \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114955222046259464\" target=\"_blank\"\u003esocial media\u003c/a\u003e that he thought they \"were RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad.\" ","In \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114954846612623858\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eanother post\u003c/a\u003e, Trump said he was firing Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which puts out the jobs report. McEntarfer was appointed to the job by former President Joe Biden.","\"She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified,\" Trump added. \"Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can't be manipulated for political purposes.\"","Data experts have \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5323155/economic-data-reliability-trump-howard-lutnick\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eraised concerns\u003c/a\u003e about the \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5397191/us-census-bureau-labor-statistics-doge-data\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eintegrity of U.S. government statistics\u003c/a\u003e under the Trump administration, which has been slashing positions and funding for statistical agencies.","McEntarfer's term at the Bureau of Labor Statistics was not set to end until early 2028. Federal law, however, allows presidents to remove commissioners of labor statistics before their four-year term is up.","\u003cdiv id=\"npr-pym-nx-s1-5488807-101\" data-pym-src=\"https://apps.npr.org/datawrapper/LYIxZ/1/\" class=\"article-section--embed\"\u003e\u003c/div\u003e","\u003ch3\u003eTariff uncertainty hits manufacturing\u003c/h3\u003e","The jobs report came a day after President Trump announced a \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5482859/trump-tariff-rates-executive-order\" target=\"_blank\"\u003enew round of tariffs\u003c/a\u003e on a wide range of countries.","Health care was one of the few sectors with solid job growth last month. ","But the federal government shed 12,000 jobs in July and has lost some 84,000 workers since the beginning of the year. Tens of thousands of additional federal workers have taken buyouts but are still counted as employed through the end of September.","Factories shed 11,000 jobs in July. Domestic manufacturers are supposed to be the beneficiaries of the president's trade policies. But factory managers complain that uncertainty over import taxes has depressed orders and other activity. The federal government has been charging a 10% tax on nearly everything the U.S. imports since April, and higher tariffs are set to take effect on many goods next week.","\"These tariff wars are beginning to wear us out,\" one anonymous factory manager said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.ismworld.org/supply-management-news-and-reports/reports/ism-report-on-business/pmi/july/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ea survey released Friday\u003c/a\u003e by the Institute for Supply Management. \"There is zero clarity about the future, and it's been a difficult few months trying to figure out where everything is going to land and the impact on our business. So far, tremendous and unexpected costs have been incurred.\"","The unemployment rate rose in July even as nearly 40,000 people dropped out of the workforce. The share of adults who are working or looking for work has fallen by half a percent in the last year. ","The share of immigrants in the workforce has fallen even more sharply, which could be making it harder for employers to fill the jobs they'd like to.","\"I think it's mostly a labor supply story,\" says Jed Kolko, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. \"When you look sector by sector, the big slowdown in employment this year is in, first of all federal government employment, of course, but also in some sectors that are particularly reliant on immigrants such as construction, home health aides and accommodation and hospitality.\" ","Despite the slowdown in hiring, wages continue to climb. Average wages in July were up 3.9% from a year ago, which is likely more than enough to outpace inflation. ","\u003cdiv id=\"npr-pym-nx-s1-5488807-103\" data-pym-src=\"https://apps.npr.org/datawrapper/sbe61/1/\" class=\"article-section--embed\"\u003e\u003c/div\u003e","\u003ch3\u003eData will likely add pressure on the Fed\u003c/h3\u003e","The weakness in the job market is likely to amplify calls for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates at its next policy meeting in September. The central bank \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5483961/federal-reserve-interest-rates-trump-pressure\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eheld rates steady earlier this week\u003c/a\u003e, out of concern that rising tariffs would put more upward pressure on prices. ","Trump has repeatedly attacked the Fed and Fed Chair Jerome Powell for not lowering interest rates sooner. But he\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c/strong\u003ewill soon have an opportunity to appoint a new member to the the Fed's seven-person governing board. Adriana Kugler, who has served as Fed governor for just under two years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/files/other20250801a1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eannounced she's stepping down next week\u003c/a\u003e, six months before her term was set to expire. ","The Fed said Kugler, a labor economist, was resigning to return to Georgetown University as professor this fall.","\u003cem\u003eNPR's Hansi Lo Wang contributed reporting.\u003c/em\u003e","\u003cfigure class=\"article-fig size-large\"\u003e\n \u003cimg class=\"size-large article-image\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/6000x4000+0+0/resize/1000?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F71%2F4d%2F1b29150a4f4aa570ee182cfc995c%2Fgettyimages-2227723434-1.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\n \u003cfigcaption class=\"article-fig-caption\"\u003e\n Stocks slumped after President Trump unveiled a new round of global tariffs and after the U.S. created fewer jobs than expected in July. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)\n \u003c/figcaption\u003e\n \u003c/figure\u003e","Stock markets fell sharply on Friday, as \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5488807/jobs-employment-labor-trump-tariffs\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eU.S. unemployment rose\u003c/a\u003e and President Trump \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5482859/trump-tariff-rates-executive-order\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eunveiled steep tariffs\u003c/a\u003e on a wide range of countries.","Trump's latest tariffs, announced late Thursday, are \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5480695/corporate-america-weird-tariff-summer-earnings-investors\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ereigniting concerns\u003c/a\u003e about how these import taxes would impact the U.S. and the global economies. ","On Friday morning, a weaker-than-expected \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ejobs report\u003c/a\u003e amplified investors' fears about the consequences: Employers created only 73,000 jobs in July, fewer than the around 100,000 jobs economists had expected. The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2%.","The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S\u0026P 500 fell more than 1% each. Meanwhile, the tech-heavy Nasdaq dropped more than 2%.","\u003ch3\u003eA busy week of economic data\u003c/h3\u003e","The latest tariffs announcement and the weak jobs report come at the end of a busy economic news week. Investors have been parsing the Federal Reserve's decision to hold interest rates steady. They've also been watching the earnings reports of the largest U.S. companies, which have been \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5480695/corporate-america-weird-tariff-summer-earnings-investors\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eupdating investors\u003c/a\u003e on how tariffs are affecting their abilities to make money. ","The broad sell-off on Friday marks an abrupt reversal from \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5476238/trump-stocks-market-economy-tariffs-businesses\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWall Street's optimism\u003c/a\u003e this summer. Markets \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5352362/markets-selloff-dow-trump-tariffs\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ewent into a tailspin\u003c/a\u003e in April when Trump first unveiled his tariffs, before he started pausing and softening some of those tax rates. ","Since then, global investors have largely been shrugging off his updated plans. But on Friday, their worries came roaring back, amplified by the new evidence that these tariffs are affecting the jobs market.","The jobs weakness is likely to increase calls for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates when it next meets in September. The central bank \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5483961/federal-reserve-interest-rates-trump-pressure\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eheld rates steady\u003c/a\u003e earlier this week, out of concern that rising tariffs would put more upward pressure on prices.","\"The cracks in the labor market have widened substantially and add further pressure on the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates,\" Nationwide Chief Economist Kathy Bostjancic wrote on Friday morning.","\u003cfigure class=\"article-fig size-large\"\u003e\n \u003cimg class=\"size-large article-image\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/2606x1737+0+0/resize/1000?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fb0%2Ff0%2Fcb4dfe0648758d546f417c938812%2Fap25212526838427.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\n \u003cfigcaption class=\"article-fig-caption\"\u003e\n Virginia Giuffre, center, holds a news conference outside a Manhattan court in New York, Aug. 27, 2019. (Bebeto Matthews/AP)\n \u003c/figcaption\u003e\n \u003c/figure\u003e","The family of Virginia Giuffre, who was among Jeffrey Epstein's most well-known sex trafficking accusers, said that it was shocking to hear President Donald Trump say the disgraced financier \"stole\" Giuffre from him and urged that Epstein's former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, remain in prison.","Giuffre, who had accused Britain's Prince Andrew and other influential men of sexually exploiting her as a teenager trafficked by Epstein, has been a central figure in conspiracy theories tied to the case. She \u003ca href=\"/npr/g-s1-62856/virginia-giuffre-has-died\" target=\"_blank\"\u003edied by suicide this year\u003c/a\u003e.","Her family's statement is the latest development involving Epstein, who took his own life in a New York jail in 2019 while facing federal sex trafficking charges, and the Republican president, who was his one-time friend. Trump denied prior knowledge of Epstein's crimes and said he cut off their relationship years ago, but he still faces questions about the case.","Trump, responding to a reporter's question on Tuesday, said that he got upset with Epstein over his poaching of workers and that Epstein had stolen Giuffre from his Palm Beach, Florida, club.","\"It was shocking to hear President Trump invoke our sister and say that he was aware that Virginia had been 'stolen' from Mar-a-Lago,\" the family's statement said.","\"We and the public are asking for answers; survivors deserve this,\" it continued.","White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt noted the president was responding to a reporter's question and didn't bring up Giuffre himself.","\"The fact remains that President Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club for being a creep to his female employees,\" she said.","The family's statement comes shortly after the Justice Department interviewed Maxwell, who was convicted in 2021 on sex trafficking and other charges and is serving a 20-year sentence in Tallahassee, Florida. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche interviewed Maxwell in a Florida courthouse, though details about what she said haven't become public.","Maxwell's lawyers have said she testified truthfully and answered questions \"about 100 different people.\" They have said she's willing to answer more questions from Congress if she is granted immunity from future prosecution for her testimony and if lawmakers agree to satisfy other conditions.","A message seeking comment about the Giuffre family's statement was sent to Maxwell's attorney on Thursday.","In a CNN interview Thursday evening, Giuffre's family also spoke out.","\"She wasn't stolen, she was preyed upon at his property, at President Trump's property … stolen seems very impersonal. It feels very much like an object, and the survivors are not objects, women are not objects,\" said Sky Roberts, Giuffre's brother. \"She was preyed upon, and it certainly makes you kind of ask the question, you know, how much he knew during that time?\"","A Trump administration official said the president is not currently considering clemency action for Maxwell.","Giuffre said she was approached by Maxwell in 2000 and eventually was hired by her as a masseuse for Epstein. But the couple effectively made her a sexual servant, she said, pressuring her into gratifying not only Epstein but his friends and associates.","Giuffre said she was flown around the world for appointments with men including Prince Andrew while she was 17 and 18 years old.","The men, including Andrew, denied it and assailed Giuffre's credibility. She acknowledged changing some key details of her account.","The prince settled with Giuffre in 2022 for an undisclosed sum, agreeing to make a \"substantial donation\" to her survivors' organization.","The American-born Giuffre lived in Australia for years and became an advocate for sex trafficking survivors after emerging as a central figure in Epstein's prolonged downfall.","Her family's statement said she endured death threats and financial ruin over her cooperation with authorities against Epstein and Maxwell.\u003cbr\u003e","MIAMI — A Miami jury decided that Elon Musk's car company Tesla was partly responsible for \u003ca href=\"/npr/nx-s1-5462851/tesla-lawsuit-autopilot-florida\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ea deadly crash in Florida\u003c/a\u003e involving its Autopilot driver assist technology and must pay the victims more than $240 million in damages.","The federal jury held that Tesla bore significant responsibility because its technology failed and that not all the blame can be put on a reckless driver, even one who admitted he was distracted by his cellphone before hitting a young couple out gazing at the stars. The decision comes as Musk seeks to convince Americans his cars are safe enough to drive on their own as he plans to roll out a driverless taxi service in several cities in the coming months.","The decision ends a four-year long case remarkable not just in its outcome but that it even made it to trial. Many similar cases against Tesla have been dismissed and, when that didn't happen, settled by the company to avoid the spotlight of a trial.","\"This will open the floodgates,\" said Miguel Custodio, a car crash lawyer not involved in the Tesla case. \"It will embolden a lot of people to come to court.\"","The case also included startling charges by lawyers for the family of the deceased, 22-year-old, Naibel Benavides Leon, and for her injured boyfriend, Dillon Angulo. They claimed Tesla either hid or lost key evidence, including data and video recorded seconds before the accident. Tesla said it made a mistake after being shown the evidence and honestly hadn't thought it was there.","\"We finally learned what happened that night, that the car was actually defective,\" said Benavides' sister, Neima Benavides. \"Justice was achieved.\"","Tesla has previously faced criticism that it is slow to cough up crucial data by relatives of other victims in Tesla crashes, accusations that the car company has denied. In this case, the plaintiffs showed Tesla had the evidence all along, despite its repeated denials, by hiring a forensic data expert who dug it up.","\"Today's verdict is wrong,\" Tesla said in a statement, \"and only works to set back automotive safety and jeopardize Tesla's and the entire industry's efforts to develop and implement lifesaving technology,\" They said the plaintiffs concocted a story \"blaming the car when the driver – from day one – admitted and accepted responsibility.\"","In addition to a punitive award of $200 million, the jury said Tesla must also pay $43 million of a total $129 million in compensatory damages for the crash, bringing the total borne by the company to $243 million.","\"It's a big number that will send shock waves to others in the industry,\" said financial analyst Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities. \"It's not a good day for Tesla.\"","Tesla said it will appeal.","Even if that fails, the company says it will end up paying far less than what the jury decided because of a pre-trial agreement that limits punitive damages to three times Tesla's compensatory damages. Translation: $172 million, not $243 million. But the plaintiff says their deal was based on a multiple of all compensatory damages, not just Tesla's, and the figure the jury awarded is the one the company will have to pay.","It's not clear how much of a hit to Tesla's reputation for safety the verdict in the Miami case will make. Tesla has vastly improved its technology since the crash on a dark, rural road in Key Largo, Florida, in 2019.","But the issue of trust generally in the company came up several times in the case, including in closing arguments Thursday. The plaintiffs' lead lawyer, Brett Schreiber, said Tesla's decision to even use the term Autopilot showed it was willing to mislead people and take big risks with their lives because the system only helps drivers with lane changes, slowing a car and other tasks, falling far short of driving the car itself.","Schreiber said other automakers use terms like \"driver assist\" and \"copilot\" to make sure drivers don't rely too much on the technology.","\"Words matter,\" Schreiber said. \"And if someone is playing fast and lose with words, they're playing fast and lose with information and facts.\"","Schreiber acknowledged that the driver, George McGee, was negligent when he blew through flashing lights, a stop sign and a T-intersection at 62 miles an hour before slamming into a Chevrolet Tahoe that the couple had parked to get a look at the stars.","The Tahoe spun around so hard it was able to launch Benavides 75 feet through the air into nearby woods where her body was later found. It also left Angulo, who walked into the courtroom Friday with a limp and cushion to sit on, with broken bones and a traumatic brain injury.","But Schreiber said Tesla was at fault nonetheless. He said Tesla allowed drivers to act recklessly by not disengaging the Autopilot as soon as they begin to show signs of distraction and by allowing them to use the system on smaller roads that it was not designed for, like the one McGee was driving on.","\"I trusted the technology too much,\" said McGee at one point in his testimony. \"I believed that if the car saw something in front of it, it would provide a warning and apply the brakes.\"","The lead defense lawyer in the Miami case, Joel Smith, countered that Tesla warns drivers that they must keep their eyes on the road and hands on the wheel yet McGee chose not to do that while he looked for a dropped cellphone, adding to the danger by speeding. Noting that McGee had gone through the same intersection 30 or 40 times previously and hadn't crashed during any of those trips, Smith said that isolated the cause to one thing alone: \"The cause is that he dropped his cellphone.\"","The auto industry has been watching the case closely because a finding of Tesla liability despite a driver's admission of reckless behavior would pose significant legal risks for every company as they develop cars that increasingly drive themselves."],"nprTranscriptID":"","audio":[],"relatedLinks":[{"id":273671,"url":"/npr/nx-s1-5462851/tesla-lawsuit-autopilot-florida","prefix":"","title":"A lawsuit against Tesla and its driver-assistance technology goes to trial in Florida","index":1},{"id":273672,"url":"/npr/nx-s1-5234124/tesla-crash-reporting-fsd","prefix":"","title":"Safety advocates fear Tesla will face less accountability for car crashes under Trump","index":2},{"id":273673,"url":"/npr/1214966530/judge-says-evidence-shows-tesla-and-elon-musk-knew-about-flawed-autopilot-system","prefix":"","title":"Judge says evidence shows Tesla and Elon Musk knew about flawed autopilot system","index":3},{"id":273674,"url":"/npr/1219008292/tesla-recall-2-million-autopilot","prefix":"","title":"Tesla recalls over 2 million vehicles to fix defective Autopilot monitoring system","index":4}],"superTitle":null,"bylines":[{"name":null,"relativeURL":"","id":""},{"name":"The Associated Press","relativeURL":"https://npr.org/people/101453150/the-associated-press","id":"101453150"}],"channel":"NPR","fullChannel":null,"channelType":"","channelURL":"","id":"nx-s1-5490930","wordpressSlug":"","wordpressID":null,"guid":"","source":"NPR","headline":"A jury orders Tesla to pay more than $240 million in Autopilot crash","publishDate":"2025-08-02 09:29:07","updatedDate":"2025-08-01 18:13:36","relativeURL":"/npr/nx-s1-5490930/tesla-autopilot-crash-jury-240-million-florida","apiURL":"https://api.wbur.org/stories?id=nx-s1-5490930\u0026org=npr","externalURL":"","shortLink":"","miniExcerpt":"Jury orders Tesla to pay more than $240 million in Autopilot crash","excerpt":"A Miami jury decided Tesla was partly responsible for a deadly 2019 crash in Florida involving its Autopilot driver assist technology. The automaker said it will appeal.","nprID":"nx-s1-5490930","nprURL":"https://www.npr.org/2025/08/02/nx-s1-5490930/tesla-autopilot-crash-jury-240-million-florida","dateline":"","superTitleURL":"","postType":"","isBreaking":false,"isDeveloping":false,"relatedLinksLabel":"Related:","broadcastType":null,"broadcastDate":"","broadcastTime":"","itunesEpType":"","itunesEpNum":"","itunesSeason":"","itunesTitle":"","itunesSummary":"","itunesExplicit":false,"volume":3,"suppressAudio":false,"slug":"tesla-autopilot-crash-jury-240-million-florida","taxonomy":[{"title":"Business","link":"https://www.npr.org/sections/business/","id":1006,"type":"topic"},{"title":"National","link":"https://www.npr.org/sections/national/","id":1003,"type":"topic"},{"title":"Law","link":"https://www.npr.org/sections/law/","id":1070,"type":"topic"},{"title":"News","link":"https://www.npr.org/sections/news/","id":1001,"type":"topic"},{"title":"Home Page Top Stories","link":"https://www.npr.org/","id":1002,"type":"topic"}],"embedMeta":null,"index":8,"editorCreated":true,"isAd":false,"videos":[]}]},{"id":13587,"component_id":6,"created_at":"2021-03-05T03:37:20.000000Z","updated_at":"2025-08-02T20:45:06.000000Z","channel":"wbur","title":"More From WBUR","url":"","linkTitle":"","contentLimit":4,"index":5,"endsWith":"adBanner","allowDupes":false,"hideExcerpts":false,"icons":false,"locked":false,"display":[],"query":{"org":"wbur"},"meta":{},"dateDisplay":"publish","adType":"billboard","cards":[],"component":{"id":6,"created_at":"2016-06-08T08:58:08.000000Z","updated_at":"2016-06-08T08:58:08.000000Z","minimumItems":4,"maximumItems":4,"itemMultiplier":null,"isContentTarget":true,"title":"Features","type":"stories","supportsAd":true,"supportsRelLinks":false,"supportsSectionBar":true,"requiresImage":false,"fullContent":false},"contentItems":[{"comment_status":"closed","guid":"15c5efbb-32f2-4f7c-a63d-a0f552409d04","comment_count":0,"id":1031780,"channel":"WBUR News","fullChannel":null,"channelType":"section","channelID":3,"program":null,"channelURL":"/news","wordpressSlug":"immigration-hanscom-portsmouth-flights-airport","wordpressID":1031780,"source":"news","headline":"ICE stops sending detainees out of Mass. airport, starts flights out of N.H.","subhead":null,"newsSection":null,"publishDate":"2025-07-31 17:04:16","updatedDate":"","relativeURL":"/news/2025/07/31/immigration-hanscom-portsmouth-flights-airport","apiURL":"https://api.wbur.org/stories?date=2025-07-31\u0026slug=immigration-hanscom-portsmouth-flights-airport\u0026sources=news","externalURL":"","shortLink":"https://wbur.fm/4olWW0K","miniExcerpt":"","excerpt":"ICE recently shifted the flights from Hanscom Field in Bedford to an airport in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The Plymouth County Sheriff's office transported nearly 600 people held on immigrations violations to Hanscom from December to May, according to public records.","bylines":[{"comment_status":"closed","comment_count":0,"name":"Todd Wallack","nameLastFirst":"Wallack, Todd","slug":"todd-wallack","wordpressID":669430,"content":["Todd Wallack is a correspondent on WBUR's investigative team.","He was previously the deputy managing editor in WBUR's newsroom, starting in March 2021. As part of that role, he oversees a team of reporters who cover politics, criminal justice, and general news.","Previously, Wallack spent 14 years as a reporter at the Boston Globe, including eight as an investigative and data reporter on the Globe's Spotlight Team. Wallack has also worked at several other newspapers, including the San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Herald, and the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News.","While at the Globe, Wallack worked on five projects that were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, including ones exploring Boston's legacy of racism, the troubled Massachusetts mental health system, a deadly national outbreak meningitis traced to a Massachusetts pharmacy, and unsafe housing for Boston college students. He was also a member of the larger staff that covered the Boston Marathon bombings, which won the 2014 Pulitzer for breaking news. Wallack has also won national awards for his work on public records from the Scripps Howard Foundation and the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation and received other awards from the Education Writers Association and the Association of Health Care Journalists. He has also been a judge and a finalist for the Goldsmith Investigative Reporting Prize.","Wallack graduated from Hingham High School and studied journalism at Northwestern University. He was a Nieman-Berkman Klein fellow at Harvard University in 2019-2020.","He now lives with his wife in Somerville."],"apiURL":"https://api.wbur.org/people/todd-wallack","relativeURL":"/inside/staff/todd-wallack","organization":"wbur","embedMeta":null,"shortBio":"Todd Wallack is a correspondent on the investigative team. 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The agency said those figures would not include any additional detainees transported directly by ICE or its contractors.","Several members of the Hanscom Field Advisory Commission, which represents local communities around the airport, \u003ca href=\"https://lexobserver.org/2025/06/19/ice-has-flown-over-500-detainees-out-of-hanscom-airport/\"\u003eexpressed concern about the flights at a meeting last month\u003c/a\u003e, after the WBUR report. Protesters \u003ca href=\"https://lexobserver.org/2025/07/22/ice-flights-move-from-hanscom-to-portsmouth/?utm_medium=email\u0026utm_campaign=18a9efb8f0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_07_24_08_14\u0026utm_source=Lexington+Observer\u0026utm_term=0_-18a9efb8f0-660334392\"\u003ehave held small demonstrations \u003c/a\u003eagainst ICE and a company reportedly used to refuel aircraft there.","The Massachusetts Port Authority, which operates Hanscom, declined to comment on the move. Massport said it was not notified when the flights occurred\u003cstrong\u003e.\u003c/strong\u003e Hanscom is a general aviation airport that primarily serves private planes and charters, rather than regularly scheduled commercial airline service.","The Concord Bridge \u003ca href=\"https://concordbridge.org/index.php/2025/07/18/breaking-ice-no-longer-using-hanscom-field-spokesperson/\"\u003epreviously\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c/strong\u003ereported that ICE had stopped using Hanscom\u003c/a\u003e. And Wednesday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wmur.com/article/ice-flights-portsmouth-international-airport-73025/65556268\"\u003eWMUR in New Hampshire reported ICE\u003c/a\u003e has since ramped up flights at Portsmouth International Airport.","The shift would likely add about an hour of driving time for people transporting detainees from the Plymouth County jail or ICE's offices in Burlington. However, the Portsmouth airport is closer to where detainees are held in Berlin and Dover, New Hampshire.","Two members of the Hanscom Field Advisory Commission said Thursday they didn't know why ICE shifted the flights, but wondered if it was because of the publicity and protests.","\"They didn't consult us when they started coming in, and they're not consulting us now that they're going out,\" said Margaret Coppe, the commission chair. \"It may have been the publicity, it could have been a business arrangement.\"","Regardless, Coppe said she was glad to see the change. 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She reports on business, tech and culture as part of WBUR's Bostonomix team, which focuses on the innovation economy. Before joining WBUR, she worked at The Boston Globe as a breaking news writer for Boston.com. She also spent several years as a news/homepage producer for the website. Zeninjor was part of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning team for The Boston Globe's breaking news coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings.","She was also an adjunct lecturer at Boston University, where she taught a class on multimedia and online journalism. Zeninjor is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She serves as vice president of the Boston Association of Black Journalists."],"apiURL":"https://api.wbur.org/people/zeninjor-enwemeka","relativeURL":"/inside/staff/zeninjor-enwemeka","organization":"wbur","embedMeta":null,"shortBio":"Zeninjor Enwemeka is a senior business reporter who covers business, tech and culture as part of WBUR's Bostonomix team, which focuses on the innovation economy.","bluesky":null,"facebook":null,"title":"Senior Business Reporter","type":"newsroom","channels":["business","news"],"thumbnail":"https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Zeninjor-headshot-web.jpg","photo":null,"website":null,"email":"zeninjor@wbur.org"}],"nprID":null,"nprTranscriptID":null,"nprURL":null,"dateline":"","superTitle":null,"superTitleURL":null,"content":["Proposed federal cuts to research and development would cause the state to lose thousands of jobs and millions in revenue, according to a new \u003ca href=\"https://donahue.umass.edu/documents/Massachusetts_R_D_Funding_EI_-_073125.pdf\"\u003ereport\u003c/a\u003e released Thursday by the University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute.","Federal funding for research and development supports 81,300 jobs and more than $16 billion in total economic activity in Massachusetts, the report found. This funding goes to hospitals, colleges, pharmaceutical firms, research facilities and private and nonprofit organizations.","Every $1 of research funding generates nearly double the amount of economic activity, according to the report.","That funding creates jobs and generates revenue in several industries, said Rod Motamedi,  who led the research and is an assistant director at the UMass Donahue Institute.","\" It's not just [academia] and the research labs that are seeing benefits from this,\" Motamedi said. \"It's restaurants. It's construction. It's real estate. It's transportation. It's warehousing. It's all of those things that benefit.\"","All of that would be impacted by President Trump's proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/06/16/trump-nih-funding-cuts-judge\"\u003ecuts to the National Institutes of Health\u003c/a\u003e (NIH) and \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025/07/22/how-trump-cuts-are-causing-a-brain-drain-in-american-science\"\u003eNational Science Foundation\u003c/a\u003e (NSF). The state is one of the top three recipients in the country for funding from both of these agencies — and is typically the top recipient per capita.","Massachusetts also receives more than $2.3 billion in federal research and development funding from the Air Force, according to the report, an amount second only to the NIH. The Trump administration's proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/06/17/mit-lawsuit-indirect-costs-defense-department\"\u003ecuts to the U.S. Department of Defense\u003c/a\u003e would also impact organizations that receive this Air Force funding.","Here are more key findings from the report:","\u003cstrong\u003eOver 3,000 research and development jobs could be lost in Mass.\u003c/strong\u003e","One of every 10 research and development jobs in the country is in Massachusetts, according to the report. The report estimated the state would lose 3,300 of those jobs due to federal funding cuts.","Motamedi said such losses are critical because research and development has been foundational to key parts of the state's economy, like the life sciences. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e","\"The big life sciences companies of today that are driving so much the economic growth at one point were research ideas in a lab that almost undoubtedly were supported to some measure by federal [research and development] awards,\" Motamedi said.","\u003cstrong\u003eThe cuts would lead to job losses in other industries\u003c/strong\u003e","It's not just workers in lab coats that would be impacted by the proposed federal cuts.","Federal research and development funding also supports jobs in other industries that provide services for research organizations. That includes 34,600 jobs in construction, retail, dining, healthcare and administrative services.","\" A lot of the economic growth that we've seen in eastern Mass. over the past couple of decades and how that's impacted everyone's lives ... all of that has been built around a growing knowledge economy, and all of that has been built upon to some extent, federal [research and development] money.\"","\u003cstrong\u003eThe state would lose millions in tax revenue\u003c/strong\u003e","Massachusetts stands to lose $19.7 million in tax revenue due to the proposed federal cuts, the report found. This would impact services on the state and local level, Motamedi noted.","The state could try to replace some of the lost federal funding and increase support for the impacted industries, \"but at some level, the states don't have the same amount of resources\" as the federal government \"to backfill all of this,\" Motamedi said.","Still, those attempts are underway. Gov. 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That category began exploding by the last half of President Joe Biden's term and has continued to grow during Trump's second administration.","bylines":[{"comment_status":"closed","comment_count":0,"name":"Simón Rios","nameLastFirst":"Rios, Simón","slug":"simon-rios","wordpressID":917,"content":["Simón Rios is an award-winning reporter, covering immigration, politics and local enterprise stories for WBUR.","He joined the station in 2015 after two years at The Standard-Times in New Bedford. His first assignment at WBUR was to cover “Snowmaggedon,” the blizzards that led to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2015/03/13/blue-hill-observatory-snowfall-record\"\u003esnowiest winter\u003c/a\u003e in Boston’s history. 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She said what’s different under Trump is the scope of the deportation machine.","“The infrastructure for doing all of these things has been put into place and used over decades and across administrations,” Hastings said.","Former immigration judge Andrew Arthur agrees. He’s a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington D.C., a think tank that advocates for tighter enforcement.","”What you're seeing today might be different in scale, but it's not really different in kind,” he said, comparing Trump's to administrations from George H.W. Bush through Obama, under whom he did most of his service on the bench.","Arthur said any person who is removable from the United States is subject to detention. And he said the \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/illegal_immigration_reform_and_immigration_responsibility_act\"\u003e1996 immigration reform law\u003c/a\u003e mandates that anyone who entered the country illegally be detained.","That was “ passed on a bipartisan basis and signed by Bill Clinton,” Arthur said. “So this isn't like a Donald Trump fever dream — this is something that's actually been the law for almost three decades.”","\u003ch3\u003eUsing detention as deterrence\u003c/h3\u003e","\u003cspan data-index=\"5\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","The ICE data suggest the shift communities are witnessing is not just the magnitude of Trump’s deportation push, but the level of enforcement happening in cities and towns across the country.","“What we're seeing is a change in the nature of enforcement, from being primarily near the border, or at the border, to much more enforcement in the interior,” said Boston College immigration law professor Dan Kanstroom.","ICE’s data breaks down detainee numbers by arresting agency. During Biden’s last month in office, 62% of detainees were arrested by Customs and Border Protection, which focuses on recent arrivals at the border. In June, CBP arrests accounted for just 26% of all detainees, while ICE arrests around the country were responsible for the uptick in detainees.","Kanstroom said that explains why so many people being arrested have established families and lives in the U.S.","“The more it moves into communities, the more you start seeing arrests of people who have been here for longer periods of time,” he said.","ICE’s defenders say the agency is prioritizing serious criminals for enforcement. And they say agents are upholding the law by arresting anyone who’s undocumented.","”President Trump made clear, we're going to prioritize public safety threats and national security threats,” border czar Tom Homan said during a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJvFB9e0QD4\u0026ab_channel=RightSideBroadcastingNetwork\"\u003epress conference\u003c/a\u003e. “But you’re in the country illegally, you got a problem.”","Former ICE agent Eric Caron said immigration officials consider more than just U.S. convictions when determining who to detain.","“People who came to America illegally, convicted of a murder in Brazil and became a dishwasher — well, that dishwasher deserves to be arrested and sent back to Brazil,” said Caron, who retired in 2014.","\u003cspan data-index=\"6\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Holding non-criminals sends a message, he said: “This administration is taking immigration enforcement, border security, much more seriously.”","And according to the government’s data, the deterrence seems to be working. 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A lot of it is about self-reflection and self-discovery, and our own personal evolution,” said Henderson from her current home in the New York area. “For me, a lot of that is delving deeper into the blend of cultures that influenced me.”","The first sounds heard on “Sonidos” are the percussion of drummer Joe Dyson, who is soon joined by fellow all-stars vibraphonist Joel Ross, pianist Sullivan Fortner and bassist Dezron Douglas. Midway through the track, each musician is briefly featured with concise soloing that lets them speak their own musical voice without derailing the flow of the song.","“Joe Dyson really set the tone and pace for the musical journey,” Henderson said. “I would talk to him about what each piece is about and the cultural influence of each track. 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Mayoral candidate Robert Cappucci, a former police officer and businessman, did not attend.","In questions submitted before the forum, audience members were most concerned about funding for the arts and the threat of displacement faced by artists in an increasingly expensive city, issues that Mayor Wu addressed at length. Kraft, a philanthropist and the son of the billionaire Robert Kraft, emphasized partnerships with the private sector and the need for artists to feel “safe” expressing themselves. Community organizer Domingos DaRosa made a splash with impassioned speeches on behalf of Boston's most marginalized.","The candidates did not appear together, but instead took turns in conversation with Bowen for 30 minutes each. Wu took the stage first, and used her time to tout the achievements of her administration and her personal connection to the arts. When asked about a recent impactful Boston arts experience, Wu, a trained pianist, brought up \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2024/10/11/boston-mayor-michelle-wu-piano-boston-symphony-orchestra-pops\"\u003eher appearance last year at Symphony Hall\u003c/a\u003e.","“I’m still not quite over the part terror, part glee,” Wu said. “Being onstage with the Boston Pops for ‘Rhapsody in Blue,’ that is a highlight of my life, I think, forever.”","Kraft, on the other hand, struggled to respond to a question about his favorite local venues, finally landing on the underground nightclub The Channel, which, he acknowledged, shuttered decades ago.","DaRosa briefly floundered with the same question, but quickly pivoted to inequities in access to the arts.","“Boston has a way of killing cultures by killing people's music, killing people's food, and we have to change that,” DaRosa concluded, drawing applause.","\u003cspan data-index=\"1\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Wu, by contrast, promoted her achievements in the arts. 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That changes everything,” said DaRosa, who was born in Cape Verde and graduated from Madison Park Technical Vocational High School in Roxbury. “You put education back at the top of the list, our children now become successful. [They’re] not looking for low income housing. Why? Because they got a career.”","Both Kraft and Wu acknowledged a need to assist institutions impacted by federal cuts to the arts. Cultural institutions have lost federal grants after clawbacks of NEA and NEH funding, and they worry about the chilling effects of Trump's anti-DEI campaign. Kraft expressed an interest in looking to the private sector to help fill funding gaps, while Wu offered a defiant response.","“ We have gone to court now multiple times. 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She serves as vice president of the Boston Association of Black Journalists."],"apiURL":"https://api.wbur.org/people/zeninjor-enwemeka","relativeURL":"/inside/staff/zeninjor-enwemeka","organization":"wbur","embedMeta":null,"shortBio":"Zeninjor Enwemeka is a senior business reporter who covers business, tech and culture as part of WBUR's Bostonomix team, which focuses on the innovation economy.","bluesky":null,"facebook":null,"title":"Senior Business Reporter","type":"newsroom","channels":["business","news"],"thumbnail":"https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Zeninjor-headshot-web.jpg","photo":null,"website":null,"email":"zeninjor@wbur.org"}],"nprID":null,"nprTranscriptID":null,"nprURL":null,"dateline":"","superTitle":null,"superTitleURL":null,"content":["On a recent afternoon at Northeastern University's Innovation Campus in Burlington, 33 people gathered with their friends and families to celebrate their graduation from a training program aimed at fast-tracking their way into the life sciences industry.","The eight-week program in biomanufacturing and life sciences, called Pathmaker, granted the students what's known as a \"microcredential\" — a type of certification that conveys that the holder learned very specific skills that have been tested and verified by an outside evaluator.","The life sciences industry is \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/06/03/massachusetts-biotech-life-sciences-workforce-report\"\u003eprojected to need thousands more workers\u003c/a\u003e over the next decade. Microcredentials are the newest way some educators and business leaders are looking to fill in-demand jobs that require specialized skills.","It's a diverse group of participants gathered at the Northeastern event: Some have degrees. Some don't. Some come from other countries. And some grew up in the region — like Alisha Hines, 32, who was raised in Dorchester and now lives in Methuen.","\"What inspired me to come into this program is the ability to help find cures, help find treatment, and the ability to create a product,\" she said.","Hines previously worked in customer service and wanted to pivot into the life sciences industry. The training program gave Hines and her cohort hands-on training in a lab setting.","\"And to see these cells!\" Hines said enthusiastically. \"We worked with real cells and we were responsible for keeping them alive.\"","Through the Pathmaker program, Hines earned two microcredentials in lab safety and aseptic technique, which focuses on preventing contamination in sterilized environments.","The credentials come in the form of a \u003ca href=\"https://bcsi.bio/microcredentials/\"\u003edigital badge\u003c/a\u003e that look like an \u003ca href=\"https://badgr.com/public/assertions/ZHvqs3S1SFiCq2_BJ_2_6w\"\u003eicon or graphic\u003c/a\u003e that she can now put on her LinkedIn profile or resume.","Hines hopes this certification will help her land an entry-level job in the industry as a lab technician or manufacturing associate.","\"I definitely just want to get my foot in the door and excel,\" she said.","\u003cspan data-index=\"1\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Good, high-paying jobs are part of the draw of the industry. Salaries average in the six figures and entry-level jobs can start at $25 an hour, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.masslifesciences.com/yourpath/\"\u003eMassachusetts Life Sciences Center\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cdel\u003e\u003c/del\u003e","While hiring has \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/06/03/massachusetts-biotech-life-sciences-workforce-report\"\u003eslowed down\u003c/a\u003e recently due to the Trump administration's federal funding cuts, the industry is still expected to need more technicians and other positions in the coming years. Different training programs have popped up to help fill this need, and some believe microcredentials can help standardize those efforts — and revolutionize hiring.","\"A lot of the work in the life sciences, you don't need a degree to do,\" said Jared Auclair, the dean of Northeastern's College of Professional Studies.","Auclair, who also runs Northeastern's biopharmaceutical analysis training lab in Burlington, said he\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c/strong\u003eis \"a big fan of getting rid of the traditional resume\" and moving towards a skills-based resume.","He helped create the \u003ca href=\"https://chew.sites.northeastern.edu/2025/05/27/massachusetts-microcredential-consortium/\"\u003eMassachusetts Microcredential Coalition\u003c/a\u003e, which is made up of educators, employers and government leaders who are working to promote microcredentials as an alternative way for people to get jobs in the life sciences sector.","\"I can remember graduating from college and thinking to myself, 'Wow, I took a lot of interesting classes and I learned a lot of theory, but I don't know how to do anything,'\" Auclair said. He \"took a bunch of lab classes, like everybody does,\" but there was \"no validation or evaluation of my ability to do them.\"","\u003cspan data-index=\"2\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Microcredentials, on the other hand, signal to employers that skills have been verified. The Bioscience Core Skills Institute, based in Kansas City, sends evaluators across the country to test different lab skills — like using a microscope to identify specimens or transferring small amounts of liquid with a pipette.","\" We don't care how long it took you to learn it, and we don't care where you learned it,\" said Angela Consani, the institute's CEO and cofounder. \"What we want to provide is evidence that you know how to do it.\"","The evaluators are certified and run performance-based tests, Consani said. An individual performs a skill in front of an evaluator, who watches their movements and the operation carefully to assure they're doing it properly and hitting certain steps in the process.","Consani's institute has partnered with Northeastern and other local training programs to help implement microcredentials as a viable qualification for jobs in Massachusetts' life sciences sector. So far, the institute has evaluated more than 600 students in the greater Boston region alone, according to Consani.\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c/strong\u003e","But for microcredentials to catch on, employers have to adopt them into their hiring practices. So far, uptake has been slow.","\"There isn't enough momentum behind any kind of universal non-degree credential\" within the life sciences industry yet, said Mae Tobin-Hochstadt, who oversees the city of Boston’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.yearupunited.org/talent-networks/life-sciences\"\u003eLife Sciences Career Alliance\u003c/a\u003e. The alliance works with employers and training programs to increase access to employment in the life sciences.","Tobin-Hochstadt said one industry that has seen success in credentialing is health care, \"where there's a lot of regulation about what that looks like.\"\u003cdel\u003e\u003c/del\u003e","Some life sciences employers are becoming more open to microcredentials.","\"We are always looking for new ways of doing things, whether, honestly, that's like our science, our business model, our people,\" said Becky Zoccola, the executive director of talent acquisition and people experience at ElevateBio, a cell and gene therapy company in Waltham.","Zoccola, who helped create curriculum for the Pathmaker program, sees microcredentials as a way to recruit different talent. Still, she hasn't hired anyone with microcredentials yet. \"But that is hopefully, hopefully coming soon,\" she said.","While microcredentials could help bring more people into the life sciences sector, it won't solve all of the industry's workforce challenges.","\"What it's not going to address necessarily is the demand for highly trained talent that is also short in this industry,\" said Michelle Mischke, the vice president of education programs at the Massachusetts Biotechnology Education Foundation.","\"People with master's [degrees] and PhDs is also a gap that we need to fill,\" she added.","Among the graduates at Northeastern's Burlington campus, there is at least one success story on the job front.","Jonathan Kibirige moved to the U.S. from Uganda in March. He earned two microcredentials — for aseptic technique and pipetting — through the Pathmaker training program. 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The next year, his fellow British pianist — and future NPR host — \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/npr/161653933/marian-mcpartland-piano-jazz-host-has-died\"\u003eMarian McPartland\u003c/a\u003e was on the bill. More recent editions of the festival have included \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2018/02/12/584597992/londons-contemporary-jazz-scene-shines-on-we-out-here\"\u003econtemporary London jazz stars\u003c/a\u003e like Shabaka Hutchings, both on his own and with his erstwhile bands Sons of Kismet and The Comet is Coming.","But it’s hard to imagine there’s even been a year at Newport as stacked with U.K. talent as 2025, when the three-day festival includes eight British artists, spanning from improv-loving pop star Jacob Collier to Afrofunk pioneers Cymande. 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She oversees the newsletter and social media teams.","Her mouthful of a title really means thinking about the ways and places WBUR can bring its local journalism to more communities — and then how to better \u003cem\u003econnect\u003c/em\u003e while there. That could be through newsletters, on our website, on Instagram, YouTube, in person at WBUR CitySpace or even listening sessions at local libraries. All the places you're already talking to the people in your life and where you're looking for news to stay informed.","A great example of how this all comes together is \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/section/field-guide-to-boston\"\u003eField Guide to Boston,\u003c/a\u003e a \u003ca href=\"https://www.rtdna.org/2024-national-edward-r-murrow-award-winners\"\u003eNational Murrow award winning project\u003c/a\u003e co-led by Meagan. 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Whether it's \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/boston-moving-newcomer-field-guide-newsletter\"\u003etips for newcomers\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/11/03/bostonians-eastern-massachusetts-new-england-boston-accent\"\u003eunderstanding our accents\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/09/07/boston-massachusetts-how-to-make-new-friends\"\u003elearning how to make friends\u003c/a\u003e in a city that's notoriously cold or connecting over \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/11/29/boston-massachusetts-market-basket-supermarket\"\u003ewhy we all love Market Basket\u003c/a\u003e so much, we designed Field Guide based on insights and interviews with real people who live here, our neighbors.","Meagan's additions to WBUR's service journalism doesn't end there. She's also been the project leader behind WBUR's award-winning newsletters \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/section/environment/sign-up-environmental-newsletter\"\u003eCooked\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/inside/2021/05/06/wbur-wins-six-2021-regional-murrow-awards\"\u003eMass. Election Prep\u003c/a\u003e. She was a driving force behind many of WBUR's \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2021/04/27/massachusetts-final-reopening-plans-questions-answered\"\u003epandemic-era explainers\u003c/a\u003e and COVID-19 newsletter. Plus, she's pulled together some of our favorite audience callouts, from 2015 \"snowmeggedon\" memories to \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/08/05/wedding-stories-funny-boston-readers\"\u003efunny wedding stories\u003c/a\u003e.","When it comes to the community engagement part of the gig, Meagan works with editorial and digital leaders in the local newsroom on audience surveys and how to apply listener feedback to their work. She's establishing editorial and community partnerships with organizations aligned with WBUR's mission. \u003cem\u003e(If you want to learn more about the ways to work together, shoot Meagan an email or message on \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/meaganmcginnes\"\u003eLinkedIn\u003c/a\u003e.) \u003c/em\u003eShe's also the chair of WBUR's internal community engagement task force, established in 2024.","Meagan's ultimate goal is for WBUR to earn the trust of readers and listeners — especially those from \u003ca href=\"https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/news/2023/more-than-half-of-us-counties-have-no-access-or-very-limited-access-to-local-news.html\"\u003eunderserved communities that have been historically hurt or ignored by media\u003c/a\u003e — and to become a daily source of knowledge and joy.","Meagan began working at WBUR in 2018 as the newsletter editor. 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The agency said those figures would not include any additional detainees transported directly by ICE or its contractors.","Several members of the Hanscom Field Advisory Commission, which represents local communities around the airport, \u003ca href=\"https://lexobserver.org/2025/06/19/ice-has-flown-over-500-detainees-out-of-hanscom-airport/\"\u003eexpressed concern about the flights at a meeting last month\u003c/a\u003e, after the WBUR report. Protesters \u003ca href=\"https://lexobserver.org/2025/07/22/ice-flights-move-from-hanscom-to-portsmouth/?utm_medium=email\u0026utm_campaign=18a9efb8f0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_07_24_08_14\u0026utm_source=Lexington+Observer\u0026utm_term=0_-18a9efb8f0-660334392\"\u003ehave held small demonstrations \u003c/a\u003eagainst ICE and a company reportedly used to refuel aircraft there.","The Massachusetts Port Authority, which operates Hanscom, declined to comment on the move. Massport said it was not notified when the flights occurred\u003cstrong\u003e.\u003c/strong\u003e Hanscom is a general aviation airport that primarily serves private planes and charters, rather than regularly scheduled commercial airline service.","The Concord Bridge \u003ca href=\"https://concordbridge.org/index.php/2025/07/18/breaking-ice-no-longer-using-hanscom-field-spokesperson/\"\u003epreviously\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c/strong\u003ereported that ICE had stopped using Hanscom\u003c/a\u003e. And Wednesday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wmur.com/article/ice-flights-portsmouth-international-airport-73025/65556268\"\u003eWMUR in New Hampshire reported ICE\u003c/a\u003e has since ramped up flights at Portsmouth International Airport.","The shift would likely add about an hour of driving time for people transporting detainees from the Plymouth County jail or ICE's offices in Burlington. However, the Portsmouth airport is closer to where detainees are held in Berlin and Dover, New Hampshire.","Two members of the Hanscom Field Advisory Commission said Thursday they didn't know why ICE shifted the flights, but wondered if it was because of the publicity and protests.","\"They didn't consult us when they started coming in, and they're not consulting us now that they're going out,\" said Margaret Coppe, the commission chair. \"It may have been the publicity, it could have been a business arrangement.\"","Regardless, Coppe said she was glad to see the change. 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","bylines":[{"comment_status":"closed","comment_count":0,"name":"Ally Jarmanning","nameLastFirst":"Jarmanning, Ally","slug":"ally-manning","wordpressID":107659,"content":["Ally is a senior reporter focused on criminal justice and police accountability. She champions data and public records in the WBUR newsroom, reporting her own stories and working with fellow reporters on projects and daily news. She started at WBUR writing for \u003cem\u003eMorning Edition\u003c/em\u003e and later worked for the digital team, deepening her work in \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2020/03/09/coronavirus-cases-massachusetts-map\"\u003edata-based journalism\u003c/a\u003e and audience engagement. 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Meanwhile, in a separate lawsuit, cities and towns lost their bid to force the company to pick up residents' garbage.","Republic Services, which provides trash service to 400,000 customers in Massachusetts, had filed suit against Teamsters Local 25, alleging the union has taken part in unlawful strike activity and prohibited the company from doing business by blocking trucks and harassing replacement workers.","Federal Judge Brian E. Murphy first denied Republic's request for an injunction and restraining order after a hearing July 21. He denied Republic's motion for reconsideration on Wednesday,","The company and the union have been at a standoff since July 1, when 450 local workers \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/07/01/trash-recycling-worker-strike-north-shore-massachusetts-republic\"\u003ewent on strike\u003c/a\u003e calling for better wages, benefits and stronger labor protections.","In court \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.286823/gov.uscourts.mad.286823.37.0.pdf\"\u003efilings\u003c/a\u003e, the union denied the accusations of harassment or vandalism. They acknowledged the first days of the strike were \"contentious\" but since then \"the tension between the parties has dissipated.\" They also disputed Republic's earlier claims that a union members may have stolen a truck.","Republic already dropped claims against one union official who they accused of spitting on a security guard and slashing tires. The union official entered into evidence a Market Basket receipt showing he was 40 minutes away grocery shopping at the time of the alleged incident.","Six cities and towns in Greater Boston, including Beverly, Canton, Danvers, Gloucester, Malden and Peabody, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/07/18/massachusetts-sanitation-worker-strike-lawsuits\"\u003efiled suit\u003c/a\u003e earlier this month demanding Republic Services fulfill its contracts, pick up the accumulating garbage and pay for the municipalities' costs.","An Essex Superior Court judge, Kathleen M. 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Social inequality scholar Joan Williams discusses her book \"Outclassed.\"","bylines":[{"comment_status":"closed","comment_count":0,"name":"Willis Ryder Arnold","nameLastFirst":"Ryder Arnold, Willis","slug":"willis-ryder-arnold","wordpressID":954165,"content":["Willis Ryder Arnold is a producer at \u003cem\u003eOn Point.\u003c/em\u003e","He previously reported and produced for St. Louis Public Radio and Maine Public, before moving to the Atlas Obscura Podcast. He’s covered everything from protests for racial justice and historic floods, to agriculture policy and marble emporiums.","When he’s not working, Willis can be found chasing his kids through the woods and trying to finish a handful of books."],"apiURL":"https://api.wbur.org/people/willis-ryder-arnold","relativeURL":"/inside/staff/willis-ryder-arnold","organization":"wbur","embedMeta":null,"shortBio":"Willis Ryder Arnold is a producer at On Point.","bluesky":null,"facebook":null,"title":"Producer, On Point","type":"newsroom","channels":["onpoint"],"thumbnail":"https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image0-600x600.jpeg","photo":null,"website":null,"email":null},{"comment_status":"closed","comment_count":0,"name":"Meghna Chakrabarti","nameLastFirst":"Chakrabarti, Meghna","slug":"meghna-chakrabarti","wordpressID":720,"content":["Meghna Chakrabarti is the award-winning host and editor of \u003cem\u003eOn Point\u003c/em\u003e. Based in Boston, she is on the air Monday through Friday.","\u003cem\u003eOn Point\u003c/em\u003e has been frequently recognized for excellence in journalism under Meghna's leadership.","In 2023, \u003cem\u003eOn Point's\u003c/em\u003e series \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2022/05/27/smarter-health-how-ai-is-transforming-health-care\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2022/05/27/smarter-health-how-ai-is-transforming-health-care\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\"\u003e\"Smarter Health\u003c/a\u003e won a first-place award from the Association of Health Care Journalists. 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She's the former host of Modern Love: The Podcast, a collaboration of WBUR and The New York Times (2016-2020) and was the primary fill-in host for Here \u0026amp; Now, NPR and WBUR's midday show. She reported on New England transportation and energy issues for WBUR’s news department.","Chakrabarti has won awards for individual reporting from both the Associated Press and the Radio Television News Directors Association for her writing, hard news reporting, and use of sound. The Asian American Journalists Association awarded Chakrabarti and her team the national excellence in radio/audio award for Radio Boston's special series on \u003ca class=\"c-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2015/12/14/just-cause-ordinance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2015/12/14/just-cause-ordinance\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\"\u003ethe eviction crisis in East Boston\u003c/a\u003e.","A former fellow at the Metcalf Institute for Environmental Reporting, Chakrabarti holds bachelor’s degrees in civil and environmental engineering from Oregon State University (summa cum laude), as well as a master’s degree in environmental science and risk management from Harvard University, and an MBA with honors from Boston University. She is the mother of two bright sparks, and the lucky spouse of a wise and patient man."],"apiURL":"https://api.wbur.org/people/meghna-chakrabarti","relativeURL":"/inside/staff/meghna-chakrabarti","organization":"wbur","embedMeta":null,"shortBio":"Meghna Chakrabarti is the host of On Point.","bluesky":null,"facebook":null,"title":"Host, On Point","type":"newsroom","channels":["onpoint"],"thumbnail":"https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/linderpix-WBUR-OnPoint-6815-web-600x600.jpg","photo":null,"website":null,"email":"meghnac@bu.edu"}],"nprID":null,"nprTranscriptID":null,"nprURL":null,"dateline":"","superTitle":null,"superTitleURL":null,"content":["\u003cem\u003eAre you in a class bubble? We all are. To find out where you fit, take the \u003ca href=\"https://classbubblequiz.com/\"\u003eNew Class Bubble Quiz\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/em\u003e","A majority of registered voters think the Democrats are out of touch with Americans' everyday concerns according to recent polling.","Social inequality scholar Joan Williams discusses her book \"Outclassed.\"","\u003ch3\u003eGuest\u003c/h3\u003e","\u003cstrong\u003eJoan C. Williams,\u003c/strong\u003e distinguished professor of law (Emerita) and founding director of the Equality Action Center at UC Law San Francisco. Author of \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Outclassed-Left-Lost-Working-Class/dp/1250368960/onpoint\"\u003eOutclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class – And How to Win Them Back\u003c/a\u003e.\"","\u003ch3\u003eBook Excerpt\u003c/h3\u003e","\u003cspan data-index=\"1\" data-type=\"scribd\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","\u003cem\u003eExcerpt from \"Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class – And How to Win Them Back\" by Joan C. Williams. Not to be reprinted without permission of the publisher. All rights reserved.\u003c/em\u003e","\u003ch3\u003eTranscript\u003c/h3\u003e","\u003cstrong\u003ePart I\u003c/strong\u003e","MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI: We shouldn't put too much weight on any one political poll in this country. Each one is just a snapshot of the mood of American voters at one specific moment in time. And for this reason, I tend to prefer tracking polls.","That said, one very recent poll is sending very strong, even if confusing signals about where American voters are right now. The Wall Street Journal conducted this poll between July 16th to July 20th, so just a couple of weeks ago. And Aaron Zitner, Wall Street Journal political reporter and editor describes the top line findings in a journal video.","So first of all, what do voters think about the Republicans giant budget bill they just passed?","\u003cem\u003eAARON ZITNER: That big Republican tax bill, more people disapprove of it than support it. They think overall that it's going to help the wealthy, help large corporations and raise the deficit while hurting the poor.\u003c/em\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: So the Wall Street Journal poll found that 52% of voters oppose the bill while only 42% favorite it.","That's a 10 point gap. Okay, here's another one.","\u003cem\u003eZITNER: Look at immigration. People like the idea of deporting people who are here illegally. That gets strong support, but they don't like how Trump is going about it. They think that Trump's crossed a line by being too aggressive in deporting people without giving them legal protections, and by sending them to countries like Sudan or El Salvador where they have no personal ties.\u003c/em\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: So disapproval on Republican policies, it's like this on almost every issue. The Wall Street Journal polled on the cost of living. 88% of voters, 88% said the cost of living is either creating financial strain on their families now, or they expect things to get too expensive for them in the near future. 46% say they expect the economy to get worse. While only 38% say it's getting better.","And when it comes to voters' views of President Trump, specifically, 51% of those polled said Trump is bringing chaos and dysfunction that will hurt the country. 48% said he's helping the country.","In fact, more people disapprove than approve of Trump's handling of the economy. Inflation. Health care. Vaccines. Foreign policy, sometimes by double digits. On tariffs, one of Trump's signature policies, 57% of voters disapprove of Trump's tariffs while only 40% approve. That is a huge gap, and usually this kind of across-the-board negativity would be caused for alarm in political party strategy sessions.","But for the Republican party, it's not because as The Journal's Aaron Zitner also found:","\u003cem\u003eZITNER: Donald Trump is underwater by 17 points on how he's been handling tariffs. And yet voters trust the Republican party on tariffs more than the Democratic party.\u003c/em\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: It's like this almost on every issue. Voters disapprove of the Republican president, but they trust the Republican Congress more than they trust the Democrats on tariffs.","They trust Republicans more by 7%, seven points, even though they disapprove of Donald Trump's tariffs by 17 points on the economy. They trust Republicans more than Democrats by 12 points. On inflation, 10 points. On foreign policy, eight points. Democrats win on one issue only and that is health care. So this is the important background to the headlines that Wall Street Journal poll made.","You may have already heard some of those headlines. Here's Zitner.","\u003cem\u003eZITNER: 63%. That may be the most important number in our new Wall Street Journal poll. And it's a number that should scare the Democratic Party. That's the share of voters who hold a negative view of the Democratic Party, and it's 30 points higher than the share who have a positive view.\u003c/em\u003e","\u003cem\u003eThis is the worst image rating that Wall Street Journal polling has found in all of our surveys dating to 1990. This is a party that's brand is very tarnished.\u003c/em\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: So why is that? Why do majorities of voters even as they do not approve of the policies that the Republican party champions still trust the Republican party more?","Way more than the Democratic Party. Last year, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders provided one answer.","\u003cem\u003eBERNIE SANDERS: If you're an average working person out there, do you really think that the Democratic Party is going to the mats taking on powerful, special interest and fighting for you? I think the overwhelming answer is no, and that is what has got to change.\u003c/em\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: Joan C. Williams agrees that the Democratic Party has lost the working class, and she's one of the nation's leading scholars on social inequality. She has written extensively about gender, race, and class, and her new book examines the very conundrum highlighted by that recent Wall Street Journal poll, and the book is called Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back. Joan C. Williams, welcome to On Point.","JOAN C. WILLIAMS: Delighted to be here. Thanks for the invitation.","I'm sure you at least saw the headlines about that Wall Street Journal poll that I went through in detail. Did any of it surprise you?","WILLIAMS: Indeed, I have.","CHAKRABARTI: Did any of it surprise you?","WILLIAMS: Unfortunately, not.","The Democrats face a really key moment of opportunity here. Trump's policies, as you point out, are very unpopular, but Democrats' brand is even more unpopular. And you're right, we don't trust one poll, but if you look at the last three elections, fewer than 2% of American counties have trended towards Democrats, almost exclusively wealthy.","\u003cspan data-index=\"2\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","But one half of American counties have triple trended towards Republicans, almost exclusively working class. What's happened is that we call them the working class, but really this is the middle 50% of voters, people who are neither rich nor poor. That's the group that's trending towards the far right, not only in the U.S. by the way, but also in Europe.","These are the core supporters of the far right.","CHAKRABARTI: So when we, before we get to your diagnosis as to why this is happening, I would actually love to start with your own experience in your family about how class has played out between you, your husband's family. Can you tell us a little bit about that?","WILLIAMS: I start the book talking about, actually, I went to Harvard Law School a time when my parents-in-law visited us. And they weirded me out in so many ways. First of all, they stayed with us, which my family never, my parents never would've done. And then we ate in, which my parents never would've done, and then they helped us with the dishes, which my parents never would've done.","And when I was washing the dishes, my mother-in-law came up to me and said, where do you keep the butter? And I was like, what does she think I'm a Martian? I said, immediately, I just shot out under the bed. And she walked into the bedroom and put the butter under the bed. And then I realized, this was in Somerville.","I realized, I think she's really weird, but she thinks I'm really weird too. And that was really my introduction to what I call the class culture gap. Cultural givens, even something as simple as where you think you keep the butter is so different among, I grew up as a silver spoon girl, and is so different between elites and middle-class people, and this has really concrete effects politically.","And I'll just give one example. I've been married to my, we just celebrated actually my 47th wedding anniversary. So I've been married to my husband for a very long time, but at a certain point I was like, that's so frustrating. It's like, why doesn't he ever wanna change anything anywhere in any way?","So I asked him, I was like, what is it with you and change? And he said, I associate change with loss. And that really made an impression on me. It made me think of the fact that his father in Waterbury, Connecticut was so poor that the family just would move into one apartment, pay one month rent, and then wait to be evicted.","And then they moved into the next apartment and repeated that cycle. And since then, I've read lots of ethnographies of middle status people. And they tend to be more conservative than elites and non-elites, and they tend to be really obsessed with stability. Because it's fragile for them. My family took stability for granted.","But it's fragile for them culturally, and even more so, much more so now, because the wages of non-college voters, they haven't, they have not risen at all since 1989. During that period, the wages for college grads rose 83%. And so what in the United States is that whereas virtually every American used to earn more than their parents, for folks born in 1980, only 50% will. You see the fading of the American dream.","And so they associate change with loss because for them, change has been loss. It's been loss of that cherished stability.","CHAKRABARTI: It's interesting because this difference in education and income and class was brought home to you. I don't know when you went to law school Joan, but it wasn't just in the past 10 years I presume.","WILLIAMS: Graduated 1980. I'm a woman of ripe years, Meghna.","CHAKRABARTI: Okay. So now I wanted to ask that because this is interesting because there's been a lot of focus in recent years about how is it and why did the Democrats lose the trust of the working class?","But in your book, you explore that this is actually a much older phenomenon.","\u003cstrong\u003ePart II\u003c/strong\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: I wanted to follow up with one question about the anecdote about your mother-in-law and in your husband's family. More specifically, you talked about their precarious economic situation based on their class, but then you also talked about cultural differences. So are you saying here that class does drive a culture or a cultural approach to life?","WILLIAMS: Yes.","CHAKRABARTI: Yeah, go ahead.","WILLIAMS: Very much class is, of course, expressed through economics. That's not big news. But class is also expressed through cultural differences. In this missing middle, these middle status voters, the central ethic is self-discipline. Because that's what they need to survive in the best jobs available to them traditionally, which were blue collar jobs.","\u003cspan data-index=\"3\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","The kind of self-discipline that gets you up on time, without an attitude, every day to a job as an order taker, as a blue-collar guy or a pink-collar woman, or someone in the middle, in a routine white-collar job. And so they really highly value the traditional institutions that anchor self-discipline, religion, the military.","Traditional gender and family roles, and their traditionalism is really overdetermined Meghna, because you think about religion, the military, gender roles, traditional family roles, those are sources of social status. That don't depend on your class. Folks in the middle, they can't achieve class ideals, but they can achieve gender ideals.","They can, if you're the guy who sells toilets, you want to hang out in your hometown around other people who know that you're also the deacon in the church. You're not just the guy who sells toilets. Our social honor as elites is portable, theirs is not. So they're quite traditional and they're very rooted and all of that is super different than the way I was brought up.","And I was brought up partly in Venezuela. I and my crowd we're very proud of being members of a global elite. And you notice how we stress our highest status category. We're classy people, members of a global elite, but they stress also, people in the middle, they tend to stress one of their highest social categories too.","They're very, they're more patriotic than elites. They're more proud of being Americans. That's one of the only high status categories they belong to. And going back --","CHAKRABARTI: Joan ... I just want to interrupt you for just a second.","WILLIAMS: Sure, sure.","CHAKRABARTI: You keep saying 'we and they.' Keep saying 'we and they.' I'm not quite sure how you're categorizing me.","Because I grew up, my family did not have very much money growing up. We ended up, they championed education for sure. My parents are immigrants. And it was through the path of education that I guess now I must, I have to qualify myself as a member of the quote-unquote educated elite.","I accept that. But it's interesting that you're doing 'we and they,' like, isn't that part of the problem right now? That the Democrats have that even just in conversation, there's this categorization of us and them, which isn't, that's not a welcoming approach to American politics.","WILLIAMS: Yeah. Thank you for calling me out on that.","When I say we, I mean me and my crowd here. I'm a typical San Francisco progressive, as you pointed out, couldn't be more traditional. I've worked on race for 10 years and gender for probably 40. I'm a race, class, gender typical San Francisco progressive. And so one of the things to keep in mind though, is that progressive activists like me are only 8% of the population, and we are much richer, much more educated, and much whiter than the average American.","Two thirds of Americans don't have college degrees, and if Democrats can't attract more of them. We're in deep trouble as Democrats. I speak as a San Francisco progressive and a Democrat. That's my we, but thanks for calling me out. You're very, it's very true that the 'we, they' problem is a big problem.","CHAKRABARTI: Because this is one, one thing that, that you get at in your analysis, in that even just conceptualizing of groups. The Left has actually created significant walls, significant barriers, but to get, we'll talk about language in just a second, but to get back to what you were saying, it's very important and I think very interesting to understand that it's not necessarily big C conservative politics.","That this middle 50% of income earners, as you're talking about, map to, right? It's not Republican politics that their values mapped to necessarily, but the status and stability that's conferred through these very American institutions, as you were saying.","And do you think that therefore, a misstep from Democrats is perhaps not placing equal value and appreciation on those same institutions. You talked about just the value of being proud of being an American, of the path forward that the military offers people, things like that.","WILLIAMS: I think that we really need to drill down into what the middle status, the missing middle looks like politically. They tend to be economically progressive, but socially conservative, sometimes they're called the scaffolds. And the Democratic Party used to be just that way. In the New Deal Coalition, the center of the party was the stability of middle-class families and blue-collar jobs.","\u003cspan data-index=\"4\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","And New Deal Democrats were socially conservative because basically most everybody was socially conservative back then. They were racially quite conservative with respect to gender; environmental issues weren't on the agenda. And then my generation of hippies came around after 1970, we really changed the focus of the Democratic Party to the issues I've worked, done my entire life, Meghna, environmentalism.","I used to teach environmental law. Racial equality. I've done like eight studies on racial inequality, gender. I've worked for a long time on gender, so I care about all of these issues. But one of the things to keep in mind is that if your family can't achieve a stable middle class life.","For you, that's number one. And it's particularly number one in this generation because of the effects of globalization. There's something called the elephant curve where globalization was awesome in many ways. It lifted millions of people out of poverty, but those were chiefly in Asia, the people who have paid the price economically are middle status people in advanced industrialized democracies.","Exactly the people who are veering to the far right. Because what studies show is this particular package, economically progressive, socially more conservative. That really wasn't on offer in any mainstream parties either in Europe and America until the rise of the far right. And that is the representation gap that the far right has filled.","\u003cspan data-index=\"5\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","They are much more conservative, of course, than Democrats are and lots of cultural issues. You have the turning of the preference for traditional institutions, that's what the far right has sculpted into culture wars and keeps on using that same one trick pony again and again. And also Trump famously, now he hasn't done this. For sure. He promised to defend social security.","He promised to defend Medicare; he talks incessantly about blue collar jobs. Now the issue of whether he has delivered, mind you, is totally different. United States lost blue collar jobs during his first administration, stands probably to do the same in the second administration because of the impact of tariffs.","But these folks are at the center of Trump's imagination, and they know it","CHAKRABARTI: Well and this is what this Wall Street Journal poll, I think, highlights powerfully is that even as there is very significant disapproval, let's just talk about the budget bill most recently. And like by double digits, like sets of double digits.","The voters that The Journal talked to said we think that the budget bill is only going to help the wealthiest Americans. The gap was enormous in terms of people who disapproved of that, versus approved of that. Most of the people that responded, said we disapprove of the fact that it's going to help mostly the wealthiest Americans. And yet the very same Republican Congress that rammed this bill through, they trust that party more with issues of the economy and issues of their own economic wellbeing.","This is the inconsistency that Thomas Frank wrote about it many years ago, and I just wonder if you think, like how is this inconsistency so persistent, and does it remain persistent because liberals have to be playing into the Republican culture wars, playing into their hands in some way to make it so long lasting?","WILLIAMS: Yeah, I don't think it's inconsistent. The two top issues for Trump voters were inflation and the economy. The top issues for Harris voters were defensive democracy and abortion. And so they were talking, Trump voters voted, including there would have been a 14% veer towards Trump of young voters.","Young voters are getting fried by this economy too. They can only get gig work in their twenties and in their thirties, they can't afford childcare or often health insurance. And they certainly can't afford houses in Boston or San Francisco. So I don't think these voters have been, by which I mean the middle status voters, have been inconsistent, and I don't think they're voting against their own self-interest.","What they think is that neither Democrats nor Republicans have delivered for them economically for the past 40 years. And you know what? They're right. Republicans didn't. Democrats didn't.","CHAKRABARTI: That is the critical distinction. Yeah. Go ahead.","WILLIAMS: But and you go back to that, I remember that advertisement, Kamala cares about they, them. Trump cares about you. And there's been a bit of a gang up. Oh, LGBTQ issues. If we only abandon them, everything will be great. But you think about that, that definitely attracted transphobic folks for sure, but it also probably attracted a much larger group of people who were ticked off that Democrats weren't putting their economic issues at the center in a context of high inflation.","CHAKRABARTI: So can I just add to that because that ad keeps coming up over and over again and I agree with you. Because I think when progressive strategists try to take a look at that ad and understand why it's so effective. The first thing I've heard is that, oh it just triggered the transphobia of conservative Americans, and I think that's missing the point entirely.","I think one of the reasons why it was so effective is not only, as you mentioned, like it focuses voters' minds on Donald Trump and how he might have an impact on their own lives, but it also got to it wasn't necessarily about transphobia, but it was about this pocket of progressive thinking that said it's not just about trans issues.","What we want to do is we wanna live in a world where everybody tells you about what their pronouns are, right? Because we wanna smash the gender binary. And it caught and it put attention onto that, which the vast majority of Americans are like, I don't necessarily see a problem with saying there are men and women. It accomplished both those things at the same time, like a sort of a, \"Hey, Democrats aren't for common sense, Republicans are. Democrats aren't for you, but Donald Trump is. What do you think about that?\"","WILLIAMS: This gets us back to cultural issues and what's the move that Democrats can make on cultural issues?","Because Democrats are in a diff difficult situation. The top 20%, the professional managerial elite, they are quite different culturally from these missing middle voters. They're different culturally and so democrats are in a pickle, which, whose cultural values do they choose? The middle-class cultural values or the elite cultural values?","And I think in many ways this is of both a serious issue and a false choice. First of all, the idea of just following the working-class cultural values as people at the Liberal Patriot and who are very influential are arguing, that really isn't realistic. Because I, in my crowd of San Francisco progressives, we're not going to do that.","But I think it's a false choice, because I look back at the gay marriage success, which, in 40 years as a social justice warrior, I look around and what really was this smashing victory? That was the one, that was the only one. So what made it so successful? Going back, the gay liberation leaders, they were not interested in gay marriage.","They just thought marriage was done and dusted. They were interested in sexual liberation, wide varieties of sexuality, wide varieties of family forms. That's what they were interested in. So I went and talked to one of the leaders of the movement, who's my colleague, Matt Coles, who was headed up the ACLU's Equality Project, and he told me a story.","Of after he and other advocates had gotten domestic partnerships in California, the Alameda County clerk, court clerk invited him to a big party. The first day people were coming to get hitched, and she had set up little tables with heart balloons and a big procession down the grand staircase, and here I'm quoting him, he said, the people coming down the stairs, he said they weren't doctors and lawyers, they were ordinary, average people.","He said, \"I get it now. It's the prom and the wedding ceremony and everything rolled into one. They're finally able to say, 'Mom, yeah. I got married.'\" What you see there is Matt recognizing that he had to connect with the moral intuitions of ordinary people. And after we come back from the break, I'll tell you exactly how he did it.","\u003cstrong\u003ePart III\u003c/strong\u003e","WILLIAMS: So what advocates did is they stopped focusing explicitly on things like sexual liberation, and they focused instead on gay marriage to connect with the fact that ordinary middle-class people highly cherish traditional family roles as a source of social honor and stability. And we know what happened.","It was phenomenally successful. They not only got gay marriage, they changed the attitudes towards gay sexuality by approaching it, by consciously building a coalition that reached out to people where they were. Research shows that liberals are 2.4 times less likely to do that than conservatives do. But when we do that, we can really bring people along in a way that's respectful.","And I think that's actually the template both for justice social justice movements because it's very effective. And it's certainly the template for Democrats in politics. It's not a matter of abandoning LGBTQ people, it's a matter of finding on that issue on climate change, on abortion rights. The way to, the tactics we use should connect with ordinary people's values.","\u003cspan data-index=\"6\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: So can I just jump in on that? Because here's where I think, here's where I think that the progressive left, as you identify it, really did lose the plot a little bit, because I'm thinking back to what you said earlier, that one of the core values of this middle 50%, as you said, is self-discipline, right?","Out of necessity sometimes, but also out as a mark of pride. Self-discipline. That really resonates with me and it got me thinking about how, I know that DEI is under attack right now, but part of that is because, like in schools and in corporations, there was this DEI industrial complex that oftentimes embraced things like but maybe you've seen this, there's this list of supposed characteristics of white supremacy culture, right?","And it's by Tema Okun. And several of those are sense of urgency. There's a worship of the written word. Here's a big, individualism and this is a big one. The right to comfort. Okay. And so it's like these were supposed to be white supremacist characteristics, whereas most people would be like, actually being, having a sense of urgency about life, liking to read the written word, and using that phrase self-discipline, they should be just like core values of regular Americans.","WILLIAMS: A different program. I've been a DEI practitioner, Meghna, for 10 years. And I never use that kind of language.","And it's very possible to talk to people about providing a consistent experience for all employees in a way that does not alienate them. Unfortunately, that was not the universal experience with DEI. But more to the point, the Trump administration is obsessed with DEI, I personally lost a million-dollar DEI NSF grant.","This is not what these missing middle people care about. The things that the Trump administration is focusing on \u0026mdash; and more important, the things they aren't focusing on \u0026mdash; provides a huge opening for Democrats, if they can just understand how to use it. And it's really just three steps.","\u003cspan data-index=\"7\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","If I may, can we go there?","CHAKRABARTI: Yes, please. Go ahead.","WILLIAMS: The first is to put, and Mamdani just did this. Hard work should yield a stable middle class life. You shouldn't have to have three jobs with no health insurance. If you work hard, you should be able to have a stable life, buy a decent house, afford childcare. That's going to bring in the younger voters who voted for Trump, and a lot of the middle status voters who voted for Trump.","And that's really, putting that at the center is non-negotiable. Because that's the one and two issues for Trump voters, inflation and the economy. The second thing, which we really haven't talked about, is that Democrats often talk as if college educated voters are the only, are their only important audience.","We have a very specific talk style in the professional and managerial elite. We have been using it here, articulate, measured, data driven. I really, I describe myself as a data girl. But in the middle, there's a very different talk style that's valued. Authenticity, directness, no fancy talk.","I always point to Gretchen Whitmer's 'fix the damn roads.' That's how to talk to people, in the kind of people, the kind of ways that everyday people talk, tying politics to their everyday lives. And then the third is we have to stop being played using the same old culture wars moves. And you've been pointing out that part of this is the way progressive activists talk.","Latinx is only the most obvious example. But part of it also is approaching people respectfully and realizing that the cultural values of progressive activists, they are different from the culture, cultural values of these middle status, working class voters that Democrats have lost.","And if you want to build a coalition with people, you got to build a coalition. You got to figure out how to talk to them in ways that resonate with them.","CHAKRABARTI: Okay, so I'm going to, maybe I'm just going to continue digging myself into a hole of being the part of the educated elite. But I'm going to argue, I'm gonna argue --","WILLIAMS: Can I for one second?","CHAKRABARTI: Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead.","WILLIAMS: If you wanna know where you are culturally, I've invented a little quiz you can find out in less than five minutes. It's called the Class Bubble Quiz. I think it's gonna be linked to the show notes. It's [\u003cem\u003e\u003ca class=\"elr\" href=\"https://classbubblequiz.com/\"\u003eNew Class Bubble Quiz\u003c/a\u003e]\u003c/em\u003e and that will tell you whether you're elite, culturally, or non-elite.","CHAKRABARTI: Okay. ... I will take that. I'm actually fascinated. I'll take that after we finish up our conversation today, but I want to argue an opposite point actually. About talking more authentically or trying to, opening up the Democratic party to embrace these values as you talked about, but economically liberal, but socially conservative Americans at that middle 50%.","Because the other day I was thinking back to Martin Luther King, Jr's Letter from Birmingham Jail that he wrote in 1963. He'd been arrested, right? For yet again advocating for the rights of Black Americans. And in it he says this, he says:","\"For years now, I've heard the word wait. It rings in the ear of every Negro,\" as he wrote, \"with piercing familiarity.\"","And then he goes on and says:","\u003cblockquote\u003eI must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate, who constantly says, I agree with you in the goals you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action.\u003c/blockquote\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: And the reason why I bring that up is one of the things that justifiably may animate the progressive left is this sense today, this same sense of, why should we wait? Waiting is just acquiescing to the continuation of marginalizing Americans and denying them their rights.","WILLIAMS: I didn't hear myself saying, wait. There is a group that says yes, we should follow working class cultural values. That's the Liberal Patriot group. And I've said, that's not realistic. I'm not going to.","The often, what I'm saying is number one, put economics at put progressive economics at the center, that ain't waiting.","And number two, talk so people can hear you. That ain't waiting. But number three, on cultural values. I think two things. Number one, we have to seek tactics with respect to cultural values that are actually going to work. Because they're going to persuade people, rather than scolding people and talking down at people, which, as you were pointing out, it just doesn't, it doesn't work.","But you are putting your finger on something really important, which I think that again, I'm talking as a progressive activist here. I realize I am one of 8% of the population. And progressive activists are much more educated, much richer, and frankly much whiter than the average American.","So insisting that the Democratic Party or any other group conform 100% to my values as a progressive activist, that, doesn't that seem to me like an exercise of racial and class privilege? Now, when it comes to racism, there's really, there's been a lot of confusion about racism.","Am I talking about welcoming open racists into my tent? No, I'm really not. There's two different groups. Racism is one of the strongest predictors of Trump voters, not the strongest. But if you're a racist, believe me, typically you're voting for Trump. But that's not why he keeps winning.","He keeps winning because he's attracting a much larger group of voters whose racial attitudes don't differ much from those of non-Trump voters. There's really two groups of Trump voters. One is called the American Preservationists. This is about 20%, in 2016 they were being white and Christian is very central to their identity.","They have very cold feelings towards people of color. Super anti-immigrant. Democrats aren't going to get that group, and they probably don't want them, but there's another group of Trump voters that's as large. Both of these groups, by the way, are economically very progressive. These anti elites, the second group.","They have the same feelings about people of color as non-Trump voters. Two thirds thought climate change was a serious problem. They had the highest endorsement of gay marriage of any group, and they were the least loyal to Republicans. I'm not saying, wait, I'm saying win.","CHAKRABARTI: And this reminds me of a very interesting New York Times op-ed that I saw just a couple of days ago that had these little vignettes from Black voters who voted for Trump this past election.","WILLIAMS: I saw that.","CHAKRABARTI: Latino voter, you saw that, and Asian voters, some of them were actually in San Francisco where you live. And one of the Asian American voters was very fascinating to me. She said, I'm a shop owner. Like I'm trying to make ends meet by selling shops on the corner of my street.","And when the San Francisco police say they can't arrest people for shoplifting if it's less than $900, this is not a system that's working for me. And I think we can talk about the white working class, but the broader coalition of the 50% of Americans includes millions of non-white Americans who are feeling also similarly unmoored.","WILLIAMS: Yeah, you got it.","Since 2012, non-college people of color have veered away from Democrats by 32 points. And the Asian American shopkeeper who you quote, small business owners, that's the aspiration of many people in the middle. It's the aspiration to stop being an order taker and to start being an order giver, and you know who's really hurting those small businesses right now?","\u003cspan data-index=\"8\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Trump through tariffs. Their supply chains come from China and elsewhere. Who's hurting farmers, who overwhelmingly voted for Trump? Trump. They can't sell their soybeans to China now in the same way they could. Trump, that's what Democrats should be talking about. As I said, I lost an NSF grant.","We shouldn't be talking about NSF grants. People, the professional managerial lead, we care about NSF grants. People in the middle, they care about whether they can, their small business is going to go under and who's going to drive it under should be way out in the polls.","CHAKRABARTI: By the way, you mentioned the Liberal Patriot a few times.","That's a group run by Ruy Teixeira. Joan C. Williams, we've only got about two and a half minutes left here. And I'm just wondering, I wanted to just reemphasize something you said earlier. That it's not necessarily default culture wars that the Republicans have been winning. It's more importantly the view that the middle 50% of Americans do not believe that Republicans or Democrats have done anything to make their lives more secure.","And I think especially that's a fair assessment, especially given the triangulation of the Clinton years. So, again, like how then do Democrats, even if they change their language, which should be, I think, doable, if they are willing to take the heat from the progressive left, how then do they follow up by actually making meaningful change if they still can't win elections?","Given this trust gap that we talked about at the beginning of the show.","WILLIAMS: I think we could turn this around. We, being Democrats, you made me very rigorous about who we is. I think Democrats could turn this around very quickly if we got smart. The other thing I wanted to point out though, as again, going back to gay marriage, there's been so much money spent by Democrats on how we change messaging.","Oh, we just have to change messaging. The gay marriage movement didn't just change messaging. They did change messaging. They changed from equal rights, which appeals to liberals, to commitment, which appeals to these middle status people focused on stability, but the only reason they could change messaging, Meghna, is that they had changed priorities.","They had ceded the right to set the movement's priorities. The elites ceded it to the middle. Why? Because they wanted to do what was right for the movement as a whole. And so they didn't express the cultural priorities of the professional managerial elite. Which were sexual liberation, recognition of a broad range of relationships. But that didn't mean they were abandoning their issue. That meant they were changing language, but also ceding the ability to choose the tactics in order to get tactics that would win.","\u003cem\u003eThe first draft of this transcript was created by Descript, an AI transcription tool. An On Point producer then thoroughly reviewed, corrected, and reformatted the transcript before publication. 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Microcredentials are the newest way some educators and business leaders are looking to fill in-demand jobs that require specialized skills.","bylines":[{"comment_status":"closed","comment_count":0,"name":"Zeninjor Enwemeka","nameLastFirst":"Enwemeka, Zeninjor","slug":"zeninjor-enwemeka","wordpressID":913,"content":["Zeninjor Enwemeka is a senior business reporter at WBUR, Boston's NPR station, where she covers news both online and on air. She reports on business, tech and culture as part of WBUR's Bostonomix team, which focuses on the innovation economy. Before joining WBUR, she worked at The Boston Globe as a breaking news writer for Boston.com. She also spent several years as a news/homepage producer for the website. Zeninjor was part of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning team for The Boston Globe's breaking news coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings.","She was also an adjunct lecturer at Boston University, where she taught a class on multimedia and online journalism. 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Microcredentials are the newest way some educators and business leaders are looking to fill in-demand jobs that require specialized skills.","It's a diverse group of participants gathered at the Northeastern event: Some have degrees. Some don't. Some come from other countries. And some grew up in the region — like Alisha Hines, 32, who was raised in Dorchester and now lives in Methuen.","\"What inspired me to come into this program is the ability to help find cures, help find treatment, and the ability to create a product,\" she said.","Hines previously worked in customer service and wanted to pivot into the life sciences industry. The training program gave Hines and her cohort hands-on training in a lab setting.","\"And to see these cells!\" Hines said enthusiastically. \"We worked with real cells and we were responsible for keeping them alive.\"","Through the Pathmaker program, Hines earned two microcredentials in lab safety and aseptic technique, which focuses on preventing contamination in sterilized environments.","The credentials come in the form of a \u003ca href=\"https://bcsi.bio/microcredentials/\"\u003edigital badge\u003c/a\u003e that look like an \u003ca href=\"https://badgr.com/public/assertions/ZHvqs3S1SFiCq2_BJ_2_6w\"\u003eicon or graphic\u003c/a\u003e that she can now put on her LinkedIn profile or resume.","Hines hopes this certification will help her land an entry-level job in the industry as a lab technician or manufacturing associate.","\"I definitely just want to get my foot in the door and excel,\" she said.","\u003cspan data-index=\"1\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Good, high-paying jobs are part of the draw of the industry. Salaries average in the six figures and entry-level jobs can start at $25 an hour, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.masslifesciences.com/yourpath/\"\u003eMassachusetts Life Sciences Center\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cdel\u003e\u003c/del\u003e","While hiring has \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/06/03/massachusetts-biotech-life-sciences-workforce-report\"\u003eslowed down\u003c/a\u003e recently due to the Trump administration's federal funding cuts, the industry is still expected to need more technicians and other positions in the coming years. Different training programs have popped up to help fill this need, and some believe microcredentials can help standardize those efforts — and revolutionize hiring.","\"A lot of the work in the life sciences, you don't need a degree to do,\" said Jared Auclair, the dean of Northeastern's College of Professional Studies.","Auclair, who also runs Northeastern's biopharmaceutical analysis training lab in Burlington, said he\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c/strong\u003eis \"a big fan of getting rid of the traditional resume\" and moving towards a skills-based resume.","He helped create the \u003ca href=\"https://chew.sites.northeastern.edu/2025/05/27/massachusetts-microcredential-consortium/\"\u003eMassachusetts Microcredential Coalition\u003c/a\u003e, which is made up of educators, employers and government leaders who are working to promote microcredentials as an alternative way for people to get jobs in the life sciences sector.","\"I can remember graduating from college and thinking to myself, 'Wow, I took a lot of interesting classes and I learned a lot of theory, but I don't know how to do anything,'\" Auclair said. He \"took a bunch of lab classes, like everybody does,\" but there was \"no validation or evaluation of my ability to do them.\"","\u003cspan data-index=\"2\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Microcredentials, on the other hand, signal to employers that skills have been verified. The Bioscience Core Skills Institute, based in Kansas City, sends evaluators across the country to test different lab skills — like using a microscope to identify specimens or transferring small amounts of liquid with a pipette.","\" We don't care how long it took you to learn it, and we don't care where you learned it,\" said Angela Consani, the institute's CEO and cofounder. \"What we want to provide is evidence that you know how to do it.\"","The evaluators are certified and run performance-based tests, Consani said. An individual performs a skill in front of an evaluator, who watches their movements and the operation carefully to assure they're doing it properly and hitting certain steps in the process.","Consani's institute has partnered with Northeastern and other local training programs to help implement microcredentials as a viable qualification for jobs in Massachusetts' life sciences sector. So far, the institute has evaluated more than 600 students in the greater Boston region alone, according to Consani.\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c/strong\u003e","But for microcredentials to catch on, employers have to adopt them into their hiring practices. So far, uptake has been slow.","\"There isn't enough momentum behind any kind of universal non-degree credential\" within the life sciences industry yet, said Mae Tobin-Hochstadt, who oversees the city of Boston’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.yearupunited.org/talent-networks/life-sciences\"\u003eLife Sciences Career Alliance\u003c/a\u003e. The alliance works with employers and training programs to increase access to employment in the life sciences.","Tobin-Hochstadt said one industry that has seen success in credentialing is health care, \"where there's a lot of regulation about what that looks like.\"\u003cdel\u003e\u003c/del\u003e","Some life sciences employers are becoming more open to microcredentials.","\"We are always looking for new ways of doing things, whether, honestly, that's like our science, our business model, our people,\" said Becky Zoccola, the executive director of talent acquisition and people experience at ElevateBio, a cell and gene therapy company in Waltham.","Zoccola, who helped create curriculum for the Pathmaker program, sees microcredentials as a way to recruit different talent. Still, she hasn't hired anyone with microcredentials yet. \"But that is hopefully, hopefully coming soon,\" she said.","While microcredentials could help bring more people into the life sciences sector, it won't solve all of the industry's workforce challenges.","\"What it's not going to address necessarily is the demand for highly trained talent that is also short in this industry,\" said Michelle Mischke, the vice president of education programs at the Massachusetts Biotechnology Education Foundation.","\"People with master's [degrees] and PhDs is also a gap that we need to fill,\" she added.","Among the graduates at Northeastern's Burlington campus, there is at least one success story on the job front.","Jonathan Kibirige moved to the U.S. from Uganda in March. He earned two microcredentials — for aseptic technique and pipetting — through the Pathmaker training program. 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A growing number of studies find potential benefits of UV light therapy for conditions like multiple sclerosis, Type 1 diabetes and Crohn’s disease. ","bylines":[{"comment_status":"closed","comment_count":0,"name":"Claire Donnelly","nameLastFirst":"Donnelly, Claire","slug":"claire-donnelly","wordpressID":823202,"content":["Claire Donnelly is a producer at \u003cem\u003eOn Point.\u003c/em\u003e","Prior to joining\u003cem\u003e On Point\u003c/em\u003e, Claire was a reporter for various public radio newsrooms, including WFAE in Charlotte, North Carolina and KGOU in Norman, Oklahoma. She’s covered a broad range of subjects from the coronavirus pandemic to Texas horned lizards.","Claire holds a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School and studied Spanish and literature at the University of Virginia.","When not working, Claire is likely making a mess in the kitchen or hunched over a crossword puzzle."],"apiURL":"https://api.wbur.org/people/claire-donnelly","relativeURL":"/inside/staff/claire-donnelly","organization":"wbur","embedMeta":null,"shortBio":"Claire Donnelly is a producer at On Point.","bluesky":null,"facebook":null,"title":"Producer, On Point","type":"newsroom","channels":["onpoint"],"thumbnail":"https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/claire-donnelly-new-hs-600x600.jpg","photo":null,"website":null,"email":"clairee@bu.edu"},{"comment_status":"closed","comment_count":0,"name":"Meghna Chakrabarti","nameLastFirst":"Chakrabarti, Meghna","slug":"meghna-chakrabarti","wordpressID":720,"content":["Meghna Chakrabarti is the award-winning host and editor of \u003cem\u003eOn Point\u003c/em\u003e. Based in Boston, she is on the air Monday through Friday.","\u003cem\u003eOn Point\u003c/em\u003e has been frequently recognized for excellence in journalism under Meghna's leadership.","In 2023, \u003cem\u003eOn Point's\u003c/em\u003e series \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2022/05/27/smarter-health-how-ai-is-transforming-health-care\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2022/05/27/smarter-health-how-ai-is-transforming-health-care\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\"\u003e\"Smarter Health\u003c/a\u003e won a first-place award from the Association of Health Care Journalists. The Alliance for Women in Media honored the show with two national Gracie awards in 2023: Best National Radio Investigative Feature for \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2022/01/20/survivors-of-domestic-violence-on-living-with-traumatic-brain-injury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2022/01/20/survivors-of-domestic-violence-on-living-with-traumatic-brain-injury\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\"\u003e\"An 'invisible epidemic': Survivors of domestic violence on living with traumatic brain injury\"\u003c/a\u003e and Best National Public Affairs show for \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2022/04/08/congress-guns-behind-the-fight-to-close-the-boyfriend-loophole\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2022/04/08/congress-guns-behind-the-fight-to-close-the-boyfriend-loophole\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\"\u003e\"Behind the decades-long fight to close the 'boyfriend loophole.'\"\u003c/a\u003e","In 2022, \u003cem\u003eOn Point's\u003c/em\u003e episode \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2021/04/16/chauvin-trial-a-look-back-at-1992-la-and-the-beating-of-rodney-king\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2021/04/16/chauvin-trial-a-look-back-at-1992-la-and-the-beating-of-rodney-king\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\"\u003e\"A Look Back at 1992 Los Angeles and America Since Rodney King\"\u003c/a\u003e won the \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://allwomeninmedia.org/app/uploads/2022/05/2022-Gracies-Winners-List-FINAL-for-website.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://allwomeninmedia.org/app/uploads/2022/05/2022-Gracies-Winners-List-FINAL-for-website.pdf\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\"\u003eGracie Award for Best News Documentary\u003c/a\u003e. The Alliance for Women in Media also gave Meghna an \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://allwomeninmedia.org/app/uploads/2022/04/2022-Gracies-Honorable-Mention-List-FINAL-for-website.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://allwomeninmedia.org/app/uploads/2022/04/2022-Gracies-Honorable-Mention-List-FINAL-for-website.pdf\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\"\u003ehonorable mention\u003c/a\u003e for best nationally syndicated non-commercial correspondent/host. \u003cem\u003eOn Point's\u003c/em\u003e episode on Los Angeles since Rodney King also won a \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.rtdna.org/content/2022_rtdna_edward_r_murrow_awards_region_10_honorees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.rtdna.org/content/2022_rtdna_edward_r_murrow_awards_region_10_honorees\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\"\u003e2022 regional Edward R. Murrow award\u003c/a\u003e for best news documentary.","In 2021,\u003cem\u003e On Point\u003c/em\u003e won a \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.rtdna.org/content/2021_national_edward_r_murrow_award_winners#largeradio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.rtdna.org/content/2021_national_edward_r_murrow_award_winners#largeradio\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\"\u003eNational Edward R. Murrow award\u003c/a\u003e for best news documentary for \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2020/10/13/presidential-decision-making\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2020/10/13/presidential-decision-making\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\"\u003e\"What the President Knew.\"\u003c/a\u003e The show examined presidential decision-making before 9/11 and the COVID pandemic.","Chakrabarti is the former host of Radio Boston, WBUR’s acclaimed weekday local show. She's the former host of Modern Love: The Podcast, a collaboration of WBUR and The New York Times (2016-2020) and was the primary fill-in host for Here \u0026amp; Now, NPR and WBUR's midday show. She reported on New England transportation and energy issues for WBUR’s news department.","Chakrabarti has won awards for individual reporting from both the Associated Press and the Radio Television News Directors Association for her writing, hard news reporting, and use of sound. The Asian American Journalists Association awarded Chakrabarti and her team the national excellence in radio/audio award for Radio Boston's special series on \u003ca class=\"c-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2015/12/14/just-cause-ordinance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2015/12/14/just-cause-ordinance\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\"\u003ethe eviction crisis in East Boston\u003c/a\u003e.","A former fellow at the Metcalf Institute for Environmental Reporting, Chakrabarti holds bachelor’s degrees in civil and environmental engineering from Oregon State University (summa cum laude), as well as a master’s degree in environmental science and risk management from Harvard University, and an MBA with honors from Boston University. She is the mother of two bright sparks, and the lucky spouse of a wise and patient man."],"apiURL":"https://api.wbur.org/people/meghna-chakrabarti","relativeURL":"/inside/staff/meghna-chakrabarti","organization":"wbur","embedMeta":null,"shortBio":"Meghna Chakrabarti is the host of On Point.","bluesky":null,"facebook":null,"title":"Host, On Point","type":"newsroom","channels":["onpoint"],"thumbnail":"https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/linderpix-WBUR-OnPoint-6815-web-600x600.jpg","photo":null,"website":null,"email":"meghnac@bu.edu"}],"nprID":null,"nprTranscriptID":null,"nprURL":null,"dateline":"","superTitle":null,"superTitleURL":null,"content":["Could sunlight help treat disease? A growing number of studies find potential benefits of UV light therapy for conditions like multiple sclerosis, Type 1 diabetes and Crohn’s disease.","\u003ch3\u003eGuests\u003c/h3\u003e","\u003cstrong\u003ePrue Hart,\u003c/strong\u003e professor at the University of Western Australia located at the Kids Research Institute in Perth. Her research focuses on the effects of ultraviolet radiation and vitamin D on the immune system.","\u003cstrong\u003eDr. Richard Weller,\u003c/strong\u003e professor of Medical Dermatology at the University of Edinburgh","\u003ch3\u003eAlso Featured\u003c/h3\u003e","\u003cstrong\u003eDr. Veena Vanchinathan\u003c/strong\u003e, Board-certified dermatologist in the San Francisco Bay Area.","\u003ch3\u003eTranscript\u003c/h3\u003e","\u003cstrong\u003ePart I\u003c/strong\u003e","MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI: Imagine you're stepping outside on a bright and sunny day. What do you feel? Maybe the rays are warm and comforting on your skin. Maybe you tilt your head back, close your eyes, and see bright spots behind your eyelids. Maybe the sun is helping you feel happy and energized.","The sun's ray can have a profound effect on our bodies. According to a growing amount of research, sunlight kicks off an array of complex biological processes. It impacts our skin, of course, but it can also alter our nervous systems or our lymph and organs, it can slow down our immune response and lower blood pressure.","But could sunlight actually help treat disease? Studies have found potential benefits of light therapy for conditions like multiple sclerosis, Type 1 diabetes and Crohn's disease. And so that's what we're looking at today, harnessing the health secrets of the sun. And we're going to start today with Prue Hart.","She's a professor at the Western, excuse me, the University of Western Australia, located at the Kids Research Institute in Perth, and her research focuses on the effects of ultraviolet radiation and vitamin D on the immune system. And she joins us from Perth, Australia. Professor Hart, welcome to On Point.","PRUE HART: Thank you. Very happy to speak to you.","CHAKRABARTI: Before we dive into the actual science of what sunlight does to the skin, it occurs to me that since I'm speaking to you and you're in Australia, one of the most sort of sun-drenched places in the world. Is that what got you interested in studying the effects of ultraviolet violet radiation?","What's the story behind your the thrust of your research?","HART: Look I grew up in sunny country. Yes, we grew up thinking sun must be bad for you and bad for your skin. But I think we are all learning now that the harm benefits of the sun are really only at the skin level. The benefits of sun is really the whole-body effects.","\u003cspan data-index=\"1\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","And so I think we've got to consider harm versus benefit and just in the last few years that equation, the benefit is starting to outweigh the harm. Yes, you can get skin cancers, melanoma's the one you have to be worried about. And we can get, our skin ages, obviously, we get a few more wrinkles, but hopefully in this session we'll develop more about the benefits, which really are so important for our human health.","CHAKRABARTI: So what are some of the benefits that research is starting to show of the effect of sunlight on the human body below the skin level?","HART: I'm an immunologist, so I'm obviously interested in the autoimmune diseases or any diseases with an inflammatory component.","And we know, in fact, most human diseases have an inflammatory component. We know that sunlight, particularly the UVB rays of sunlight, can dampen inflammation, whole body inflammation. We know that it also can reduce stress. We know that sunlight has another, a prong by stimulating adaption in the skin.","\u003cspan data-index=\"2\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","So we learn to cope better with sunlight. Of course, as your introduction started off, we feel better too. So there's just many ways sunlight is helping us, but I talked about immunology and immunological diseases, autoimmune diseases. But I think Richard Weller is going to talk about cardiovascular diseases where sunlight can help.","We know of bone and musculoskeletal health, that was known many decades ago with the advent of discovering vitamin D, but also our neuro system, our endocrine system, our metabolic system, even our eye system, our oculus system. We know myopia is related to children being outside and having more sunlight exposure.","So really the whole-body benefits from sunlight exposure. So we've got to stop this exaggerated fear of skin cancers and think of some of the benefits and the positive aspects of sunlight.","\u003cspan data-index=\"3\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: So I want to, let's take some of these just one by one, but first of all, but before we do that, I've been generically saying sunlight.","Is that really what we're talking about, or are we talking about UV and specifically UVB?","HART: Sunlight's very complex. UV is the highest energy component of sunlight. It's the area where I've been studying. We know of the benefits from UV, but there are benefits of other aspects too. We know about blue light in our circadian setting, our circadian rhythm. We know about infrared light at the other end of the visible spectrum.","It can help in repair, it can help in heating the body. It's a whole package in a way. The sun, the benefits of sunlight. But we've evolved this way. We've evolved to get the benefits of sunlight. So not to take advantage of it, to stay inside, is not natural. We didn't evolve that way. We didn't lose pigment in our skin for a reason, not to harness the benefits of sunlight.","\u003cspan data-index=\"4\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","But UVB is the highest energy area of sunlight, and that's the one we harvest in our treatment of autoimmune diseases, try and dampen those hyperactive conditions.","CHAKRABARTI: Okay. This is really interesting because again, as you said, sunlight is complex. There's the visible spectrum portion of it, of course, infrared and UV.","So I'm going to come back to that in a second, but tell me a little bit more about what is happening as far as we know at the cellular level. Let's take autoimmune diseases. So with immune dampening at the cellular level, when we are exposed to sunlight, how does it actually dampen the immune response?","Yeah, go ahead.","HART: We know the skin is a very dynamic and complex organ. It covers our whole body. It's the first line of defense against environmental stresses such as UV. Now we know that the UV photons have a lot of energy. I said they're shorter wavelengths, they're high energy, and we've got cells and molecules in the skin that can absorb that energy and that energy then breaks molecules, changes molecules or chemicals in the skin, and then we get signals going from the skin down to the lymph nodes and into our blood and into our circulation.","And it's not only molecules, but cells themselves can migrate in and out of the skin. As I said, it's a very dynamic organ and we have not only, we have a lot of immune cells and that's probably the greater network that's at play.","In our dampening of things like multiple sclerosis, but we also have the endocrine system in the skin. We know a lot is happening. It'd be naive to think that there was only one system happening in the skin. It really is many processes interacting with each other and then sending signals around the body.","So the skin is really like causing body-wide communication. It's a very complex organ, but you can appreciate it's so important because it's our first line defense to stresses, environmental stresses.","CHAKRABARTI: So I definitely agree with you that there are multiple things happening in an organ as complex as the skin.","But the reason why I'm asking for more specificity about what UVB actually is doing to help produce this immune response or this dampening of immune response is because most people, when they think of ultraviolet and the body, maybe if we've heard anything about it beyond the potential for skin cancer, people have heard the skin cancer is caused because the UV damages the DNA inside your skin cells.","So what is happening that's actually positive inside some of the cells or whatever system you want to point to, that's actually changing it in a healthful way?","HART: But this is the whole point. We, our bodies, if we reacted to every sort of DNA break in our skin, we wouldn't survive.","\u003cspan data-index=\"5\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","We have inbuilt mechanisms; we have innate immunity, where the skin has adapted to be able to cope with the initiation of what might progress to a skin cancer. We know that we don't react against it. Because otherwise we'd be responding to everything that comes and hits the skin.","Remember bugs and viruses and scratches and all those insults of the skin, it's the same thing. We can't react to them all. We've got to dampen down our responses. So we can evolve to be in survival mode. So it's part of saying, look, the immune system, we don't want to respond. We don't want to be, have a crash and burn response.","We've really got to calm it down. And that's what we are harnessing then in treating autoimmunity. Because we know autoimmune diseases are when the body is reacting against self, and it's usually by your immune cells. Your immune cells are destroying the body. And in the case of multiple sclerosis, it's destroying the myelin sheath around nerves.","So we've got to calm down those immune cells and say, 'Hold on, stop it.' So right at the skin level, we start developing regulatory mechanisms rather than reactive mechanisms. So if we can modify, and that's, it's all initiated or started first in the skin. And then systemically we are calming down, where there's homeostasis needed.","\u003cstrong\u003ePart II\u003c/strong\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: Professor Hart, if I may, you're going to have to forgive me for asking a question repeatedly, but I really do want to know in more scientific detail what we do know so far, what might be happening at the level of cells when skin is exposed to sunlight. For example, I'm reading here in the Scientific Press that says some researchers are tracking the way molecules in the skin, such as urocanic acid or lumisterol affect immune system activity.","Are these areas that you're studying and what are these chemicals?","HART: Yes. Urocanic acid was first identified, oh, 40 years ago. As a molecule in the outer layers of the skin and when it absorbs UVB photons, it isomerizes from, transforms one molecular form or chemical form to another, and it's made more soluble by this transformation.","When it's more soluble, it can then go through the skin and to our circulation and is eventually measured in the urine. Now it is a well known immunosuppressant molecule. We believe it affects antigen presenting cells, but many immune cells. So it's a molecule that has quite potentially a therapeutic benefit if it was given. The other one, lumisterol is a product from vitamin D.","Now, I think all your listeners will know about vitamin D. It is one of the molecules in skin. It's precursor when it absorbs those UVB photons, that's 7-Dehydrocholesterol. When it absorbs the UVB photons, it converts to vitamin D and then goes to the kidneys and to the liver where it's converted into the fully active molecule of vitamin D.","Now we know vitamin D, that may be important. We do not believe it really is a very important molecule because trials of supplementation with vitamin D have suggested it is a small player relative to all the other molecules that may be made in the skin. And this is why it's a very exciting area of research.","The skin, as I said, is so dynamic. It's so active. It's got so many pathways stimulating each other, feeding on each other, to send signals to different parts of the body.","CHAKRABARTI: Yeah. Professor Hart, stand by for just a moment. That's Prue Hart. You're listening to her from Perth, Australia. Let's go to basically the other side of planet Earth to Edinburgh, Scotland, where Dr. Richard Weller joins us. He's a professor of medical dermatology at the University of Edinburgh. Dr. Weller, welcome to On Point.","RICHARD WELLER: Hi. Great to be here.","CHAKRABARTI: How sunny is it in Scotland today?","WELLER: Not. Look in Scottish terms. It's sunny. We've got a UV index of 4. I used to work in Australia actually, up in Queensland, so midwinter, in, so mid-June around the middle of the day in Queensland where I was working, the UV index is 7, it rises to 14 in summer last year. Here in Scotland, the UV index hit 7 for five minutes on the 24th of June, if you're interested. And yet ridiculously, we copy sunlight advice from Australia, completely irrelevant and more than irrelevant, actually harmful.","But we can discuss that.","CHAKRABARTI: Yeah. Both of you're very keen to push back on the sort of accepted dermatological advice of protecting yourself from the sun. And I promise you, I will let both of you have your say about that a little bit later in the show. But as you can tell, I hope you can tell I'm very keenly interested in trying to understand the mechanisms that are behind this suggestion that increased amounts of sunlight do amazing things for our overall health and not just for like our emotional wellbeing.","Dr. Weller, you're in Edinburgh, it's a pretty high latitude city on planet Earth. I've been seeing that there is actually some correlation between disease incidents and literally the latitude that you are at on the planet, vis-a-vis the amount of sun that you get. Is that true?","WELLER: Yes, it is. And look, the first thing, look, the first thing doctors should do when talking about, why are we concerned about cigarettes? Because cigarettes shorten life. It's about four minutes per cigarette. Why are we worried about high blood pressure? Because high blood pressure shortens life. Why are we worried about poverty? Poverty shortens life. What about sunlight? Actually, what the studies from up here in Northern Europe show, and this is studies from Sweden and it's studies from here in the UK, they show that the more sunlight people get, the longer they live.","Because this equation, the bad side of sunlight, skin cancer, the good side, reductions in heart disease, cancer. Which of those is more important? Actually, all-cause mortality, death from any cause, is the mathematical, it's the sum of those two things. And certainly, in Northern Europe, the more sunlight people get, the longer they live. So if you are telling people to avoid sunlight, you really need to be saying why.","\u003cspan data-index=\"6\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: Okay. And so the why, we'll come back to. But Professor Hart, I wanted to hear you on this as well. So that just to be clear, there is a body of evidence that shows that people who live further from the equator, so therefore their exposure to sunlight is much more variable depending on the season.","That people living further from the equator tend to have a higher prevalence of some diseases. Is that true, Professor Hart?","HART: Yes. Certainly, in the autoimmune diseases. In fact, any disease with an inflammatory component. I talk about Type 1 diabetes, Crohn's disease. Richard will talk about cardiovascular disease.","So really any disease with this inflammatory component that can be dampened by UV, there will be a latitude gradient. There'll be a seasonal effect. Yes.","CHAKRABARTI: Wow. And for this to actually have like scientific salience, it has to be on basically on a population level, right? We're not talking about individual cases, right?","We're talking about overall.","HART: It's population level because we know that the environment by your genetics can combine to determine disease. But environment is a large component, and that's where the latitude gradient comes in.","CHAKRABARTI: Okay. So Dr. Weller, Professor Hart earlier had talked, she's talked about repeatedly autoimmune disorders and the impact that sunlight might have on the immune system cardiovascular health.","Can you tell me more about that?","WELLER: Yeah, so look, cardiovascular health, a big effect of sunlight. So if you are male in Scotland, but I think it also applies to females, you are 30% more likely to drop dead in a week in January than a week in July. So look, it's August at the moment.","I'm pretty mellow, safe time of year, I start to get a bit antsy towards the end of the year. This seasonal variation in disease is such, it's so built into us as the norm. If you are a doctor, it is really busy in winter and there's a kind of unspoken rule that you don't take holidays in winter, because you're all really busy.","It's not a formal rule, it's just part of the culture. And we know that blood pressure very much varies by latitude. So the further people live away from the equator, the higher average blood pressure is. And with that, we have higher rates of stroke and heart attacks.","And then work that I've done with colleagues in Germany have also done and reproduced shows that sunlight releases this substance, nitric oxide from the skin. So when you are in the sun, NOs release from your skin. And what that does is it dilates blood vessels and lowers blood pressure, and that accounts for this huge seasonal and latitudinal variation in blood pressure. And with it, heart disease.","CHAKRABARTI: ... Yeah. Oh, because I was just going to ask you, because heart disease is also one of those highly complex diseases. Where you have to talk about diet and thing and things like that as well, but you're at least seeing this very strong correlation between nitrous oxide and blood pressure though.","So that's significant.","WELLER: Yeah, look, so we've done experiments. I did a TED Talk some years ago if people want to see it. And we've very clearly shown that shining UV at people releases NO from the skin and it dilates blood vessels. And then we've done big observational studies in America actually looking at dialysis patients because they get their blood pressure measured three times a week when they get dialysis.","And we show that these 2,000 centers around America with different amounts of UV and temperature. And again, very clearly, we show that the more UV people are exposed to, the lower blood pressure is, but really about half of this effect is due to temperature. But about a half is just due to UV. And another important thing in this is that Black Americans get less of a fall in their blood pressure for a given rise in UV than white Americans.","And of course, high blood pressure, strokes, heart attacks. Are particularly prevalent in Black Americans compared to white Americans. And skin color is all about handling sunlight. That's why pale skin developed as we moved away from Africa, where we all come from. And as people moved into low light environments, they develop pale skin just to soak up more of that sunlight that we need.","And one of the things that it affects is blood pressure.","CHAKRABARTI: Okay so tell me a little bit more about, is it melanin specifically that we're talking about here? Because that's the thing that provides the visual cue of skin color. But does that have, is that part of the UV system you're talking about?","WELLER: Yeah, we don't know. All we know is that, so we know looking at our African ancestors, that white skin within Africa, before humans left Africa, we know that pale skin colors were actively selected against. You can see this in the genetic patterns of skin pigmentation.","But having moved to low light environments really quite recently, in the last 5,000 to 8,000 years only, and we've been out of Africa for about 60,000 years, there was then this really very strong selective pressure over the last 8,000 years for pale skin in Northern Europe, and response to sunlight is determined by skin color. UV induced skin cancer is purely a disease of white skinned, North European heritage people. And, but at the same time, there is less of that healthy fall in blood pressure with darker skin types, less rise in vitamin D, which is a good biomarker for biological effects of sunlight.","Skin color gives us an indication that sunlight has to have benefits. Because repeatedly as people have moved to low light environments, pale skin has developed to try and make up for that lack of sunlight.","CHAKRABARTI: Interesting. Professor Hart, did you want to add to that?","HART: I'd like to just say I support everything there. I agree that we've evolved so that we can get the benefits of sun. The paler skin allows more of the photons to hit the important cells in the skin without the melanin barrier.","But I'd also just like to add that this observational study of, as people live higher from the equator at higher latitudes, as populations. There are other studies that send the same message. There's a lot of cohort studies that have been performed around the world, so cohort studies is where people study 50,000 people or that sort of number, and usually the healthier people are those with skin cancers.","So that is telling us, yes, the skin is reacting and developing some skin cancers, some usually non-melanoma skin cancers, but they're healthier. Their cardiovascular health is better, and that's also sending us a message, that's just from natural observations.","CHAKRABARTI: Yeah. Can I come back to something about vitamin D. Because I've failed to I think understand completely what both of what you were saying. And actually Dr. Weller, let me turn to you on this. People take a lot of vitamin D supplements, and as I think Professor Hart said earlier, that in and of itself may not actually be doing you any good. That it's vitamin D produced, what, out of the skin by exposure to sunlight. That's actually the beneficial one.","Can you give me your take on that?","WELLER: Yeah, no. Look sunlight hitting the skin makes vitamin D. So measured vitamin D in your blood tells you how much sunlight you've been exposed to. We know that people with high measured vitamin D in their blood are healthier in every way. You can say less heart disease, less cancer, less diabetes, less obese, live longer, et cetera, et cetera.","The problem is when you give, correlation is not causation, is the classic thing when you give people vitamin D supplements. And in America, you ran this huge study called the VITAL study run out of Boston. 25,000 Americans given, half of them given vitamin D for five years, half given a placebo.","They didn't know which it was, all the results reported in the New England Journal. And basically, it came out vitamin D does pretty much nothing. There was some reduction in some autoimmune diseases and that was it. Now that is a huge study and the results came back negative. So what this is telling us is it's not the vitamin D, it's something else.","Vitamin D is a marker for sunlight exposure. And the problem with the debate for the last hundred years is that it's been dominated by dermatologists saying, oh, sunlight will call skin cancer. Terrible. And any benefits can be reproduced by taking Vitamin D, and that's wrong. Vitamin D prevents rickets.","But very clearly, in a great editorial in the New England Journal about two years ago, 30% of Americans over the age of 60 take vitamin D supplements. And other than rickets and a few little fringe autoimmune disease, it doesn't do much. It's not the vitamin D, it's the sunlight.","\u003cstrong\u003ePart III\u003c/strong\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: Professor Hart, we had mentioned multiple sclerosis a couple of times here, and I just wanted to quickly ask you about some data that has been coming out over several years from Australia itself because huge country, lots of different latitudes. So variable sunlight exposure within Australia itself.","Excellent medical record keeping. And I'm seeing here that there have been several studies that show a correlation between the incidents of multiple sclerosis and the latitude at which various Australians live. It's a fairly strong correlation and that feels quite remarkable to me. Professor Hart?","HART: I think this is wonderful data. It shows quite clearly that in the southern parts of Australia, such as Hobart, there is five to sevenfold greater prevalence of multiple sclerosis than up in North Queensland, near the tropics. So I think this is really, it's happening naturally. It's showing us that it's a real thing.","That the UV exposure, sunlight exposure, can actually dampen the initiation, the progression, the development of multiple sclerosis, such that if you get exposure to less UV down in the southern parts of Australia, you have more disease. And we've taken this a step further.","CHAKRABARTI: Oh. I was just going to ask you about that because my first question that came up when I was reading about these sort of population wide studies in Australia, was correlation doesn't equal causation.","There may be other things going on at different latitudes in Australia, but you did follow up research in a much more controlled manner. Can you tell me about that?","HART: We've done a study giving narrowband UVB to patients with the earliest form of MS. Now this was important, because we know dermatologists give narrowband UVB to treat skin conditions, we were trying to give it to patients with such that it had internal benefits. And it was not difficult to get through ethics committees, because it's so safe to give narrowband UVB.","It's wavelengths of UVB that have had no effect on skin cancer induction at all.","So we did a study of 20 patients, 10 got the narrowband UVB. 10 did not.","CHAKRABARTI: With the light box.","HART: With a light box, three times a week for eight weeks. And we followed the patients for a year.","After 12 months, all of those who got the placebo light developed multiple sclerosis. Those who were given narrowband, only 70% developed multiple sclerosis within 12 months. So this was a huge effect. 30% reduction in the conversion from the very earliest forms of multiple sclerosis to full-blown disease, and this is what we need to work on further, we need to be able to show this clinically more definitively.","The wonderful thing is we then had a biobank of cells and blood from these participants. And we've been able to find a little bit of mechanism by which UVB might be working.","Particularly through the blood. And also, the participants loved the treatment. They loved it, they felt something was being done for them.","They can, now being shown that the light boxes can be given at home. So really, we think we are advancing in being able to use a component of sunlight to dampen autoimmune disease, like multiple sclerosis.","CHAKRABARTI: And to be clear, these light boxes are not like tanning beds, right? They're different.","HART: No. They're narrowband UVB. The dermatologists have been using them for decades, and as I said, they're now so safe. The health funds in the U.S., Kaiser Permanente is supporting them for use at home. Not in a clinic, but at home.","CHAKRABARTI: Yeah. Okay. Professor Hart and Dr. Weller. Hang on here for just a second, because by this point in the show, I know that many dermatologists, especially in the United States, are probably ready to scream at me because of their profound concerns about excessive sunlight exposure on the skin. So to that point, we did speak with Dr. Veena Vanchinathan. She's a board-certified dermatologist who practices in the San Francisco Bay Area, and she's a member of the American Academy of Dermatology.","\u003cem\u003eVEENA VANCHINATHAN: My opinion as a dermatologist is that minimizing sun exposure as much as possible is ideal. Bring your sunscreen with you as much as you can, bring your hat with you, and that will go a really long way at preventing you from developing skin cancer or those signs of premature skin aging.\u003c/em\u003e","\u003cspan data-index=\"7\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: Vanchinathan says that, yes, the sun feels good and it's impossible to avoid sunshine completely, but she in her opinion, those small amounts of exposure over time really do add up.","\u003cem\u003eVANCHINATHAN: So five minutes walking your dog or 10 minutes walking to your mailbox, driving without wearing sunscreen. Adding in a couple beach days. In general, for most Americans, harmful sun exposure isn't really coming from the 4th of July or that day at the beach.\u003c/em\u003e","\u003cem\u003eIt's really coming from the day-to-day cumulative effects of ignoring those five minutes.\u003c/em\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: Dr. Vanchinathan says exposure to UVA and UVB rays from the sun can cause fine lines, wrinkles, and brown spots on the skin. And of course, the big concern is it can also cause skin cancer.","\u003cem\u003eVANCHINATHAN: Data in the United States shows that approximately one in five Americans will actually develop skin cancer at some point in their lifetime.\u003c/em\u003e","\u003cem\u003eMost commonly, a type of skin cancer called non-melanoma skin cancer. Those encompass two large buckets called basal-cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma. Those are the two most common that we're going to see that can be quite directly linked to sun exposure and our sun protection habits.\u003c/em\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: And for melanoma, it is true that rates of melanoma have been rising rapidly over the past 30 years in the United States. According to the American Academy of Dermatology, the AD estimates, some 212,000 new cases of melanoma will be diagnosed in 2025 alone. Vanchinathan also says the sun is strongest between 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM so it's best to limit your exposure during those hours, according to her.","You can check to make sure the UV index is below three or four before heading outside, she says.","\u003cem\u003eVANCHINATHAN: It's hard to find such a clear-cut paradigm, if you will, for other cancers. Where do this, and this won't happen. And don't do that, and this cancer will develop. But we do see that with skin cancer, it's very clear that avoiding the sun and wearing sunscreen can go such a long way at preventing someone from having a really awful experience with something like melanoma or skin cancer.\u003c/em\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: That's Dr. Veena Vanchinathan. She's a board certified dermatologist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Okay, Dr. Weller, go ahead.","WELLER: Okay. Would love to. So basal-cell skin cancer is common of every other cancer put together. When you have a basal-cell skin cancer diagnosed your life expectancy goes up. I don't see that as a problem.","Melanoma rates have increased sixfold in the United States in the last four years. That's diagnoses deaths. Have not changed. Adewole Adamson, fantastic dermatologist in Austin, Texas. Look up his stuff, published in JAMA, in the New England Journal. So in America, your biggest risk factor. So looking at diagnoses of melanoma and how sunny it is where people live.","Great paper in JAMA Dermatology, pretty much no relationship. The biggest correlation between a diagnosis of melanoma is how rich you are. So the richer counties are, the more likely people are to be diagnosed with melanoma. The more biopsies are done, the more likely --","CHAKRABARTI: It's because they have better health care.","I'm just going to jump in here and say ... in the United States.","WELLER: That's the argument. So look, if all of that health care was really effective, you would expect a fall in deaths from melanoma. There has been no change up or down, no significant change up or down in deaths from melanoma in the last 40 years, despite the huge rise in incidents.","CHAKRABARTI: Dr. Weller, can I jump in here?","WELLER: Yes, come in with the counter argument.","CHAKRABARTI: Yeah. Not necessarily a counter argument, but just make this a little more complex. Death is not the only negative outcome from having, from melanoma, right? So just the change in the death rate is not a good enough reason to say the increased diagnoses have not been effective.","WELLER: Look, I think not being dead is the most important endpoint. I'm agnostic about what I don't die of, whether I don't die of being struck by lightning. Don't die of skin cancer, don't die of heart disease. I really don't care.","I just don't want to be dead, and I am interested in factors, exposures that reduce my risk of death. And certainly, here in Northern Europe, the more sunlight I get, very markedly, the lower my risks of dying. So we are about to publish a paper. We had one last year, another one out here, and in the UK Biobank, this huge, great, forward-looking study of half million people in Britain.","Which has got very good data on how much sunlight exposure people got, and also education, income, smoking, exercise, et cetera, et cetera. We find that if you reduce sun exposure, for a British cohort, enough to reduce one death from skin cancer, that associates with 50 extra deaths from other causes. Now look, that may not apply directly in America, because you're a lot further south than us.","But the risk benefit ratio is enormously in favor of sunlight exposure in Northern Europe. And I suspect to a lesser degree that will apply in America. And all dermatologists think about is the skin, and that's not good medicine.","CHAKRABARTI: Professor Hart, let me turn back to you because we've only got about three-ish minutes here remaining in the conversation.","And what I'm thinking about more often, that melanoma is an important issue. I'm not going to diminish that, but we're not talking about having to go outside for 12 straight hours a day and have the sun beat down on your skin. It sounds like from this conversation that even small increases or moderate increases in sun exposure can provide some significant health benefits.","And so since you're at the Kids Research Institute in Perth, it suddenly occurred to me, I don't know if this is happening in Australia, but in the United States, there's been a growing issue over many years that kids during the school year especially, barely go outside at all.","Because the amount of recess that they're having is, has been, reduced. Are we seeing impacts on children's health from reduced sun exposure?","HART: You are so correct in that. Yes. The clearest studies are with myopia and eyes for children, but yes, with Type 1 diabetes, that's a children's disease.","In fact, we know a lot of autoimmune diseases start in childhood, may even start in utero. And yes, sun exposure is so important there, and I think Richard brought it up, it's the risk to benefit ratio. And I think dermatologists, the American dermatologists, all they think about is risks. We've really got to move that pendulum a bit more to considering the benefit.","So a little bit more sun exposure. We say never get sunburnt. Because sunburnt is the initiating event for melanoma. We just say, never get sunburnt, but certainly get sun exposure. Because that is going to be homeostatic and so good for you for health.","\u003cspan data-index=\"8\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: This is really key. Get more sun exposure. Don't get burned.","Okay. I have a question for you though. Depending on, maybe this is highly variable depending on each individual, but how can we measure what that threshold is between a healthy amount of sunlight, and I might be outside long enough to get burned.","HART: I would say just never get sunburnt. Everyone, you have to consider your own intelligence when you're going to get sunburnt. And I think just make sure you get out a little bit every day and get a little bit more than you might have been getting up to, you'll feel better. Your energy levels will improve. Your whole-body health will improve. But never get sunburnt.","CHAKRABARTI: It's so funny. Maybe I'm just not that sun intelligent myself, but when I'm outside for a long time I do wear some sunscreen. But when I don't reapply it, sometimes I don't realize that I'm getting close to being burned until well after the fact. Maybe that's because I've got brown skin. Who knows.","\u003cem\u003eThe first draft of this transcript was created by Descript, an AI transcription tool. An On Point producer then thoroughly reviewed, corrected, and reformatted the transcript before publication. 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She loves to swim, help me cook, take walks and listen to bird songs, but the activity that seems to captivate her the most is picking raspberries from the rambling bushes that line the outside of our garden. “Berries! More berries!” This is a long, complete sentence for her and one that makes me smile every time. There are so many berries this year, and her little fingers seem to be able to find the ripest, most red-purple berries on the vine. One goes into her mouth and one into the bowl for making muffins, pancakes, cakes and sprinkling over our morning yogurt.","The blueberries are just beginning to morph from green to their stunning purple-blue and August means blackberries will be ripe any day now.","The berry pancakes are a great start to any day, but they are particularly good for a lazy summer weekend morning. The berry cake is so simple that my granddaughter helped me mix the batter and pour it into a springform pan, and it was ready in about an hour. “Cake! Yummy!” And one very humid night last week, I made a raspberry panna cotta, a cool, refreshing Italian dessert that shows off our raspberries beautifully.","Find a local farm that offers pick-your-own (PYO) berries and make some pancakes or cake, or freeze them for later in the season when you’ll wish your family was still visiting and it was still berry time.","\u003ch3\u003eButtermilk berry pancakes\u003c/h3\u003e","Summer weekends were made for these fluffy buttermilk and berry pancakes. Top them with Greek-style yogurt, more berries and maple syrup. 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Keep the pancakes warm in the oven.\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eServe hot with the toppings on the side.\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ol\u003e","\u003ch3\u003eMixed berry cake\u003c/h3\u003e","\u003cspan data-index=\"2\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","This is the simplest of cakes, a quick and easy batter mixed with an assortment of fresh summer berries — raspberries, blueberries, strawberries and blackberries. The entire cake takes about an hour to make. It can be served lightly dusted with confectioners' sugar and surrounded by more fresh berries or served with vanilla-scented whipped cream or vanilla ice cream. 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Let the cake cool to room temperature and then release the sides of the cake pan. If the cake sticks at all, run a flat kitchen knife around the edges to loosen the cake.\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003ePlace on a serving plate and sprinkle the top with confectioners’ sugar sifted through a small sieve. Scatter the remaining berries on top or along the sides.\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ol\u003e","\u003ch3\u003eRaspberry-lemon panna cotta\u003c/h3\u003e","\u003cem\u003ePanna cotta\u003c/em\u003e literally translates to “cooked cream.” It’s an ideal summer dessert, particularly when paired with a fresh berry puree. Ideally, panna cotta has time to sit in the refrigerator for at least two hours and up to two days. It couldn’t be simpler: cream is simmered and then mixed with very little sugar, lemon peel, vanilla extract and unflavored gelatin. Individual ramekins are lined with a quick raspberry puree, and the panna cotta mixture is placed on top. That’s it. Chill. 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Mayor Michelle Wu highlighted $26 million in funds for local arts and affordable workspace plans. Josh Kraft emphasized private partnerships, while Domingos DaRosa called for stronger neighborhood arts support.","bylines":[{"comment_status":"closed","comment_count":0,"name":"Amelia Mason","nameLastFirst":"Mason, Amelia","slug":"amelia-mason","wordpressID":810,"content":["Amelia Mason is a senior arts and culture reporter and critic for WBUR, where she covers everything from fine art to television to the inner workings of the Boston music scene.","Her work has been broadcast on NPR’s \u003cem\u003eHere \u0026amp; Now\u003c/em\u003e and published on NPR Music, where she is proud to have contributed to the canon-redefining “150 Greatest Albums Made By Women.” Once, she was a Listening Party panelist for \u003cem\u003eAll Songs Considered\u003c/em\u003e and another time she won a regional Edward R. Murrow Award in feature reporting. In her spare time she plays the fiddle."],"apiURL":"https://api.wbur.org/people/amelia-mason","relativeURL":"/inside/staff/amelia-mason","organization":"wbur","embedMeta":null,"shortBio":"Amelia Mason is a senior arts and culture reporter and critic for WBUR.","bluesky":null,"facebook":null,"title":"Senior Arts \u0026 Culture Reporter","type":"newsroom","channels":["arts-culture"],"thumbnail":"https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Amelia-Mason-600x600.jpg","photo":null,"website":null,"email":null}],"nprID":null,"nprTranscriptID":null,"nprURL":null,"dateline":"","superTitle":null,"superTitleURL":null,"content":["On Wednesday, Boston’s mayoral candidates made their pitch to the city’s arts and culture sector.","Mayor Michelle Wu, Josh Kraft and Domingos DaRosa attended a forum at Dorchester’s Strand Theatre moderated by Jared Bowen, host of GBH’s “The Culture Show.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/live/Y2Dv8XKBslA?si=EmJkIPKL16tjat9j\"\u003eThe event\u003c/a\u003e, which drew approximately 350 attendees, was organized by arts advocacy group MassCreative as part of its Create the Vote Boston 2025 campaign. Mayoral candidate Robert Cappucci, a former police officer and businessman, did not attend.","In questions submitted before the forum, audience members were most concerned about funding for the arts and the threat of displacement faced by artists in an increasingly expensive city, issues that Mayor Wu addressed at length. Kraft, a philanthropist and the son of the billionaire Robert Kraft, emphasized partnerships with the private sector and the need for artists to feel “safe” expressing themselves. Community organizer Domingos DaRosa made a splash with impassioned speeches on behalf of Boston's most marginalized.","The candidates did not appear together, but instead took turns in conversation with Bowen for 30 minutes each. Wu took the stage first, and used her time to tout the achievements of her administration and her personal connection to the arts. When asked about a recent impactful Boston arts experience, Wu, a trained pianist, brought up \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2024/10/11/boston-mayor-michelle-wu-piano-boston-symphony-orchestra-pops\"\u003eher appearance last year at Symphony Hall\u003c/a\u003e.","“I’m still not quite over the part terror, part glee,” Wu said. “Being onstage with the Boston Pops for ‘Rhapsody in Blue,’ that is a highlight of my life, I think, forever.”","Kraft, on the other hand, struggled to respond to a question about his favorite local venues, finally landing on the underground nightclub The Channel, which, he acknowledged, shuttered decades ago.","DaRosa briefly floundered with the same question, but quickly pivoted to inequities in access to the arts.","“Boston has a way of killing cultures by killing people's music, killing people's food, and we have to change that,” DaRosa concluded, drawing applause.","\u003cspan data-index=\"1\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Wu, by contrast, promoted her achievements in the arts. Several times, the mayor brought up her administration’s allocation of \u003ca href=\"https://www.boston.gov/departments/mayors-office/equitable-recovery-people-boston\"\u003e$26 million in ARPA funds to the city’s cultural sector\u003c/a\u003e, which included large grants to 11 local arts organizations serving youth, LGBTQ artists and communities of color. Wu also touted the Boston Family Days program, which provides school-aged children and their families free access to Boston cultural institutions. And she trumpeted the city’s efforts to preserve artist workspace in a challenging real estate environment, making specific mention of plans to transform a city-owned building in Allston-Brighton into music rehearsal space.","“ What I hear about with the most urgency, and often desperation, is the risk of displacement of artists and creatives,” Wu said. “That is a space issue. It's an affordability issue, and it's also a just resource issue overall. And we've been trying to plug the gaps in all of those areas.”","In response to the question of artist displacement, Kraft said, “ First and foremost, we need to create more housing.”","Kraft also pitched an idea for including commercial artist space in an opt-in rent control plan, eliciting approval from the audience.","The mayor, in turn, drew applause for her response to a question about how artists could be of service to her.","“ I am determined that Boston will continue to be a city that refuses to back down, not to kings, not to bullies, not to people who want to take us backward,” Wu said. “The arts are absolutely critical to providing the fuel and the momentum and the care that can keep us moving forward.”","\u003cspan data-index=\"2\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Wu faced her toughest question about the Chief of Arts and Culture position, which has been vacant since January. Boston’s previous arts and culture chief, Kara Elliott-Ortega, was popular among members of the arts sector and was instrumental in the city taking a more direct role in combatting artist displacement.","“We’re in a very active search process now,” Wu said.","DaRosa saw the position’s ongoing vacancy as an opportunity to draw a contrast with the mayor.","“How much planning do you need?” he scoffed, before pitching an idea for a chief of arts and culture for each of Boston’s 23 neighborhoods.","DaRosa offered few other policy ideas for the city’s creative sector. But he nevertheless managed to connect with the audience by turning the conversation to education, the bloated police overtime budget and the daily realities faced by people living in Boston's less wealthy neighborhoods.","“ My top priority is education. That's where we start. That changes everything,” said DaRosa, who was born in Cape Verde and graduated from Madison Park Technical Vocational High School in Roxbury. “You put education back at the top of the list, our children now become successful. [They’re] not looking for low income housing. Why? Because they got a career.”","Both Kraft and Wu acknowledged a need to assist institutions impacted by federal cuts to the arts. Cultural institutions have lost federal grants after clawbacks of NEA and NEH funding, and they worry about the chilling effects of Trump's anti-DEI campaign. Kraft expressed an interest in looking to the private sector to help fill funding gaps, while Wu offered a defiant response.","“ We have gone to court now multiple times. I think we're involved in six different lawsuits with the Trump administration,” the mayor said. “[We are]  being clear that when they award funding for a continuum of care to address housing insecurity, which affects everyone in our community, including the arts and culture sector, that those funds cannot be conditioned on being anti-DEI, anti-LGBTQ.”","DaRosa struck a more critical tone.","“ We cut our legs from under us when we told the federal government we're not playing ball,” he said, in an apparent reference to Wu’s commitment to maintaining Boston’s sanctuary city status. “As mayor, I would've kept my line of communication open. I would've negotiated with the federal government and I would've let Boston Police handle how we go about doing things humane.”","As people streamed out of the theater after the forum, mariachi musician Veronica Robles offered her impressions of the candidates. She hadn’t known much about DaRosa before, but found him likeable.","“He understands living in Boston,” Robles said, though she worried that he hadn’t had much exposure to the arts.","But her biggest praise was reserved for Mayor Wu. The Veronica Robles Cultural Center in East Boston was one of the recipients of an ARPA-funded grant.","“I got the cultural investment grant, and that helped me a lot,” Robles said. “So [Wu] really opened it up. 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He runs the day-to-day of all things email. He joined WBUR in 2022 from Boston.com, where he was a staff writer covering local news, politics, and transportation. Nik holds bachelor's degrees in journalism and politics from Ithaca College.","\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\"\u003eSign up for WBUR newsletters \u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\"\u003e\u003ca class=\"c-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https://www.wbur.org/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.wbur.org/inside/newsletters\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\"\u003ehere\u003c/a\u003e\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\"\u003e.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/em\u003e"],"apiURL":"https://api.wbur.org/people/nik-decosta-klipa","relativeURL":"/inside/staff/nik-decosta-klipa","organization":"wbur","embedMeta":null,"shortBio":"Nik DeCosta-Klipa is a senior editor for newsletters at WBUR. ","bluesky":null,"facebook":null,"title":"Senior Editor, Newsletters","type":"newsroom","channels":["news"],"thumbnail":"https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/nik-decosta-klipa-new-hs-600x600.jpg","photo":null,"website":null,"email":"ndk@bu.edu"}],"nprID":null,"nprTranscriptID":null,"nprURL":null,"dateline":"","superTitle":"Boston's Morning Newsletter","superTitleURL":"/tag/wbur-today-newsletter","content":["\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEditor's Note:\u003c/strong\u003e This is an excerpt from WBUR's daily morning newsletter, WBUR Today. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/wburtoday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003esign up here\u003c/a\u003e. \u003c/em\u003e","\u003chr /\u003e","After yesterday's \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/nwsboston/status/1950269862795788716\"\u003erecord-setting temperatures\u003c/a\u003e, we have another day of high heat. And \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/j_g_allen/status/1950504324427075993\"\u003ethose \"wet bulb\" temps\u003c/a\u003e will make you \u003cem\u003ewish \u003c/em\u003eyou could \u003ca href=\"https://www.mainepublic.org/politics/2025-07-29/maines-top-elections-official-tells-doj-to-jump-in-the-gulf-of-maine-over-voter-data-request\"\u003ejump in the Gulf of Maine\u003c/a\u003e.","So, let's cool off with some news about the coming winter:","\u003cstrong\u003eHeat pump owners, listen up!\u003c/strong\u003e Massachusetts is planning to offer cheaper electric rates for you this winter. The state's Department of Public Utilities \u003ca href=\"https://www.mass.gov/news/all-electric-utility-customers-will-soon-be-eligible-for-heat-pump-discount-rates\"\u003eannounced yesterday\u003c/a\u003e that customers of all three of the state's electric utilities will be eligible for discounted seasonal heat pump rates, starting this November. It's part of the state's effort to get more people switched to \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/npr/1166267716/6-things-to-know-about-heat-pumps-a-climate-solution-in-a-box\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ethe electricity-powered boxes\u003c/a\u003e to heat and cool their homes. (It also comes after \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/02/19/massachusetts-natural-gas-bills-eversource-national-grid-expensive-delivery-rate\"\u003ea particularly brutal winter for heating bills\u003c/a\u003e.) “The new rates effective this winter make our clean energy transition more affordable and accessible,\" DPU Commissioner Staci Rubin said in a statement yesterday.","\u003cul\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eWho's eligible? The discounted rates are available to heat pump owners on Eversource, National Grid or Unitil. Just make sure to tell your electric provider you want the discounted rate before the winter heating season starts on Nov. 1.\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eHow much will I save? The state estimates customers will save an average of $540 this winter. But the discounts differ for each utility. (The numbers for Eversource customers are still being finalized, so \u003cem\u003estay tuned\u003c/em\u003e for a more in-depth breakdown.)\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eThe big picture: Massachusetts' climate plan includes a goal of reaching 500,000 heat pumps by 2030. As of last September, the state \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.mass.gov/info-details/2024-massachusetts-climate-report-card-buildings-decarbonization\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.mass.gov/info-details/2024-massachusetts-climate-report-card-buildings-decarbonization\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\"\u003esaid over 90,000 heat pumps\u003c/a\u003e had been installed through Mass Save.\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eFYI: While heat pumps are very efficient and can save you money in the long-run, they come with an upfront price tag \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.masssave.com/residential/rebates-and-incentives/heating-and-cooling/heat-pumps/air-source-heat-pumps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.masssave.com/residential/rebates-and-incentives/heating-and-cooling/heat-pumps/air-source-heat-pumps\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\"\u003ein the thousands\u003c/a\u003e. There are \u003ca class=\"c-link\" style=\"text-align: -webkit-match-parent;\" href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/01/06/massachusetts-utilities-electrification-energy-efficiency-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/01/06/massachusetts-utilities-electrification-energy-efficiency-climate-change\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\"\u003estate rebates\u003c/a\u003e and federal tax credits to help ease those costs. However, you only have \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/npr/nx-s1-5462190/trump-tax-credit-solar-ev-heat-pump\"\u003euntil the end of the year to take advantage of the federal tax credits\u003c/a\u003e, which are ending as part of President Trump's tax and spending law.\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e","\u003cstrong\u003eMeanwhile: \u003c/strong\u003eEnvironmental advocates in Massachusetts are raising alarms about a new move from the Trump administration to unwind federal efforts to combat climate change. 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However, Kate Sinding Daly, a law and policy expert at the Boston-based Conservation Law Foundation, called the move \"a stake through the heart of decades of hard work\" to address climate change.\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eWhat's next: It's still a proposal, and environmental advocates vow to challenge it during the rule-making process and in court, if necessary.\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eGo deeper: \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/npr/nx-s1-5463771/epa-greenhouse-gas-regulations-cars-pollution\"\u003eNPR has more here\u003c/a\u003e on what repealing the endangerment finding would specifically mean for federal car efficiency and pollution standards.\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e","\u003cstrong\u003eA step closer to social consumption? \u003c/strong\u003eMassachusetts' Cannabis Control Commission voted yesterday to advance a draft of rules that would eventually allow people to consume marijuana at some businesses and events. 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She's also covered the environment as a reporter with CAI on Cape Cod.","Eve graduated from Boston University with a degree in journalism as a \"Blue Chip Graduate,\" the highest honor given by the College of Communication."],"apiURL":"https://api.wbur.org/people/eve-zuckoff","relativeURL":"/inside/staff/eve-zuckoff","organization":"wbur","embedMeta":null,"shortBio":"Eve Zuckoff is the city reporter for WBUR.","bluesky":null,"facebook":null,"title":"Reporter","type":"newsroom","channels":["news"],"thumbnail":"https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/1219_eve-zuckoff-600-600x600.jpg","photo":null,"website":null,"email":null}],"nprID":null,"nprTranscriptID":null,"nprURL":null,"dateline":"","superTitle":null,"superTitleURL":null,"content":["Boston mayoral candidate Josh Kraft earned $6.3 million in 2024, and nearly $6.5 million in 2023, according to a summary released by his campaign Friday.","The disclosure comes after days of pressure to release his tax returns by Boston Mayor Michelle Wu; Kraft recently said he has filed for an extension on his taxes and that he would release records before the September mayoral preliminary election. It's unclear if he will release the actual tax returns.","The new document was prepared by the audit firm Ernst \u0026amp; Young, which is handling Kraft’s taxes. Kraft is the son of billionaire Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots.","Kraft did not provide the sources of the $6.3 million. The campaign said he received a salary as president of the New England Patriots Foundation in 2023 and 2024. But that pay is not disclosed in the latest tax filing for the foundation. According to that filing, the Patriots Foundation was modest in size, with total assets of $5.4 million.","The campaign said Kraft “has no financial relationship with the Kraft Group other than through a blind trust of which he has no control over.”","The record shared Friday said he paid $2.1 million in federal taxes last year, plus $510,000 in state taxes. He made charitable contributions of $269,000.","In 2023, he paid $1.8 million in federal taxes and $358,000 in state taxes. He made $297,000 in charitable contributions.","In a statement, the campaign said Kraft was \"providing an accurate picture of his personal finances based on the past two years of tax filings, including total annual income and charitable donations, as well as state and federal income tax payments. In fact, the information being shared today is far beyond what is legally required of a candidate.\"","The statement added, \"Josh has been clear with the public that he was born into privilege, and that his family’s success has allowed him to pursue a career of community service and non-profit work, primarily in the neighborhoods of Boston.\"","Kraft stepped down from his role as head of the Boys \u0026amp; Girls Clubs in 2020, where he earned $333,000, and after that was working for the Kraft family's philanthropies.","Since announcing his mayoral run in \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/02/03/josh-kraft-launch-campaign-mayor-boston\"\u003eFebruary\u003c/a\u003e, he’s put $2 million of his own money into his campaign.","Wu, who released her tax returns in May, made just over \u003ca href=\"https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/30/metro/boston-mayors-race-money-michelle-wu-josh-kraft/\"\u003e$184,000 in gross income\u003c/a\u003e last year, nearly all from her city salary.","In a video \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMakZBzqUmI/?igsh=M3E4OGI3ejMxZG44\"\u003eposted\u003c/a\u003e to Instagram last week, Wu criticized Kraft for “keeping Boston voters in the dark” about his financial information. 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From the Fisherman's Feast to St. Anthony's, here's what stands out about each of the feasts.","bylines":[{"comment_status":"closed","comment_count":0,"name":"Hanna Ali","nameLastFirst":"Ali, Hanna","slug":"hanna-ali","wordpressID":833297,"content":["Hanna Ali is an associate producer for newsletters at WBUR, and is the host of WBUR's Weekender newsletter.","Before joining WBUR, Hanna worked as a digital editor at the PBS science documentary series NOVA, writing articles for \u003cem\u003eNOVA Next\u003c/em\u003e and managing the show’s newsletters and social profiles. She has a bachelor’s degree in public health and journalism from Simmons University.","Hanna is interested in all things healthcare and science. In her free time, she likes to knit and explore Boston’s nightlife."],"apiURL":"https://api.wbur.org/people/hanna-ali","relativeURL":"/inside/staff/hanna-ali","organization":"wbur","embedMeta":null,"shortBio":"Hanna Ali is an associate producer for newsletters at WBUR.","bluesky":null,"facebook":null,"title":"Associate Producer","type":"newsroom","channels":["news"],"thumbnail":"https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/WBURCropped-TheDangerBooth-280-600x600.jpg","photo":null,"website":null,"email":"hannaali@bu.edu"}],"nprID":null,"nprTranscriptID":null,"nprURL":null,"dateline":"","superTitle":"The Weekender: Boston's Saturday Morning Newsletter","superTitleURL":"/tag/the-weekender-bostons-saturday-morning-newsletter","content":["\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEditor's Note:\u003c/strong\u003e This is an excerpt from WBUR's Saturday morning newsletter, The Weekender. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/weekender\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003esign up here\u003c/a\u003e. \u003c/em\u003e","\u003chr /\u003e","Boston’s North End is steeped in Italian culture year-round. But in August, it's truly on display. Every year, locals and tourists flock to the area for feasts — a series of multi-day festivals (usually celebrating a Catholic saint) where everyone can experience some of the North End's unique traditions firsthand.","Though feast season \u003ca href=\"https://www.meetboston.com/blog/post/north-end-feasts/?gad_source=1\u0026gad_campaignid=22716117288\u0026gbraid=0AAAAA-I-dVnelFfXEw9jXiTbsT6VZOeN9\u0026gclid=Cj0KCQjwhafEBhCcARIsAEGZEKKBB7xvajXkTapLXY70M-K2qAQIEww5H_QSOeQhB2AI88hd8Iw6-9IaAui1EALw_wcB\"\u003etechnically\u003c/a\u003e begins in June, the celebrations are “a real injection to the city in the dog-day, late summer period,” said Dave O’Donnell, a spokesperson for the city’s tourism bureau, Meet Boston. O’Donnell says tourism to the city isn’t quite as robust in August, but hundreds of thousands of people pour into the North End annually for feast season. “They’re a regional driver of visitation,” he added.","So, what are people coming to see? Flying angels, statues of saints covered in dollar bills and a neighborhood-wide meatball competition, to name just a few of the attractions. You’re also guaranteed delicious Italian food, merriment and dazzling sights at every feast.","From now through early September, there will be a feast every week in the North End. (This weekend’s event is the \u003ca href=\"https://saintagrippinaboston.com/\"\u003eSt. Agrippina di Mineo Feast\u003c/a\u003e, which will run on Hanover Street in the North End until Sunday.) If you live in Boston, that means you’ve got some options to choose from. To help you decide, here are the feasts we think you’ll love whether you’re looking for a first-time experience, fantastic food, entertainment and more.","\u003cspan data-index=\"1\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","\u003ch3\u003eIf you just want a taste of what it’s like\u003c/h3\u003e","\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.madonnadellacava.com/\"\u003eMadonna Della Cava Feast\u003c/a\u003e | Aug. 8 - Aug. 10 \u003c/strong\u003e","The Society of the Madonna Della Cava holds its annual feast in the second week of August, at the same time as the one held in Pietraperzia, Sicily.","With its slightly smaller crowds, the Madonna Della Cava Feast is great for those looking for something on the quieter side or first-time attendees who may want to get a feel for the festivities before diving into the bigger feasts later this month. There will be a parade, live music from three local acts, and nearly 100 street vendors selling food, drinks, desserts and souvenirs like art and jewelry.","\u003ch3\u003eIf you’re hungry\u003c/h3\u003e","\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.fishermansfeast.com/schedule.html\"\u003eFisherman’s Feast of the Madonna Del Soccorso di Sciacca\u003c/a\u003e | Aug. 14 - Aug. 17\u003c/strong\u003e","Keep a $10 bill on hand when you go to the Fisherman’s Feast. That's the cost of admission to the feast’s annual meatball contest, where 10 local Italian restaurants will compete to see who makes the best meatball.","The contest, which is unique to the Fisherman’s Feast, was born out of a desire to showcase one of the best-known Italian foods, said Louis Strazzullo, feast co-chairman. This year’s competition will take place on Saturday, Aug. 16 between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@fishermansfeastboston/video/7269119175522618666\"\u003eVisitors can sample the meatballs\u003c/a\u003e and then vote for their favorite to win the people’s choice award. This goes without saying, but bring your appetite: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-x6N1DO_4o/?hl=en\"\u003eThese meatballs aren’t small.\u003c/a\u003e They’ve also got grilled kabobs, pizza, cannoli and more on deck.","Between meals, you can check out their cooking stage to learn culinary techniques from professional chefs or chill in the beer garden during the feast weekend. Just make sure to be there for the feast’s signature spectacle, the “Flight of the Angel,” at 9 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 17. After nightfall, two children dressed as angels will recite an Italian devotion prayer from the fire escape on North Street, just before another child — hoisted by a rope and pulley — soars down from a third-story window over the crowd on North Street as confetti flutters down. Strazzullo says he’s particularly excited about this year’s flight, because one of the side angels is his daughter, Lucy.","\u003cspan data-index=\"2\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","\u003ch3\u003eIf you’re seeking hustle and bustle\u003c/h3\u003e","\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.stanthonysfeast.com/index.html\"\u003eSt. Anthony's Feast \u003c/a\u003e | Aug. 28 - Aug. 31\u003c/strong\u003e","“The Feast of all Feasts” honors the patrons St. Anthony and St. Lucy over Labor Day weekend. Food is a major attraction — they’ve got pizza, softball-sized arancini, pasta and meatballs alongside sweet bites like chocolate ravioli and zeppole. There are also games of skill (the ‘hit the target, win a prize!’ kind) and live music to enjoy through the entire weekend.","St. Anthony’s attracts more than 250,000 people to the North End annually. “ Be prepared for large crowds,” said Mike Bosco, a member of the feast committee.","The event closes with a 10-hour long procession with eight men carrying a 600-pound statue of St. Anthony. People \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJ17nK6uPcS/\"\u003ecover the statue in money\u003c/a\u003e while a marching band plays. It’s an exciting, energetic tradition, and Bosco says everyone is welcome to join in the celebration. “During that weekend, we consider everybody Italian,” he said.","\u003cspan data-index=\"3\" data-type=\"keyfigures\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","\u003ch3\u003eIf you want a final sip of summer\u003c/h3\u003e","\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/24582926514645987?active_tab=about\"\u003eSan Gennaro Feast\u003c/a\u003e | Sept. 5 - Sept. 7\u003c/strong\u003e","This early September feast will close out the 2025 season with \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMQC3DVxYlg/\"\u003emusic, food, drinks, dancing\u003c/a\u003e and a procession featuring a shiny golden bust of San Gennaro, which was blessed by the late Pope Francis. The San Gennaro Feast falls on the weekend after Boston’s big Sept. 1 moving day. So tell your friends to put down the boxes, and rally up for a night of summer fun before true autumn vibes settle over the city.","P.S. — Learn more about the North End in \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/09/01/north-end-boston-massachusetts-locals-field-guide\"\u003eour neighborhood guide\u003c/a\u003e. 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Here's a helpful FAQ","subhead":null,"newsSection":null,"publishDate":"2025-08-01 06:26:07","updatedDate":"","relativeURL":"/news/2025/08/01/massachusetts-brokers-fee-rules-renters-questions","apiURL":"https://api.wbur.org/stories?date=2025-08-01\u0026slug=massachusetts-brokers-fee-rules-renters-questions\u0026sources=news","externalURL":"","shortLink":"https://wbur.fm/45dFP8x","miniExcerpt":"","excerpt":"Beginning Aug. 1, the law requires the fees can only be paid by the person who first engaged and hired the broker to list or find a rental property. Here's a breakdown on the new rules for those in the midst of apartment hunting, with the Sept. 1 moving day looming.","bylines":[{"comment_status":"closed","comment_count":0,"name":"Nik DeCosta-Klipa","nameLastFirst":"DeCosta-Klipa, Nik","slug":"nik-decosta-klipa","wordpressID":747297,"content":["Nik DeCosta-Klipa is a senior editor for newsletters at WBUR.","Nik wakes up early each morning to write WBUR's flagship newsletter, WBUR Today. He runs the day-to-day of all things email. He joined WBUR in 2022 from Boston.com, where he was a staff writer covering local news, politics, and transportation. Nik holds bachelor's degrees in journalism and politics from Ithaca College.","\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\"\u003eSign up for WBUR newsletters \u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\"\u003e\u003ca class=\"c-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https://www.wbur.org/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.wbur.org/inside/newsletters\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\"\u003ehere\u003c/a\u003e\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\"\u003e.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/em\u003e"],"apiURL":"https://api.wbur.org/people/nik-decosta-klipa","relativeURL":"/inside/staff/nik-decosta-klipa","organization":"wbur","embedMeta":null,"shortBio":"Nik DeCosta-Klipa is a senior editor for newsletters at WBUR. ","bluesky":null,"facebook":null,"title":"Senior Editor, Newsletters","type":"newsroom","channels":["news"],"thumbnail":"https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/nik-decosta-klipa-new-hs-600x600.jpg","photo":null,"website":null,"email":"ndk@bu.edu"}],"nprID":null,"nprTranscriptID":null,"nprURL":null,"dateline":"","superTitle":"Boston's Morning Newsletter","superTitleURL":"/tag/wbur-today-newsletter","content":["\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEditor's Note:\u003c/strong\u003e This is an excerpt from WBUR's daily morning newsletter, WBUR Today. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/wburtoday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003esign up here\u003c/a\u003e. \u003c/em\u003e","\u003chr /\u003e","It's Friday. Before we get to the news, a quick programming note: WBUR Today is taking a summer break next week. But don't worry; unlike the Massachusetts Legislature, we'll only be off for a week. See you back in your inboxes on Aug. 11.","Now, to the news:","\u003cstrong\u003eBroker's fees be gone: \u003c/strong\u003eMassachusetts' \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/07/02/brokers-fees-renters-landlord-change-massachusetts-healey\"\u003enew broker's fees rules\u003c/a\u003e are officially in effect. Beginning today, the law requires the fees can only be paid by the person who first engaged and hired the broker to list or find a rental property. It's not an all-out ban on broker's fees. But it does mean renters will no longer be forced pay four-figure fees to brokers who were originally hired by a landlord. This morning, Gov. Maura Healey's office \u003ca href=\"https://www.mass.gov/info-details/frequently-asked-questions-about-residential-rental-brokers-fees\"\u003eunveiled an FAQ page on the new rules\u003c/a\u003e for those in the midst of apartment hunting, with the Sept. 1 moving day coming up fast. Here are some highlights:","\u003cul\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eAre there exceptions? Yes. Renters could still have to pay the fee if they're the ones who directly sought out and hired a broker. (For example: someone new to Boston who reaches out to a broker to help them find an apartment fast.)\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eWhat if I reach out to a broker who is advertising an apartment? Listings on websites like Zillow often include a broker contact. And you'll increasingly see agents showing off apartments on Instagram and Tiktok. State officials recommend renters ask the broker to confirm whether they're working for the landlord. You shouldn't pay the fee unless the broker is working on your behalf.\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eWhat if I \u003cem\u003ejust \u003c/em\u003esigned a lease that includes a broker's fee? Sorry, you may still be on the hook. The rules don't apply retroactively. State officials say brokers can \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.mass.gov/doc/recent-brokertenant-fee-law-guidance-2025/download\"\u003elawfully collect a fee from a tenant\u003c/a\u003e\" for recent services if the lease was signed before Aug. 1, even if the broker was originally hired by the landlord.\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eCan my landlord pass on the broker's fee in other ways? Yes and no. Landlords may chose to raise the rent to recoup the costs of the fee over time. But what they can't do is just pass it on in the form of another upfront fee.\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eHow is it being enforced? Attorney General Andrea Campbell's office says anyone who's asked to pay a broker they didn't originally hire should \u003ca href=\"https://www.mass.gov/how-to/file-a-consumer-complaint?_gl=1*nm74lx*_ga*MTE5NTQ5NTYzOC4xNjkzMjM2ODc2*_ga_MCLPEGW7WM*czE3NTM3MzA4MjUkbzcwNSRnMCR0MTc1MzczMDgyNSRqNjAkbDAkaDA.\"\u003efile a complaint\u003c/a\u003e. Landlords could face fines for illegal fees, and brokers could lose their license\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eWhy now? Greater Boston had \u003ca href=\"https://www.realtor.com/advice/rent/boston-tenant-paid-broker-fees-new-york-comparison/\"\u003erecently become\u003c/a\u003e the last remaining American metro that allowed tenant-paid broker's fees. And while no one thinks the new rules are a fix for the region's exorbitantly expensive housing market, supporters say they will provide some relief from upfront moving costs, which can be \"upwards of $10,000.\" WBUR's Zeninjor Enwemeka has \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/07/02/brokers-fees-renters-landlord-change-massachusetts-healey\"\u003emore on the reactions here\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e","\u003cstrong\u003eCutting back: \u003c/strong\u003eThe vaccine-maker Moderna is laying off about 10% of its workforce — or roughly 500 people. And a spokesperson for the Cambridge-based company told WBUR that \"substantial number\" of the job cuts are here in Massachusetts.","\u003cul\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eModerna CEO Stéphane Bancel told employees in a letter yesterday the layoffs are a \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.modernatx.com/en-US/media-center/all-media/blogs/aligning-cost-structure-to-deliver-pipeline\"\u003edifficult but necessary\u003c/a\u003e\" part of the company's effort to trim $1.5 billion by 2027, amid slowing COVID vaccine sales. It comes less than a year after the company \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/09/12/moderna-cuts-development-spending-stocks-fall\"\u003eannounced\u003c/a\u003e it was cutting research and development spending, and pushed back its timeline for breaking even from 2026 to 2028.\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eGo deeper: CNBC has \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/31/covid-vaccine-makers-moderna-biontech-stocks-mrna-strategies-diverge-.html\"\u003ea good story\u003c/a\u003e about how the two pandemic mRNA darlings — Moderna and BioNTech — are now on two different financial paths.\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e","\u003cstrong\u003eWrapping up: \u003c/strong\u003eBefore decamping for their August recess, Beacon Hill lawmakers sent a bill to bolster protections for local abortion and transgender care to the desk of Gov. Maura Healey. Both the House and Senate passed a redraft of the bill yesterday, after resolving what leaders described as some \"very minor differences.\" The bill includes a number of updates to \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/07/29/gov-baker-signs-bill-protecting-abortion-access\"\u003ethe state's 2022 shield law\u003c/a\u003e, motivated by recent actions by the Trump administration. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/06/27/massachusetts-senate-abortion-transgender-care-shield-bil\"\u003eClick here if you need a refresher on the details\u003c/a\u003e.)","\u003cul\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eMeanwhile: The Senate officially passed its bell-to-bell ban on cellphones in school yesterday by a vote of 38-2. It now heads to the House. And the plan to raise hourly pay for bar advocates (\u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/07/31/massachusetts-bar-advocates-beacon-hill-deal-pay-raises\"\u003eexplained in yesterday's newsletter\u003c/a\u003e) is now awaiting Healey's signature.\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e","\u003cstrong\u003eThat dirty water: \u003c/strong\u003eBlue-green algae is back in the Charles River. State officials say a significant cyanobacteria bloom has \u003ca href=\"https://www.crwa.org/river-current/cyanobacteria-bloom-reported-in-lower-basin-of-charles-river\"\u003eemerged in the river's lower basin\u003c/a\u003e, aka between the Mass. Ave bridge and the Charlestown locks near downtown Boston. 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She reports on business, tech and culture as part of WBUR's Bostonomix team, which focuses on the innovation economy. Before joining WBUR, she worked at The Boston Globe as a breaking news writer for Boston.com. She also spent several years as a news/homepage producer for the website. Zeninjor was part of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning team for The Boston Globe's breaking news coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings.","She was also an adjunct lecturer at Boston University, where she taught a class on multimedia and online journalism. Zeninjor is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. 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This funding goes to hospitals, colleges, pharmaceutical firms, research facilities and private and nonprofit organizations.","Every $1 of research funding generates nearly double the amount of economic activity, according to the report.","That funding creates jobs and generates revenue in several industries, said Rod Motamedi,  who led the research and is an assistant director at the UMass Donahue Institute.","\" It's not just [academia] and the research labs that are seeing benefits from this,\" Motamedi said. \"It's restaurants. It's construction. It's real estate. It's transportation. It's warehousing. It's all of those things that benefit.\"","All of that would be impacted by President Trump's proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/06/16/trump-nih-funding-cuts-judge\"\u003ecuts to the National Institutes of Health\u003c/a\u003e (NIH) and \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025/07/22/how-trump-cuts-are-causing-a-brain-drain-in-american-science\"\u003eNational Science Foundation\u003c/a\u003e (NSF). The state is one of the top three recipients in the country for funding from both of these agencies — and is typically the top recipient per capita.","Massachusetts also receives more than $2.3 billion in federal research and development funding from the Air Force, according to the report, an amount second only to the NIH. The Trump administration's proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/06/17/mit-lawsuit-indirect-costs-defense-department\"\u003ecuts to the U.S. Department of Defense\u003c/a\u003e would also impact organizations that receive this Air Force funding.","Here are more key findings from the report:","\u003cstrong\u003eOver 3,000 research and development jobs could be lost in Mass.\u003c/strong\u003e","One of every 10 research and development jobs in the country is in Massachusetts, according to the report. The report estimated the state would lose 3,300 of those jobs due to federal funding cuts.","Motamedi said such losses are critical because research and development has been foundational to key parts of the state's economy, like the life sciences. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e","\"The big life sciences companies of today that are driving so much the economic growth at one point were research ideas in a lab that almost undoubtedly were supported to some measure by federal [research and development] awards,\" Motamedi said.","\u003cstrong\u003eThe cuts would lead to job losses in other industries\u003c/strong\u003e","It's not just workers in lab coats that would be impacted by the proposed federal cuts.","Federal research and development funding also supports jobs in other industries that provide services for research organizations. That includes 34,600 jobs in construction, retail, dining, healthcare and administrative services.","\" A lot of the economic growth that we've seen in eastern Mass. over the past couple of decades and how that's impacted everyone's lives ... all of that has been built around a growing knowledge economy, and all of that has been built upon to some extent, federal [research and development] money.\"","\u003cstrong\u003eThe state would lose millions in tax revenue\u003c/strong\u003e","Massachusetts stands to lose $19.7 million in tax revenue due to the proposed federal cuts, the report found. This would impact services on the state and local level, Motamedi noted.","The state could try to replace some of the lost federal funding and increase support for the impacted industries, \"but at some level, the states don't have the same amount of resources\" as the federal government \"to backfill all of this,\" Motamedi said.","Still, those attempts are underway. Gov. 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While there she covered a variety of developing news stories like Arizona’s 2016 presidential primary race and the Phoenix VA Health Care System wait-time scandal.","Jung has also contributed stories on education and Native American issues to other outlets like Public Radio International, Al Jazeera America and National Native News.","Jung began her reporting career in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 2010. While there she covered the New Mexico Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage and reported on Albuquerque's failed voter initiative to ban late-term abortions.","Jung is the winner of a regional award from the Society of Professional Journalists for best feature reporting. 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The pushback from national Democrats follows reports that Harvard is considering \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/07/29/trump-harvard-settlement-columbia\"\u003epaying up to $500 million\u003c/a\u003e to have its federal funding restored.","\"Capitulating to politically motivated demands from the Executive Branch risks setting a precedent that could severely undermine the independence not only of Harvard but of educational institutions nationwide,\" the senators and representatives said in a letter to Harvard president Alan Garber.","The group, who are all Harvard alumni, wrote that any settlement to end the administration's investigations into antisemitism on campus would signal that \"politically driven coercion,\" rather than legal merit, is a viable way to gain compliance.","The letter went on to argue that Harvard's response to the Trump administration would have lasting impacts that could extend beyond Cambridge.","\"Any acquiescence to unjustified political threats would not only diminish Harvard’s standing but also make it complicit in the erosion of fundamental democratic principles,\" the lawmakers wrote.","The letter writers gave Harvard Administrators an Aug. 13 deadline to answer these four questions:","\u003col class=\"spaced\"\u003e \t\u003cli\u003e\"How many meetings, if any, have members of Harvard’s leadership held with representatives of the Trump administration? Please clarify who is representing the Trump administration in any such discussions, what requests or demands they have made of the University, and what topics were discussed.\"\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003e\"Has the University entered into, or seriously considered entering into, any agreements or settlements with the Trump administration? If so, what are the terms or conditions under consideration?\"\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003e\"What role, if any, have faculty, students, and alumni played in advising or reviewing the University’s position or negotiations?\"\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003e\"How does the University intend to uphold its stated commitment to academic freedom and institutional integrity in the face of current threats or pressures?\"\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ol\u003e","Officials with Harvard University confirmed receipt of the letter but declined to provide further comment.","Sens. Adam Schiff of California and Chris Van Hollen of Maryland along with Rep. Sam Liccardo of California spearheaded the effort to send the letter.","In a written statement, Liccardo said he hopes Harvard defends its independence and academic integrity.","\"Capitulating to political power violates the core values that Harvard represents, and that Harvard seeks to inculcate in its students,\" he said."],"enhanced":false,"seriesMeta":null,"iframeHero":null,"postType":"post","isBreaking":false,"isDeveloping":false,"relatedLinks":[{"url":"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/07/29/trump-harvard-settlement-columbia","title":"Trump administration wants Harvard to pay far more than Columbia as part of settlement","prefix":""},{"url":"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/07/21/harvard-trump-funding-lawsuit","title":"Harvard and Trump administration meet in court over federal funding cuts","prefix":""}],"relatedLinksLabel":"Related:","broadcastType":"","broadcastDate":"","broadcastTime":"","itunesEpType":"","itunesEpNum":0,"itunesSeason":0,"itunesTitle":"","itunesSummary":"","itunesExplicit":false,"socialTease":null,"volume":3,"enableRecirculation":true,"suppressAudio":false,"hideArchiveMsg":false,"disableAds":"enabled","audioDatetime":null,"taxonomy":[{"id":6353,"type":"tag","name":"Harvard and Trump","description":"Coverage of the Trump administration's actions toward Harvard University.","slug":"harvard-trump","series":false,"global":false,"count":62,"hide":false,"primary":true},{"id":66,"type":"category","name":"Education","description":"","slug":"education","series":false,"global":false,"count":7276,"hide":false,"primary":true},{"id":61,"type":"category","name":"Boston","description":"","slug":"boston","series":false,"global":false,"count":61232,"hide":false,"primary":false},{"id":73,"type":"category","name":"News","description":"","slug":"news","series":false,"global":false,"count":76153,"hide":false,"primary":false}],"audio":[],"embedMeta":null,"images":[{"type":"featured","url":"https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/0513_harvard05.jpg","width":3000,"height":2000,"title":"0513_harvard05","caption":"The Harvard college arms on the wall of Memorial Hall at Harvard University. 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The number of cases is rising while more attorneys are balking at what they say are low rates of pay to do the work. ","bylines":[{"comment_status":"closed","comment_count":0,"name":"Deborah Becker","nameLastFirst":"Becker, Deborah","slug":"deborah-becker","wordpressID":834,"content":["Deborah Becker is a senior correspondent and host at WBUR. Her reporting focuses on mental health, criminal justice and education.","Deb is also a substitute host on several WBUR programs and helps produce and report for various WBUR special projects. Deb also worked on the launch of WRNI, Rhode Island's NPR News Station, where she served as \u003cem\u003eMorning Edition\u003c/em\u003e host and host of the weekly show \"Focus Rhode Island.\"","Before coming to WBUR, Deb worked at Monitor Radio, the broadcast arm of The Christian Science Monitor newspaper. She also worked at several Boston area radio stations. Deb has received numerous awards for her hosting, newscasts, reporting and investigative reporting from the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTNDA), Public Radio News Directors Incorporated, National Education Writers Association, Associated Press, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Parent/Professional Advocacy League and United Press International. She has also completed several fellowships on addiction, mental health, juvenile justice and journalism and the law.","Deb studied journalism at St. Bonaventure University. She lives with her family in central Massachusetts."],"apiURL":"https://api.wbur.org/people/deborah-becker","relativeURL":"/inside/staff/deborah-becker","organization":"wbur","embedMeta":null,"shortBio":"Deborah Becker is a senior correspondent and host at WBUR. Her reporting focuses on mental health, criminal justice and education.\r\n","bluesky":null,"facebook":null,"title":"Host/Reporter","type":"newsroom","channels":["news"],"thumbnail":"https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/deb-becker.jpg","photo":null,"website":null,"email":"debbmc@bu.edu"}],"nprID":null,"nprTranscriptID":null,"nprURL":null,"dateline":"","superTitle":null,"superTitleURL":null,"content":["Massachusetts has received \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/us/massachusetts-public-defender-lawyers-criminal-cases.html\"\u003enational attention\u003c/a\u003e since it began\u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/07/22/charges-dismissed-against-dozens-of-defendants-due-to-public-defender-work-stoppage\"\u003e dismissing criminal cases last month\u003c/a\u003e because of a pay dispute with public defenders. But it's not the only state struggling to pay for attorneys to represent defendants who can't afford their own.","\" There are problems all over the country, and they're all the same problem,\" said Jennifer Nash, chair of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oregon.gov/opdc/pages/default.aspx\"\u003eOregon public defense commission\u003c/a\u003e. \"It's extremely difficult to recruit and retain public defense lawyers. The pay is too low, and the caseload is too high, and the work is very difficult.\"","Across the country, states are struggling to maintain a roster of attorneys to take on public defense cases. The number of criminal cases is rising while more attorneys are balking at what they say are low rates of pay to do the work.","The legal bills for indigent defendants largely fall on the states. The 1963 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Gideon vs. Wainwright said the 6th Amendment right to counsel applies to criminal defendants in state, as well as federal, courts. But the ruling left it up to each state to determine how to provide legal representation for those who can't afford it.","Twenty three states, including Massachusetts, have a state agency that employs public defenders, according to the\u003ca href=\"https://6ac.org/\"\u003e 6th Amendment Center\u003c/a\u003e, which tracks public defender spending. Each state has a different patchwork of state agencies, private attorneys and nonprofits helping provide attorneys for indigent defendants.","\"States have the obligation of making sure that every person receives an effective attorney,\" said Aditi Goel, executive director of the 6th Amendment Center. \"So the question is: how much and why should defendants pay the price for the state not being able to meet its mandate?\"","For defendants, the lack of an attorney can result in a case languishing for months, sometimes longer. Several states have faced lawsuits in recent years over the number of people without legal representation and the length of time it takes to adjudicate their cases.","\"America's dirty little secret is that there are thousands of people who go to jail without ever speaking to a lawyer,\" Goel said.","The pay for public representation is often much lower than what an attorney earns working for a private client, so many attorneys are opting out. Massachusetts attorneys who take public defense cases, called \"bar advocates,\" say they're paid the lowest rate in New England: $65 per hour in district court, $85 in superior court and $120 for homicide cases. Maine and New York both pay about $150 an hour, New Hampshire pays $125 to $150, and Rhode Island pays between $112 and $142. These attorneys are essentially independent contractors, and most pay to run their own offices.","\"If you want the right to counsel to continue, then you have to fund the defense program and there's a shortage of lawyers that are willing to do this for the current rate,\" said bar advocate Jennifer O'Brien, who is among the leaders of the effort to increase bar advocates' pay.","\"The state certainly prosecutes enough people,\" O'Brien said. \"They can't just pay for the prosecution side of it and then underfund the defense side of it.\"","\u003cspan data-index=\"1\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Bar advocates in Massachusetts have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/05/27/attorney-criminal-defense-work-stoppage\"\u003erefusing to take new cases\u003c/a\u003e for more than two months as they push for higher pay. That's led to more than 100 cases \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/07/22/charges-dismissed-against-dozens-of-defendants-due-to-public-defender-work-stoppage\"\u003ebeing dismissed\u003c/a\u003e and dozens of people released from jail because of a shortage of attorneys.","Judges in Massachusetts are following \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/07/03/sjc-order-release-unrepresented-criminal-defendants\"\u003eemergency protocols\u003c/a\u003e from a state Supreme Judicial Court ruling that says if a defendant is not appointed counsel within 45 days, the charges are to be dismissed. If someone in custody does not have legal representation within seven days, they must be released.","At least one Massachusetts prosecutor says the office will refile the cases once attorneys are available. More hearings are expected that could result in additional dismissals without a resolution of the wage dispute.","The state public defender agency, the Committee for Public Counsel Services, estimates more than 3,100 people in Massachusetts currently do not have legal representation.","\u003cspan data-index=\"2\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Other states facing this challenge include Oregon, where litigation is pending over unrepresented defendants. Jennifer Nash, chair of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oregon.gov/opdc/pages/default.aspx\"\u003eOregon public defense commission\u003c/a\u003e says \u003ca href=\"https://www.opb.org/article/2025/06/24/oregon-public-defense-lawyers-defender-law-politics-attorneys-crime/\"\u003emore than 4,000 people in Oregon currently do not have an attorney.\u003c/a\u003e The state made efforts to reduce the backlog and temporarily increased the hourly rate for private attorneys who take public cases to start at $164 an hour. Oregon lawmakers, however, let the increase lapse, and the starting rate will go back down to $140 an hour.","\" The system is broken,\" Nash said. \"We are denying defendants the right to counsel when they don't have a lawyer and it is very problematic for crime victims who aren't having any resolution of their cases.\"","Maine is facing a similar crisis. The state expanded its public defender program two years ago, but lawmakers recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.mainepublic.org/courts-and-crime/2025-04-10/bill-to-expand-maine-public-defender-office-passes-the-legislature\"\u003evoted not to continue the same level of funding long-term\u003c/a\u003e. That's despite a high-profile incident last year when a judge reduced bail for a defendant because there were \u003ca href=\"https://www.mainepublic.org/courts-and-crime/2024-06-17/suspect-in-deadly-auburn-police-standoff-was-released-from-jail-over-das-objection\"\u003eno attorneys available\u003c/a\u003e. Within days the man committed a violent crime and was killed in an armed police standoff.","Logan Perkins, a public defender in Bangor, says part of the problem is there are too many cases.","\"The politicians and the prosecutors think that we need to be tough on crime, and we need to prosecute more people,\" Perkins said. \"And they're increasingly unwilling to pay the cost to do that while providing them counsel.\"","In New York City, unionized public defenders \u003ca href=\"https://gothamist.com/news/legal-aid-society-attorneys-union-reach-tentative-deal-as-nyc-court-strike-loomed\"\u003eaverted\u003c/a\u003e a strike after reaching a tentative deal last month over better pay and smaller caseloads.","Attorneys say there are several reasons why this issue is coming to a head now. They cite a pandemic-induced backlog of cases, poor defendants' lack of political power, law school debt and a high cost of living.","Massachusetts attorney Lisa Newman-Polk says she stopped taking lower-level public defender cases eight years ago because of the pay.","\"The rate is just so abysmal,\" Newman-Polk said. \"Inflation has raised the cost of everything, and I think all of us know that just getting somebody to come to your house to fix something often costs substantially more than $65 an hour.\"","Massachusetts lawmakers have \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/07/30/bar-advocate-work-stoppage-criminal-defense\"\u003eoffered\u003c/a\u003e bar advocates a $20 hourly raise over two years. The \u003ca href=\"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2025/07/Bar-Advocates-Fact-Sheet.pdf\"\u003eoffer\u003c/a\u003e calls for private attorneys to agree that another work stoppage would constitute evidence of anti-trust violations. 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Scott has reported from more than a dozen countries, including Venezuela, Ethiopia, Burma and Japan.","During COVID-19, he reported a series of features on pandemic and long-term innovation. At Marketplace, he investigated baby selling in China’s international adoption system, slave labor in Chinese brick making plants, and in Washington, D.C., the doctoring of Environmental Protection Agency science findings on the risks of fracking.","Scott has reported from the 2011 Japan tsunami, the 2011 famine in the Horn of Africa and the economic suppression of Uyghur Muslim minorities in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang.","Prior to Marketplace, he worked as a producer and reporter for the PBS NewsHour, where he joined a team covering post-invasion Iraq in 2003. 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But this graceful punctuation mark is being forgotten.","\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/mark-lasswell/\"\u003eMark Lasswell\u003c/a\u003e wrote a recent piece on the semicolon and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/22/punctuation-semicolon-debate/\"\u003ewhy it's fading away\u003c/a\u003e for the Washington Post, where he is an associate op-ed editor.","\u003ch3\u003e6 questions with Mark Lasswell\u003c/h3\u003e","\u003cstrong\u003eWhat are semicolons? Why are they useful?\u003c/strong\u003e","“They're stronger than a comma. They are a way of separating two connected, but independent clauses, like the one about happy families and unhappy families, they could stand alone as sentences, but the semicolons show you these two things are going to be connected.”","\u003cstrong\u003eThe semicolon began in print in 1474. Its use in books has fallen by half in just two decades. What do you think is going on here?\u003c/strong\u003e","“It's really interesting. I mean, if you look at Ngram Viewer on Google, which has digested millions of books, and you can search the frequency of even punctuation, it's been in a sort of steady decline since 1800. Across two centuries, it's been dropping and now it's really like, just dropped off a cliff. It seems that people more and more think of it as like this fancy punctuation. Like Kurt Vonnegut said, ‘Don't use semicolons. All it does is show people that you went to college.’”","\u003cstrong\u003eWith text messages and Slack for work, are we using language in a different way these days?\u003c/strong\u003e","“Yeah, and I think also it is grammar is taught less and less in school. So I think if you don't have [it] sort of imprinted when you're young, then it's not like a tool you use when you're writing. And then when you're writing texts or whatever, then it all just goes out the window anyway. 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Vivian's work has appeared in Science Magazine, the Chicago Tribune and Illinois Public Media.","Originally from the Chicago suburbs, she graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a bachelor's degree in journalism and minor in biology.","When she's not thinking about environment stories, Vivian enjoys finding new bookstores to explore and spending time outdoors."],"apiURL":"https://api.wbur.org/people/vivian-la","relativeURL":"/inside/staff/vivian-la","organization":"wbur","embedMeta":null,"shortBio":"Vivian La is WBUR's environmental reporting fellow.","bluesky":"vivianla.bsky.social","facebook":null,"title":"Environmental Reporting Fellow","type":"newsroom","channels":["news"],"thumbnail":"https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/vivian_la-1-600x600.jpg","photo":null,"website":null,"email":"vla@bu.edu"}],"nprID":null,"nprTranscriptID":null,"nprURL":null,"dateline":"","superTitle":null,"superTitleURL":null,"content":["Massachusetts environmental lawyers and advocates warned this week that a regulatory change proposed by the Trump administration will make it more difficult for the government to rein in climate change.","Lee Zeldin, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, announced Tuesday that his agency will take steps to overturn the “endangerment finding,” which gives the government the legal authority to regulate planet-warming emissions from cars and trucks, oil and gas industries and other sources.","The move comes as parts of New England are already experiencing extreme weather made worse by climate change. Such events include longer, more intense heat waves and increased \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/07/10/flash-flood-warning-boston-south-shore-quincy\"\u003eflooding from heavy rain\u003c/a\u003e, said Kate Sinding Daly, senior vice president for law and policy at the Boston-based Conservation Law Foundation.","“ This is just a stake through the heart of decades of hard work towards trying to address the most significant challenge that humanity faces today, which is climate change,” Sinding Daly said.","In a statement, Zeldin said the proposal would boost the auto industry and make cars more affordable by unwinding exhaust emissions regulations.","“With this proposal, the Trump EPA is proposing to end sixteen years of uncertainty for automakers and American consumers,” he said.","Once the federal endangerment finding is killed, Sinding Daly said, the onus to combat climate change will shift to state and city governments. But it's not clear if local leaders are able — or willing — to ramp up their efforts.","Massachusetts lawmakers in recent years have \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/07/22/massachusetts-climate-bill-baker-desk\"\u003eenacted legislation\u003c/a\u003e to address climate change. That includes initiatives to ease the transition to \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/11/04/2024-massachusetts-clean-energy-bill-solar-wind-batteries-permitting-reform\"\u003erenewable energy\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/07/05/massachusestts-climate-change-timeline\"\u003ecurb air pollution\u003c/a\u003e.","Now is the time to make sure those laws are being implemented, Sinding Daly said.","\"If the federal government isn't going to tell industry and polluters that they have to stop spewing the stuff into the air, the states do it instead,\" she said.","But tackling the global problem of climate change will require federal support, said Jody Freeman, head of the environmental and energy law program at Harvard Law School and a former White House counsel for the Obama administration.","The endangerment finding stems from a landmark 2007 Supreme Court case, Massachusetts v. EPA, in which the justices ruled greenhouse gases qualify as air pollutants. Two years later, the EPA declared that these pollutants threaten public health, and the agency could regulate them under the Clean Air Act.","The move to repeal the finding is \"really the most aggressive thing they could possibly do\" to limit the federal government's ability to regulate emissions from the largest polluters, Freeman said.","It could also hamper efforts in states like Massachusetts.","“ We're a leader state, and when you don't have a partner in the federal government, it's just a lot harder,\" she said.","New England has made strides to increase energy supplies from renewable sources such as solar and hydropower, Freeman said. For example, rooftop solar has \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/06/24/behind-the-meter-solar-peak-demand-iso-new-england\"\u003ehelped residents stay cool\u003c/a\u003e during this summer’s hottest days, relieving stress on the power grid.","Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Ed Markey condemned the Trump administration's proposal, calling it a lie to the public.","\"This decision to argue that climate change isn’t dangerous isn’t driven by the law, and certainly isn’t driven by the science\u003cstrong\u003e,\"\u003c/strong\u003e he said in a statement. \"This is nothing more than selling out Americans’ safety and future just for the convenience of polluters.\"","President Trump has argued that American car companies and consumers have suffered from overregulation of greenhouse gas emissions. Trump campaigned on a platform to end “electric vehicle mandates,” which refers to regulations on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/20/1239092833/biden-epa-auto-emissions-evs\"\u003etailpipe emissions\u003c/a\u003e designed to encourage production of more EVs and fuel-efficient vehicles.","Transportation is the largest source of direct greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S., according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions\"\u003eEPA data\u003c/a\u003e.","Steven Higashide, director of clean transportation at the Cambridge-based Union of Concerned Scientists, said more fuel-efficient vehicles have improved the economy, the environment and the health of residents.","\"Decades of vehicle fuel economy and tailpipe emission standards have saved car and truck drivers trillions of dollars at the pump, reduced our collective exposure to toxic air pollution, and avoided the extraction and burning of billions of barrels of oil,\" Higashide said in a statement.","Some critics of the administration's plan said it could set back the domestic auto industry, especially as electric vehicle sales increase in countries like China.","“It’s essentially a kill shot to the American car industry,” said Larry Chretien, head of the Boston-based Green Energy Consumers Alliance.","At the state level, Chretien said the adoption of EVs has slowed in recent months because of changes to tax credits meant to incentivize clean energy use. A massive federal spending law signed by Trump last month will \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/16/nx-s1-5462190/trump-tax-credit-solar-ev-heat-pump\"\u003eeliminate tax credits\u003c/a\u003e for people who install home solar panels or buy EVs. There's still time to take advantage of the tax credits before the program sunsets at the end of this year, Chretien said.","There were 140,000 EVs on the road in the Massachusetts last year, according to the state's \u003ca href=\"https://www.mass.gov/info-details/2024-massachusetts-climate-report-card-transportation-decarbonization\"\u003eclimate report card\u003c/a\u003e. The goal is to increase that figure to 900,000 by the end of the decade.","Chretien said there are reasons to be optimistic about some state efforts around clean energy. 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