Marketplaces supported by guideline over 7500 small businesses have chosen guideline for its modern retirement plan that automates the heavy lifting reducing the cost of a 4 a one k. Guideline dot com The real question in this trade and currency war in which we find ourselves is actually pretty simple. Who's going to blink 1st from American Public Media this is Marketplace. Marketplace is supported by Progressive Insurance protecting commercial vehicles and offering specialized coverage is designed to protect small businesses more at progressive commercial dot com And by the town solving some of the toughest challenges for government and commercial customers for 90 years finding solutions at the tally can be down but tell the marketplace. To day to day the 6th of August glad as always to have you with us everybody currency again and still is the word in the u.s. China trade relationship I guess you'd say today specifically the fallout from Beijing's decision over the weekend to let its currency fall in value against the dollar the Treasury Department has heard decided that that makes China a currency manipulator that's a big big no no in global trade with lots of not good but that will fall out so we got mega long Segre on the phone from the Wilson Center in Washington and we asked her whether China is actually manipulating its currency no oh why do you say that it's not currency manipulation because they're not driving the currency down intentionally for unfair competitive advantage they're basically following the market fact is and as we know facts matter China has been propping up its currency for years fight. The market on the down side so if this isn't currency manipulation what does misaligned Sager think the White House is talking about the president's just using it as a way of trying to get back at them I presume on trade and get them to the table to make a deal now unfortunately I think he's really making it more difficult for the Chinese to make a deal because it look like they're caving to the United States and here's why this is a big deal even though they do seem to have taken a pause today if China does keep letting its currency drop in value against the dollar thus making its exports to this country cheaper in the face of tariffs that could be motivation enough to make the president tariff things even more and you can see how that just becomes a spiral Hence the question being who's going to blink 1st the less well noticed in the trade war that has now become a currency war was this item China's commerce ministry suspending its purchases of American agriculture all American agriculture that was our cue to call Brian Duncan he is the vice president of the Illinois farm bureau also a hog soy and corn farmer in his own right good to talk to again sir Hey good to talk to you always enjoy it thank you very much Me too I want to do a very quick drive by on the trade situation just because you're kind of one of our go to years on that it seems to have picked up a notch here or the president's talking about how good he's been to farmers but in the meantime there's a currency war now what do you make of it yeah I mean you brought up a couple issues we've talked several times about this in the past and we keep hoping for better news and what we're getting right farmers are receiving another round of tariff aid payments which we're grateful for but it will not come close to making us whole and especially as we look at this long term Rome the damage just continues to mount right Ok On to other topics the real reason we want to get you on the phone was a piece I saw I think in Bloomberg the other day. About the weather and how hot it is and how your hogs are getting skinnier because it's so hot and pushing prices up is that really happening well maybe not quite that simple but yes that does happen hot weather slows the growth of hogs even though we keep them in you know really nice environmentally controlled buildings where the heat we can't do much about and they don't gain as fast and that did happen in July we saw some marketing's back up and some marketing slow but those pigs come to town eventually. I guess I guess they do where are you selling them these days I mean we used to do big port business with China not to bring that up again but but now we don't so much you were to market Oh man you know and you bring up China and you know it's like a knife in my heart I know because there is a tremendous potential there guy especially with the massive losses they've suffered in their augured due to African swine fever so domestically we consume a lot we are moving some product back to Mexico we are at a 10 year low on product into Japan because we find ourselves at a disadvantage with the countries that join Japan and p.p.p. I guess that's another knife in my heart that we've talked about in the not even bring that one up you didn't you know I know this trade think I just like circular bad news isn't it so we've seen again seen with the flare in the Chinese problem the dog market reacted almost immediately because there are still hopes for us to move some product into the Chinese market but that's about all it is right now is hope I have to tell you I think it's really interesting that you still have hope because all the indicate and you've got to have hope and yes not all of that but all the indicators are that this is only getting more spiraling downward instead of positive now you're right if you're right what do you you what do you want to do a quick but then who you going to call when you need them we talked last night I got to stay in business and I'm doing it just for you but yeah still the reality is we've got a growing world pop. Elation and they need to eat and at some point we hope cooler heads prevail and we can get some deals done but you are right guy I think and I think in the countryside the volume of hope that farmers and has definitely gone down over the last year and a half as we've watched events unfold on religion get off the phone Mr Duncan and I'm going to point out I didn't even bring up corn and soybeans here so you know there's that. Thanks guys let's talk about that another day yeah we're going to draw in a while Brian Duncan. Farmer corn guys who are beans also the vice president of the on our farm bureau Mr Duncan We'll talk to you since are always a pleasure speaking of hope here's what happened on Wall Street the past 48 hours Monday as you know China decided to let its currency drop so too did stocks 3 plus percent today China decided not to let its currency drop and traders said oh everything's fine. Seems not well thought through I don't have the details when we do the numbers. We interrupt our regularly scheduled coverage of the Federal Reserve now all interest rates all the time of course for an item a bit more tangible the Fed is building something called a real time payment system that would let users move money in real time that is instantly between bank accounts the Fed is not the 1st mover here big banks have been working on a real time system for years but marketplace just you know reports the Fed can still make a difference. When it comes to launching an entirely new product like an instant payment system sets carbon Dury u.b.s. Says the Fed has a big advantage they don't have to necessarily make the business to just outside investors they can just decide to do it and fund it themselves he says the Fed's been processing and clearing payments for decades and because the Fed is independent My Rodriguez via dire as m.r.v. Associates says the Fed can take its time rolling the system out that allows them to spend a lot more time really trying to work out the kinks in terms of system in terms of data collection the Fed said instant payment systems help people access their money immediately and avoid overdraft fees they also help small businesses pay their suppliers faster but there's already a rival instant payment system run by the clearinghouse which is owned by several big banks what this is really being driven by are the small and medium sized banks just don't want to play ball with the larger banks that's run Shevlin at Cornerstone advisors Still he says those banks won't be able to offer instant payment services for a while because the Fed's new system won't be available until 2023 at the earliest this isn't going to help the smaller banks gain any market share or provide any services for a minimum of 4 to 5 years at the least in the long run said Gov level Brainerd says the country's payment system stands to benefit from the added competition in New York and just in how far marketplace California likes to boast that it leads the country on environmental and green policy issues so it was big news that one of the biggest risk cycling companies in this state has shut down all of its 284 locations replanted had set up a grocery store so people could bring their cans and bottles and get their 5 or 10 cent box it's back but it turns out the recycling business model is hurting in part because China is not binary stuff anymore from the Marketplace Sustainability desk here's Scott Tong one replanted shut down and laid off 750 workers it jolted California's recycling industry General Abbott has a state wide group of recycling. Centers known as protect c.r.-v. When the shock wore off it was replaced by anger because we saw this coming and replan it wasn't the 1st to fail and very likely won't be the last the market has changed for years America's junk was China's treasure Chinese recycling companies paid good money for our use plastic and paper but last year Beijing started rejecting waste it deemed contaminated Here's environmental scholar Kate O'Neill a cow Berkeley China took around half of the plastic that we put into recycling bins and once they stopped local authorities and recycling companies went from making a profit to having to pay to get rid of the stuff some of the most affected she says are those in poverty who turn in recyclables for money Edina run a Adler of the Institute for Scrap Recycling Industries however says there is still demand for what we throw out she says it's important to find profitable 2nd lives for say soda bottles made of what's called p e t plastic My husband and I both the number of shirts everywhere every day there will be by fibers that. Water bottle demand needs to catch up with supply and every year Americans supply some 80000000 tonnes of recyclable. I'm Scott Tong for Marketplace. Coming up you know sometimes it's a case of them finding the snack sometimes it's a case of the snacks finding them how big tech does snacks but 1st let's do the numbers. Got some back today the 11 points to the good 1.2 percent 26029 the Nasdaq about 107 point one point. $7833.00 the s. And p. 5371.3 percent 20 feet and. So in order Mr Duncan. Archer Daniels Midland tumbled 9 tenths are said today the chemical fire . Division Santo lost a half percent but the maker John Deere rose 1 point one percent. 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Dot car easy dot org. This is Marketplace I'm Kaya result Tony Morrison died last night and iconic American writer with more accolades than we can fit into this program the Pulitzer Prize the Presidential Medal of Freedom the Nobel Prize in Literature all for her decades of novels and as a as and stories revealing some of the nuances of black life in America and the sometimes harsh truths of America itself Morrison is being rightly remembered today as an author But as Marketplace's Kimberly Adams reports Toni Morrison had a profound effect on the publishing industry as well Toni Morrison was the 1st African-American woman editor at publisher Random House that was back in the 1960 s. When she was an editor among the best selling books by black writers who were books that regarded black people as essentially exotic anomalies Errol MacDonald is a vice president at the Division of Random House that published most of Morrison's novels MacDonald says as an editor Morrison pushed for black people to be represented with dignity and she published some major books by writers such as Mohammed Ali and Davis Huey p. Newton books of relevance and of the moment that opened the doors for many a writer of color Morrison also taught many burgeoning writers including Jean Jarrett who now teaches African-American literary history at New York University when he was getting ready to go to graduate school and she agreed to write me a letter of recommendation and so if it weren't for her I wouldn't be where I am today Jarrett is now head of the School of Arts and Science at n.y.u. He says Morrison inspired an entire generation and laid the groundwork for black writers especially women to have a greater profile in the literary world in Washington and Kimberly Adams from. Late last year the Monday after Thanksgiving General Motors announced it was going to take 5 plants offline and lay off 15 percent of its salaried workforce because the company said it has to meet car buyers where they are more S.U.V.s and light trucks fewer sedans get going on electrics and self driving the catch is that those shutdowns left workers without jobs where they are g.m. Says there is work for most every hourly employee at one of its other plants provided they're willing to relocate marketplace Tracey Samuelson spent some time talking to g.m. Employees in the ward's town Ohio where until it went dark this past March Janet had a plan since 1966 the question on a lot of kitchen tables was stay or go for the frankly family moving isn't all bad I cannot wait for this house to go away it is the most decrypted piece of crap in the world Melissa vaguely points to a missing patch of ceiling above the dining table in her house in Warren Ohio just north of Youngstown it's one of a long list of things she and her husband haven't had the money or time to fix the house needs a new roof a new foundation the original piping is bad and it leaks we fixed it so many times and it still leaks is a shower that's Melissa's 11 year old daughter serenity and that in this house. When they get out of the shower this is the water leaking I hate that so my. Muscles has been link and has worked at g.m. Sports town Ohio plant since 2008 except for a 16 month layoff soon after he started he was one of the last $600.00 employees at the plant this spring when g.m. Discontinued the Chevy Cruze and mothballed a plant many of those workers have asked to transfer to other g.m. Plants what's known as a voluntary transfer but other workers including Lincoln have been assigned to new plant. By the company what they call a forced transfer g.m. Is sending link into a plant that makes vans and mid-sized trucks in Wentzville Missouri near St Louis a 10 hour drive from friends and family and that's wearing on Melissa because 10 hours isn't something I can just zip home some is like oh my mom's in the hospital or so and so this is happened the family and friends gathered at Lincoln's favorite barbecue place to say goodbye before he headed to Missouri in April does the most crying ever seen out of a group of adult men who they were all deny I'm sure if anybody asked them later everything. At the party Lincoln was feeling pretty motional about the move but he also felt like he didn't really have a choice he could have turned down the transfer but then he'd have lost the unemployment benefits from the company including health insurance he'd lose the right to transfer to another g.m. Plant so moving was the best of not great option yes because where else can you go when you make this kind of money working on the assembly line is draining repetitive work but Lincoln makes almost $30.00 an hour I mean sure it's costing me my body in damages but maybe my daughter won't have to go through any of this with me working and being able to put her into school through school so he's upset with g.m. For closing the plant thinks it's corporate greed at work but it still pays better than any other job he could find around here the best stuff is $16.00 an hour and an hour hour and a half from my house Anything else is $9.00 to $11.00 and that just doesn't cut it when I was working that before I started it g.m. And my credit card just kept getting fuller and fuller just trying to make it under G.M.'s union agreement like it's getting $30000.00 for relocation expenses but in exchange he's committed to stay in Missouri at least 3 years even if the Lordstown plant goes back to work that's at least 3 years away from everyone the fake least care about like Joshua factory and. It's rather just the money and. It's been my run basically my entire life and yeah. G.m. Is kind of taken away from me and Josh was losing more than his brother I have a lot of friends who work for g.m. a Lot of them are in Tennessee and even now. And every day on my way to work I see another house is up for sale and I feel like this is because of g.m. He's worried about how the plant closing with affect business at the restaurant where he works and what will happen to the area's economy if the plant doesn't reopen what it's done isn't quite the g.m. Company town that it once was but if the plant doesn't open Researchers estimate the direct and indirect costs will not to an $8000000000.00 hit to the regional condominium. Like her uncle serenity isn't feeling much love for g.m. Right now either and she's figured out who she thinks is to blame it's c.e.o. Mary Barra it's just it's crazy because a single person. Should not have the right to just make us leave every single thing that we've ever you know. Ever ever experience behind because she thinks that it's not worth it or it's not going to get up and it's too late it's crappy and she should not have the right to get that still the feckless are trying to think of the move as a fresh start after the party Melissa and serenity stayed in Ohio to finish out the school year Lincoln started work in Missouri in April and made an offer on a new house a month later he used the money from his g.m. Relocation package as a down payment something he and Melissa had trouble saving for on their own Melissa remembers when she saw the new house for the 1st time in June Yeah I cried because I was like I don't know how I'm going to keep up the house is nice or how I'm going to keep it clean in this one like everything works and all the windows close in there's no what we think from everywhere so it's it's amazing and overwhelming it has 2 stories 4 bedrooms a garage serenity gets around bathroom and it's in a quiet neighborhood she won't fall asleep to the sound of sirens or stereos blaring the house had only been on the market 2 days Artie had another offer on it and they had to pay just over asking price to get it $226000.00 yeah I and this meal Matias That's a lot of money their old house in Ohio was once appraised at $60000.00 and it was fully paid off but because of all the repairs it needs the couple is selling it to Lincoln's brother for only a few $1000.00 so the new house is much nicer but it's also totally changing their financial picture and that feels risky it's a contract year for the u.a.w. Which means there's always the possibility that there's a strike. Which if there's a strike he's not making any money I don't want to get out there and get ourselves into a hole that we can't get out of in some ways the plant closing helped the families do something they've wanted to do for years find a better house in a better neighborhood it's just not the town or even the state they wanted to be and I'm Tracey Samuelson for Marketplace. We've got more about how other workers from g.m. And its suppliers are figuring out what comes next marketplace dot org is working fine. So there you are mid morning or perhaps mid afternoon depending on your rhythm you need a quick some to eat off you go to the vending machine there are of course some companies that provide snacks gratis but no company more so than Google and snacks doesn't quite do that companies food options justice tele vis Romber about this for Fast Company Welcome to the program thanks for having me so it's not new right that high tech companies. Have snacks in the office but Google you say is has taken it beyond shall we say exactly Well Google seems to be the sort of mothership they sort of one of the originators the snack game at tech companies and you know they have 70 s. Campuses across the world and 1300 of what they call micro kitchens so you know across the 70 campuses they have these little kitchenettes where they swear they have coffees and teas and then these sort of cornucopia of snacks and the gist of it is that they go to great lengths to google those to cure rate I guess would be the word what their employees get right sure well it's you know it's worth noting that because Google such a big company you know there's an extremely complex team structure at Google through this menu architects and wellness manager and nutrition specialist but they . We'll work together to cure rate the menu and you know sometimes it's a case of them finding the snack sometimes it's a case of the snacks finding them you know I talked to a couple of companies who effectively lobbied their way into Google and they said it was tough there was a lot of vetting it took a lot of time to get in and you're asking Google what they wanted what did they want out of snacks are there are there like are there Google employee taste tests to figure out who gets into the snack bar or yeah that's one of the most interesting parts of these sort of snack Faz So they kind of many trade shows and these shortlisted snack companies are invited in to you know to chat to employees and the employees taste the snacks and then they vote you know according to the campus they could vote via q.r. Code or 5 Google which is quite apt of course the 15 will sort of give priority to their most healthy snacks someone said that you know even if no one votes for bananas they'll still be bananas That's right all right wait on the healthy thing I want you to tell me about the pork rind the guy because I love pork rinds but b. They're not the healthiest thing in the world right right so it surprised me that these pork rinds or Cheech are on us which they call pork clouds only $100.00 calories per pack and they gluten free which is surprising given that they're you know the skin of the pig that sort of an olive oil but my reaction exam but but the guy basically the thing is with with this vendor getting him to Google for him was sort of like you getting into like like Wal-Mart or Costco right it's a big big business opportunity it really is and that's one of the things that these companies said was you know not just financially but just symbolically the significance of being you know of having Google as a client is priceless you know being able to include in their marketing materials they really say while it's hard to measure you know it's likely that it brings a sort of rip. The effect into bringing new business and television at Fast Company thanks for thanks so much. This final note on the way out today had tipped to Bloomberg for this one a peer reviewed research paper entitled analysts and managers use of humor on public earnings conference calls Now if you've ever listen to an earnings call a barrel of laughs They are not but quoting from the abstract of this paper analysts that is Wall Street bank analysts who use humor on conference calls are allowed to speak for a longer period of time and receive longer responses from managers when managers use humor the paper goes on analyst stock recommendation revisions following the call are more positive our findings indicate finally that humor has economically meaningful implications for public earnings conference call which I thought was fascinating. Marketplaces supported by Raymond James offering personalized wealth management of highs and capital markets expertise with a commitment to putting Klein's financial needs 1st more in training chains dot com . 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News in Culver City California I'm to Wayne Brown President Trump is scheduled to visit El Paso Texas and Dayton Ohio tomorrow following the mass shootings that claimed 31 lives over the weekend he's likely to face some resistance from people in Texas who believe his rhetoric against communities of color is partly to blame Trump cited El Paso during his State of the Union speech and making his case for money to fund a border wall because the town has become a hotspot for migrants from Central America trying to cross the border N.P.R.'s Tamara Keith says the city's mayor will be walking a fine line in welcoming the president in announcing that President Trump would be visiting El Paso on Wednesday the city's mayor de Margot who has had something of a back and forth with Trump about false claims the president had made earlier about the crime rate in El Paso Mayor De Margot May It was very careful to say that the Office of the mayor of El Paso will be welcoming the office of the president of the United States in an official capacity being careful to point out this is not political and this is about the office of the presidency N.P.R.'s Tamara Keith president trumps reelection campaign and the National Republican Party are suing California over a new law aimed at forcing Trump to release his taxes Chafer from member station k.q.e.d. 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News I'm Ari Shapiro And I'm Audie Cornish Ohio governor Mike De Wine is proposing new gun control measures following the mass shooting Sunday in Dayton one is a Republican and his move represents a big shift in the way the state's leaders have approached gun policy Ohio Public Radio's any challenged part when De Wine came to Dayton Sunday to memorialize the people killed that morning he got a message from the crowd. Here in the UK and. The chant eventually drowned out De Wine's remarks this morning De Wine said that moment was not lost on him saying they were angry and he's angry too some chanted to do something and they were absolutely right to whine it went on to roll out 17 different initiatives to reduce gun violence in Ohio they include a so-called red flag law which allows a judge to confiscate firearms from someone who poses a threat to themselves or others his plan would also expand background checks strengthen penalties on crimes involving guns and increase access to mental health treatment to one says there's no magic solution to stopping gun violence but I can tell you this if we do these things it will matter if we do these things it will make us safer since 2011 Republicans have controlled the Ohio House Senate and governor's office with little to no interest in passing strong gun regulations this is been met with great frustration by state senator Cecil Thomas and other Democrats who have spent years introducing bills that reflect what the wine is now calling for the public is going to step up they've got to do some self evaluation of their writings you know people are dying people are suffering from all of this Republican senator Peggy Lainer of the Dayton area says she will no longer be timid in expressing her. Support for what she calls common sense regulation to put a gun in the hands of someone who is mentally ill and has ill will towards other people is not protecting our constitutional rights it's just plain full it's stupid for years lawmakers have passed pro-gun policies such as expanding the ability to carry concealed weapons in daycares college campuses and parts of airports and they've pushed to allow people to carry concealed weapons without permits or training now Senate Republican spokesperson John for any says legislators want to take their time on the winds proposed regulations despite mounting public pressure the fact is results can't you can't have an unconstitutional law or an ineffective law passed because it does nothing then to protect the public if it's more important to score political points just to pass a law and pat yourself on the back you're dishonoring the dead Chris store with Ohio gun owners is stonily opposed to do winds red flag law which the governor called a safety protection order he can call that pig what he wants you can put as much lipstick on it but a safety protection order is still a red flags order you're still not convicted of a crime while door says De Wine goes too far there are gun control advocates that are pushing for even more such as a ban on assault style weapons and high capacity magazines there's a group circulating a petition to put expanded background checks on the state ballot as early as next November for voters to decide if the Ohio legislature doesn't act for n.p.r. News I'm Annie Cho in Columbus as we just heard one of the options the governor to wine is considering is what's known as a red flag law these laws temporarily prevent people who may be a harm to themselves or others from accessing firearms for more on how the laws of played out in states that already have them we're joined by reporter v Patterson of member station k.u.n.c. In northern Colorado Welcome to the program thank you so for these laws have only been passed to the state and local level how widespread are they. Yes so it our most recent count 17 states plus the District of Columbia have some sort of red flag or extreme risk law on the books many of these laws are fairly new and were passed after the school shooting in Parkland Florida last year the state of Florida has one here in Colorado the governor signed an extreme risk bill into law this past legislative session after months and months of contentious debate and there are more states that are considering them Pennsylvania Michigan North Carolina all have some sort of red flag law proposed in their legislature a red flag bill rather explain why the debate was so contentious and what's the objection that people have to these laws Well the biggest criticism is that red flag laws are unconstitutional people say that they violate the 2nd Amendment essentially because they limit access to guns here in Colorado there's a salable gun group called Rocky Mountain gun owners and it calls the state's red flag law a gun confiscation scheme they've been on Facebook Live recently talking about all of this there are also concerns that malicious or untrue claims against people could be taken seriously and that red flag laws and friends on due process rights also like I have a vendetta against an ax I say this person should not be owning guns and suddenly their guns get confiscated even though I might just have a personal vendetta and they haven't really done anything right right right that's exactly it and that's because this initial order is done in a way that's called an ex parte order and that means that the subject the person whose guns could get taken away isn't actually present at that 1st hearing when the judge is deciding what to do but I would note that this is not entirely unusual restraining orders for example are often issued ex parte in states and cities that have passed these laws how effective have they been have can you tell if they've actually reduced gun violence so we can look at Connecticut Connecticut has had one of these laws on the books since 1909 it was actually put in place after a workplace shooting at that Connecticut Lottery a worker killed 4 people and then killed himself so since then. Records show that the measures been using all kinds of situations from violent threats against school officials against coworkers against intimate partners but especially in cases of self harm so the 1st 10 years of the law is in place in over half of the cases the complaint had to do with suicide risk we could also look at Florida Florida's red flag law in the short time it's been in place it's also been used frequently when people are saying they're going to hurt themselves but overall because in most states this law is fairly new and data is still being gathered it's just it's really too soon to know with any certainty whether or not they work which is not to say the red flag laws can't be used to prevent mass shootings they're just more often used in suicide prevention which makes sense right because suicide is a much more common type of gun violence we've been talking about state red flag laws what would a federal law look like Senator Lindsey Graham who says he's planning to introduce bipartisan legislation he he described sort of what he has in mind in a statement earlier this week a federal red flag law would basically be a grant program that would assist states in implementing their own red flag laws that money would go to law enforcement law enforcement would then hire mental health professionals to work with them to help them navigate situations where red flag law might be used now Graham along with Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal who's a Democrat they've worked on similar proposals in the past and just this past spring Graham did hold a hearing on red flag laws I'm a big fan of the 2nd Amendment farms and I try to be responsible I'm ownership but at the same time every right has limits this is also the kind of legislation that a number of Democratic presidential candidates have said they support that sleep out or send a member station k.u.n.c. In Colorado thanks a lot thank you and this story comes to us from guns and America public media reporting project focused on the role of guns in American life and please. Member if you or someone you know is considering suicide help is available at the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 180-273-8255. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News this is All Things Considered on k. P.b.s. In San Diego I'm Sally Hickson immigrants and asylum seekers that come to the u.s. Often head to places where they know people and in Oakland there's a growing community from rural Guatemala that speaks an indigenous language called mom as part of our California dream collaboration k.q.e.d. . Job Vala from marrow went to a class where English and Spanish speakers are learning the mom language. A handful of adults said in the Latin x. Cultural center at Laney community college they practice saying good afternoon and mom but teacher Henry Salaf. Later Sallust writes on the whiteboard let's go and show students word by word. The students laugh at themselves their practice. Then and I yell what is taking the class she volunteers at a Sunday school where many of the kids only speak mom and I want them to hear me speak so that they see that I'm also learning and trying hard to learn a different language because that's what they're doing she wants the kids to feel proud of their language and culture. Good afternoon. Right and then want the it's really easy because that's thank you and we always try to teach the kids good manners after we give them their snacks and helps the kids open up she says they trust her more and even the parents too if I greet them and in my they smile and I think they feel that I'm I care more about them there's no official count of Mom people in Oakland but the community has grown rapidly to at least several 1000 and has more Mom speakers come the city needs more people able to talk with them to connect them to schools and services as there are so many newcomers they're having a great need to serve those people and what they found out is the didn't speak Spanish necessarily I don't know that belies a Spanish professor that coordinates the at the next cultural center at Laney He says they've gone requests for Mom interpreters interpreters for medical clinics or legal clinics the 1st waves of mom Guatemalans began arriving in Oakland in the 1000. Eighty's during that country's civil war today mom are leaving what their model of because of gang violence and crushing poverty in some ways they're finding Oakland more accepting of their indigenous culture than their home country says mom teacher Henry Sallis now that I'm here I. Like who we are and now I feel proud and I teach anyone who. It's not easy for mom speakers new to the city it's expensive families crammed together in small apartments it can be hard to navigate if you don't speak English or Spanish but Silas thinks he and this class can help change that I love the I Love You know connecting community. At the end of class size writes down the phrase for any questions. One word has for consonants together. But then after practice. They get it in Oakland and Friday that. In other news San Diego State University basketball player is feeling personal pain as a result of the mass shooting in El Paso Texas Monique Terry lost a cousin in the tragic event that Cousin Jordan and Chando and Jordan's husband Andre died shielding their 2 month old baby the infant survived Terri says she still sorting out what happened she said her cousin had just dropped off her 5 year old daughter for cheerleading and then she went to get school supplies that were Wal-Mart that same day her oldest daughter it just happened it didn't make sense for her life to be stripped away from her when she was only getting school supplies because of where she lived and who she was around and where she lived according to Terry the s.d.s. 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Parenting in the age of smartphones can be really stressful health experts from the World Health Organization on down say we should limit kids' screen time to a quote healthy level but infants aside that doesn't mean 0 there's a growing push to encourage parents to be media mentors rather than gatekeepers N.P.R.'s On the campus has looked into this for our life good parenting podcast she's here to talk us through it welcome back to the program Anya Thanks Audie define media mentoring for us so the philosophy behind this is pretty simple right it's trying to use digital devices together with your children as much as you can and assisting them in understanding what it is that they're doing on those devices so one proponent of this is Mimi Ito She's a researcher at the University of California Irvine and she says we need to face the facts that media especially things like video games are a major source of fun for kids unless parents can find a way to somehow understand and engage with that in a positive way video games can often become a source of tension between parents and kids and so we see time and time again that parents aren't engaged in the kind of mentoring and guidance around video games that they do for other parts of kids play and growing up in friendship relationships so she says you need to get in there and play video games with your kids and she also says that this is fun it's a lot more fun than clocking screen time and you know doing the finger wagging thing I thought it was pediatricians who told us to do the thing you're hiking thing a little bit it's affected by this so I know how does this work out in real life so I visited a family in Washington d.c. Chris Wallace Latoya Peterson and their son Gavin who's 5 this is Gavin. Good to know that game is still popular because the school oh my gosh I mean Ted is having this incredible. Come back and that's his favorite stuffed animal ever that somehow matches up the Mario Brothers game plus Captain Marvel or in any way almost every night after dinner this family jumps on the couch and plays big complex Playstation video games. You it see what happened x. Make a sound. Being rude to me danger in the face. What are they playing there Ok so it's a big game called Kingdom Hearts that has all these different Disney characters kind of on one universe and they play other games together too even some that are not necessarily meant for young kids like when called persona Latoya Peterson says it's just certain parts of the game that are age appropriate She stresses that normally he's playing with me normally we play together and I should say you know all of this comes really naturally to Peter's and you know she grew up playing video games even though her dad didn't necessarily want her using his system which is way too damaging home for the room. And today she's been really successful in new media and she's the co-founder of an all women of color led video game company called glo up games can I add something on you here is essentially are they arguing that you can play video games along with your kids the same way you would read along with your kids and get some kind of benefit from it that's exactly right when you are sharing media time with your kid you're giving them the chance to understand better the messages that are coming across you can learn a social and emotional skills from this just as you would from a story how does this square with health recommendations that kids should actually limit screen time especially before bed so being a media mentor doesn't mean that you say yes all the time and you're always handing out candy the American Academy of Pediatrics says parents should keep your schedule prioritize kids sleep outdoor play and family meals and Peterson Chris Wallace actually do all of this are there certain things parents should be doing when they're using screens with their kids so consistently having conversations about what they're playing or watching. Is what experts call active mediation and Latoya Peterson sees video games as an opportunity she sees them as a way that Gavin can get comfortable technology to pick up new skills not just tech skills either one of the big things we're working on right now is the concept of resiliency and not quitting when something is hard and games are great with that because the whole idea of like I think you are in some task. Like twice in the sky . And cows like. This is the point like sometimes things are hard to go back and try again or you try something different and I've noticed he does that in his real life so I'm trying to. Impress and sometimes when the landscape. It's a little heart we die. That means. Oh Gavin sounds amazing re suite there are parents though who let's say screens to occupy their kids so that they can get some stuff done I don't know what you're talking about I've never I don't know parents like this I know they're out there so what if you can't make time to have this kind of hands on interaction the way Chris Wallace and Latoya Peterson are doing so this is a key point I'm glad you brought it up Dr Jenny read. The pediatrician who lead author to that American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines and Kinsey media says she's the rule maker and she says that yes sometimes kids are going to screens by themselves and what happens after that is you try to have a dialogue with them and ask them questions about what they're watching what they're playing what do you like about this and what seems annoying or creepy about it to you and Dr a desk he says through these conversations we can help our kids develop a bit of self-regulation around screen time also do you think it's Ok to sit and watch slime videos for an hour like what's good about that what's not going to this all make sense when they're very young as kids get older they can be less interested in hanging out with their parents does this idea work older ages absolutely it can according to Mimi Ito she's. The researcher at u.c. Irvine her children now are 18 and 21 but when her son was a teen she saw her role shifting to me asking a lot of questions and observing my son's game play and being more of an interested observer supporter cheerleader rather than somebody that was actually playing the same games so being that cheerleader and supporting her kids interests she credits that with kind of leading to both of her children now studying computer science for example Finally Anya we've been talking about this in the context of video games but for many parents it's more likely to involve our smartphones and tablets how should we be mentoring our behavior with those That's a great point so the point is here our kids are watching and learning from us 24 hours a day even when we're not being exemplars So if you are constantly kind of pulled into your smartphone they're going to absorb that that's an Ok way to treat your family members on the other hand on the positive side you know most of us use technology in the course of our work our personal passions to learn about the world to discover new music to keep in touch with friends and family and those are all positive things that we can share with our kids by modeling that as well that's N.P.R.'s Anya candidates Anya thanks so much Thanks Audie in a new host N.P.R.'s life good parenting podcast like it series is practical tips on all sorts of things you can find it at npr dot org slash life. 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News and Washington I'm Jack Speer Investigators say the gunman who killed 9 people outside a Dayton bar on Sunday had previously expressed interest in mass shootings as April Leslie of member station w y a so reports the f.b.i. Is now taking the lead in the investigation officials say the 24 year old suspect in the Dayton attack was exploring violent ideologies and expressed a desire to commit a mass shooting f.b.i. Special agent Todd Wicker Ham says many questions still remain on the case what if any ideology influenced the attacker to duck this attack who if anyone helped him or had any advance knowledge of his intentions to conduct this attack and why he committed this specific act of violence with her hand says the suspect was not on the F.B.I.'s radar prior to the shooting and Vesa gators have not found any evidence connecting the bait attack to a mass shooting in El Paso Texas hours earlier for n.p.r. News I'm a pro Leslie in the wake of the shooting itself Passo story last Saturday that claim nearly 2 dozen lives Wal-Mart says it's reviewing its security procedures the world's largest retailer says while it's used to every day encounters with shoplifters or other issues an arm shooter is a different matter while the company did launch a computer based active shooter training program in 2015 for all its employees has been incorporating virtual reality technology Wal-Mart says the passer shooting is prompting further review just last week in Mississippi disc one of Wal-Mart employee killed 2 coworkers and wounded a police officer national security adviser John Bolton is warning foreign governments they could face u.s. Retaliation if they continue to do business with Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro socialist administration Bolton making his remarks in Peru today in the wake of a move by the White House to freeze all Venezuelan government assets currently held in the u.s. Stocks regained some of the ground they lost Monday after signs China is taking steps to stabilize its currency n.p.r. . Reports that the Standard and Poor's 500 Index rose by 1.3 percent today stock prices rose sharply as soon as trading began they briefly fell back into negative territory by the middle of the day and then rose again Investors were encouraged by China's pledge not to let its currency the un fall much more the sudden devaluation of the currency on Monday was seen by investors as a sign that the trade war between China and the u.s. Is escalating and the Dow plummeted falling nearly 3 percent despite this latest rebound a lot of investors remain concerned about the impact of the trade war on growth or oil prices are down nearly 20 percent since late April Jim's a rolly n.p.r. News New York taking a look at the Wall Street numbers the Dow is up 311 points today the Nasdaq rose 107 points the Standard and Poor's 500 was up 37 points today you're listening to n.p.r. 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