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News in Washington I'm Jack Speer some of vacuous from a massive wildfire in southern Colorado are now being allowed to return to their homes but then Bush reports that doesn't mean the blaze is getting smaller the 416 fire near the town of Durango continues to grow now more than 26000 acres progress made along an important highway between Durango and the town of Silverton has allowed some evacuees back in while the fire expands elsewhere incident commander Todd that showed a notes no lives or structures have been lost despite close calls it's got very close got to people's backyards but their homes are still standing more than 1200 personnel are fighting the blaze for n.p.r. News I'm Dan Boyce in Durango Colorado senators from both parties today sought to mend frayed relations with Canada during a closed door meeting with the country's foreign minister that meeting followed President Trump's declaration after the recent g. 7 summit the Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau was quote dishonest and weak Committee Chair Republican Bob Corker of Tennessee also raised concerns about the president's use of national security to justify recent still aluminum tariffs which he says can do more harm than good and I think the American people. Don't fully realize I think many of them day that a tariff as a tax on. The tax on us in lateral tax on the American people that's because raising the cost of imported steel and aluminum can raise production costs for everyone in the Brewers of Baird automakers in Detroit President Trump is taking to Twitter today to say that oil prices are too high the level does criticism at OPEC blaming the cartel of producers for the rise the group of 14 oil producing countries is tight supply in an effort to bolster prices taking or that one point this year up more than $20.00 a barrel from 2016 levels around one of the members of OPEC Meanwhile blamed Trump for increased prices accusing him of causing instability over. Drawing from the global nuclear arms deal Federal Reserve policy makers today pushed their benchmark interest rate up a quarter of a percent n.p.r. Said it's she says Fed officials also signaled 2 more rate hikes could Carm by year's end prior to the meeting there was lots of speculation that inflation worries would force the Fed to pick up the pace of its rate hikes but Fed chair Jerome Powell rejected that notion in fact the new Fed forecasts suggest inflation is likely to rise only slightly over the next couple of years Paul said the rate increase is a sign of economic health after years of ultra low rates to support growth the u.s. Economy is in great shape growth is strong labor markets are strong inflation is close to target and that's what you're seeing the Fed's action means interest rates will rise on credit cards and adjustable rate loans tied to the federal funds rate John it's t. N.p.r. News Washington the Dow was down $119.00 points this is n.p.r. And from Cape e.c.c. News I'm Nick Roman with the stories we're covering at 6 o 4 elections officials across California are still counting ballots that were cast in last week's statewide primary election one congressional race in Orange County is so close only a few 100 votes separate 2 candidates trying to make the runoff only one of a Makes it again that separation about 2 tenths of a percentage point part of a national political battle to determine whether Democrats or Republicans control the u.s. House of Representatives we get to Tales from k b c C's Mary Plummer congressional district 48 covers communities likely going to be jealous of you a hoe and found Valley longtime incumbent Dana Rohrabacher a Republican has secured one of the spots in the November election but who will face is still an open question Democrats hands cures stead and Harley Ruta are battling it out for the 2nd spot going into primary day 8 Democrats were competing the crowded field can. Used voters in caused a split in the party the National Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee backed Ruda and the state party backed cures stad Chapman University poly side Professor Lori Cox Hahn says that divide factored into the close election I think that because they are so similar that it kind of split the Democratic caucus hands as Democrats will need to consolidate behind one candidate if they want to prevail in November covering politics and Mary Plummer will take another look at k.p.c. Scene news in 23 minutes we'll look at traffic too on a very busy Wednesday afternoon that's in 12 at 6 o 6 support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include Heather Stewart Hagar and Paul g. Hagar supporting African Wildlife Foundation working to ensure wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern Africa learn more at a w.f. Dot org and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. P.c.c. 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National political correspondent Mara Liasson is here with some insights from our Hi Ari last night Republican Congressman Mark Sanford lost his primary he was attacked by his opponent for having criticized Trump How much should we take away from that I think we should take a lot I think that it shows that former House Speaker John Boehner was probably right when he said there is no Republican Party right now there's a trump party but the g.o.p. Is off taking a nap somewhere Mark Sanford lost his primary he was a conservative Republican who has not voted against Trump on policy but he has criticized him so the most important factor in these Republican primaries is becoming how personally loyal how devoted are you to Donald Trump you just heard Katie Arrington at her victory party last week in Alabama Martha Roby was a conservative Republican was forced into a runoff election after a primary battle which centered around who is more devoted to trump Robey famously on indorse Trump during the 2016 campaign after the Access Hollywood tape came out and she was personally offended and this is what Bob Corker the senator. From Tennessee has been talking about today he told reporters in the capital of that the Republican Party has turned into a cult what he means is a cult of personality that's based not on issues just on loyalty to Donald Trump and last night was also a good primer night for another trump booster who some Republican leaders really don't seem very happy about in Virginia that's right Corey Stewart won the Republican primary for Senate he's going to go up against the Democratic incumbent Tim Kaine he had been the cochairman of the Trump campaign in Virginia in 2016 he was fired by the campaign because he protested in front of the r. And c. Because they he thought they were insufficiently supportive of Trump he's also a candidate who was closely identified with the movement to preserve Confederate statues Confederate heritage he's posed with the Confederate flag many times and what's really interesting is the n.r.a. The National Republican Senatorial Committee the campaign committee of the Senate has chosen not to support him even though the president is and Democrats in Virginia are happy about this they are hoping that having Cory steward at the top of the ticket in Virginia will drag down other Republican candidates in House races because he will turn off moderate Republican voters and he won't bring them out to vote you mentioned Senator Bob Corker Republican of Tennessee he gave a pretty extraordinary speech on the floor of the Senate yesterday let's listen to how he criticized his g.o.p. Colleagues here gosh way we might poke the bear is the language I've been hearing and all eyes wait what might poke the bear the president might get up. There is some dissent within the g.o.p. There's some dissent what Corker was talking about is people are afraid that they'll end up in the minority if they cross Trump or criticize him Corker was trying to get an amendment on a bill that would have taken some of Trump's tariff power away from him Corker has talked about the willingness to spend political capital in other words to do something you believe in even if it might cost you votes but Corker himself is retiring in other words he's only saying all these things after he's decided to retire so you see this all over the place not just on the campaign trail also in the house there was a revolt on immigration from moderates they wanted to vote on some bills on the floor but they capitulated So I think there's been a complete and total takeover by Trump of the Republican Party not just changing their views on trade and immigration and Vladimir Putin Yeah but also he's made them very reluctant to criticize him at all N.P.R.'s Mara Liasson thank you thank you today on the Senate floor minority leader Chuck Schumer made a promise we Democrats are going to spend the next few months including the August work period focusing on the nation health care system that's a big shift from the last few elections where health care was just about the last thing Democrats wanted to talk about with the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare increasingly popular and with Republicans in control of the federal government Democrats now see health care as a winning issue n.p.r. Congressional correspondent Scott Detroit has more at event after event in Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill is talking about health care you're going to hear me talk about it nonstop outrageous the stress people feel right now about climbing health care costs go to the Democrats official You Tube page and nearly every single video focuses on the topic hospitals especially rural hospitals are under stress in the meantime we're going to find out how broad the problem is how school is a Democrat up for reelection in a state President Trump won by nearly 20 points the fact she's health care as a way. Bickel issue shows just how much has changed since the last time she ran in 2012 back then Republican slammed Obamacare for driving up costs and just about everything else everything is bad about healthcare it was all the fault of Obamacare which of course wasn't true but it was how politically powerful enough that Republicans won the House than the Senate a few years later but now Obamacare is much more popular one of the most important parts of the repeal attempts by Republicans is that it actually crystallize for voters what that state that's Guy Cecil who runs the Democratic super pac Priorities USA polls show that the Republicans push to repeal the landmark health care law the more voters realize they like many of its protections their main repeal effort failed and those protections are still in place but a big part of Democratic campaigns this year is the warning that Republicans still want to repeal Obamacare is coming after your health care increasing your out of pocket costs a devastating age tax if you're 50 year old that's an ad being run in the swing district by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee another big political shift from the years Democrats ran away from health care on the campaign trail now Republicans have all the power Drew Altman is the president and c.e.o. Of the Kaiser Family Foundation their government and they own it and they're responsible for the problems with the law whatever they are the same goes for every other health care problem particularly rising premiums and drug costs if Democrats aren't in control they blame Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen is heading Democratic campaign efforts this year he sees health care as a winning issue for McCaskill and the 9 other Democrats running for reelection in states trunk carried health care costs or maybe. Very top issues in every state in the country and when you look at that issue the most recent polling that I've seen on that which was a c.n.n. Poll a few months ago shows a 20 point to advantage for Democrats and experts are predicting another big increase in premiums this fall for Obamacare plans previous hikes hurt Democrats when Obama was in the White House now the party sees them as hurting front and Republicans so in a year a voter seen increase but the economy and the direction of the country expect McCaskill and other Democrats on the defensive in states won by Trump to keep talking about one area where people aren't happy Here's Chuck Schumer we're going to focus on public and friends have done to drive up the costs of health care to average Americans and what we should be doing to reverse that awful trend it still might take some adjustment though for Democratic campaign managers who spent years steering their candidates away from the issue Guy Cecil coordinated Democratic Senate campaigns in 2012. When asked how he would've reacted back then when told health care would be a centerpiece of 28000 Democratic campaigns Cecil said I would be pretty surprised but then again there's a lot else about 28000 that would have surprised Democrats if you told them a few years ago Scott Tetro n.p.r. News the Capitol. A giant dust storm on Mars is threatening to end the mission of a NASA rover the rover called opportunity depends on solar panels to charge its batteries right now the storm has practically blotted out the sun N.P.R.'s Joe Palca has more on May 30th NASA says Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted a dust storm a storm that was heading toward opportunities location near the equator over the next few days the storm intensified by last Sunday the power from opportunities solar panels had dropped to a trickle I made the decision to declare spacecraft emergency because there wasn't enough energy for the rover to sustain activity that's Opportunity Project Manager John Callas of Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory callus says the spacecraft has basically gone to sleep either just historic low energy levels for the vehicle opportunity has been hard at work on Mars since January 2004 it's found signs that water once flowed on the now parched planet opportunity was designed to operate for at least 90 days on Mars 14 and a half years later it was still going strong prior to this storm the vehicle is in actually remarkably good health the main danger to the rover at this point is the cold temperatures on Mars it goes as low as 36 degrees below 0 opportunities twin rover called Spirit stopped working in 2010 because of the cold the big difference between now and what spirit went through back in March in 2010 is barely is going through winter so the temperatures were a lot colder and there was a lot less sunlight. Now it's late spring on Mars so the temperatures will actually be warming and as it turns as the dust is for the solar panels it's good in a different way Rich Zurek is chief scientist for the Mars program office such a.p.l. When you have such a thick dust the nighttime temperatures are actually warmer and that's helping out the opportunity to 500 he does survive the cold temperatures project manager John Callas says the solar panels should be able to recharge the batteries when the dust clears even though these batteries are 15 years old they still have about 85 percent of their capacity that they are really the finest batteries in the solar system I mean I wish my cell phone battery had half of that still until the batteries do recharge everybody on the rover team will be nervous this team has a very strong bond with the rover and you know the analogy I would use right now is like you have a loved one in a coma in the hospital you know the doctors are telling you that Ok you just got to give it time and she'll wake up but you know if it's your 97 year old grandmother you're going to be very concerned and so we are we should know more in a few days Joe Palca n.p.r. News. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News it's on member supported 99.3 p.c.c. I'm Nick Roman state lawmakers are planning to vote tomorrow on the budget deal the Democratic legislative leaders reached last week with Governor Jerry Brown an agreement has drawn fierce criticism from health care advocates they'd hoped to win money to expand Medicare how to some adult immigrants in California who are here illegally and to improve affordability for Californians getting coverage on the state's health care exchange didn't get that but Senate president pro tem Tony Atkins says the spending plan would make significant new investments in several different areas we feel like we. I've gotten a lot in this budget that significant to move the ball forward did we do everything no it's just not possible but when you look at what we are trying to do to deal with issues of poverty education access and I think we feel pretty good the budget would send more money to welfare grants childcare and the University of California and California State University It also includes half a $1000000000.00 for cities counties and nonprofit groups to reduce homelessness traffic time now one big problem this is on the 15 north between Highway 138 and the escape ramp that's where that car chase that's been going on throughout much of the afternoon started in Orange County has ended up now in the 15 north police activity has all lanes temporarily blocked there are reports that the man in the truck that was being chased has shot himself we'll try and get more information on that but it has the freeway blocked traffic is supported by that gets men drew assisting businesses with financial and accounting project professionals on line a g. 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News I'm Ari Shapiro And I'm Audie Cornish we're going to dive into a decision that Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued earlier this week one that dramatically changes who's eligible for asylum in this country sessions had intervened in the case of a Salvadoran woman who says she suffered horrific abuse at the hands of her husband on Monday sessions overturned a court ruling that had allowed her to stay asylum was never meant to alleviate all problems even all serious problems that people face every day all over the world and the attorney general wrote this in his decision the mere fact that a country may have problems effectively policing certain crimes cannot itself a stablish an asylum claim in a few minutes we're going to hear from an attorney who has successfully represented many victims of domestic violence 1st though to Jan Ting He's a professor of law at Temple University School of Law He largely agrees with sessions interpretation of asylum law it's been a dispute all along right all the attorney generals have said Chief this is a difficult issue you know you're trying to find the right balance of trying to protect the people that the statute is meant to protect and yet not through all of the definition of refugee so broadly that we're kind of overwhelmed I mean I think there's a political consideration here too that for those of us who believe in the asylum statute in the protection that it provides you can't throw the door so wide open that you lose political support for that concept as is I think Happening now but one argument people are saying is that there is such thing as gender based violence for instance and therefore if you have a government that cannot or will not control or protect people who are struggling right in that they their systematic dysfunction in that justice system those people should be able to apply for asylum. Well you can make that argument for all kinds of groups of people right I mean people who are threatened by criminal while it's and the government can't do anything about criminal Wiles' people who are threatened by civil war right their homes are being bombed and the government can't stop the bombing from going on they can't stop the Civil War So there are all kinds of life threatening situations and frankly sympathetic situations for the people that are involved but we have to ask ourselves the question is this who the statute was intended to protect and I think it's clear both internationally and in the United States that the statute was drafted to protect a discrete and limited number of people they carefully defined who was to be protected you have to live in a victim of persecution or threatened with persecution what is persecution you know it's not discrimination it's not that the volcano exploded and there's ash falling on your home it's not that there are no jobs in your area even if the government is doing nothing about creating jobs for you that's not persecution so I think people were conscious of the fact that this was to provide protection for a limited and discreet number of people people are going to be hearing some pretty awful stories of immigrants playing gang violence of women fleeing all kinds of abuse are you effectively saying put that out of your mind because America's doors we just can't accommodate them well I guess I am saying that there's a lot of terrible stuff going on in the world and the solution to all the terrible stuff that's going on in the world cannot be let's bring every single person who is a victim of anything to the United States and let them live here with their families forever that can't be the right answer Well what is the right answer the right answer is whatever Congress says the right answer is Congress has spoken on this issue. We've set up this immigration procedure Congress has given us statutes that tell us who can immigrate permanently to the United States and who is removable from the United States and that's what the system is designed to enforce Congress can change the laws anytime Genting he is a professor of law at Temple University thank you for speaking with all things considered it's always a pleasure thank you now for an opposing perspective we turn to Dortch and light old She's director of the Center for Battered Women's Legal Services at Sanctuary for Families It's a nonprofit in New York she called the attorney general's decision quote the worst thing yet from this administration I think that the attorney general Attorney General Sessions does not understand that persecution that is based on gender generally does not have the same kind of public character of other kinds of persecution it takes the form often of beatings and rapes and bedrooms not lynching and public spaces and unlike victims of many other kinds of persecution victims of gender based persecution usually do not have a public socially recognized identity especially in societies where there is little public recognition of the harm of gender based violence unfortunately Attorney General Sessions is willfully ignorant to these obvious facts he agree just lay minimizes the failure of the governments these victims are flaying to protect him and he treats this failure to protect as inadvertent when in fact these victims are deliberately and callously tonight protection by their own governments one political argument is that if you open the doors too wide you lose political support to help people in the 1st place well I don't think the doors have been opened to why certainly victims of severe long. Standing gender based violence have come to the United States and have been granted asylum. It's never been a floodgate situation here these are hard cases to win what are you advising your clients now I don't know if you can describe a case pending there might be affected by this new policy Well many of our cases could conceivably if be affected by this new policy we're certainly talking about victims of domestic violence but it also affects so many other victims we have victims of female genital mutilation They're now at increased risk of being denied asylum victims of honor based violence were often threatened by death by their own families because those families believe in very traditional conservative societies that these women and girls have somehow impugn the family's honor so this will affect scores and scores of our clients however our strategy we will persist in representing them we believe that ultimately there will be a recognition that these are exactly the kinds of cases and the kinds of individuals that our country's asylum laws are intended to protect what were your initial thoughts on Monday when you would learned of the attorney general's decision well there were more emotions than thoughts and the images of the clients we have successfully represented came to my mind and I just tried to imagine circumstances under which they would have been denied protection we've represented hundreds of women successfully in gender based asylum claims and watched them enter our society move from the margins to the center get jobs provide for themselves and their children make important contributions to our society often doing jobs that other Americans don't want to do the impact on them their. 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Up a 2 day meeting on interest rates has made me question what I do for a living because monetary policy affects everyone yes I want to start with a plain English summary of how the economy is doing Ok what my colleagues and I at the Federal Reserve are trying to do right and why I just I thought that was my job but by all means sure go ahead the main takeaway is that the economy is doing very well I was going to say that most people who want to find jobs are finding them and unemployment and inflation are low I've been saying that for the past few years we've been gradually raising interest rates and along the way we've tried to explain the reasoning behind our decisions again my job but don't let that stop you in particular we think that gradually returning interest rates to a more normal level as the economy strengthens is the best way the Fed can help sustain an. Vironment in which American households and businesses can thrive which at long last gets to the point the Fed did raise it short term interest rates today a quarter of one percentage point but its target for what is known as the federal funds rate at $1.00 and $3.00 quarters to 2 percent as basically the entire economic universe knew it would 2 other things of note to tell you one form one function Here's the form palace it started in January he's going to do a press conference after every Fed meeting instead of every other one all in the service of making what used to be called Fed speak more intelligible Again my job also the function he was asked about trade policy and the economic impact of the contentiousness of late 1st he kind of sidestepped Congress is very specifically given authority over trade to the executive branch so I wouldn't comment on any particular specific trade actions and then he kind of did answer concerns about changes in trade policy are arising I think it's fair to say and also that you're beginning to hear reports of companies holding off on making investments and hiring people net net though jobs are good inflation is good and interest rates are probably going to go up 2 more times this year. Well I did turn out to the once and future state of corporate mergers and acquisitions in this economy media division yesterday as you know a t.n.t. Was cleared by Time Warner for 85000000000 Somalians which has beget apparently a late afternoon but pretty much expected bid today from Comcast 65000000000 cash for 21st Century Fox which Disney is already trying to buy coincidents Oh I think not Marketplace's Tracy Samuelson takes a look at which would be media deal makers can take hope from the decision and which might oughta be more cautious the pace of mergers and acquisitions is already at record highs and now likely to keep chugging says natural He's director of deals intelligence at Thomson Reuters which has tracked Amynias for over 30 years the fact that it still can go through without any conditions as everyone in the media telecom technology space looking at potential areas of dancin or growth I think there are a lot of very busy bankers and lawyers over the past 24 hours or put another way it's going to be a big year for all of the steak houses that the investment bankers like Eric Gordon at the University of Michigan says media companies in a similar position to Time Warner reacting to tectonic shifts in their industry can take hope from this decision also it's probably an encouraging decision for people in health care because there you have another industry that also is going through some changes and needs to go through some structural changes but he wants this doesn't mean any company can merge with anyone especially in a deal between 2 direct competitors like t. Mobile and sprint in fact the judge wrote in his opinion the temptation by some to view this decision as being something more than a resolution of this specific case should be resisted by one and all he even threw in an exclamation point Donna hitches with Columbia Business School in the precedent setting case but I don't think your career. And everything going to be great she says when it comes to m. And a especially in the media industry this decision is a positive but not a. I'm Tracey Samuelson for Marketplace those who complain government policy moved too slowly allow me to introduce you to the Seattle City Council last month that council voted unanimously for what's often called a head tax a set fee that bigger companies have to pay for each of their employees Seattle's was meant to raise tens of millions of dollars to address homelessness and to help create more affordable housing in a city where both have become problems and then yesterday that same city council changed its mind what's going on Marketplace Judge Kim is on that one this was not about Amazon says Lisa herbal a Seattle City Council member who pushed hard for the tax and then voted to repeal Yeah the company has brought tens of thousands of high paying jobs bringing a lot of economic growth that some have benefited from has created a stark inequities and has increased homelessness the tax was an attempt to get about $600.00 large companies to contribute something to the growing problem we don't have a lot of options we don't have the income tax up against the well funded repeal campaign the city council ditched the tax it's not clear whether Amazon helped fund the campaign and that company would not comment but Amazon increasingly defines the city says Jacob vigor who teaches public policy at the University of Washington this really is turning into a 21st century company town he says it's happened before when Boeing flooded the region with jobs during World War 2 housing kept up then affordable housing is tighter now and that's something the 20 cities vying to become Amazon 2nd headquarters should consider Boston New York your crowded Philadelphia or Pittsburgh these are cities that actually have room to grow they have infrastructure that was built for a larger population than they have now and it could actually be a really good thing for their economy Greg Le Roy tracks incentives for good jobs 1st he says the timing of the repeal is significant this is a clear shot across the bow of every city waiting to hear from Amazon about h Q 2 that we don't want to pay taxes. Many cities are promising billions in incentives to Amazon I'm take it for Marketplace Sideways was the trading buzz word of this Wednesday we'll have the details when we do the numbers. Is going to seem a little bit out of left field but hang in there with me which is there are few combinations out there as successful in a business sense as a cup of coffee and a donuts it is in fact the predicate for the entire business model of one of the best known companies in this economy Dunkin Donuts by name that company along with Baskin Robbins is owned by a company called Dunkin Brands Nigel Travis is the c.e.o. Has been for almost 10 years now and he is today's conversation from the corner office Miss traversed good to talk to you sir a lot of the Be here that wasn't much of a thing for listeners to go on but they will very quickly discover you're not originally from shall we say the Boston area r.e.i. How to guy from East London one of running this company. Yeah I guess that question . I have to say for someone who's now 60 I've had a kind of an eventful Corera of the opportunity to move from a slum than where I was brought up in a very entrepreneurial family moved through human resources to 20 years and then Funny it ended up leading companies such as. Dunkin Brands and I've been a sea full so to know if yes you spent time in blockbuster as you said also papa johns but when you got this job running Duncan brands in 2008 ish or sorrow am I right that you'd only been in Dunkin Donut Shop like 23 times I had been many times in fact back in I think it was about 2007 when I was. Papa Jones we had a meeting in Florida went into Duncan. Was a very good not settled in. Many times often I'm kind of fame now my still visit is not an emotional visit so that man will fare full of my 13 year old son still visits this is kind of a subjective question or maybe answer subjective I don't know but but it seems like Dunkin Donuts now it's almost cool and hip somehow Yeah I don't know how to do really well I actually read about the title no. Never tried but done up business is coming back pretty strongly I think people want to give themselves something to revolt themselves don't know it's perfect and here's an interesting fact if you buy one don't know if you buy coffee if you buy a sandwich the biggest attachment was the extra product that goes with it the biggest attachment is always it's. What extra do you have to buy with a donut fascinating. The biggest attachment is and. So I mean. I usually when I 1st saw the numbers I said Ok Go and look at it again that can't be right but it's right let me take you back to your h.r. Roots here for a minute one of the things you have said repeatedly in interviews and in statements you've made is that finding people to work in your shops is is born on the biggest problem that you have why do you suppose that is show but I think it's really interesting issue and I think as many reasons for it I mean without being out as a full statement when I 1st came into the industry in the sayer's about 1909 when I joined Burger King 80 percent of Americans started their working career. In a restaurant Wow That number now I think has dropped to 60. On top of that I think the industry has had a little bit of a bad image which we're trying to correct but I think one of the issues is that because the economy is growing so fast that the month of paper has just outstrip in supply and we need to tackle the supply issue and I think what that truly means is some kind of discussion about comprehensive immigration reform so I think there are answers but it's an ounce of which sometimes isn't always politically acceptable what do you make of the push to get higher wages for folks in the fast food industry and in your industry broadly speaking well. The 1st thing outside is our industry as various times said no to easily so many things I prefer to think the wages should be driven by the market we've always been very mind it's an increase in the minimum wage on the vice states all by federal rights but I think one thing that everyone has to recognize at the end of day the best way to grow wages is to open stores I mean every g.m. . Between 3400 net new stores Dunkin alone and we do that by focusing on franchisee you know economics and if we don't have good you know economics we don't grow we don't provide more jobs you know just to be clear more stores and more jobs doesn't mean higher wages in those jobs you know what I'm saying is it's no good just going to high wages and ignoring the other side of the equation which is you know economics. Last question for let you go Sure and it's the put up or shut up question how many times a week you figure you stop in at a Dunkin shopper or a best in Robbins. Average of I 9 times of. Every time no no no. Wife and I. 530 every morning. Is not just a number. On average 89 times a day and makes me very happy. To see. There is a whole bunch more of my interview with. Competitive nature of the cause of his business. Young people today maybe aren't taking. Over half. 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Donor advised fund that helps clients maximize the impact of their philanthropy by donating appreciated assets like publicly traded stock restricted stock private business interest or real estate. The Southern California . Committed to putting. Every 20. Standard with. A suite of integrated safety features you can learn. We know that Russia last election but didn't steal this year's World Cup 28 feet. I am basing your book lays out the kickbacks and pave the way for this week's kick off. Tonight at 889.3. This is Marketplace I'm going to do a real estate story now the definitely not so much real estate story as it is a financial crisis was 10 years ago yeah but it's still with us story there are places in this country where you can still see the crisis and the housing crash cities and towns warehouses got stuck in a kind of foreclosure limbo and years later still haven't gotten out of it they're just sitting there deserted and teary orating. I want to Long Island New York where there are more homes stuck in that limbo than anywhere else in the country there's a town on Long Island called Roosevelt named after the former president Teddy not after you are it's about 45 minutes by train from Manhattan rappers Chuck d. And flavor of flavor from here so is Howard Stern and so is Natalie Gary kids are playing right here in the playground by the sea is a nice neighborhood Gary who's a financial advisor is standing across the street from that playground in front of a 2 story red brick house with a bright white fence pretty standard for Roosevelt You see they keep up the house pretty nicely but just a few feet to the left and I don't live next so I do this this is a one story house with gray shingles a brick chimney and plywood over the front window out front there's a busted up green s.u.v. With us Nasht had light airbags deployed there are dozens of abandoned houses like this in Roosevelt there's one around the corner from Gary's house and she says these aren't just an eyesore if you want to sell your home you can you want to get a good value if you got to abandon home next door those unwanted neighbors are known as Zomby homes their legacy of the financial crisis in the early years of the 2 thousands home values were soaring and it was easy to get a mortgage Terry did an auto is a real estate agent on Long Island the banks were giving out loans to people that really want qualified for them then home prices plummeted and the. He collapsed by 2009 more than 2000000 people couldn't pay their mortgages and foreclosure notices became as common in some places as junk mail and here's where things get messy so bear with me foreclosure is a complicated process with legal proceedings and mountains of paperwork compound that by millions and things get even more complicated not only were the courts backed up but banks had also been sloppy with their record keeping so the average foreclosure took a year then 2 and eventually 3 Meanwhile the housing market didn't recover so some banks walked away foreclosure was more trouble than the houses were worth and then there were the homeowners until a foreclosure is final the borrower is responsible for the house but a lot of people didn't know that I don't think people understood that's Terri Di Donato the real estate agent giving me a tour of Long Island she says other people left because they were ashamed I think it was embarrassing because a lot of people are often fashionable and work very hard they get embarrassed and they and they just say all right I'm out of here and that's how we got thousands of zombie homes stuck in foreclosure and abandoned nearly 50000 by 2013 clustered in states like New Jersey Florida and New York Bera lots of protections for homeowners so foreclosures take the longest Di Donato and I are in Mass of a town about 10 miles from Roosevelt and on the water there are Beach Clubs docks and big homes with manicured lawns and their zombie homes here too some with telltale signs of squatters like broken glass empty liquor bottles and abandoned shopping carts Nobody likes to have to live near this so I've had people that will say just keep going I don't want to go on hard words for real estate agent here especially in towns like massive peak web where prices have recovered another home so quickly local governments are fed up with zombie. Homes to towns often have to pay to maintain them Joseph solid you know is supervisor for the town of Oyster Bay which includes about speak with he says the costs can be sometimes as little as 500 dollars sometimes as high as $3000.00 to go on the property and clean up the vegetation cut the lawn cut back the trees and that's just one house one time so Easter Bay passed a law in January requiring banks to pay the town $25000.00 for maintenance on each of their zombie homes thus far we've seen 9 checks for $25000.00 each so the pool of resources is growing other towns and states have passed laws to speed up the foreclosure process and in recent years the number of zombie homes has dropped by 70 percent according to the foreclosure database Adam but there are still about 14000 zombie homes around the country a constant reminder that even a decade later the crisis still isn't over. For markets. You can go out to Long Island with Marial Bai where the video she did on zombie homes you can subscribe to our You Tube channel we are marketplace a.p.m. . There are more than a half a 1000000 people in this country on any given day who are homeless and with rising rents heating up a bigger share of people's incomes plenty more are on the edge and when you don't have a place to live a whole lot of other things become problems as well health care among them which is one reason the health care and insurance giant Kaiser Permanente is going to spend 200000000 dollars on affordable housing in the 8 states and District of Columbia where it operates Marketplace's Amy Scott reports now on the health housing connection Sidney bond had been homeless for 5 years living between shelters and friend's couch. When he got a call with good news he'd gotten off a wait list to move into his own apartment I'm glad he didn't see it because I was . Running down the street on was tripped on her face. You know because I was so happy the call was from health care for the homeless at its downtown Baltimore clinic it provides medical care to homeless people and also connects them with what's called permanent supportive housing a subsidized place to live plus counseling and other social services when Bond was on the street he says his chronic asthma and high blood pressure would flare up he also suffered from anxiety and depression being homeless can put a strain on the present mind because it was constantly worried about how I'm a good are you when I'm a do. I was constantly worried now at 54 after more than 2 years in his own place you know I keep track of my medication and goes to my doctor's appointments and I see my psychologist see my therapist so it helps me to take better care of myself and you feel better. And that back more health care organizations are making that connection between housing and health hospitals subsidize apartments for the homeless in Chicago Orlando and Portland insurer United Health Care has invested millions of dollars in affordable housing projects in Michigan and Wisconsin Kevin Linden mood is c.e.o. Of health care for the homeless in Maryland he says Kaiser's $200000000.00 investment is a big step forward the real significance is you've got a major corporation saying it's within our business interests to recognize this relationship and increase the stock of affordable housing we are confident that that kind of thinking will catch on Kaiser plans to focus not only on providing supportive housing for the homeless but also on preventing the displacement of lower and middle income households Nan Roman is president. To the National Alliance to End Homelessness she says rising rents have forced families to spend a larger share of their incomes on housing over half of poor households pay more than half their income for rent that leaves very little for everything else people can't get healthy food they can't access health care as readily they're stressed and all those result in poor health just building more affordable units isn't enough says Nathan Thomas a peer recovery specialist at health care for the homeless the majority of the work I believe is keeping someone off because it is one thing to just take somebody threw them in a box or box Thank you have a nice day many homeless people have mental health issues or disabilities that make it hard to live independently he says Thomas helps navigate those challenges sometimes isn't but the technology. Is a lot of times I. Don't have anybody but us today he's talking with Sidney Bond about Bonds upcoming move to a nicer building. What's known as the subways are it's a long way from the crowded shelters and soup kitchens he left behind several studies have shown the economic payoff of supportive housing a program in Los Angeles save the county 20 percent on medical and social service costs for those who got housing in Baltimore I'm Amy Scott from Marketplace. Has followed on the way out today one more from Fed to good will here not to mention. You also asked marijuana businesses it is actually a problem as we have reported pot is illegal at a federal level so for. Really chartered banks won't touch all those billions in pot generated cash with leaves banking regulators like the Fed Well here's Jay Powell one last time it puts the supervisor in a very very difficult position and of course this isn't our our mandate as a thing to do with marijuana so. So yeah. Marketplace is supported by. Phone service working to help businesses run efficiently the smartphone for your business. Takes design to improve. The Town. 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