Into detention camps his reports are consistent with an overwhelming and growing body of evidence that the Chinese Communist Party is committing human rights violations and abuses against individuals in mass detention we call on the Chinese government to immediate release all those who are arbitrarily detained and to end its draconian policies that have terrorized its own citizens remarks father leak of classified documents showing that rather than voluntary job training is Beijing It claimed the Chinese camps used for ideological and behavioral reeducation. A federal judge is throwing out part of the conviction of several top executives at the pharmaceutical company insists there appear to excess Tory Bedford of member station reports the drug company execs work used to bribing doctors to prescribe an addictive opioid the government prove that insists employees including founder John Kapoor committed fraud while marketing their opioid spray but the u.s. District court judge ruled that prosecutors failed to prove that in says violated the Controlled Substances Act or c.s.a. So that conviction is being thrown out criminal defense attorney Brad Bailey says to prove a violation of the c.s.a. The government would have to like in insists executives to drug dealers which is difficult with an f.d.a. Regulated product to conflate that you into comics distribution is a real slippery slope the judge also deny the defendants requests for a new trial Kapoor's attorney declined to comment for n.p.r. News I'm Tory Bedford in Boston on Wall Street today the Dow closed up 55 points to end the session at 28121 The Nasdaq rose 15 points this is n.p.r. Live from k.q.e.d. News I'm Tiffani Kam Hi The city of San Francisco is joining California in 22 other states in challenging the u.s. Environmental Protection Agency's effort to block the state's ability to set its own limits on pollution from the tailpipes city attorney Dennis Herrera filed the lawsuit today in the same court that California filed a similar lawsuit almost 2 weeks ago in a statement Herrera said car emissions are a major cause of global warming and quote We need to be making more progress not going backward. A San Francisco man has been killed while working with the United Nations in Afghanistan. Nina Thorsen reports Secretary of State Mike palm pale announced that on the all right died in an attack on a u.n. Vehicle in Kabul on Sunday 5 other civilians who were injured including staff attacks targeting u.n. Personnel working to help the Afghan people are unconscionable and we condemn this act. In the strongest possible terms no one has claimed responsibility but the Taliban and the Islamic state have conducted previous attacks in Kabul and he'll rush was working with the United Nations Development Program as a project manager providing payroll and other services to Afghan citizens he was a graduate of Saratoga High School u.c. Riverside and the University of Denver School of International Studies on a social media site Raj wrote quote It was my dream to work for the un It may not be everything I thought it to be for better or for worse but I can say I followed my dream I mean authorise and k.q.e.d. News and I'm Tiffani can Hi support comes from Stanford health care where patients and physicians turn one health care matters most support for n.p.r. Comes from the George Lucas Educational Foundation creator of Edutopia an online resource dedicated to improving the learning experience for American students with information and strategies about what works in k. Through 12 education learn more it Edutopia dot org And from listeners of k.q.e.d. Support for k.q.e.d. Comes from Splunk working to help bring data to every question decision and action that affects an organization or mighty operations to security to business analytics Splunk with data to everything platform more at Splunk dot com. This is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I'm Alpha Chang and I'm Mary Louise Kelly it was just last week when Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher was facing the real possibility of being kicked out of the Navy SEALs then President Trump intervened the secretary of the Navy was fired and Gallagher who had been convicted of posing with the body of an ISIS captive was told he could retire in peace his turn of events may have a long term impact on the seals it could also change the fates of other SEALs caught up in Gallagher story joining us to explain is Steve Walsh of k. P.b.s. In San Diego Hey there Hi Mary Louise who are the other SEALs caught up in this so Lieutenant Jake Portier was originally charged with covering up the 2017 incident in Iraq including the one charge where a military jury convicted Gallagher which is posing with a corpse on the battlefield or your case was thrown out by the chief of naval operations after of the Gallagher trial I talked to Jeremiah Sullivan who is the attorney for Lynn Lieutenant Portier he said the Navy indicates his Triton review board will continue he wants the Pentagon and the head of the Naval Special Operations Rear Admiral Collin green to end this process there are very junior Petty Officers Dexie men even junior officers who are looking now up their chain of command at the admiral green and to Secretary the Navy who can't follow the president's order you may disagree with the president but it's an order. So the review board is also looking at the unit's commander Lieutenant Commander Robert Bryce during Gallagher's trial witnesses indicated that the commander knew about allegations of misconduct interact earlier then indicated but didn't take action also Lieutenant Thomas McNeil now McNeil was one of 7 seals who testified against Gallagher So the way this could play out is Gallagher could retire with 20 years at full rank and benefits and one of the men who actually testified against him could be thrown out of the SEALs Wow what an extraordinary turn of events that would be who will get to do the reviewing remind us how this process works so the way this works it's a group of officers who will review their status now they've been invited to submit statements but this isn't like a court martial they aren't going to get the opportunity to actually speak directly to this board now this process is not as uncommon as you might imagine the Navy revoked 154 tried and pin since 2011 Ironically one of the most clear cut reasons for ousting someone from the elite SEALs is after they've been convicted of a crime and among this group only Gallagher was convicted. So for these specific review panel on these remaining seals defense secretary Mark Esper is asking the acting secretary of the Navy to review this case we could hear as early as tomorrow esper has said publicly that he wants to move on. Just give me a sense of how this is playing out in the Seal community as it were speaking to you you're there in San Diego which is you can see SEALs training there on the beach every day what are people saying about this so Gallacher does have his supporters people who think the military overstepped when they came after him they support the president's decision to intervene now there are others who worry about the impact of the President reaching down to overturn the decision of his commanders that this may lead to others just bypassing the chain of command and appealing directly to the White House now I mean give me a sense of what the long term impacts of this might be on the seals on the Navy overall so so. So the head of Naval Special Warfare Rear Admiral Collin Greene has been pushing to reform the culture and ethics of the SEALs the worry is that this could be lost in this battle of the White House actually talked with Bob muties a law professor at the University of San Diego and a former judge advocate general from the Marines I think the way you resolve that is getting back to basics and ensuring a strong ethical foundation and I think the concern is by the president's recent actions perhaps he's suggesting that he doesn't think that that's the right course . So the question for green is is whether or not this is this is even going to go forward we've really never seen anything like this it's basically on precedent on especially amongst the secretive seals Ok that Steve Wallace of k. P.b.s. Thanks thanks critics of President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson say the men share something in common both Trump and Johnson they charge are undermining democratic institutions in their countries in September Johnson tried to shut down Parliament in the run up to a major break that decision and Trump has called some of the Constitution phony N.P.R.'s Frank Langfitt reports from London on how both leaders are testing the checks on their power in September Boris Johnson asked the Queen's permission to suspend or prorogue Britain's parliament for 5 weeks saying he needed time to prepare his legislative agenda but opposition lawmaker said Johnson just wanted to stop them from scrutinizing his breakfast strategy that's are just as Brenda Hale of the u.k. Supreme Court seemed to see it when she rejected Johnson's argument and reversed his decision the prime minister's advice to her majesty was unlawful void and if not a sect Johnson said the suspension was beyond the court's purview I did is absolutely no disrespect to the judiciary to say I think the court was wrong but now they want to change. The nature. Across the Pond President Trump has dismissed various attempts to check his power including the impeachment inquiry this is how c.b.s. News covered it in a letter to top congressional Democrats the president's White House counsel called Bear in Corrie unconstitutional and said Mr Trump will not cooperate I don't know how you can impeach somebody who's not a great job. I'll tell you what if I ever got a Ph I think the market would crash many scholars on both sides of the Atlantic say Trump and Johnson pro-trade themselves as instruments of the people's will against what they describe as obstructive institutions to bail teaches politics at London's Queen Mary University they are pitching the people again. The elites they are representing themselves as the tribune of the people against those inmates so any institution which stands in the way he's open to legitimate criticism for instance wrecks it here see Johnson isn't the problem but the solution to parliament they say is trying to force Geoffrey Cox is Britain's attorney general this Parliament is very scared Yes Are you sure you know you're sick Trump supporters go even further saying the Russian vest a Geisha was an attempt to overturn the 2016 election his former house speaker Newt Gingrich on Fox Business It was in effect an attempted coup to defeat the duly elected president of states on the part of the deep state both Trump and Johnson wrote protest votes to power targeting the political establishment in Washington and London that their supporters see as out of touch both of used incendiary language to denigrate those who challenge them a few days ago I called the fake news the enemy of the people and they are when British lawmakers moved to block Johnson from crashing the u.k. Out of the European Union the prime minister responded with this there is only one main is a big of a strike this deal it is Jeremy Corbin's surrender bearer to British years accusing the leader of the opposition of surrendering to the e.u. Echoed the language of World War 2 And U.K.'s battle against the Nazis language many lawmakers see as dangerous this is policy shared with the opposition Labor Party. Sometimes to the right and if you think that I tell the prime minister that question this month. Trial. Could it have the same it just because I've never heard such humbug you know my life Yasha Monk is a professor at Johns Hopkins University and author of the people versus democracy where freedom is in danger and how to save it he says the prime minister carefully chooses his words for their. Political effect he insinuates that fate I try to so enemies of the people he says that his party is the party of the people and everybody else apparently is not truly part of the British people so that's a way of diligent him izing dissent Monk says similar factors help explain the rise of Trump and Johnson in these old stable democracies as well as the rise of populism in other countries such as Italy and Hungary thing nation of living standards for ordinary citizens rapid cultural and in many countries demographic transformations which are leading to a rebellion especially amongst people who feel that status in society is increasingly being challenged Monk says the system of checks and balances in the United States faces greater threat right now Boss Johnson at the moment is more popular but I think his attacks on institutions are limited so far to the topic of Brecht's that Donald Trump is less popular and less strategic but he is more willing to attack institutions in a fundamental way but Jim Bell of Queen Mary University says it's the British system that's more vulnerable I think the fact that the president's term is time limited and you have a written constitution which implies rules that are more difficult to get around means that the danger long term is perhaps less than it is in the u.k. Both scholars say Johnson and Trump have already damaged the system of checks and balances in their respective countries Monk says it's up to opposition parties and citizens to use all the mechanisms available to fend off further attacks Frank Langfitt n.p.r. News London all packed up and ready to travel for Thanksgiving not so fast stay bombs like Lone is predicted for the West Coast and a big storm is sweeping across the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains Nathaniel minor with Colorado Public Radio reports from Denver manual Korea was about as chipper as you could expect someone to. He this morning considering he slept on the floor at the Denver International Airport was a bad ass up on the floor before it's not you know and then there's war. So yeah I have a Dreams Korea was trying to get to Seattle to see a friend he got to the airport late yesterday and spent the night here with more than a 1000 other travelers but then his early morning flight was cancelled and a 2nd one to hundreds of other flights here were called off as a major storm rolled over the Rocky Mountains dumping more than 2 feet of snow in some places it's even temporarily shut down busy Interstate 70 the main thoroughfare to Colorado ski resorts the storm is expected to move northeast across the plains and toward the Great Lakes close to a foot is expected in Sioux City and Minneapolis with gusts of winds up to 40 miles per hour in some places it could even touch New England later in the week meanwhile another storm is brewing off the Pacific coast that could help Oregon and California with rain snow and winds up to 80 miles per hour transportation officials and weather forecasters say it's best to just stay home and wait out these storms manual Korea is going to give it one more shot to get to Seattle but he says if that falls through there are probably call it quits and to stay here for Thanksgiving you know but he wouldn't be alone Creo says he'd spend the holiday with his sister in Denver for n.p.r. 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Takes a medical bill to sort through why they can be so confusing and confounding Today we look at the case of a pretty big bill for what seems like a pretty simple medical service it only took a minute or so we're joined by Dr Elizabeth Rosenthal She is editor in chief of our partner Kaiser Health News Welcome back Hi this is quite a story quite a story so who are we hearing from what's what's the story today we're meeting the Branson family from Las Vegas they're a young couple with 2 little girls ama and Lucy and the bill involves a Polly Pocket doll and an emergency room visit Ok looking forward to hearing where this one goes and our guide is going to be Reporter Stephanie O'Neill who visited the Branson is the let's hear what happened for the Branson's of Las Vegas the story of Lucy and the tiny doll shoes is one no one in this family will ever forget it happened last April Lucy was just 3 and a half and on this particular evening her parents Katie and Michael were getting ready for a long awaited concert it was to be a special evening one given to them by Katie's parents we had a babysitter coming in Mike less than an hour we had these take Gates we were really excited and Lucy comes up the stairs and I hear. And I was like what is going on and Michael said well you coughing but Lucy wouldn't answer them beyond gesturing at her nose Michael says well I kind of pulled her back and lifted her head up and put on our bed and that's when I could see something up or notice that something was a pair of tiny pink plastic dolls shoes one perfectly lodged in each of his little nostrils Michael says panic over took a while Katie who was in the midst of reading herself for the date sprung into full on mom mode and so I went with my little to ease ours and I get one little pink shoe out and I put it on the counter it's maybe about the size of a Q-Tip head easy peasey she thought so she takes a deep breath and reaches into the other nostril but as Lucy now 4 years old explains it didn't work for everyone I stack in my nose and I can and my mom couldn't give a damn how big sister Emma says. Emma 7 let's. Leave you with a scary yes wow thank you Have you ever done a thing like that never in my life but it is pretty common for kids to stick things up their noses with some items even requiring surgical extraction still Kitty wasn't too worried even when her tweezers couldn't reach the 2nd shoe I'm thinking Ok why I can't get this out I want to hurt her so I say Ok Lucy you need to blow like and then I kind of do the motion of blow and she goes. That was a giant sniff and I was like oh look. Shoot. After that Katie knew it was time for the professionals so I said Ok Michael you need to go to the urgent care they should have the tweezers all we need is our trees are like maybe half an intern inch longer than my standard day to day traders but urgent care didn't have a long enough pair next stop the hospital emergency room and voila the e.r. Doc easily plucked the shoe out of Lucy's nostril and it was probably less than one second the time of the time they put up her nose left on it pulled out she was out Lizzie got a lollipop Katie and Michael got to the concert it seemed like they're lucky day then they got the bill almost $2000.00 for the e.r. And almost another grand for the e.r. Doc and because the Branson's have a high deductible plan and they're responsible for all of it I thought it was simply an error like there is no way it's the most you've ever paid for a pair of shoes oh my gosh. I proudly $178.00 Yeah they were gnarly to 20 and I keep mine as very proud of it so you have never had a pair of shoes anything close to the cost of these issues that have never had a theory about now a pair of shoes still Katie Branson says she remains hopeful that Lucy has learned her lesson but she has said she will never put shoes up her nose again she's promised. And her parents hope that also means she will be sticking anything else up or nostrils ever again for n.p.r. News I'm Stephanie O'Neill in Las Vegas Wow I am in full on my myself right. There and it was resentful you were in your doc before you before you moved to Kaiser Health News is that right how how common is this kids in the e.r. With something they have managed to shove up the nose Well I worked in an adult t.r. And grown ups have mostly learned not to do this kind of thing but pediatricians say it's very common and very easy to treat if you have long tweet. Hers which they call forceps and medical lingo as a kid I myself put pussy willows in both ears so I've been there in your ear Ok I have been there wrists Yes with kids for many things including things up the nose but I have never been presented with a $3000.00 bill for something that took less than a minute to get out what's going on here what's going on here is that today everything in anything will be build and build a lot the doctor charged over $900.00 Katie Branson very smartly negotiated that into half right away but the hospital charge more than $1700.00 and so far they aren't but they aren't and I'm sure the parents have asked for them to budge why aren't they well their attitude seems to be an e.r. Visit is an e.r. Visit and you could have gone to urgent care they did go to urgent care though right and it was a Friday night and they didn't want to leave Lucy uncomfortable all weekend m. Plus what lay person knows whether or not it's dangerous to leave Polly Pocket chews up your kids know that you don't want to keep sniffing and it may end up in her lungs and then right they made a rational decision so their insurance did not pick up any of this explaining well lots of families these days like the Branson's opt for a high deductible plan that means in the Branson's case they had to spend $6000.00 before insurance kicked in their pretty savvy they made a decision that they would set this money aside for like a medical crisis they just never imagined that they'd have to spend this money for a little shoe up the nose and what is the take away here what should they have done differently particularly as we said it's a it was a Friday night the pediatrician wasn't there well a pediatrician might have told them it could safely wait until Monday morning or at least look for other options the next day so it's important I think to have a primary care doctor who can say be where there are other options but they did one really smart thing that others should follow instead of getting angry when they saw this bill they began to push back right away and got a discount from the doctor. Least. A minor point but I have to ask whatever happened to. The hot pink ones that cause the trouble disappeared into the play room for Tex but Lucy and Emma had lots of other Polly Pocket shoes to show us what we visited. Danger lurking in every corner you can see those pictures if you dare at N.P.R.'s blog with Rosenthal thank you so much for being here thanks for having me. And now we have got a question for you family have a one of a kind of holiday tradition. Non family members about it there either and. If so please tell us about it you can get any e-mail it to. Crowdsource. Or. A couple sentences what your family does to honor. And meanwhile tomorrow you can listen for some nontraditional Thanksgiving traditions this is n.p.r. News k.q.e.d. Traffic at 629 includes a stall on the shore freeway. 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And research marketplace. Foundation. Is Tuesday the 6th. There are some economic indicators that you can really wrap your brain around right the unemployment rate for instance or the number of new homes built in a given month both of those are tangible easily understood for the most part Sometimes though you get a report that while interesting and informative is also a bit squishy like the one we got today something called the Consumer Confidence Index a could give you the number but it's probably not going to mean anything to you $125.00 I mean it's pretty strong actually and historically but it's also the 4th month straight that consumer confidence has gone down. The question really though especially important given how critical consumers are to this economy at this moment is what exactly consumer confidence is anyway Marketplace's starts off feelings consumer confidence is feelings about the economy it could be bad we're due for some kind of recession of some sort it's a little flat right now Mariel Richen Bryants our focus around New Yorkers all sharing their views with Marketplace there are a few different folks who do official monthly consumer confidence surveys the Conference Board is one so we as consumers 5 question which we've been doing since the late sixty's Lynn Franco is senior director of economic indicators 1st they asked people about 2600 of them via email how they feel about the way things are now you know our jobs plentiful and not so plentiful hard to get and then surveys will ask how do people feel about the economy in the future 6 months 12 months in terms of employment and expects more jobs fewer jobs or the same and in terms of their income today expected to increase decrease or remain the same people's answers are a window into what's on their mind and all the answers are used to pop out a number or confidence and of course we care about all this because feelings can turn into dollars or lack of dollars Richard curtain is director of surveys for the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index another measure of consumer confidence when people become optimistic they're more likely to make discretionary spending decisions where their purse most of their more likely to put off most decisions and the worst consumers think the future will be and the longer they feel that way the more likely it is that we're headed for a recession Constance Hunter chief economist at Cape p.m.g. All of this is to say ceilings are really important even to economists in New York I'm sorry Ben a short for Marketplace you know who's reasonably confident and is not an economist by the way Jay Powell that's who the Fed chair gave us. Beach last night the greater Providence Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce should you be curious you talked about all the usual stuff inflation the economic expansion reaching all Americans and he said that that expansion is at a point now where he sees the glass as and these are his words much more than half full so we got some actual economists on the phone to tease out what Mr Powell might have been talking about so what's really more than half. The employment This is the unemployment rate is near the lows of the last 50 years 3.6 percent as you know if you listen to this radio program regularly Nellie Lang is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution talking about what is really item one when it comes to the economic glass employments where a lot of the gains have been coming from what are called prime age workers 25 to 54 year olds it's been on a downward trend for a several decades intensified after the financial crisis but since about 201415 and has started to rise and it's not just the number of people who are employed wages are finally up as well there have been income gains and gains for middle income families I've been to in the economic glass inflation nice steady inflation so that also is part of more than half for a central bank who has a mandate for maximum climate and price stability but because remember the glass is only half full it's not totally fall because of the fact that inflation remains subdued nor Yanacocha Cota teaches at the University of Rochester used to run the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis by the way so subdued Mr Coach quota means what below the Fed's desired level of 2 percent all right good to know one more thing by the way in the only half full category those income gains no. Was talking about they are not equally distributed in this economy the lower income is just moving up more modest Reagan from middle income so I think there's still room for for that to continue to grow and that would make the economy even stronger or to torture the metaphor just a little bit longer fill the Fed chairs economic glass a little bit more how Wall Street took Mr Pelz speech when we do the numbers. Unpaid labor is the subject of this next story domestic labor to be clear cooking cleaning caregiving as well way more of which is done by women then by men it's not as bad now as it has been historically that gender gap but it is one of the reasons women participate in the workforce at a lower rate than men do and it's a disparity that's already the reality for young women between the ages of 16 and 24 Marketplace's Mitchell Hartman has the story like a lot of children of immigrants 26 year old Lisa Beth Rebus release had to grow up fast her parents worked long hours in the vegetable fields and Christmas tree farms of Oregon's Willamette Valley and they didn't speak much English as early as middle school they started saying they go Well you know the language better than we do hey can you make this phone call for the doctors come with me to the doctor I mean what is this paper saying we're trying to buy a house her parents who came from Mexico worked full time sometimes split shifts there were layoffs and money was often tight a brother came along then a little sister 6 and 10 years younger than lease bet her parents couldn't afford childcare so it fell to her I'm not the oldest but I am the oldest girl and so as a quilter all that. Around in that you're expected to do certain things you know look after you simply take them to school early in the pointing help with their homework mopping cleaning just doing chores around the house. That's family and their 2 Chihuahuas gathered in the kitchen of the ranch house they phone for nearly 20 years in Corvallis Oregon her mom Adela now works as a custodian cleaning dorm rooms at Oregon State University. As post so lace simmered on the stove Adela said she wishes she hadn't had to leave these vets in charge so much to get your thought how can I not chip in the same with me when I work night shift it was really hard to do because I had to leave this bed watching her younger brother and sister well if I couldn't do anything else I had to our money to support them and not let them down in the least some homework came after housework for at least that that didn't leave time for an after school job or other activities I loved sports growing up but as I grew up in the demands of our higher you know just at home there's not a lot of opportunity to play a sport on average teenage girls have less time than boys for homework extracurriculars and after school jobs in part because they spend 30 to 45 minutes more a day on unpaid caregiving and household chores That's according to a recent report from the Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project This can lead to lower educational attainment and earning power but it didn't for a least that riv us release she got good grades in high school and went on to the University of Oregon on a full scholarship all the things that have to do translate help with the kids and so I was kind of like no I need an escape and that was my skip it was a good escape because it got me fair there but it was it was easy things are a good deal easier for her sister Yes. She's now 16 a junior in high school the family's better off economically the parents are about to pay off their mortgage you Sammy is got fewer chores and no younger siblings to take care of and she's planning to follow her big sister's example and go to college I just mostly focus on my at school work and all that what I really like to do is dancing. Dancing but not every family's doing as well as the reverse releases the Hamilton Project study found that around one in 10 teenagers isn't in school or working least Betsy's the problems they face every day in her job she's an alcohol and drug addiction counselor at a Latin American community organization working with young adults and families dealing with substance use maybe both parents being one parent and then if you put him. Whether that is hey I have to stay home because I have to babysit like literally stay home I can't go to school the Hamilton Project finds that teenage girls who are neither working nor in school spend around 20 hours a week doing unpaid household labor 3 times as much as boys I'm Michel Martin and for Marketplace. The housing market in this economy continues to be reasonably strong prices are up and homes are selling people are finding places to buy and the money to buy them with. But sometimes as you'll hear in this next episode of our series adventures in housing sometimes house isn't the best investment you can make my name is that is con and I live in Iowa City. So I grew up in Pakistan and mortgages not available over there are generally 2 people so. You have to save up the whole entire amount of your house cost up front in cash. And that's what my mom dad my grandparents did so having. A house of your own was a huge. Boil for my family. Children for for the American dream to come here to make a bigger better life for themselves and for their kids and the only reason I've been able to do it is because I know best to find money energy on education and family back. In the fall of 2000 and. I had finally reached a point in my life where I fared I needed to own that dream home I found this place that was everything that you could have asked for it was very close to downtown big backyard really I walked into that home and I could feel that this was going to be my home. I made an offer offered accepted at that point I was really thinking about how I was going to make it my own I was going to put myself out there and my reading of it would be here and the kids would be there . When the news came that my cousin had passed away he's 38 he was 31 years old newly married with a one year old daughter and that just made the tragedy a whole lot more worse I felt very overwhelmed there I was standing in my dream house the dream was almost about to become a reality and yet I had I I heard the strategy news and I felt that something had to be done. That took the junk that I was going to use as a down payment for my house I took that check up an education fund for me my cousin's daughter I felt you know the best way to honor his memory was to ensure that this girl who suddenly had fewer opportunities in life to educate herself is it as far as the education is and. As as a doctor I see the bad side of life. And see sickness as these I see how people you know more than more than what I've learned how people grieve how people give up how people respond situations it can matures you as a person as well so while it was it was a sad moment to say we're. In a saving again. 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This is Marketplace I'm caught I resign we talked about tariffs a little bit yesterday on the program specifically who's paying them that would be says the New York Fed and many many others American importers and consumers and that brings us to this morning's earnings report from Dollar Tree sales up profits up also up tear of costs says the company an extra $1000000.00 next quarter if the next round of import taxes goes into effect next month as scheduled It's a tricky situation for a company whose rock bottom prices are its brand as Marketplace's Justin ho explains walk down the aisles of a Dollar Tree and you'll see lots of things the term administration has hit with import taxes believes in costume jewelry a lot of kitchenware and tableware cleaning supplies pens pencils markers That's Catherine Ross an economics professor at u.c. Davis stores like Wal-Mart or Home Depot sell a broader range of goods and those stores can absorb tariffs by increasing prices on more expensive items Russ says dollar trade doesn't have that luxury after all customers shop there because almost everything costs a dollar the market for these is going to be very highly sensitive to price so price increases may end up really changing their volume of sales earlier this year Dollar Tree started experimenting with higher prices with sections it calls Dollar Tree plus Still it's called Dollar Tree that price point isn't likely to go away so the company's trying to cut costs too here's Dollar Tree c.e.o. Gary Philbin on c n b c This morning we negotiate lower costs is just as simple as sometimes meeting face to face with our vendors we are moving some product and China we're sourcing it elsewhere we are redesigning product target recently demanded that its suppliers pick up the cost of tariffs but Dollar Tree doesn't have as much weight to throw around says each Harper Sada trade policy professor at Cornell for. Much of. The bargain would say the suppliers. Very limited person says Dollar Tree suppliers have low margins themselves because what they sell is so cheap that doesn't give them much room to absorb tariffs either in New York I'm just in how for Marketplace there is a line to be had here about there being a secondary market in everything but it's not coming to me right now so I'll just tell you that e-bay is going to sell ticket broker Stubhub do with European competitor via Gogo for about $4000000000.00 e-bay is best known for its online auctions of course and it's been under some pressure from activist investors to sell off some of the Miscellany and refocus on its core business in the face of slowing growth So what exactly is your business right now anyway Marketplace's Megan McArdle Corrino has that 110 years ago Cooley Lawrence was always on e-bay to buy shoes clothing and electronics but in recent years the attorney in Durham North Carolina has drifted away its options that would have fast at delivery less like Amazon Lawrence's new go to site but once e-bay was on the same footing as the e-commerce behemoth says Scott Galloway a marketing professor at n.y.u. You could look at it as a company that has stood still in time since 2004 back then shoppers went online to find Nishan collectible items which is where even a excelled but e-commerce is now mainstream Galloway says maybe shifted away from auctions to more new items with fixed prices but it is unable to compete the war for generally commerce is over and Amazon won but even for auctions E.-Bay now has more competition is about Martin a costumer for a theater company in Louisville Kentucky buys a lot of secondhand clothes on line which in the past few years has meant more and more apps like Posh Mark and Mark already which she says are easier to use to communicate with sellers and find exactly what she's looking for the outdated interface of e Bay could be holding it back in a mobile shopping era says. John Freeman and investment advisor at c.f.r. a It's a very busy cluttered site it's not very good for browsing he says improving the layout and the algorithms that display suggested products could make e-bay a better shopping destination even if it won't ever again be the one stop shop for everything I make in the car he can really open market but. Here's something to think about the next time you're at the grocery store trying to find a rite of a condo narco trafficking seriously We now eat so many in this economy the overwhelming majority of which come from Mexico that demand like that in the value of the crop has given rise to extortion and hijacking cartels and worse Kaitlin to come as a foreign correspondent for The Los Angeles Times she's based in Mexico City wrote about this recently Kay welcome to the program good to be here one of the things you point out in this piece is the the only way I can think of to describe it is the corporate structure you know when you were talking about narco trafficking in this article it was big international conglomerates with supply chains and logistics and all of that these gangs and cartels going after avocado farms are much more. So small local businesses. Yeah well think about how difficult it is really to traffic drugs on a large scale you have you're in Mexico you have to have contacts in South America for example if you're importing cocaine you have to have control of the port in Mexico where that cocaine arrives you have to have contacts with dealers in the u.s. Who actually get these drugs to the customers and the smaller groups that have emerged they don't have all those contacts necessarily so they look for money wherever they can get it and in this stretch of the country it's produce specifically off a cutlass and the barriers to entry I imagine are pretty low you need some trucks to deal with those stolen produce and some guns right and guns are pretty easy to secure here because you know $250.00 of them are estimated to be coming from the u.s. Each day illegally and you can hijack a truck if you don't have one that's what we're seeing for trucks hijacked every day in this city. So there is there's extortion and protection money that farmers have to pay what do you hear from the workers who are actually in the trees harvesting these fruit. Yes So this is this problem has really affected everybody and the production line so you do have the grove owners who are having to pay extortion often to multiple groups and then on down the line you have drivers who are being targeted and then you have the pickers themselves who say they're forced to come point to go to these cartel controlled farms and pick up the cars for them it's really good money by Mexican standards picker makes you know $75.00 a day $5.00 minimum wage across Mexico but it's increasingly pretty dangerous work too it is totally fascinating and I will tell you completely the pressing this story is. How much of what's going on down there is demand from the United States we are eating you say in this story an unbelievable amount of Mexican off. Right yeah the vast majority of avocados consumed in the u.s. Are from Mexico from the state of. I've had people ask me in recent days like should we be boycotting. From Mexico that would probably hurt this region more than it would help but these cartels have shown an amazing ability to diversify that's why they're in the business to begin with they are originally drug trafficking groups that have broken down and look for business elsewhere so I don't think that a boycott is necessarily the answer. So what's the solution what's the answer right I mean you talked about government inability to control the violence you've talked about government inability to control. The extortion in actual practice this kind of. Trafficking what's the future. Not a simple question not easy answers but look at the current Mexican president you know was elected on a platform of pledging to change this he said we are no longer at war with the cartels you know he's created a bunch of social programs that he says in time will make it so people don't want to join drug cartels but those are very long term strategies and in the short term you know in the last couple of weeks we've had a few extremely violent events in Mexico that have shocked people and Lopez Obrador has popularity has fallen 10 points in just a couple of months he said very clearly what he's not going to do but he hasn't exactly said what he plans to do instead. In Mexico City for the Los Angeles. Right. It's kind of amazing Ok thanks a lot appreciate thank you. This final note today about which I am frankly hald it is now possible through the u.s. Offices of the British bookmaker William Hill to get point spreads on Thanksgiving family football games the Associated Press other stories somebody on your team drunk or hung over perhaps you get 2 points for that you got a player taller than 6 feet you give a point a half for that also to be considered whether anybody ran a turkey trot race or earlier in the day and his fatigue and whether anybody was a college athlete I mean yes tongue in cheek but still you can hear the arguments right. Marketplace is supported. By addressing the world's most challenging problems at the convergence of artificial intelligence. And elastic cloud computing. And by Raymond James offering personalized wealth management advice and capital markets expertise with a commitment to putting clients' financial needs 1st more at Raymond James dot com Our We've got to go the Dow the Nasdaq and the s. And p. $500.00 all up give or take to 10 percent today our digital unarmed man team includes Gary Barber Smithfield joint Griffith bent head coach and Sara Mendez star you have as a director of on demand we will see tomorrow but. This is a. The founders of the private research company fusion g.p.s. Are coming up next on fresh air right now it's windy we d. And rainy in the Bay Area and that means traffic trouble starting in Oakland Here's Julie Bishop and we have a traffic Lear with this crash Highway 13 northbound before Park Boulevard right lanes shut overturned a vehicle on its roof and the heavy back of his 2 Joakim Miller Road. Also in Oakland on the Nimitz southbound 80 and high street got it Cheney waiter barrels in sand in the right lane that's why the delays batch of Broadway and trying to get over the city all great northbound 684 Washington Boulevard 2 car wreck in the right lane traffic was already stopped back to Sky creek. K.q.e.d. 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News ay in Washington I'm Jack Speer secretary of state might Pompei o I dressed his role in working with Ukraine today as N.P.R.'s Amy Held reports the administration's dealings with Ukraine are at the center of the impeachment inquiry looking into whether President Trump abused the power of his office secretary of state Pompei it says when it comes to Ukraine the State Department is working toward driving out corruption and every action that I took and have taken will continue to be driven towards that objective like other administration officials pump aoe has refused to testify in the impeachment inquiry but he said his agency is complying noting that the State Department released documents last week but that was in response to a lawsuit by a liberal watchdog and the agency has not complied with congressional subpoenas for documents pump a also defended investigating reports that Ukraine interfered in the last election the u.s. Intelligence community has determined it was Russia Amy Held n.p.r. News we're getting president Trump's dealings with Ukraine the House Judiciary Committee says it is set to take the next step in the impeachment probe starting next week the body is now scheduled a hearing December 4th where lawmakers say a variety of constitutional experts and others will address the question of high crimes and misdemeanors allowed under the Constitution and constitutional grounds for impeachment Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Now they're also sent a letter to President Trump reiterating the president or his legal counsel can attend the House Intelligence Committee wrapped up 2 weeks of hearings this month and is expected to release a report after Thanksgiving a federal judge an organization a nationwide preliminary injunction today barring the trumpet ministration from requiring immigrants to show proof of how the insurance the Oregon Public Broadcasting's caught Red Wilson explains the injunction is effective immediately u.s. District court.