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James iliac directs the University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research He says the new rule could make things harder for those workers you know in one week they might be satisfying work requirement but the next week the firm says well you know we don't need you are we all we need you for 10 hours and suddenly they're in violation of their work requirement for that week they'll York says retailers might feel some pressure to consistently give workers at least 20 hours a week so they stay eligible for the Snap benefits they may even be spending at their own stores and Mary for Marketplace it's been a while since we've talked bond market around here so we are going to fix that right now not treasuries government bonds which is what we usually cover companies issue bonds to most recently Twitter the social media companies earnings came in below expectations the other day so now it's aiming to raise $600000000.00 in what's called unsecured debt debt that the all powerful credit rating agencies have deemed below investment grade that's the word the phrase if you will below investment grade it's a pretty strong signal that these bonds carry more than the ordinary amount of risk thing is Twitter's profitable doesn't owe much it's got lots of cash so if its bonds are below investment grade where is the investment grade bar in this economy right now anyway Marketplace's Justin ho went looking for. Companies get an investment grade rating on their bonds when ratings agencies think those companies have a very low chance of the faulting on their debt so these are companies that typically a fairly large bodies after Double they have strong values to entry and support their business through the shell Morani is the director of corporate ratings for s. And p. Global which rated Twitter's new bonds ratings agencies also gauge whether the company can survive an economic shock whether the company's revenue sources are diverse enough companies including Microsoft and Johnson and Johnson have an investment grade balance right he says Twitter didn't quite cut it we don't think it has the level of the case unnecessary It doesn't have necessarily the level of scale as someone that lives up there getting a rating below investment grade isn't like getting an Affan homework assignment in fact s. And p. And Moody's both said Twitter's balance sheet is pretty healthy Jim Vogel at f.h. And financial says investors are eager to get a slice of Twitter's bonds Twitter's profitable it's a brand name that is recognizable losing the investment grade label can have consequences even for solid companies the tail arena at Marquette University says big pension funds and certain mutual funds only buy investment grade bonds as you go down in the Writings lot of your investment playing field goes away but because investment grade bonds are safer they don't have to pay much in interest arenas as investors can make more money sometimes much more with bonds that are risk here in New York and just a no for Marketplace remember yesterday when all 3 major indices dropped on worries the trade war was getting worse you're never going to guess what happened today we'll have the details when we do the numbers. There is a certain rhythm and pleasing predictability to business and economic journalism the 1st Friday of every month for instance right at $830.00 Washington time so regularly you can set your watch to it the monthly unemployment report comes out but there is another more frequent jobs related number to keep an eye on to weekly unemployment insurance claims that's Martha gimbal from Schmidt futures with the topic of today's installment of our series Kai explains. Hey Kai You recently asked what's going on with this economy so how do you 2 concepts work together. Every Thursday at 830 every Thursday every week the Department of Labor tells us how many people in the prior week applied for unemployment insurance so they're often a proxy for people losing their jobs people lose their jobs often not of their own choice they're usually eligible for that kind of insurance employers and workers pay into a giant pool of money so the people who want about a work can get some percentage of their regular wages to tide them over the program is run by the states so it is kind of different everywhere in most states you can only get around 26 weeks of unemployment insurance and that's if you're lucky one state is 30 some states are 12 or 14 but the gist is if you're looking for a job for say 4 months no more weekly check mark the gimbal again from Smith futures says all those differences in state eligibility make it tricky the process can be complicated and opaque and there can be people who qualify for unemployment insurance who don't be. Is that they qualify that means not everybody who's eligible is applying which is why the weekly unemployment insurance claims number isn't quite as accurate as the monthly jobless report that I started with and there's something else as well these numbers fluctuate a lot actually and that's partly because they are weekly numbers and it's partly because of how people file for unemployment benefits some states make you do it completely online that does cause problems for people who don't have regular and reliable access to the Internet other states you have to be there in person so if the weather is lousy or there's a holiday in the week maybe people aren't going to file but I know comparing And this line kind of claims over time have a number of issues terracing Clare's of George Washington University it's really a measure I think of worker confidence in the economy because people who think that it's going to take them long enough to look for another job that they invest the time in filing the paperwork for unemployment benefits which is a sign of not much confidence if you think about it 1st time claims that is the short interval years they come out tomorrow we will let you know where that number landed on the program tomorrow and remember Friday jobs day let us know what you want to explain Next you can do that at Marketplace dot au argy or you can hit us up on Twitter the show is at Marketplace I am I'm going to spell it because they make me k I r a y s s d a. 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And because you can keep track right January 2020 is the new deadline until it's not but back this past March just before the original date for Britain to leave the European Union were to the show over there to get a sense of the economic reality of it one of the people we talked to was a honey shop owner in London's Borough Market Her name is Samantha Wallace the shop is called From field and flower and we have got her back on the phone just to chat Hi Samantha Hi I imagine things are getting busy holiday wise in the Borough Market Yeah they are Yes Well starting to it's the beginning of December still so it's a little early to predict how it will pan out but traditionally it's a very busy time of year Christmas and things have been busy over there all year what with the political changes and brags of being stalled I do wonder how you're doing business wise well actually touch wood we're doing well so far everything is Ok we are you know bumping along us as normal which is really pleasing and reassuring but that's on a background of total uncertainty which has been consistent for months and months now it feels like a kind of recurring dream really I confess I'm surprised to hear you say you're bobbing along what with all the uncertainty we are yet we are trades so far has been Ok but we are very concerned about what it could be in the future post the kind of recent election that's going to be happening next week and then depending on what happens with Bracks it which is still massively uncertain and we were supposed to be doing this back in March so it's been twice delayed and I've have a horrible feeling it probably won't happen even if the current government when again I would say that's probably save money given recent history but let me ask you this when we were there we talked a lot and when we had gone back in May We talked a lot about how you source your honey and you're heavily into European sourcing is that still working out for you or are you looking for other others. Budget thing about us is that we work with small producers which is why our honey is exceptional quality so we have very loyal to them and we will continue to try and support them but it does just depend on the impact of Breck's if we think it could possibly be at the worst if it was a no deal possibly 40 percent impact a cost to us new costs and then with the deal at them as it stands it's probably around 30 percent but it's very hard to just suddenly switch your ram your supply chain in that way and there are loyalties that are important to us as well right of course let me back you up for a 1000000 get to that 30 or 40 percent in essence tariff that you would have to pay . I think I know yeah under either a deal or a no deal brokered 30 percent is a staggering number would you buy absorb the costs would you pass them on well I mean what would that do to your business. Well I think we'd have to absorb most of them because I think you know what we sell is premium honey and it's a premium because it's of excellent quality and limited quantity but I just don't know what that would mean for the future we have to look at how we maybe changed our business and look to what we did in the future but that is going to be very difficult without knowing what the impact will be and I guess we won't know that realistically told probably a year or even after the withdrawal deal goes through because I think if I've understood correctly once the deal goes through that still a year of current trading as a as a part of the European Union and then it changes I don't mean to point out your uncertainty but it does occur to me that you're going to have to spend money on customs brokers and lawyers you have to figure out what the rules are oh oh gosh yes we think we're going to have to look at least 10 percent on what we call import costs without the new tariffs paying a customs agent a specific agent who is an expert allegedly in all these new customs arrangements that will come into place and and hopefully that's an accurate guess basically. Some of the Wallace she and her husband own a honey specialty shop in London's Borough Market It's called From field and flower we were there beginning of the Year back in March as well as thanks for time I appreciate it thank you so much take. Their very afraid of librarians is a common thing I find librarians strike back No I'm kidding they're really very nice don't at me 1st though let's do the numbers. The Dow industrials up $146.00 today honored $46.00 points half of one percent 27649 The Nasdaq up $46.00 points also a half percent 8566 the s. And p. 500 up 1000.6 tenth's percent 3112 business software maker sales force reported better than expected profits in the last quarter but it lowered its forecast for this quarter and that's in shares down more than 3 percent today stock an alphabet the parent company of Google bank 1.8 percent today the 1st trading day after yesterday's announcement the co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are stepping aside an innocent child to lead the whole company but as lead Google which is really the holes measure anyway since 2015 there were some losses today Barnes and Noble education the operator of campus bookstores and other education oriented services dropped 20 percent more than 20 percent actually after going to review its strategic options with the help of outside financial advisors that does not sound promising they're listening to Marketplace marketplace is supported by can't cheese a farmer owned co-op offering cabbage cracker cuts precise cheeses available in resealable packages in 6 varieties more information it can achieve dot com. 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This is Marketplace on Kyra's doll the Nobel Prize in Economics back in 2001 was given for work done in this is from the citation we're done in analyzing markets with asymmetric information where people on one side of a transaction have better information than those on the other yes that's got all kinds of big picture macro economic applications also though it's really personal micro ones to think about your last visit to the doctor especially if maybe it's a complicated diagnosis the doctor knows the patient usually doesn't but sometimes of an illness is really rare doctors have an information deficit as well and decisions fall to the patients and their families both about what to do and how much they ought to be prepared to spend marketplaces Stephanie Hughes has our story Abby Mason brink is a pediatrician based in Kansas City Missouri and she's not at all shy about bodies it's like so part of their regular workflow is to like look at body parts and talk about peeing and pooping and so it's like super fine so she wasn't surprised when her mom brought up a recent trip to the doctor but the issue her mom was dealing with Bajan a bleeding stopped her cold I was like You're a post menopausal woman with a badge and a plating did they say anything about it possibly being like cancer Abby was right a few weeks later her mom Judy learned she had stage 4 cancer to complicate things the cancer called extra memory Pad just as the is a super rare Yeah it's one and that's Judy she 73 and a bit of a classic Midwestern mom she's a retired guidance counselor talks with strangers around town but dealing with this rare diagnosis it was overwhelming you can't think straight it was so helpful to have still family members who are emotionally distraught also but a touch removed a touch removed to be able to say Ok we need to do this we need to do that so the rest of our family stay. Would surgery help him a therapy clinical trials the burden of of making the right or wrong decision is more I think on the family than on the doctors because there's simply giving you their best information but it's weak they made doctor's appointments got 1st 2nd 3rd opinions a team of oncologists thought a breast cancer drug called knurling was Judy's best shot but it's super expensive it would cost $180000.00 to take for a full year it was too much Judy's covered by Medicare and like a lot of Americans also has secondary insurance she dealt with that private insurer to try to get this drug covered and insurance companies will usually cover the cost of her links to treat breast cancer but not the rare cancer Judy has so Abby decided to call the insurer up and so I am on the phone with this lady and you know she's not a bad person but she is representing like in my life you know one of the evils I decided to do a little fact finding basically say hey let's say I have this rare cancer and I know there's a specific drug out there that could prolong my life but insurance won't cover it and I was like What am I supposed to do and that was I think when she was like well you know can you ask your doctor to change your diagnosis Abby thought like the insurance company was implying that in order to get this medication a doctor would have to fudge the diagnosis say it's breast cancer and not extra memory Paget's disease and I laughed and I was like What are you talking about and she was like I don't want to tell you so the insurer wasn't going to help Next they applied to the pharmaceutical company to see if they could get the drug for free. The company said Judy and her husband who are solidly middle class make too much money Judy couldn't believe it you just laugh it just didn't sing real then Judy's doctor had one last idea here it was called a compassion letter to the pharmaceutical company I kind of thought it would be heartfelt you know about the life of this perky lady but it wasn't it was really technical and science but it worked the company agreed to give the drug to Judy for free but 2 months after she started taking it they got bad news it hadn't worked her cancer had spread. I thought he had tricked me so now Judy's trying another drug this one is covered by insurance but with every new treatment they decide to pursue They worry they'll be denied coverage again I feel like a lot of the choices that we've made about using our time and money has been about just trying to get a clear understanding of like tell us what the best decision is and then we'll make that decision as the American population ages this is a situation more people find themselves in helping family members make life and death decisions and the costs imposed by a super complicated health care system can make those traces even harder. For market. This is going to sound a little nerdy but there was an article in The Washington Post the other day that kind of blew my mind not some dense economic better article on the Fed the intricacies of interest rate policy no it was ebooks and libraries and really what a business model mess ebooks are other Kelly wrote it's working with program Hello thanks for having me I will tell you I learned a ton in there so hard to go. Because silly me I always thought that once a library had an e-book it was kind of fair game for everybody but that is not how it works so let's break down 1st of all what happens how does a library buy an e-book as opposed to an actual physical bound copy it is shockingly complicated actually so there are you know there's like 5 big publishers and tons of smaller publishers and they all have their own sort of ways of selling the box one of the biggest ones as we will basically license a book to you for 2 years you'll pay a $60.00 just for that 2 years only one person can read a digital file at a time and if $56.00 people read it then the 2 year kind of when it is already at the So that's just one example of the kind of how they do this it's kind of crazy because it creates management challenges all over the place right for the user who has to reserve and hold and update and stuff but also for a library staff who have to deal with rotating inventory and managing all of this yeah and I mean a big part of that for them is managing the budget because it is significantly more expensive and I don't look at it than just buying a physical book so they need the staff they need the money to pay for it but you know the readers love it well right I mean look I'm a big book fan and I really enjoy it but I do my share of borrowing for a library but I had no idea was it was so crazy so what happens as a result of this 1st of all on the user and you start with a great anecdote about people just collecting library log in. Yeah and so it's a funny thing I actually talked to a lot of people who would admit to me that they borrow their parents' log in our friends and the like would you like to go on the record and they said oh no. They're very afraid of librarians a common thing I find. So yeah but there's also a lot of ways you can amass completely legitimate you know different library counts like in the state of California you can get one at the l.a. Public library without actually living in l.a. Right there will cost you $50.00 though I read that piece yeah there are some free ones Yeah there's a whole bunch of different options out there the other thing people do is basically trick the reader they're using which I found fascinating people are hacking to get a library books they are this is this is my favorite track also because as far as I can tell it doesn't hurt anybody it is one that I use if you put a book on your Kindle that you're buying from the library and you put the Kindle into airplane mode that book cannot return itself until you take it out of airplane mode so if you're slow reader and you're not going to make it in 2 or 3 weeks this is a trick to give you more time to reject UK which is which is always useful now to the business part of this well how do publishers feel about e-books and libraries and this whole ecosystem that has sprung up. You know it's it's evolving and there's one publisher McMahon who recently made the news that they think that is eating into their their e-book sales and so they're going to try something called the embargo where they won't sell a library more than one copy for the 1st 8 weeks after the book is out and the libraries are very upset about that but I also talk to a lot of publishing as I could have said the other major publishers who don't agree with us at all they think libraries help promote their books they think the current system in place is enough what they call fiction to encourage people to still buy books whether Kelly she covers technology for The Washington Post Center thanks a bunch Thanks for having me. 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Eat dot com in from Stanford health care where patients turn when it matters for breakthrough medical advances designed to prevent diagnose and treat illness it's 430 live from k.q.e.d. News I mean a cane allegations of sexual assault against lift drivers continue to pile up 20 more women filed suit against the right hand a giant today in San Francisco Superior Court k.q.e.d. Tara Siler reports 8 of these plaintiffs were allegedly victimized after another group of women sued left in September over sexual assault allegations and after the company launched new safety measures lift has embedded some inapt features aimed at making emergency assistance easier for passengers to report these features were simply gimmicks and they don't work plaintiff's attorney Mike Blumberg or says it's not realistic to think women can operate the app when under attack one of the plaintiffs in this latest suit known as Jane Doe 2 says these features would not have helped her when she was allegedly raped last February and cell reception was low What are they doing I mean what are they putting a drop down for the feedback I was raped that's my feedback to you and what are you going to do with that it's absurd and it's actually insulting plaintiffs want lift to digitally video record rides and do background checks using fingerprints in a statement live claims it's background checks are superior to fingerprints and that is drivers must complete a safety education program the company did not comment on the demand to video record rides I'm Terris either k.q.e.d. . Eastbay Congressman Eric Swalwell who stopped short on this program yesterday saying he was ready to draft articles of impeachment Southie Congressman Roe Khana tweeted that the House Judiciary Committee should immediately start drawing up articles of impeachment representative or O'Connor joins me now and Congressman yesterday you said we don't need more hearings obviously the House Judiciary Committee held its 1st hearing today with academics on the constitutional standards for impeachment why do you oppose the Committee holding hearings there's been a $200.00 page report by the Intelligence Committee that outlines in excruciating detail that this president browbeat at the president of Ukraine to invent bogus charges against Joe Biden and every American in my view knows that this is wrong it's an abuse of office and we should outvote we don't need further distraction in judiciary hearings that the Republicans are going to try to hijack the so are you saying that you think the committee hearings essentially undermined a sense that the Democrats really have what they need in terms of evidence that the president committed impeachable offenses we do have what we need now could we get more evidence sure I mean we could get John Bolton to testify we could get make more of a need to testify and one day I'm sure historians will have an exposé and it will be even worse than what's in the Schiff report but the chef report has more than enough detail of wrongdoing systematic wrongdoing by this White House that justifies impeachment while you like things to move quickly now what's your assessment of how this has played out over the last couple of months Speaker Pelosi has done a brilliant job in managing this process her sense of timing has been exactly correct she did not move too early she has managed to get the caucus together and unanimous. 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News I'm Mary Louise Kelly And I'm Audie Cornish the Democratic primary campaign began with a historically diverse field of candidates the now that Senator Connelly Harris has dropped out of the race it's plausible the next Democratic debate will feature only white faces N.P.R.'s reports on why the candidates of color have struggled and what that means for a party that relies on minority voters when news broke that Kamel Harris was dropping out of the presidential race one of her fellow 2020 candidates who Leon Castro quickly began ringing alarm bells Eris was the only non white candidate to have qualified for the December debate but we have we're staring at the beauty to the stage with no people of color. That does not reflect the diversity of our country the d.n.c. Has no plans to revise the rules ahead of the December debate but Castro's message tapped into Democratic voter concern or guilt whatever you may call it yesterday his campaign says it raised more money than any other day in the past 4 months still Castro was not the only voice warning that an all white stage would send a dangerous sign to a party that relies on diverse voters to win elections progressive activists chimed in Amy Allison leads a group called she the people that works to elevate the political power of minority women I think my biggest concern is if you have an all white stage it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy that you have white candidates at the top of the ticket and in 2016 solid all white tickets when the patients were Ellison's the Yuri is that diversity in 2016 could have energized more black voters higher black turnout could have resulted in a Democratic victory the tricky part of that equation is that it does not mesh with current 2020 polling voters of color are supporting you know why. Straight older candidate that's near at hand and she's president of the Center for American Progress a liberal think tank polls consistently show black voters. Prefer former Vice President Joe Biden Latino Democrats favor Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders I think a lot of voters of color feel particularly get it. And feel that in a white candidate might be safer to take him safer because she says President Trump exploits racial division voters of color in just about white voters voted for a person of color in the general election I think there is a lack of trust that against and consistently both our reporting and polling has shown that Democratic voters are preoccupied with finding the Kennedy best position to beat Donald Trump Biden and Sanders both seem to do well in hypothetical head to head matchups with the president but some activists say this idea of electability is a mythical trait Here's Leah Greenberg co-founder of the progressive group indivisible when we think about electability a lot of times people their images of power and who's already in our society before and the way that our society is structured that's disproportionately white men when the campaign season 1st started there was an assumption that high profile black candidates like Harris or New Jersey Senator Cory Booker benefited by following in Barack Obama's footsteps but Obama had a year political climate operated that Sandra Gillespie a political scientist at Emory University he didn't talk about race because he needed to put a multiracial coalition together and you know that's a classic the racialized strategy the less he says trying to run while downplaying race won't work in 2019 in part because of Donald Trump also there are young vocal African-Americans who are not content with people not happy about race we saw glimpses of that with Harris's campaign at times her record as a prosecutor in California was criticized severely by young black voters the last like a true. Political scientist says Eris is campaign and data for a lot of reasons maybe racism was a part of it maybe it wasn't she would have to study that plus voters of color pay candidates for reasons other than the fact that they share a racial or ethnic background making it all the more complicated to figure out why candidates of color aren't doing better in the primaries and what that might mean for Democrats in a general election a small college n.p.r. News Germany has expelled 2 employees of the Russian embassy there this comes as federal authorities take over an investigation into a murder in Berlin earlier this year the German government now suspects Russia ordered the killing of a former Chechen rebel commander who was living there in the German capital N.P.R.'s Rob Schmitz joins us now from Berlin to try to untangle all of this hi Rob hello Marilee's So a lot of details to keep straight So let me begin with the crime a man was gunned down in Berlin 3 months ago who was his name is Khan Congo Sheely he was here in Berlin to try and get asylum and many years ago he had fun as a rebel commander for the Chechens against the Russian military So on August 23rd he was walking through a park around midday in central Berlin when a man approached on a bicycle and shot him twice killing him the suspect was arrested when police discovered him ditching a bicycle and done with a silencer in a wig into a nearby river Ok So they've got the guy though who do they think it is who's the suspect well that's taken a while for them to figure out because the man was not cooperating under questioning he has a Russian passport but authorities suspected the name on it was fake Now according to German investigative website Belling cat It's believed the man's name is Vadim cross because German prosecutors believe it could be the same man who was a suspect in the murder of a Russian businessman in Moscow. 6 years ago the victim in that attack was also approached by a man on a bicycle and shot so there are similarities there and you said he had a Russian passport maybe a fake Russian passport but why does Germany now suspect this was their Russian government that maybe had its fingers on this well according to the ballon count report Russia had issued an arrest warrant for cross because after the Moscow murder 6 years ago but then a year later Moscow suddenly withdrew that warrant a year after that according to flight records cross a coffee traveled around Russia freely which is evidence that he wasn't wanted by Russian authorities anymore and in the meantime balun care reports that nearly all records of him were purged from Russian state databases and that implies that the Russian state had workers treated his change of identity and according to Germany's highest prosecutor now was also behind an assassination on German soil the Kremlin I should mention denies it has anything to do with this man this would not mark the 1st time though that Russia has been accused of carrying out an assassination or an attempted assassination on foreign soil I'm thinking of Sergei screwball the former k.g.b. Officer who was poisoned in Britain just last year after that Britain slapped sanctions on Russia should do we expect that Germany might follow suit Well that's the big question Frank America's government does Germany take any action against Russia apart from expelling 2 employees from the Russian Embassy analysts I'm speaking to are not holding their breath on this Germany has closer relations with Russia than the u.k. Or the u.s. And Germany depends on Russia economically the North Korean gas pipeline delivers Russian gas to Germany and its 2nd iteration is now nearing completion which will make Germany even more dependent on Russian energy so Russia has a lot of leverage over Germany and placing sanctions on Russia would likely not be a smart move for Germany which is already teetering on the edge of recession so for now they've kicked out these 2. Staffers from the embassy and we watch and wait to see where it goes next. And p.r.s. Rob Schmitz reporting there from Berlin thank you Rob Thanks very much. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. Another bishop is stepping down because of his role in the Catholic Church's clergy abuse crisis that it can announce today that it has accepted the resignation of Richard Malone he's the bishop in Buffalo New York here to fill us in on the story as Tom Gjelten covers religion Welcome back to the studio how did at this point i'm so many priests and bishops even archbishops have been forced to resign because of this seemingly endless of us crisis what are the details of the case with Bishop Malone. Well you know there are 2 ways Catholic clerics get implicated they are either themselves accused of sexual abuse or they cover up the abusers and protect them with Bishop Malone it's the latter allegation the diocese of Buffalo right now is facing around $200.00 abuse lawsuits and it turned out that some of the accused priests remained active in the ministry even after they were accused That's the kind of news that really angers abuse survivors and their advocates Bishop Malone got a lot of the blame himself and therefore he lost the support of Buffalo Catholics the f.b.i. And the state attorney general's office both launched investigations and then the Vatican did an investigation of its own when Malone heard what that report concluded he has to be allowed to retire and then his resignation was accepted was there a particular moment that triggered this mass loss of support and faith in him the key development was a woman who had been his executive assistant basically blew the whistle on him her name is Shavon O'Connor and what happened was early last year Bishop Malone released a list of some 42 priests who had been accused of abuse but then Ms O'Connor came out and said she'd actually seen a list of 117 clerics who had been accused and that Malone wasn't being forthcoming about the extent of the abuse problem she spoke to our member station in Buffalo w b f o about what it was like in her words to be on the inside. Looking out I just remember feeling so conflicted because I believe in the Catholic Church and I love my Catholic faith but it was very difficult to observe what was going on and to see the disconnect from what they said were missing publicly and what he was doing internally Fast forward to now and Bishop Malone has actually written a letter to Catholics in Buffalo What did he have to say well he acknowledged he had been remiss in not addressing what he called personnel issues more swiftly his explanation was the cases involved behavior between adults and therefore were complex and required time to sort out he also pointed out that the troubles in his diocese were broader related to what he said were systemic failings in the worldwide handling of sexual abuse of minors by members of the clergy Tom what do you know about the person who will be replacing him it's going to be an interim replacement already he's It's Bishop Edward Scharf and Berger he's the Bishop of Alba ne he actually spoke to reporters today and here's part of what he had to say my desire to be with you is as in the following maybe more of a grandfather I suppose of a family that I know is hurting and in need of you so my 1st priorities will primarily be to listen and for now he'll be responsible for both Albanian the eastern side of the state and buffalo on the western side is there any more we can expect out of this chapter of the story well one thing to keep in mind is that the vast vast majority of all these abuse cases that have come to light happened years ago there been very few cases at least that we know of of priests abusing children or seminarians in recent years in his letter Bishop Malone said there's been no substantiated an accusation of child sex abuse against any priest in the Buffalo diocese who's been ordained within the last 30 years course doesn't mean we won't be hearing about more cases slowly coming out at N.P.R.'s Tom Gjelten thank you. 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News this is All Things Considered I'm Audie Cornish and I'm Mary Louise Kelly deadly protests across Iran appear to be over for now they began with a spike in fuel prices and they turned violent fast news of just how violent has been slow to spread because Iran cut Internet access in much of the country now the Internet is back up and Iranians and the world are getting a clearer picture of the violence Amnesty International says more than 200 people died the government rejects that but has acknowledged that security forces killed some protesters Cecilio Swedish public radio has been on the ground she joins me now from Tehran and Cecilia give us a sense of the scale of these protests and how widespread they were they were more widespread than any other protest since the 1979 Islamic revolution they spread to more than 200 places and they did turn violent as you said Tell me a little bit more about what had people so angry that they took to the streets I mentioned that the initial spark was gas prices that suddenly filling up your car cost 50 percent more than it had the day before but this was about much deeper grievances over the government there yes definitely protests in Iran often start off with the price hikes last time 2 years ago it was the price of eggs but very rapidly people started chanting against the regime against the supreme leader and this is something new in protests in Iran that you hear people say moderate combative Hominidae which means death to Hominidae the supreme leader and this of course has deeply worried the regime here as you have interviewed people in the streets what have they told you. Well they are divided those who support the regime say that they celebrate the victory that they are against the All these people who took to the streets and violently tried to overthrow the government however I meet continuously meet young people who say that they hate the government who want to change the system but don't know how to I met for a young woman student of literature 22 years old whose name we are not revealing of course she told me that she wishes the death of the regime every day and she didn't take part in the protests but she told me she was brave enough to comment on . Instagram account telling him that you thrive on young people's blood but I don't know if you really know but you can be in trouble for doing you know I don't. I gather one thing that these protests have revealed is divisions within Iranian society not everyone is critical of the regime many are criticizing the people who would like to reform and. Yes Now many people in Iran blame the United States for empowering the hardliners when the u.s. Left the nuclear agreement the hardliners triumphed and they are now able to say to all the reformists we told you so the reformists have been very vocal but they are now being criticized by all these young people who say this is not a regime that is capable of reforming itself and I've spoken to several of these more or less well known reformists who now find themselves in the awkward position of defending the system because they fear the consequences of toppling the regime which would be chaos instability and infighting and so on one of them is Professor saw the exit. Story and political scientist who also and gets in trouble with the regime and he says reform must come from within something the younger generation does not seem to believe is possible any longer that is Cecelia of Swedish public radio speaking to us from Tehran thank you thank you so much of Greenland is covered under a heavy layer of ice up to a mile thick in some places Nevertheless the massive island hasn't escaped the impact of warming arctic temperatures the changing the land and water in Greenland and affecting the way of life for many of the 56000 people who live there N.P.R.'s Jackie Northam has this report about how one family in southern Greenland is adapting to the changes well. A canine alarm system announces visitors arriving by boat a kangaroo. The remote sheep farm sits at the far end of a few in southern Greenland there are 2 bright red barns and a couple small sturdy houses built to withstand the cold the farm has been owned and run by the Nielsen family since 1982. Was it's a family affair to round up $1400.00 sheep from the surrounding hills and into the barns a couple of border collies keep a close eye for any stragglers 37 year old could nuked Nielsen says the annual round up is hard work they say about one weeks to get them so we walk about up to 36 limits pretty soon trust ace Nielsen has spent his life on the sheep farm and says he sees the effects of a warming climate the longer summers can mean drought which means less hay in Greenland for the sheep you have all of the area. Systems in the picture of fuel and here you can prove. It. To Nielsen says the irrigation system can only do so much so hey. Needs to be brought in from Europe though we do really well in northwest new Nielsen and his father Lars work closely together on the farm and canoe quill take over after his father retires in a few years his older brother Peter Luke has chosen a different path of the. Helicopter lift off at the tiny airport in Kaka talk about a half hour boat ride from the Nelson farm we caught up with Peter Nielsen at his office next to the hello Pad I'm not buying the 5 peel instructs workman hanging a company sign Saranac helicopters opened at the end of June but it's a visit to flying around it's we didn't have much time to do all the practical stuff Pili says he loved the sheep farm and that there was no better way to grow up but he saw the warming temperatures were making this remote area of Greenland more accessible so people who got his helicopter pilots license and helped form his small company it caters to construction and telecommunication workers and tourists Pilo says the most popular tours include a visit to the glaciers with their stunning colors it's up forced white but at the bottom Morris very compressed all crystal clear blue so so razor Peel says the warming temperatures mean weather patterns are changing a lot and the glaciers are receding that's the most visible signs of change the last 5 to 10 years of spinach separating like crazy many people are leaving the countryside for Greenland's towns and cities says he often talked to his brother and his parents before making his decision to leave the family farm I think they're just glad that I did something good and they're happy for his brother too their aerial shot proud of the plaque for going to staying there and it's not like people who doesn't visit he'll take tourists out to the family farm to see a real slice of life in rural Greenland Jackie Northam. 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The president trying to make the impeachable high crime and misdemeanor of abuse of power 3 or unanimous a unanimous yes from 3 constitutional scholars testifying today a 4th witness invited by Republicans disagree it is Wednesday December 4th and this is All Things Considered. I'm Mary Louise Kelly And I'm Audie Cornish ahead this hour a full analysis of day one of the impeachment hearings before the House Judiciary Committee also with elections looming Taiwan tries to figure out how to stamp found this information without stamping out free speech cred. Only provide one perspective of the story so you can not get Plunket plus borrowers with permanent disability are supposed to have their student loans or raise an n.p.r. Investigation finds that for thousands of people that hasn't happened most people don't even know about those they don't find out about it nobody told you about it now this news live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Jack Speer forit legal scholars 3 called by Democrats and one by Republicans have wrapped up an appearance before the House Judiciary Committee the day long hearing focusing on the question of whether President Trump's actions regarding Ukraine about the grounds for impeachment Harvard Law School Professor Noah Feldman says he thinks he answered that it's pretty clear President Trump's conduct as described in the testimony and evidence clearly constitutes impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors under the Constitution over Jonathan Turley a law professor at George Washington University was the sole Republican called Witness beg to differ Democrats of rushing the process romantic Where's that taken us. Well and a slipshod impeachment make us less man will it only invite an invitation for the madness to follow every future administration that is why this is wrong the panel could hold additional sanctions committee chair Jerry dabblers giving the president and his team until Friday to decide whether to participate in proceedings as many as $700000.00 low income Americans rely on food stamps could lose their benefits under a new federal rule N.P.R.'s Pam Fessler reports the tribe administration is tightening work requirements for those who participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program the administration says it wants to encourage those receiving snap to get jobs and to do that it's making it more difficult for states to waive a requirement that able bodied adults without children work at least 20 hours a week or else lose their benefits u.s. Agriculture secretary Sonny produces snap was never intended to provide permanent aid we need to encourage people by giving them a helping hand but not allowing you to become an infinitely giving but opposition to the Change strong and legal challenges are possible and I hunger advocates say it will hurt hundreds of thousands of low income individuals who can't find steady work states it will impose a huge administrative burden on social service agencies Pam Fessler n.p.r. News Washington Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised u.s. Sanctions on Iran ahead of a meeting with Secretary of State Mike palm pale you know he's off reports the 2 leaders met in Portugal appearing with her pale Netanyahu expressed approval of what he called President Donald.

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