The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention one reporting data on coded 1000 patients critics say the White House is intentionally undermining the public health agency It's Wednesday July 15th and this is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. And I'm Sarah McCammon president signed an executive order that intends to punish China for its actions in Hong Kong some say there could be collateral damage I think. Millions of Americans remain out of work during the pandemic Wall Street is doing well it's a very cool situation right now because the Fed is supporting markets. In the markets and we look at a program in Los Angeles that hopes to help thousands of families. Now news. Live from n.p.r. News I'm Jack Speer President Donald Trump has announced a plan to hold back a Nixon era environmental law which he contends stifles major infrastructure improvements and economic growth from traveling to Atlanta to u.b.s. Headquarters to announce the changes to the National Environmental Policy Act which the president says will make it easier to fast track a variety of infrastructure improvement projects this is a truly historic breakthrough it's means better roads bridges tunnels and i ways for every u.p.s. Driver in every citizen all across our lead together where we claiming America's proud heritage as a nation a builders and a nation that can get things done critics called the plan a cynical effort to roll back an environmental law they say is help to safeguard low income and minority communities for decades the federal law had required agencies to consider whether a project would harm air land water or wildlife and have allowed for public import president trumps nice tells n.p.r. Her uncle is psychologically unfit for office that she'll be voting for Joe Biden in the election she spoke with Morning Edition host Rachel Martin the title of Mary Trump's book says a lot too much and never enough how my family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man I asked her what makes Donald Trump dangerous his willingness to tear down everything people institutions family in order to get what he wants Mary Trump says that largely has to do what she calls the emotional child abuse that Donald Trump suffered at the hand of his father she claims her extended family has propped up Trump's political career to protect their own financial interests what I would say to people who would say I'm doing it for revenge is no I'm saying to me this is Justice Mary Trump and her brother ended up suing their family when they were written out of their grandfather's Well Rachel Martin n.p.r. News Washington the full interview with Mary Trump will air on Jamal's Morning Edition. It is reporting that additional $10000.00 people have tested positive for the krona virus bringing the state's total more than 300000 cases N.P.R.'s Greg Allen reports the surge is fueling concerns about reopening schools there starting next month Florida's average more than 10000 cases a day for the past week and some public health experts say the peak is still weeks away echoing President Trump Florida officials have issued an order requiring school districts to hold in person instruction next month saying the risk to children is low at a meeting this week Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber said many parents disagree we do send a message to them when we say to them we're going to open up the schools we let them know that it's safe for them and I and I'm not sure all of our parents feel like they know in Broward County the school superintendents recommending the district ignore the state directive and begin the school year with online instruction Greg Allen n.p.r. 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The state legislature's Judiciary Committee has introduced a proposal aimed at improving police accountability and transparency in Connecticut in the wake of the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer the Reverend Dalan Greer says Wednesday's event wasn't about standing against the police it's more like he and the other pastors are calling for reform in support of the families of victims of police brutality victims they perform funeral rites for once in a while Connecticut police departments don't have body worn cameras like the town of Bloomfield us that's where he works as the pastor of an African Methodist Episcopal Church in addition to a mandate that all municipal police departments Institute body camps for officers state lawmakers police reform proposals include periodic mental health screenings of police officers they'll be taken up in an upcoming special session Governor Ned Lamont said earlier this week that he'd make a formal call for the session this Friday Frankie Graziano Connecticut Public Radio governor Lamont yesterday signed an executive order that extends a coronavirus policy allowing medical providers to practice in Connecticut if they are licensed in another state the policy is intended to ensure enough health care workers continue to be available in case covered 19 again becomes widespread statewide I'm John Henry Smith You're listening to Connecticut Public Radio support for Connecticut Public Radio comes from Hartford health care at home they can help by offering a complete range of services to support your loved ones safely at home call 1800 home care or visit Hartford health care at home dot org And. It's 506. From n.p.r. News this is All Things Considered I'm Sarah McCammon in Washington and I melted Chang in Los Angeles before today hospitals across the country had to report their coded 1000 state to state to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention But today a new directive from the trumpet ministration requires hospitals to bypass the c.d.c. And send that information directly to the Department of Health and Human Services it's a move that concerns some health experts one of them is Dr Richard Besser He's a former acting director of the c.d.c. During the Obama administration and he's now president and c.e.o. Of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation we should note the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is an underwriter for n.p.r. Dr Richard Besser joins us via Skype welcome thanks also great to be here so what specifically concerns you about this move by the top administration Well you know there there have been so many episodes during this response to where c.d.c. Has not been playing their traditional role where they haven't been speaking to the public they haven't been assuming that role as the nation's leader and the world's leader in response to to a pandemic this strikes me as another sign of that you know this c.d.c. Is the nation's public health agency and they need to be receiving data like this from hospitals to understand how the pandemic is progressing across the country how the number of cases in hospitals may relate to actions that are being taken are not being taken in in states and cities and to provide direction to the nation you know the c.d.c. Works directly with state local public health health departments to provide that guidance and I worry about politics he injected into into this response to let me ask you to step back for a moment I mean why is sending this kind of information to the c.d.c. Specifically as opposed to other public health agencies in the government why is that why should it be part of the normal process when you're monitoring an outbreak . He'd cd. Ca needs to have what you would call situational awareness so what is going on in different parts of the country they're not the only part of government that needs that information because there are other aspects of government that are responsible for getting ventilators and equipment but c.d.c. Is the place where that information tends to flow or should flow and it needs to be flow in a very transparent way so that the information that c.d.c. Gets from hospitals from states is available for all to see and to react to we've been calling on c.d.c. To collect additional information so that you can break down data by by race and ethnicity and really see what's happening in in all parts of the country to to all different populations a move of sending this to Washington directly strikes of politics Well let me push back just a little bit Michael computer the assistant secretary for Public Affairs at 8 h. As he says this change was needed because the old way was just too slow and the current c.d.c. Director Robert Redfield agrees with him he says this new system will streamline data collection and that the c.d.c. Will still have access to all of this data so what do you think could this change actually be helpful in some ways well you know I hope that's the case that it streamlines things you know I was it's at c.d.c. For 13 years and lead emergency response for for those years and there was 0 and there were always struggles between c.d.c. Based in Atlanta and other aspects of the Department of Health and Human Services based in Washington over where information should flow and one of the nice things about c.d.c. Being in Atlanta is that it's away from a lot of the political influence of Washington and I worry that having this information coming directly to h.h.s. May affect some of the transparency around that and the access to that information the transparency is critical to an informed response Ok Well we only have about 40 seconds left but let me ask you based on your experience what is why. One thing you would like the c.d.c. To do at this point to get a better hold of this pandemic Well you know what I would like to see is c.d.c. Out front every day talking to the public through through the press so that we can understand what they're learning from from things around this country and around the globe and so we can indeed ensure that people are taking action to protect their health their health of their families in communities and it stems from trust and that trust comes through that contact Dr Richard Besser is a former acting director of the c.d.c. During the Obama administration thank you very much for joining us today thank you also. President Trump is punishing China for its crackdown on freedom in Hong Kong yesterday he signed both legislation and an executive order targeting officials in Beijing with potential sanctions and overturning special treatment for Hong Kong the executive order ends the u.s. Extradition treaty with Hong Kong suspends military and police training on the island and subjects Hong Kong to the same trade tariffs as mainland China Hong Kong has long been a center of finance media and industry in Southeast Asia but can it stay that way let's ask Lindsay Ford from the Brookings Institution she worked on Asia policy at the Department of Defense during the Obama administration when the welcome high from the perspective of the u.s. Government of the Trump administration what is the goal of these actions I think this should not have been unexpected and I suspect this was not unexpected by the mainland either you know I think this was a response to the recent legislation that eliminated a lot of the autonomy that Hong Kong had been promised when it reverted back to mainland control in the 1990 s. So I think that the u.s. Response here was a simply to say if the Chinese government is going to take away a lot of what made Hong Kong Special its autonomy and it the ability of the Hong Kong government to conduct its own domestic affairs with different types of rules and individual freedoms that people in mainland China enjoy then countries like the United States can no longer allow no the may lead governments to use Hong Kong as a as a type of pass through and subjected to Chinese rules while at the same time still having it enjoy all of these special privileges from the United States and other types of Democracies do you see other countries following suit here I think that's unclear we've certainly seen other. Western democracies speak up about the concerns that they have about the degree to which China is impinging on Hong Kong's autonomy I don't know that we will necessarily see sort of the wide ranging steps that we've seen out of the United States and I think to some extent that will depend on how we see the implementation of this National Security Act play out Beijing has issued a statement in response saying in part quote China will respond if necessary and oppose sanctions on the relevant American individuals and entities How worried is China about this maneuver I think there is certainly concern right now that not just the United States but but other countries in Asia have been speaking up more forcefully in response to what China is doing and so I think that you are going to continue to see an effort out of Beijing to try to convince other Asian countries not to follow the u.s. Lead on the other hand I don't see any signs that there's going to be a widespread economic decoupling from all of the Asian countries and China that the supply chains in the economies are simply too integrated And what about Hong Kong how worried is Hong Kong about losing the special status I think unfortunately that Hong Kong citizens are the biggest victims in this entire situation the impact on individual Hong Kong citizens and not to be able to actually fill and enjoy a lot of the rights and privileges that they have been promised and a lot of lack of clarity that they have about what is even permissible at this point under the new sort of sweeping national security provisions that the mainland has put on Hong Kong that I think is the most significant loss here citizens who have been very good use to being able to voice their. Unions to vote to have a say in what the direction of their own city looks like fear that they will not have that anymore Lindsey Ford is a David in Rubenstein fellow at the Brookings Institution She's also an informal adviser to the Biden presidential campaign Wendy thanks so much thank you. The city of Asheville North Carolina is taking a big step to address racial inequality last night local leaders approved a resolution to pave the way for reparations for the black community from Blue Ridge Public Radio Matt Bush reports what shape those reparations will take will be decided over the next year by a commission created by the Asheville City Council Keith Young is one of the council's 2 black members the blood capital that we have. To stand today to fight for significant change chain predominantly not from our allies but from black men women and children the resolution does formally apologize for the city's participation in slavery and the enforcement of a past segregation and discriminatory policies in the last week to Confederate money mints have been removed from the city's main square were slaves were sold before the Civil War This new reparations commission will examine many issues from minority home ownership to fully funding public transit and looking at disparities in the education system but there won't necessarily be payments to the descendants of slaves Ron Thomas with the Racial Justice Coalition says what the black community in Asheville needs are the land and money to look at the back and saying Ok yeah. That's way to people about this much money will take it out of the black community and what it will this much of a back why would I have anybody want that everything where people do what is right and still is an international tourist destination in the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains with a renowned arts food and beer scene but decades of gentrification helped fuel that and push out members of the black community this new reparations commission still has plenty of details to work out and there is skepticism of what will ultimately happen even with the city's progressive reputation it still has a ways to go to earn the trust of a. Black residence for n.p.r. News I'm Matt Bush in Asheville North Carolina. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. 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News this is All Things Considered I'm Sarah McCammon and I'm else itching systemic racism is a yoke that drags on the American economy those are the words written by perhaps an unexpected author a central banker Raphael Bostic leads the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and he recently wrote an op ed in The Atlanta Journal Constitution detailing the quote moral and economic imperative to end racism well how does a central banker do just that Raphael Bostic is with us now from his office in Atlanta welcome thank you also very good to be here and thanks for being with us the Fed you know it basically has a dual mandate to control inflation and to maximize employment so with those 2 goals in mind honestly what can you as a central banker do as you put it to end racism Well I think there are 2 things that are important to keep in mind the 1st is that maximum employment mandate I think is really a mandate to try to get as many people employed as possible. Racism is something that prevents people from being employed and being employed in ways that give them a livable wages and the prospects for Prosperity moving forward in terms of actions you know certainly there's monetary policy which can be used to really promote as much of a strong foundation for growth so that jobs can be created and people can get attached to that but when it comes to unemployment specifically can't a fit actually target I mean single out a demographic group to help them I think that's challenging when you think about monetary policy as a tool because policy is a broad brushed blunt instrument right but there are other things that we do we are deeply involved in understanding the challenges that African-Americans Latinos and others have in terms of developing skills that might make them competitive for jobs . Might be available we're also having conversations internally about what kind of corporate policy should we have to make sure that we are as inclusive as possible as a central bank and then we're going to take those learnings and try to get them deployed to as many businesses as possible so we really change how the corporate sector and how the business sector more generally engages with different communities and tries to figure out where there are possibilities for opportunity so we can really provide sort of a roadmap for those who are working hard to try to make progress well what about housing I mean homeownership obviously is one of the surest ways to gain wealth What can the Fed do to help disadvantaged communities own their homes Well I'm glad you talked about housing and really does speak to the point that this is a multidimensional problem you know we do have relationships with a lot of banking institutions that provide the financing that families take advantage of to buy homes so we've been working with them for a long time we will continue to do that to try to make sure that they don't have biases in the things that they do I do want to ask about this rule that the Trump administration is trying to move forward with and it would basically be a rule that would make it harder to file discrimination cases with the Fair Housing Authority even lenders like Bank of America are opposed to this change what do you think about this rule that the term administration is pushing it is a problem and I think it is important that we create real opportunities for those who have been mistreated to find recourse I was pleased to see that the banking institutions and some pretty major organizations like the National Association of Realtors all have at the same view and I'm hopeful that even if this rule does go through but they will continue to manage their business and activities in a way that's consistent with trying to stamp out fair House. Violations wherever they occur well as the 1st African-American to lead a Federal Reserve Bank did you feel any added pressure to do something different with this job and the people who came before you so I've tried really hard in this role to not focus on that I have to be the president and c.e.o. Of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta 1st and I'm an African-American president but at the same time you know I do recognize that for many this is something that they never would have imagined I mean people who are extremely excited when there is some extra burden recognizing that I'm being watched that closely but there's also a real joy and satisfaction to know that by me doing the things that I have passion about it is really changing how people think about what's possible I've gotten so many e-mails from people saying I never thought that the Fed was a place that an African-American could lead and I'm thinking about my career in a different way Rafael Bostic is the president and c.e.o. Of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank thank you very much for joining us today thank you it's been a pleasure talking with you. It's a paradox big Wall Street investment banks are going gangbusters enjoying strong profits even as the greater economy is suffering through a deep recession as N.P.R.'s Jim's Rolly reports the reason has everything to do with the stock market this was one of the worst springs in recent memory for the American economy so when Goldman Sachs reported its 2nd best quarter ever today a lot of people were surprised Amanda Fisher is policy director at the Washington Center for equitable growth sounds really bad and kind of a boom corner for the big investment banks Goldman is the bluest of blue chip investment banks its clients are among the richest in the world big banks like Goldman make a lot of their money arranging deals for their clients and trading stocks stocks they either own themselves or trade on their clients' behalf and stocks have staged a dramatic rebound recently is freshly big technology stars like Amazon and Facebook Karen schall Petru is managing partner of federal financial analytics anybody with money in the markets has done very very well anyone running a small business or having a job particularly a lower income job has struggled some big banks like j.p. Morgan Chase and Citi Group are struggling with a surge of bad loans but those losses are being offset by money they're making on their trading desks the one big reason the markets have done so well is the Federal Reserve it's unleashed a stunning array of lending programs it's buying up corporate and municipal bonds it's flooding the economy with money this is had an impact on investors says Amanda Fisher It just instills confidence among investors in the Akwa the markets that the value of their investments will not go down no matter how hard hit the companies are by the pandemic the Fed's promises have had their desired effects investors are pouring money into stocks but the benefits have been pretty uneven the Fed has also created lending. Facilities for small businesses but Karen Petru says they haven't worked so well for now the economy remains bifurcated with a sliver of wealthy investors doing much better than anyone else Petrie says if the economy remains weak in the long run and huge numbers of people are unemployed then banks will eventually suffer too there's just no escaping that but it's a very equal situation right now because the Fed is supporting markets and banks make money in the markets but that's just the way it is and Petru says there's another worry the more the Fed props up stock and bond prices the more investors come to depend on the Fed's large Jess and once the Fed stops its bailouts the markets could quickly lose ground and even the rich will be affected Jim's or Rolly n.p.r. News New York. This is n.p.r. News. 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News I'm Elsa Chang and I'm Sarah McCammon coming up Los Angeles has set aside 100000000 dollars to help renters avoid eviction but 3 times as many people have applied in the program can accommodate so the city is hoping the feds can help I cannot believe that we cannot find a way to help poor people in this country statehouse now news. Life from n.p.r. News and Washington I'm Windsor Johnston secretary of state Mike Pompei o says the u.s. Will impose these or restrictions on certain employees of Chinese tech companies including way as N.P.R.'s Jackie Northam reports Pompei all calls the telecommunications giant an arm of the Chinese government pump aoe says Huawei provides material support to Beijing as it censors political dissidents and commits human rights abuses in the northwest province of Shin Jang and elsewhere Pompei also put telecommunication companies around the world on notice they're doing business with human rights abusers if they use Huawei the top administration believes Huawei and many other Chinese tech companies and social media platforms are being used to feed information back to Beijing and has pressured allies not to use walk away equipment President Trump applauded Britain's announcement yesterday that a ban ha wait from 5 g. Development in the United Kingdom Jackie Northam n.p.r. News Washington today marks 2 months since the Democratic controlled House passed a coronavirus relief package dubbed the Heroes Act House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Congress needs to reach a bipartisan compromise as millions of Americans struggle to make ends meet during the pandemic our 1st color in the bill is to honor our heroes those who risked their lives to save lives and they lose their jobs and that's a 1000000 and a half across the country a father complains already have a 3 trillion dollar measure includes additional federal aid for state and local governments and another round of direct payments to eligible Americans but also includes more money for testing and liability protections for workers Congressional Republicans say the package is too big they're expected to pass their own measure by the end of the month. On Wall Street the Dow was up 227 points at the close today this is n.p.r. . For Connecticut Public Radio on John Henry Smith the State Department of Energy and Environmental Protection rejected a row quest for more than 330000000 dollars in state subsidies this week to help refurbish the waste to energy plant operated by the materials innovation and recycling authority otherwise known as Mirah the authority Burns waste and produces electricity at its heart for plant but it struggled in recent years suffering outages which have caused trash to pile up outside the plant Katie Dykes is the commissioner of the d e p the concept of investing that kind of subsidy in a decades old tech is still a decades old technology is it is in our view really not moving us forward in terms of more sustainable solutions for our state but Tom Kirk president of near us says alternative solutions like food waste diversion aren't practical for a state that needs to dispose of millions of tons of trash per year there are options that work in the lab that work in a prototype and that even work on very small scale facilities but there are no solutions that will handle the 1000 tons a day that Connecticut will be faced with disposing of in a couple of years when the trashed energy plant parts for is no longer capable of operating Kirk says he plans to write back to state officials but says he's not optimistic the administration will pay to benefit the aging Hartford facility he says Mera may need to send trash to out of state landfills and advocate for clergy sexual abuse survivor says he's filed a complaint against the Springfield Roman Catholic bishop saying Mitchell Roseann ski tried to cover up allegations against priests New England Public Radio's Adam for near reports the complaint is being lodged with the Catholic bishops abuse reporting service which is set up to look at misconduct by a bishop or cardinal all the Horn says the allegations go beyond. Those outlined in a report released by a former judge which validated claims against former Springfield Bishop Christopher Weldon we have individual reports from a witness that had experience I mean time again the same tactics of delay and I in covering up their claim Archbishop elect Mitchell resents he who is leaving the Springfield diocese next month for St Louis says in a statement he will fully cooperate with any of choir Rees he also outlined steps he's taken to handle abuse claims differently the complaint will be forwarded to Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley who has some oversight of the Springfield diocese for the New England news collaborative about him for any year artificial intelligence at enterprise scale solving previously unsolvable business problems learn more at c 3 a I and from my Dr maker of remote p.c. Providing access to computers anywhere for remote assistance and work from home featuring remote p.c. Meeting a video conference tool more at remote p.c. Dot com. This is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I know the Chuang in Los Angeles and I'm Sarah McCammon in Washington the trumpet ministration has made it clear it wants the federal government to know the u.s. Citizenship status of every adult in the country that's why for months it's been trying to gather records from federal and state agencies N.P.R.'s Hansi Lo Wang has learned that 4 states have agreed to share records from their driver's licenses and state I.D.'s to help in that effort and he joins us now from New York. I swear you've been following this for a long time so catches up why is this happening now. Well remember last year when the Supreme Court upheld lower court rulings that blocked the Trump ministration from putting a citizenship question on the 2020 census to be very clear that question is not on this year's census forms so the president has been moving ahead with the backup plan this executive order Trump issued last July to use government records to try to narrow down who is and who is not a u.s. Citizen trying to get that information in another way so which states are sharing their records with the term administration and how will that help determine people's citizenship status the 4 states that I've confirmed are Iowa South Carolina South Dakota and Nebraska which was a 1st a voluntary signed agreement back in November and you know not every state is doing this some states have been asked by the troll ministration to share information and said no we're not sharing but researchers at the u.s. Census Bureau are getting data from these 4 states you know they're getting people's names addresses other details from records driver's license records see id records and these details the researchers hope will help them find matches among all the other records they've been gathering from Immigration Customs Enforcement the i.r.s. Social security ministries and other federal agencies they're trying to determine the most up to date citizenship status of every adult in the country you know it's really important to keep in mind here that the Census Bureau is under orders to release anonymized information and under federal law this information can only be used for statistical purposes can't be used against a person I don't see why does the Trump administration want to know who is and is not a citizen how would they use this information. Well if you read the executive order on citizenship information from last July it says this kind of citizenship data would be more detail than what the federal government currently has through a national survey conducted by the Census Bureau this information could be used the water says quote to have a more reliable count of unauthorized immigrants than us it's not clear exactly how the ministration would figure out who among the non-citizen count are authorized immigrants versus green card holders and the order also says that the citizenship data could allow state local governments to reach of voting districts in a radically different way you know for the most part voting districts are drawn based on the number of all of the residents including children in an area the trouble ministration says it wants to allow districts to be drawn based on just the number of u.s. Citizens old enough to vote and a prominent g.o.p. Strategist who died in 20000 had concluded that way of redistricting would politically benefit Republicans and not Hispanic white people and what kind of reaction are you hearing to these measures especially from immigrant advocates who I'm sure acting this ongoing federal lawsuit by groups arguing that the trial going to try to prevent Latinos and citizens other immigrants from getting their fair share and representation and you know the Census Bureau right now is on track to release the citizenship data by the end of next July if the ministries in Atlanta keep moving forward with this project that's N.P.R.'s Hansi Lo Wang thanks so much on. You're welcome Sara one in 5 people in Los Angeles County is out of work according to California's latest unemployment numbers and that means a lot of people can't pay rent Well this week the city of l.a. Rolled out its emergency renter's relief program it offers $100000000.00 in assistance to l.a. Renters and when the application closes $50000.00 families will be randomly selected to get that help. A City Council President Nuri Martinez helped devise this program and she is here with us now welcome thank you thank you for having me so tell us who is eligible for this program or the eligibility 1st of our anyone who lives in the city of Los Angeles and Kearney lives in a multifamily units an apartment building or a duplex qualifies for this program are the qualifications also include showing Fina the financial impact that call the one $900.00 had on on you and earning less than 80 percent of the area median income or some of the prerequisite Ok got it but just to be clear this is for people who make 80 percent of the median income in the area or less than that well let me ask you what about middle or working class people who don't meet that income qualification but are facing eviction right now where our emergency renters reprogramed is the largest program and the country and so it just goes to show you that the us and this is leading and it's area but I also want to you know make sure that your listeners understand that we need more help than this just based on the people that applied their 1st down Monday when this program went live over 100000 people registered on the very 1st day while so that just goes to tell you the huge need that currently exist you know will be able to help you know randomly selected families about 50000 of them by the time this program is over. Not nearly enough to meet the demand and the need that currently exists you know experts in experts are telling us that we are going to see an eviction tsunami after this pandemic is over and I agree I mean l.a. Was already facing a housing crisis and and frankly homelessness crisis before the pandemic hit this money from the renters Relief Program you know it's a stopgap to keep some people in their homes but does the city have any plans to address these a much larger issues that are already driving people out of their homes even before the latest economic crisis where are continuing to build and you know supportive housing for our unsheltered community members find themselves again on the street every single day continuing to push forward some of these affordable housing projects that are still on and a pipeline the housing crisis is there as a result of people simply not being able to make enough to make ends meet and the fact that we have not been able to keep up with the then mad in the 3 of us Angeles has created this huge huge crisis so I think this adds an additional burden and a scary one because they won't be able to keep their homes for much longer if we do not figure out how to get more federal If the stands to keep people housed to asked the federal government to pass the next round of stimulus out to be able to help as many people as possible you know in the midst of this pandemic the federal government has given billions of dollars to corporations that have already gotten billions of dollars of unnecessary tax breaks I cannot believe that we cannot find a way to help poor people in this country stay house to l.a. 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For Connecticut Public Radio I'm John Henry Smith a union representing thousands of workers at Stop and Shop groceries around New England says it will file charges against the chain with the National Labor Relations Board the United Food and Commercial Workers Union says the decision to end edition will hazard pay or so-called hero pay for front line workers at the beginning of July in this time of pandemic is quote inexcusable with us now is Mark Espinosa president of u f c w local 919 Connecticut Mark is this just an issue of right now or do stop and shop workers feel they've been treated unfairly since the pandemic began I think that the company did did well in terms of reacting. Archive complaint right now is just the fact that they've been very fair to the employees in terms of this preview and they've been very fair for 3 months and all we were asking the companies do is continue being there well the grocery retailers they have been saying that while they could pay here all bonuses earlier in the pandemic because hoarding led to record sales they can't afford them anymore because sales have returned to closer to normal and fixed costs have gone up for things like extra disinfecting in-store reconfigurations and such do you believe grocers when they say that you have any sympathy for that position whatsoever I do understand about the pricing situation but we haven't seen any decline with the company the major employer you represent and we understand these folks are out there on a daily basis and they're at risk and the numbers prove it give us a flavor for To what degree these workers are at risk what of the infection rates been for stop and shop workers there's a lot of local unions in there with well as New York New Jersey who represent stop and shop so I'm only speaking from my wall here in Connecticut and I know that out of the 7000. Members that we represent a local I want to represents the company has provided us information basically weekly and the numbers as far as testing positive and being quarantined was in the neighborhood at the high level of 150 workers. There has also been within our jurisdiction. 2 members that have passed sadly in addition to that we have 5550 members who are just not comfortable and have chosen to stay out of the stores you know on social media we regularly see these days workers at grocery stores getting confronted by angry customers after these workers asked them to wear masks is that coming up as one other reason why girls who work here Ok that's been the Early on question and concern of the members have lodged to us. Exactly you know relative to to just trying to speak up to a customer you know some star managers are frustrated in the fact of one day's attempted to talk to a customer and they themselves have got into altered states and they don't want to of course they don't know how much does the fact that the $600.00 per week cares act on ploy men add on is expiring in 2 weeks how much does that hurt. Your leverage in this situation I mean is going to be probably a lot more competition for jobs at this point. We don't really have the leverage we have nothing in our contract you know we came to a major strike last year as you probably know leavened a strike throughout the England and you know we have a contract and we have issues but none of us foresaw a covert provision to be put into the union contract so the leverage we have is just trying to just condense the employer you know it's the right thing to. Do what is your expectation of success with the n.l.r.b. In its current incarnation under the Trump White House it's a it's a touchy issue and you know and then of course you know they'll look at the rest of the the industry to look at the other leaders of the other industry this industry and use that as an example of saying Well none of them are doing it anymore so why should we be the only ones doing it you know in terms of maintaining the premium paying it's what we have to do it's our job it's our if we have to advocate for the membership and that's one of the ways we can do it I do I have a lot of hope for a positive outcome no I don't assuming that you're right what next one of the things that the locals have discussed at conference is that you know we will do so some targeted events I believe that you know Labor Day is coming and that would be a significant time for us to try to. Be visual there's been a lot of interaction with our elected officials throughout New England New York New Jersey in fact a moral we've got a we've got a press conference in front of a store in Hamden Connecticut and Senator Blumenthal has agreed to come down and be with us so we'll just continue banging away and have I could say that in a separate of 2022 this contract expires and the company should know that we will certainly be dealing with this type of an issue once we get back to the bargaining table Mark Espinosa of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union thank you so much for the time. My pleasure thank you and just a note Stop and Shop did not respond to our request to have someone from Stop and Shop appear on the show this afternoon. Support comes from the vital projects fund supporting the Museum of Modern Art virtual views Gordon Parks starts Thursday on moment dot org with a live q. And a between curator Sarah Meister and his. Story and Nicole Fleetwood and Mohammed. And I'm Sarah McCammon President Trump has taken one of his most aggressive actions yet to weaken the country's environmental laws today the administration announced changes to speed up construction of big infrastructure projects such as oil pipelines and highways critics say that move will sideline concerns about climate change and the effects of pollution on poor and minority communities N.P.R.'s Jeff Brady reports the president was at a u.p.s. Facility in Atlanta to announce dramatic changes to the regulations that govern the National Environmental Policy Act or Nepa he traveled to Atlanta because his administration wants a local freeway expansion project to be among the 1st approved under the new regulations for decades the single biggest obstacle to building a modern transportation system has been the mountains and mountains of bureaucratic red tape in Washington d.c. Nico was signed into law by President Richard Nixon 50 years ago it requires federal agencies to consider the environmental effects of proposed projects before they are approved it also gives the public and interest groups the ability to comment on those evaluations the new regulations set a time limit of 2 years on environmental reviews less than half the time they now take on average it limits the number and types of projects that fall under Nepa it puts new limits on public participation and makes it harder to file legal challenges while Trump focused on building new highways the oil industry also sees big benefits in today's announcement a series of pipeline projects have recently been dealt setbacks related to Nepa reviews Mike Summers heads the American Petroleum Institute and says the existing Nepa process has become too cumbersome we feel if we're going to get our economy moving again post pandemic that this kind of pummeling reform is going to be necessary environmental groups around like criticize today's. Down cement attorney Sharon you know what the Natural Resources Defense Council says the new regulations essentially gut Nepa and take power away from the country's most vulnerable people who need gives poor communities of color a say in the projects that will define their communities for decades to come rather than listen the trumpet ministrations plan aims to sideline such choices there's a long history of polluting highways pipelines and industrial plants being disproportionately located in these neighborhoods do you Chino believes the trumpet ministrations new regulations for Nepa are illegal and she says they will be challenged in court which means November's election could determine whether these new regulations remain in effect the presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden has vowed to reverse dozens of environmental rollbacks Trump has made while in office Jeff Brady n.p.r. News so who gets to be memorialized in California there are several schools in streets named after the state's 1st governor but what about the Native Americans and black people he terrorized Well this week we are profiling statues memorials and buildings that deserve a 2nd look to see who we honor in America and who we have allowed ourselves to forget today Peter Hardiman Burnett as governor of California he endorsed the genocide of Native Americans he also tried to pass a law outlawing African-Americans in the state author Gregory Noakes has researched and written extensively on Burnett His book is called the troubled life of Peter Burnett and he joins us now welcome oh hi thank you very much also a pleasure to be here. So let me ask you I mean before Burnett made it out here to California he was a young man pushing west tell us how he came to live in Oregon 1st he was a self-taught attorney living in Missouri and he had a fairly distinguished career areas was a defense attorney for Joseph Smith after the Mormon War an $838.00 but he was on the rich and he made all these investments and went heavily into debt and he heard there was free land out in Oregon so he organizes own wagon train which actually was the 1st major wagon train in $843.00 to come to Oregon and he enters politics in Oregon and in his role I understand in the legislature there he uses a law that bans slavery in Oregon to actually allows slavery there how did he do that well he did it was a very tricky maneuver in his party come from a slave owning family brought a couple of slaves of his own into Oregon although one of the mud drowned on the way and Oregon it all previously passed a law banning slavery out right so he passed what became Oregon's 1st exclusion law banning African-Americans coming to Oregon there's been no such law before and it's part of the exclusion law there was this tricky provision that slave owners would have to 3 their slaves after 3 years and that was unusual wording it did it by implication allowed slave owners to have 3 years right and so this was changed rather quickly but it did create a window for some slave owners to bring slaves to Oregon in that period well the Gold Rush of course brings them to California he helps found the city of Sacramento he has elected the 1st governor of California and he was able to get laws and policies on the books that effectively subjugated Native Americans in this state what were those policies one of those was a law passed in 850 called the act for the governor. And protection of Indians and that word protection underlined because it provided for apprenticing native children to white people. Or they could obviously be used as servants or slaves and then for vagrant Indian and so called they gritted DNS to be hired out to the highest bidder and it was pretty much as like slavery in that period and this apparently involved as many as 20000 Native Americans who were or used in that way and there were also massacres that occurred during his tenure as governor as well right massacres of Native Americans Oh yes right because they know the one that stuck out in my mind that I wrote about was a bloody Highland mess occur in Lake County in 1851 as many as 300 Indians in this and Indians men women and children were massacred by the us Calvary and he had no comment on these are just kind of didn't call out troops to defend them so in that sense it was kind of a passive endorsement of extermination Well it seems that Burnett has been reduced to a footnote in California history I mean I grew up in California I never learned about him a lot of people don't know his name despite passing places that Aaron his name daily why do you think that is a must have made a tremendous 1st impression because we've only touched on a few of the offices that he held over the years people followed him but he didn't deliver on his promises now I should say that probably much of the population in the West at that time the white population or hostile to African-Americans but the idea that they would have a governor who seemed to have that as only agenda has caused him to be pretty much forgotten so you haven't you have in California you have these lists of governors of California and Burnette as always at the top the very 1st governor think that to be a point of distinction. Not much is known about him Gregory Noakes his book from 2018 is called the troubled life of Peter Byrne at thank you very much for speaking with us today thank you so much Also I appreciate the call the 1st major interview with me. This is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from Subaru with the 2020 Subaru Forester featuring standard symmetrical all wheel drive and safety technology love it's what makes Subaru Subaru learn more at Subaru dot com from Fidelity wealth management where advisors work with their clients to develop flexible investment strategies that can evolve as their needs change learn more at fidelity dot com slash wealth fidelity brokerage services l.l.c. And from Ebsco together with its content partners providing resources and expanded access to content to help library and health care staff support their institutions during the coven 1000 pandemic Ebsco dot com. 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