Currently do not get paid parental leave when they give birth or adopt a child that benefit is still relatively uncommon even in the private sector fewer than one in 5 American workers get paid parental or family leave benefits but more companies in states are expanding their policies now 2000000 federal workers are on the verge of getting up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave work or advocates say they hope to eventually see lawmakers extend such federal policies to include all workers as well as to cover leave for sick and elderly care Yuki Noguchi n.p.r. News Washington stocks move higher on Wall Street the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 29 points to close 827911 the Nasdaq rose 37 points this is n.p.r. . Amid ongoing protests over plans by the French government to change its pension system the country s prime minister now says the full retirement age will be increased for the country s youngest citizens but offered concessions to try to calm the mounting public furor over the
Earth information to determine where that risk is going to be because climate changes are bending everything and it s been a bad year for sugar beets extreme weather means the u.s. Needs to start importing sugar you put the seed in the ground and you mature to maturity and then somebody else decided that you re not going to be able harvest more after these headlines. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I m Lakshmi saying the House judiciary committee convenes tonight for a markup session to refine articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump N.P.R. s Bobbie Allen reports the Democratic majority accuses Trump of inviting a foreign government to interfere in the 2020 lection by pressuring Ukraine to investigate a political rival Democratic leaders are moving fast in hopes of making trump the 3rd u.s. President in history to be impeached fearing that the integrity of the 2020 election was at stake Democrats say they will impeach Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congr
There s explaining why the Central Bank did this thing or that thing with interest rates today though not because fundamentally the incumbent chair in question one Jay Powell didn t say anything new no moving interest rates economy is fine he s not worried about inflation nothing to see here move along status quo status quo however comma now that 200-1000 is in the books monetary policy wise and the Fed has pretty much done a u. Turn from where it was a year ago and what this economy could bear it might be time to ask some hard questions of chair Powell at all Neil Irwin has been asking some of them in his coverage of the economy for the New York Times Neal it s good to talk to you again thanks Kai much as one hates to I suppose think ill of the Federal Reserve is it possible given what has happened this year. And the past couple actually that maybe the Fed has just been wrong for a while now I mean it s not just possible it s it s there almost ignoring it they re almost acknowledging
Free speech by those who oppose Israel s policy toward the Palestinians the executive order takes aim at the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement that has generated intense controversy on college campuses White House officials say the order will clarify that title 6 of the 1964 Civil Rights Act applies to anti-Semitic acts it would affect universities that receive federal funding and in order to make it apply to anti-Semitism the order classifies Jewishness as a race or nationality rather than primarily a religion It also expands the definition of anti-Semitism to include anti israel speech in a statement the left leaning Jewish group j. Street said this order could have a chilling effect on campus free speech and turns anti-Semitism into a partisan political weapon Tamara Keith n.p.r. News and Wall Street the Dow was up 29 points this is n.p.r. . Climate activist gratitude Berg has been named Time s Person of the Year for 2019 N.P.R. s Jeff Brady reports the outsprint comes as t
Security attackers were found dead at the scene along with 3 civilian victims the pair also believed to have shot and killed a police detective in a nearby cemetery President Trump is signing an executive order that the White House says will target any semitism on college campuses but as N.P.R. s Tamara Keith explains it s already generating concerns the real outcome will be to stifle free speech by those who oppose Israel s policy toward the Palestinians the executive order takes aim at the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement that has generated intense controversy on college campuses White House officials say the order will clarify that title 6 of the 1964 Civil Rights Act applies to anti-Semitic acts it would affect universities that receive federal funding and in order to make it apply to anti-Semitism the order classifies Jewishness as a race or nationality rather than primarily a religion It also expands the definition of anti-Semitism to include anti israel speech in a sta