More than a hundred thousand refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine are here in the United States. Many of those refugees are children, and one place here in Chicago that is stepping up to help is Saint Nicholas Cathedral School in Ukrainian Villages. This school year they have taken in 75 Ukrainian refugee students, bought supplies for their families, and created an English immersion summer camp for the last weeks before school starts.
Reset checks in with principal Anna Cirilli on how things are going, and with Anna Savchenko, the reporter who visited the school for WBEZ.
GUESTS: Anna Cirilli, principal at St. Nicholas Cathedral School
Anna Savchenko, education reporter, WBEZ
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In a new report from the New York Times and non-partisan research group Child Trends, the number of children living in poverty in the U.S. dropped significantly from the early 1990s to just before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Reset speaks with one of the authors of the report, a reporter from the New York Times and researcher at Northwestern University on the findings and their implications.
GUESTS: Dana Thomson, senior research scientist at Child Trends
Jason DeParle, reporter for the New York Times
Christine Percheski, associate professor of sociology at Northwestern University.
For more about Reset, go to wbez.org and follow us on Twitter @WBEZReset
The most valuable crypto stories for Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2022.
"The Hash" hosts discuss today's top stories, including the Ethereum Merge that transitioned the world's second largest blockchain from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake, and the CFTC chairman's testimony in front of the Senate Agriculture Committee, in which Rostin Behnam said the agency is the “right regulator” to oversee digital assets trading.
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This episode has been edited by Nia Freeman andMichele Musso. Our executive producer is Jared Schwartz. Our theme song is “Neon Beach.”
It's a strange moment in the pandemic. Mask mandates and other restrictions have all but disappeared. For most vaccinated people, the risk of severe illness has gone way down.
But hundreds of people are dying of COVID-19 every day. For their loved ones, grieving a terrible loss as the country is moving back to normal can be jarring.
Everyday Americans are weighing the threat the coronavirus poses to them. Scientists, too, are debating how dangerous the virus is right now.
NPR's Rob Stein reports on the debate about whether COVID is more or less dangerous than the seasonal flu.
And Susan Reinhard with the AARP's Public Policy Institute argues that more still needs to be done to protect nursing home residents.
A plane with 50 migrants lands in Martha’s Vineyard from Florida, as migrants also arrive outside Vice President Kamala Harris’ Washington D.C. residence
Union rail workers and railroad companies reach a tentative agreement to avoid a strike
The Supreme Court rules against a Jewish university over its decision not to recognize an LGBT student club
Republicans plan to investigate Gen. Mark Milley if they take back the House
President Biden signs an executive order aimed at countering China in the tech industry
Republicans propose a nationwide abortion ban, MAGA candidates win the year’s final primaries in New Hampshire, and a Republican political stunt fails when Massachusetts residents rally behind a group of immigrants sent there by Ron Desantis. Then Senator Maggie Hassan stops by to talk about her race against MAGA candidate Don Bolduc, and later Jon defends his title as the reigning champion of Two Takes and a Fake.
A service that keep sites online despite attacks often protects sites whose bad reputations are well earned. Elizabeth Nolan Brown and Will Duffield discuss Cloudflare and its change of heart over providing service to the infamous troll haven known as Kiwi Farms.
Regulators take a closer look at buy-now, pay-later companies.
(0:21) Bill Mann discusses: - The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announcing plans to oversee BNPL businesses like Affirm Holdings - Why this is not an example of government overreach - His very recent trip to eastern Europe and the current state of energy access in the region
(13:30) Deidre Woollard interviews Trex CEO Bryan Fairbanks in front of a live audience and discusses the "public spaces" part of Trex's business, and what gets Fairbanks excited to go to work every day.
If you're a member of any Motley Fool service, you can access the entire interview with Bryan Fairbanks here: https://www.fool.com/premium/live/video/4056/coverage/2022/08/31/the-global-supply-chain-and-housing-trends-with-tr/ Stocks mentioned: PYPL, SQ, AFRM, TREX, HD, LOW
Host: Chris Hill Guests: Bill Mann, Deidre Woollard, Bryan Fairbanks Engineers: Dan Boyd, Austin Morgan
A new report by the World Weather Attribution consortium demonstrates the impact of global warming on flooding in Pakistan. The consortium is helping to assess the link between humanitarian disasters and global change, faster than ever before.
The work, conducted by a team of statisticians, climate experts, and local weather experts, is part of an emerging field in science called Extreme Event Attribution, and can reliably provide assessments in the immediate aftermath of an extreme weather event
The report follows widescale flooding in Pakistan that has disrupted the lives of over 33 million people. Dr. Friederike Otto from the Grantham Institute for Climate Change explains some of the network’s conclusions as to the causes behind this devastating flood. Can it all be down to climate change?
Also this week, we speak to Prof Oyewale Tomori of the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases, who writes in this week’s journal Science about what he believes African countries’ role should be in response to the Monkeypox pandemic, and how future academic work in the area should be more homegrown.
Finally, psychologist Lynda Boothroyd talks us through a new study about how the arrival of television in people’s lives can help shape unhealthy and negative perceptions of body image. The study, conducted in Nicaragua, amongst communities only recently connected to electricity supplies, is helping to show how the media could play a part in contributing to conditions like eating disorders.
(Image: Pakistani people move to a safer place due to flooding. Credit: Jan Ali Laghari/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Presenter: Roland Pease
Producer: Alex Mansfield, Robbie Wojciechowski
At 2:44 a.m. ET Thursday, Ethereum successfully transitioned from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake. On today’s show, NLW breaks down what that means for the network’s security and economics and looks at the political dimensions that could impact Bitcoin and the rest of the crypto industry.
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“The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features Nathaniel Whittemore aka NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell and research by Scott Hill. Jared Schwartz is our executive producer and our theme music is “Countdown” by Neon Beach. Music behind our sponsors today is “Razor Red” by Sam Barsh and “The Life We Had” by Moments. Image credit: Andrei Akushevich/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk. Join the discussion at discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8.
