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Hey, everybody, it's Ian and Mike, the hosts of how to Do Everything.
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That's the show where we take your questions and find overqualified experts to answer them.
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Alex asked us to write his out of office email message, but we don't.
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Know how to write, so we called up US Poet Laureate Ada Limon. Is this National Public Radio? Sort of technically, yes.
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Season two just dropped. Listen to the how to Do Everything podcast from npr.
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Live from NPR News. I'm Lakshmi Singh. The Federal Reserve is cutting interest rates for the first time this year in an effort to prop up the sagging job market in the U.S. nPR, Scott Horsley reports. Fed policymakers voted today to lower their benchmark rate by a quarter percentage point.
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The quarter point rate cut was widely expected. It will make it somewhat cheaper to get a car loan, bankroll a business expansion or carry a balance on your credit card. This the newest member of the Fed's rate setting Committee, Steven Myron, dissented from the vote, saying he would have preferred a larger half point cut. Fed policymakers opted to lower their benchmark rate amid signs that hiring has slowed sharply in recent months. US employers added just 22,000 jobs in August, and revised figures show the economy lost jobs in June for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic. Growing concerns about the job market are overshadowing worries about higher inflation. For now, Fed policymakers signaled on average they expect to cut interest rates by another half percentage point before the end of the year. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
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A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research shows a link between decreased abortion access and property crime in one state. Olivia Aldridge of member station KUT with details.
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The research zooms in on the years after Texas added new restrictions in 2013 that caused over half of the state's clinics that offered the procedure to close. The authors found that as distance from a clinic that provided abortion increased numbers of live births went up, they also saw signs of increased financial strain in those areas, like greater housing insecurity and rising debt. That was accompanied by rising rates for crimes like motor vehicle theft. Erkman Aslam at the University of Vermont is one of the paper's authors.
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The effect was really concentrated on crimes that generated the highest value.
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Researchers are now looking to test their models on other states, states that have lost abortion access to see if the findings can be replicated. I'm Olivia Aldridge in Austin.
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The former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Susan Monaros says Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Fired her for refusing to preemptively sign off on vaccine recommendations. Manaros testified today before a Senate panel about being ousted after just weeks on the job. Republican Senator Bill Cassidy, who was pivotal in Kennedy's confirmation, addressed the witness.
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When Secretary Kennedy comes, I'm keeping an open mind, let me just say that. But I know it's our responsibility and it's our mandate from the president of the United States that we have radical transparency. And I thank the two of you for taking the risk to your personal life to come today. Anything less than radical transparency betrays the trust the American people have given to us and betrays the mandate the president has delivered.
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Dr. Deborah Howery also testified she was among three top CDC officials to resign. It's NPR News. People with rheumatoid arthritis now have a new treatment option. NPR's John Hamilton reports on a device that reduces inflammation by stimulating a nerve in the neck.
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The surgically implanted device, made by Setpoint Medical, was approved this summer by the Food and Drug Administration. It uses pulses of electricity delivered to the vagus nerve to activate the body's own system for reducing inflammation. Lynn Milam was a patient in the clinical trial that led to the device's approval.
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Three weeks in, my elbow pain was completely gone. My hands didn't hurt anymore. The swelling started going away.
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The device is placed through a small incision in the neck and delivers electrical pulses for about a minute each day. It is approved for people with rheumatoid arthritis that hasn't responded to drug treatment. John Hamilton, NPR News.
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President Trump is in the UK on an unprecedented second state visit, and he traveled there with some of the biggest players in Silicon Valley. Microsoft, OpenAI, Google and Nvidia are among the tech giants pledging multi billion dollar investments in the UK for artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies. A Northrop grumman capsule carrying £11,000 of cargoes on a holding pattern in space. The capsule was supposed to dock with the International Space Station today, but NASA says its main eng shut down prematurely while attempting to boost its orbit. The capsule left Florida aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday. The Dow is up more than 200 points. I'm Lakshmi Singh, NPR News.
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