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4.23.25 Federal funding of higher education, World Tour, and tariffs hit border towns
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Lindsay Mast
Good morning. Harvard takes the White House to court after billions in federal grants are frozen. It's all part of a political tug of war over anti Semitism DEI and how much say Washington ought to have.
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Nick Eicher
If you take federal money, there are strings attached. That's ahead on Washington Wednesday. Also today, news from around the globe on world tour and northern border towns come to terms with the conflict between the and Canada.
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Lindsay Mast
It isn't just the tariffs. It isn't just the financial. It's the emotional relationship that unfortunately has been fractured. It's Wednesday, April 23rd. This is the world and everything in it. From listener supported World Radio, I'm Lindsay Mast.
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Nick Eicher
And I'm Nick Eicher. Good morning.
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Lindsay Mast
Up next, Mark Mellinger with today's news.
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Mark Mellinger
President Trump is changing his tune on termination now saying he has no plans to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
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Nick Eicher
I would like to see him be a little more active in terms of his idea to lower interest rates. This is a perfect time to lower interest rates.
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Mark Mellinger
If he doesn't, is it the end?
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Nick Eicher
No, it's not. But it would be good timing.
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Mark Mellinger
Trump previously suggested he might try to fire Powell for not lowering interest rates. Those comments last week and earlier this week sent the US Financial markets tumbling. But his new position should further the calmer nerves on Wall street Tuesday. The three major stock indices, the Dow, Nasdaq and S&P were all up 2.5% or more at the closing bell. The main reason for the rallying stocks though, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant. At a closed door event, he told investors he expects a de escalation in the US Trade war with China, calling the present stando between the two countries unsustainable. Reporters asked the president to weigh in on Besant's comments.
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Nick Eicher
We're doing fine with China. We're doing fine with every, I think almost every country, everybody wants to have involvement with the United States.
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Mark Mellinger
A baseline tariff of 10% remains in effect for most U.S. trading partners while the White House tries to work out long term deals country by country. But tariffs on China shot up to 245% last week. The U.S. state Department is starting an overhaul. In a written statement Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he sees the State Department as being at odds with the president and the country. So he's working to bring it under control by getting rid of overlap in foreign offices. State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce region specific.
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Nick Eicher
Functions will be consolidated to increase functionality. Redundant offices will be removed and non statutory programs that are misaligned with America's core national interest interests will cease to exist.
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Mark Mellinger
The overhaul also calls for a 15% agency workforce reduction. In the US the US Supreme Court appears to be leaning in favor of parents with religious objections to their elementary aged children being forced to read LGBTQ themed books at school. The high court heard arguments Tuesday in a case out of Montgomery County, Maryland, where the public school system refused to let parents with religious objections opt their children out of a language arts class with pro LGBTQ reading materials.
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Melissa Persack
This is not a matter of banning curriculum or stopping others from following their beliefs.
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Lindsay Mast
It is about protecting our right as parents to decide what our children learn.
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Melissa Persack
And when, especially when it comes to sensitive issues like gender, sexuality and family life.
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Mark Mellinger
That's Melissa Persack, a concerned parent of a Montgomery county student. Opponents of an opt out say it puts too much of a burden on schools and argue no one is being forced to change their religious beliefs practices. A decision will probably come in June based on the justice's questions and comments in the courtroom Tuesday, the Associated Press reports the court's conservative majority signaled support for the parents religious rights. An Anglican church in Raleigh, North Carolina is rallying to help 22 Afghan Christians in its congregation avoid deportation. One of those refugees, a young man using the pseudonym Nishinus, escaped Taliban persecution and came to the US On a form of humanitarian parole known as tps, which is short for Temporary protected Status. But the Trump administration believes past presidents abused TPS and is working to rein in the program. So this month, Nishinis was told to leave the country within seven days. Church members have written Congress and joined national Christian groups urging the Trump administration to allow about 300 Afghan believers like Nishinus to stay. Tuesday, World's Carolina Lumeta asked White House press Secretary Caroline Levitt for an update.
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Caroline Levitt
We didn't end that proactively. It expired and it's because the previous administration illegally paroled hundreds of thousands into the country. And if there are individuals here who came in through the Biden administration who.
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Nick Eicher
Want to claim asylum, there is a.
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Caroline Levitt
Legal process to do that and those.
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Nick Eicher
Cases will be adjudicated by a judge.
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Caroline Levitt
On a case by case basis.
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Mark Mellinger
Church members say these Afghans are not economic migrants, but people who followed US Law and now face death for their faith if forced to return. Nishinus has applied for asylum, with court hearings set for later this year. A new Department of Justice task force aims to take on bias against Christians. Attorney General Pam Bondi this task force.
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Melissa Persack
Will identify any unlawful anti Christian policies, practices or conduct across the government, seek input from the faith based organizations and state governments to end anti Christian bias.
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Mark Mellinger
Bondi went on to accuse the Biden administration of using its power to target peaceful Christians. As an example, she cited its prosecution of almost two dozen pro life activists charged under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances or Freedom Face Act. President Trump later pardoned those activists. I'm Mark Mellinger. Straight ahead, perspectives on federal funding and higher education. Plus how US Tariffs are straining some neighborly relationships. This is the World and Everything in it.
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Nick Eicher
It's Wednesday, 23rd April. Glad to have you along for today's edition of the World and Everything in It. Good morning. I'm Nick Eicher.
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Lindsay Mast
And I'm Lindsay Mast. First up, a fight over federal money in higher education and why it's not as new as it sounds. Harvard is taking the Trump administration to court over billions in federal grant money.
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Nick Eicher
For those who've been through battles like this before, the conflict feels familiar. World's Washington bureau reporter Leo Braceno has the story.
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Leo Braceno
Harvard's lawsuit is new, but the concern behind it isn't. Back in 1984, the Christian liberal arts school Grove City College faced a similar agree to all present and future government regulations or forego all federal aid for students. The school's current vice president of student recruitment, Lee Wishing, was a student when the college took the matter all the way to the Supreme Court.
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Nick Eicher
It was really a power grab by the federal government, and the Supreme Court said it was a power grab.
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Leo Braceno
The case itself was about women's access to education. The government wanted Grove City to sign a form that promised to follow the government regulations about equal access to education. And although Grove City already firmly held that conviction, its leaders worried the government would make more demands down the road the college simply could not agree to.
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Nick Eicher
So we didn't sign this form because we didn't want to end up in a position where the feds would control us. And by the way, at the time, there were something like 7,000 sections of the Code of Federal Regulations that followed federal student aid.
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Leo Braceno
In a 6, 3 decision, the court ruled that the government's authority didn't extend to the whole college, but did extend to the department that would be receiving the funds. Grove City then decided it would not accept federally funded student aid.
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Nick Eicher
And so that case is sitting there for all of higher ed to see that if you take federal money, there are strings attached.
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Leo Braceno
That relationship between the federal government and higher ed started roughly in the 1860s through land grants, holdings of land sold to fund places of education. These would be used to fund colleges like Texas A and M University and the University of California. Then after World War II, the government upped its investment in higher education, largely through research grants. Here's Ethan Shrum, director of the Humanities program at Azusa Pacific University in California. What they did during the war was they typically funded these large centers. The RAD lab up at MIT that worked on radar. The underwater sound lab at San Diego managed by the University of California that worked on sonar. These kind of centers dedicated to specific war related technologies. Student aid was a different story that didn't really get started in very major form until the middle of the 1960s with the higher Education act that was part of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. And then a few years later, in.
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Nick Eicher
The early 1970s, we got Pell Grants.
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Leo Braceno
The government's involvement in grants has since expanded, and so has its role in student loans. According to the Education Data Initiative, Federal loans represent 92% of of all student debt. In the 2023-24 school year, the government issued $114 billion in new loans. But not all students take federal aid.
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Melissa Persack
I read the email at the beginning of the hallway and I wasn't even halfway through the hallway when I like connected the dots that this was actually possible.
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Leo Braceno
Alma Isabel Blanco Padron is a student at Hillsdale College in Michigan, one of the colleges that doesn't take any federal assistance. She's studying philosophy. Because she immigrated to the United States from Venezuela, she's not eligible for many of the forms of aid the government offers. Alba instead receives private assistance. She remembers learning late one night about the scholarships that made her college dream possible.
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Melissa Persack
And I think I ran to the end of the hallway to tell like literally anyone that was awake. But it was also like 1:30am in the morning, so I was hoping someone would still.
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Leo Braceno
Alba thinks that bringing in funding from private sources fosters a sense of purposefulness from donors and humility from recipients.
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Melissa Persack
I think because it doesn't receive any money from a big institution, people are more willing to act and to support the mission themselves.
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Leo Braceno
Alba and Hillsdale are the exception. By and large, the government's increasing role in the education landscape has become harder to avoid. Here's wishing again. The vice president of student recruitment from Grove City College. I asked him if he's surprised more colleges don't forego federal dollars.
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Nick Eicher
They really can't afford to. It's very difficult for colleges to pull out. They're really dependent on that aid.
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Leo Braceno
In many cases, federal funding is a fruitful relationship for colleges and universities, even for conservative ones, such as the case at Cedarville University. A Christian university in Ohio that does take federal dollars. One of the examples of the reasons why we do that is because that allows us then to do our center for Cyber Operations that we have. That's Thomas White, president of Cedarville. He says federal aid that the school received from the National Science foundation helped the school play a leading role in that field. And so our center for Cyber Operations is one of 20 or so schools in the nation that's considered a center of academic excellence in cyber operations. And so to be able to do that wouldn't be possible without some funding from the nsf. That said, White says Cedarville has plans to back out of federal funding if it's ever asked to cross a bright red line. If the government starts requiring that you have teachers of other faiths or if you have to accept students of other faiths at a Christian institution that has a clearly defined line for faculty to sign their doctrinal statement or for believers to have a testimony as a believer in Christ, then at that point I think you have to walk away. Others believe the government's relationship with higher education has become something that the founders of the country probably didn't envision. Constitutional attorney Michael Ferris founded Patrick Henry College in 2000. The school has not accepted any federal funding. Along the way, Ferris envisions a fairly minimal relationship between federal authorities and higher.
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Nick Eicher
Education, that some federal officials occasionally attend football, basketball games at their ALMA material and I'm not satisfied with the shoe.
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Mark Mellinger
Being on the other foot.
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Nick Eicher
I want them out of the shoe business.
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Leo Braceno
The federal government is still very much in the shoe business. The Trump administration is asking Harvard to adhere to a list of demands that includes viewpoint diversity in admissions and hiring, governance and leadership reforms, changes to its disciplinary practices for students, and quarterly reporting through the end of 2028. Harvard says the Trump administration's actions are inconsistent with the First Amendment and calls the withholding of grants unlawful. In its filing, the school said it would not, quote, surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. It's now up to the courts to decide who pulls the strings. That's it for Washington Wednesday. Reporting for World I'm Leo Braceno.
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Nick Eicher
Additional support comes from Eyewitness, an immersive audio drama exploring stories of faith and transformation on podcast apps or at the.
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Mark Mellinger
Letter I witnesspod.com and from Life International, fighting the scourge of abortion globally, teaching about the father's heart for life. Lifeinternational.com.
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Lindsay Mast
Coming up next on the World and Everything in It World tour with our reporter in Africa, Onize Adua.
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Melissa Persack
We begin today in Nigeria where Christians are calling for an end to ongoing ongoing violence. Christians crowded the streets of Plateau State on Easter Monday in an effort to pressure the government to end the violence. Blamed on armed herdsmen targeting mostly Christian communities. Attacks on Palm Sunday left at least 51 people dead in the state. It brings to more than 100 the number of deaths since the end of March. Reverend Gideon Paramalam was one of the coordinators of the peaceful walk. We have come out dressed in white.
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Nick Eicher
To symbolize our hope that peace is possible.
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Melissa Persack
Meanwhile, the death toll from similar violence last week in Benue state has topped 70 people. Hyacinth Alia is the Benue state governor. The federal government is supported, very enormous. He says security forces have been working non stop, but the latest attacks mean they need to rethink their strategy. Next we head to Australia where authorities say the long Easter weekend was one of the deadliest for drownings in New South Wales. At least seven people died, including a nine year old boy. Brent Manieri is the general manager of the Surf Life Saving Volunteer Rescue group. Yeah, so over the last four days.
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Mark Mellinger
Our lifesavers have performed in excess of 150 rescues and obviously we've seen those six tragedies occur along our New South Wales coastline.
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Melissa Persack
Authorities blame the perfect combination of high temperatures, deadly ocean swells and holiday activities. Over in Puerto Rico, authorities are reviewing what's behind yet another power outage that affected 1.4 million customers. The outage last week hit the main international airport, hospitals and hotels. More than 400,000 people had no access to water. Herbert Rodriguez Martinez resides in southern Puerto Rico. He says that all Puerto Ricans are battling the outages that continue to happen. An earlier blackout on New Year's Eve left nearly all Puerto Ricans without power. Governor Jennifer Gonzalez is demanding answers from the private company managing the island's power distribution. We wrap up today in Central Asia where composers in Kyrgyzstan are competing to create the country's new national anthem. Kyrgyzstan adopted its current anthem in 1992 after independence from the Soviet Union. But the government says the anthem is still based on the Soviet era one and fails to represent the young nation. President Sadyr Dhaparov has taken other similar steps to overhaul state symbols since assuming office in 2021. At the end of 2023, Parliament approved changes to the details of the sun on the Kyrgyz flag. Nurziget Moldoya is a composer and vocalist. He says he composed his submission with some poet friends. He says here that he wrote the melody with strong feelings, emotions that will move any listener to respond from deep within. That's it for this week's world tour. Reporting for World Amunize Odua in Abuja, Nigeria.
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Nick Eicher
You're not supposed to reschedule hockey games to accommodate political debates. It's unheard of. But in Canada, you do reschedule political debates to accommodate something far more important. Hockey. Because last week there was a French language prime ministerial debate around the same time as the Montreal Canadiens do or die game for Les Habitants, as they are known. You win and you're in. You lose and you miss the playoffs. Again, leader of the opposition, E. Francois Blanchet.
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Mark Mellinger
I would like like anybody else to.
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Lindsay Mast
Watch the game if the date can be changed.
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Nick Eicher
Let's do that. Well, not the date, but the time. They moved it up two hours so they got it done before puck drop. The Canadiens would go on to win and clinch that playoff berth, but sad for them, they dropped game one Sunday to the Washington Capitals. They hope to even things up tonight in game two. Ovechkin scores. Now the biggest debate in Montreal, how to shut down the most prolific goal scorer in the game. It's the world and everything in it.
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Lindsay Mast
Today is Wednesday, April 23rd. Thank you for turning to World Radio to help start your day. Good morning. I'm Lindsay Mast.
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Nick Eicher
And I'm Nick Eicher. We are true, we are north, we are strong, and we are free.
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Leo Braceno
And we are elbows up right now all the time. Elbows up, elbows up, elbows up.
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Nick Eicher
Canadian Member of Parliament Charlie Angus leading a chant of defiance against the United States. Ever since President Trump took office, relations between the U.S. and Canada have fallen to historic lows. First came the remarks about making Canada the 51st state. Then came the tariffs.
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Lindsay Mast
The White House has imposed tariffs on steel, aluminum and other goods, measures many Canadians see as directly hostile. Some are boycotting US Products and travel, leaning into that slogan, elbows up.
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Nick Eicher
A recent poll found that more than a quarter of Canadians now view the US as an enemy. And that diplomatic chill is coolest in the town straddling the border. World's Grace Snell paid a visit to a few of those communities and found the damage is more than economic.
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Grace Snell
Five hundred miles north of Washington, D.C. the St. Lawrence river is the quiet boundary line between the United States and its only northern neighbor, here in Clayton, New York. The river is also the main artery, bringing vital tourist dollars to the local economy. Every spring and summer, crowds flock here for the boating, fishing and scenery. Just off the waterway sits the Golden Cleat, a tidy jewelry boutique stocked with local souvenirs Kim Sola is store manager.
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Lindsay Mast
There is definite concern about how the Trump tariffs will impact the business.
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Grace Snell
Sola says people here in Clayton rely on their Canadian customers, but this year many of them just aren't coming.
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Lindsay Mast
And we are definitely already seeing a disproportionate amount of traffic reduction from last year.
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Grace Snell
One reason is the low purchasing power of the Canadian dollar, which only equals about 70 cents in the US but it also has a lot to do with recent trade disputes as US President Donald Trump deploys tariffs against Canada and other countries. Already, government data shows a 30% drop off in Canadians road tripping to the US this March. Across the border in the province of Ontario, a large Canadian flag catches the breeze. The distinctive maple leaf banner also flies from several homes and porches along the roadside, as if in polite Canadian protest to Trump's repeated offers to make it the 51st US state. At a gas station in Mallorytown, attendant Catherine Leaker says she's never had any trouble with her American customers, but she isn't at all happy about the current state of affairs.
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Melissa Persack
You have to be able to work together if you want to stay allies and that. But he seems like he wants the world mad at him.
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Grace Snell
Weaker says lots of people she knows are boycotting American products right now.
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Melissa Persack
As soon as they see something that's American, they put it back. Don't want it.
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Grace Snell
About an hour's drive away in Cornwall, shopkeeper Martin Bucer has started carrying a new item, baseball caps with the slogan Canada is not for Sale. Bucer says the tariff situation is mind boggling.
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Melissa Persack
We don't really know where it's all going.
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Nick Eicher
It's kind of of a day to day kind of thing. It's changing all the time.
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Grace Snell
Most people walking down the street are just minding their own business. The vast majority don't want to talk about tariffs. Some say they just haven't felt any direct effects yet. Out of 20 people I approach, only six stop to chat. But among those who are willing to talk tariffs, there's a definite consensus. They aren't happy about the situation.
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Nick Eicher
And the tariffs is an unusually weird game.
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Melissa Persack
I'm not sure if it's designed for the ultra rich to be able to buy more stocks when the market goes down at cheap prices, or if it's I don't know what he's doing.
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Grace Snell
This woman who declined to give her name says current politics feel almost like reality tv.
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Melissa Persack
He's been there before. He's running the government like he did the Apprentice. What can I say?
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Grace Snell
One man wearing Canadian flag. Mittens didn't want his voice recorded, but he called Trump a madman and said the tariffs will create a lasting rift in US Canadian relations. 22 year old Macy Cornish is on her way back from the local bakery. She says she couldn't believe it when she started hearing about all the tariffs.
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Nick Eicher
You don't realize how much you rely on your neighbors in that sense until they've decided to cause basically a war.
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Melissa Persack
Which makes no sense.
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Grace Snell
Cornish says she already preferred buying Canadian. Most passersby agree.
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Nick Eicher
99% of everything I buy is local. So like, I'm still gonna go to.
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Melissa Persack
Tim's, I'm still gonna go to Riley's.
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Nick Eicher
I'm still gonna go, I'm still gonna buy things from local farmers because I've always been that way.
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Grace Snell
I'm kind of this man who identifies himself as Costa, supports Canadians voting with their dollars. But he says that's really just a drop in the bucket of trade between the two countries.
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Nick Eicher
It's the steel, it's the aluminum, it's the potash, it's the uranium. These things have nothing to do with what we buy. That's like comparing U.S. recycling individually to the amount of garbage is dumped by the multinational companies into the environment.
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Grace Snell
In March, Ontario's premier threatened to shut off electricity to US Border states like New York, Minnesota and Michigan. His way of hitting back at the.
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Nick Eicher
US I was all for turning off the power, but I just don't know that the Canadian appetite, even from our leaders is there. I think it's a lot more barking and a lot less biting.
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Grace Snell
Still. Forbes estimates the U.S. could lose about $6 billion in revenue if Canadian travel remains at its current low. And that could have big consequences for tourist towns on the border. Back on the U.S. side of the border, U.S. customs and Border Protection data already shows a 15% falloff and people crossing into New York State from eastern Ontario. And that's exactly the scenario troubling shopkeepers like Kim Sola.
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Lindsay Mast
Our area exists because of tourism, and if they don't come, we'll struggle to exist overall as a community.
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Grace Snell
And Sola says bordertown residents aren't just worried about their bottom line.
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Lindsay Mast
It isn't just the tariffs, it isn't just the financial. It's the emotional relationship that the two countries shared that unfortunately has been fractured.
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Grace Snell
That's something that likely won't heal overnight, regardless of what happens trade wise. And Sola says that could mean some difficult days ahead for border towns.
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Lindsay Mast
If we don't have tourists come and put those dollars in, we have to make our choices and they're gonna be hard choices.
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Grace Snell
Reporting for World I'm Grace Snell. In Clayton, New York and Ontario.
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Nick Eicher
Today is Wednesday, April 23rd. Good morning, this is the World and everything in it from listener supported World Radio. I'm Nick Iker.
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Lindsay Mast
And I'm Lindsay Mast. World Opinions contributor Erica Anderson says many teens are quietly struggling and grown ups in their lives have a role to play in helping them heal.
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Caroline Levitt
Recent CDC reports reveal that 40% of American teens report persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness. The World Health Organization says suicide is the third leading cause of death for 15 to 29 year olds. Lingering consequences from onerous pandemic policies and increased use of technology have exacerbated both of these issues. Despite 5 years distance from the pandemic, faith based communities have yet to regain their pre pandemic attendance levels or participation, and kids have hardly recovered from the full consequences of what lockdowns did to them. But undoing the damage isn't easy and some consequences may be lifelong. Last year, the Northwest Evaluation association said that at the end of the 20212022 school year, they thought the worst of pandemic consequences was behind them. Unfortunately, their research shows the opposite is true. Lower grades, less churchgoing, lack of confidence and social struggles due to developmental losses. It is the perfect storm to brew hopelessness. Fewer attend youth groups now and the impact is evident. But the downturn in attendance isn't unfounded. Springtide research reported that just 10% of young people say a faith leader reached out to them personally in the first year of the pandemic. That gutting reality demonstrates how deeply we failed young believers during this time. This disconnection is devastating. We can't underestimate the importance of a diverse set of Christian adults who can pour into teens. Still, it remains difficult for churches to recruit volunteers for youth ministry in a young Christian's most formative time. The church family must step into this critical role. We'll be digging out of pandemic setbacks for years, but we know one thing for certain. Data shows one of the best ways to combat depression and anxiety is religion. A Boston Globe survey found that religious conservative teens are by far the least likely to experience mental health problems. Secular liberal teens are most vulnerable to them. This is one reason more teens need to be in church, not only because they need the saving grace of Jesus, but also to be surrounded by loving adults who can mentor, minister and disciple them. A change in youth ministry approach would help with this, national Next Gen director Shane Pruitt told me that a church integrated and intergenerational approach is key. And it actually seems to be what many teens are craving a more intentional, level headed relationship with Christians of all ages. By intentionally connecting youth with other adults, we could change their trajectory. We need to capture them before they are lost to the post Christian culture overtaking the country. Many kids who used to come to church once a month are scaling back to only Easter and Christmas. Similar trends exist for adults. Teen girls are particularly affected by the mental health declines and loss of religious community. The church has a big job ahead. Parents who have the greatest influence on a child's faith formation have an even bigger one. But if we can advocate for the benefits of strong faith communities and convince families that Christian fellowship is a real remedy for mental health woes, we can turn things around with the Lord's help. Our teens are in crisis. Our churches are one of the most important ways to help draw them out of it. It's not an easy task, but it's important for Christians to get busy connecting with teens and helping them see that God is relevant to their lives exactly where they are. I'm Erica Anderson.
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Nick Eicher
Tomorrow, Ethical questions Christians largely agree intentionally destroying human embryos is wrong. But what if it's unintentional? And celebrating Passover, we'll hear from two rabbis, one still looking for the Messiah, the other saying he's already come. That and more tomorrow. I'm Nick Iger.
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Lindsay Mast
And I'm Lindsay Mast. The world and everything in it comes to you from World Radio. World's mission is biblically objective journalism that informs, educates and inspires. The Bible says, seek the Lord and his strength. Seek his presence continually. Verse 4 of Psalm 105 Go now in grace and peace.
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Melissa Persack
SA.