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TV Networks Staff Shows With 'Intimacy Coordinators' To Monitor Sex Scenes

6:11pm February 03, 2019

To prevent harassment on TV and film sets, production houses are hiring so-called intimacy coordinators to oversee sex scenes. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Ita O'Brien, who serves that role on Netflix's Sex Education.

Laundromats Fold In Learning Spaces For Busy Families

6:05pm February 02, 2019

by Allyson McCabe

Some laundromat owners are teaming up with libraries to provide books, toys and even story time for kids forced to tag along on laundry day.

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A U.S. Postal Service letter carrier delivers the mail in Shelbyville, Ky. A White House task force recommended ending the mailbox monopoly held by USPS.

National

Your Mailbox Could Be Opened Up To Private Carriers

8:07am February 02, 2019

by Emily Sullivan

By law, only you and the Postal Service are allowed to put things in your mailbox. But what if companies like FedEx and UPS could do it too? That could happen under a Trump administration proposal.

A Lesson In Classic Fair Division Problems And The Solutions

5:42pm February 01, 2019

by Sally Herships

Fairly dividing goods is one of the hardest problems economists face. NPR's Planet Money talks to economists about how best to solve it.

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Economy

The Jobs Friday 5

5:30pm February 01, 2019

Jobs: Is the economy creating enough of them? Are they paying more than they used to? Do people have the jobs they want? All this and more.

President Trump talks with FCC Chairman Ajit Pai at the White House in November. Under Pai, the FCC repealed Obama-era net neutrality rules. A federal court is reviewing that decision in oral arguments.

Politics & Government

Net Neutrality Goes Back To Court

2:11pm February 01, 2019

by Matthew S. Schwartz

It's the first major court challenge since the Trump administration rolled back Obama-era net neutrality rules. Challengers say the FCC is abandoning its responsibility to ensure an open Internet.

Workers build bed frames at a factory in Commerce, Calif., near Los Angeles, in 2017. In January, the economy added a bigger-than-expected 304,000 jobs, including 13,000 in manufacturing.

U.S. Added 304,000 Jobs In January; Shutdown Boosted Unemployment To 4 Percent

2:01pm February 01, 2019

by Avie Schneider

Job growth picked up for the 100th consecutive month even as hundreds of thousands of federal workers were furloughed during the partial government shutdown. Wage growth held steady.

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Families that lost loved ones to the opioid crisis protested outside Suffolk Superior Court in Boston as lawyers for Purdue Pharma entered the courthouse for a status update in the Massachusetts attorney general's suit against the company on Jan. 25.

Lawsuit Details How The Sackler Family Allegedly Built An OxyContin Fortune

1:50pm February 01, 2019

The Massachusetts attorney general alleges that the family behind Purdue Pharma knew that OxyContin was causing overdoses, yet continued to cash in. New documents in the case were released Thursday.

Corey Chase, a state telecommunications infrastructure specialist, went on a road trip to ground-truth cell carriers' claims about coverage.

National

One Man's Quest To Prove Vermont Has Terrible Cell Service

9:52am February 01, 2019

by John Dillon

Vermont official Corey Chase went on a 6,000-mile road trip to fact-check the coverage claims of mobile carriers. He found that most of them are way off.

Latest U.S.-China Trade Talks End As March Deadline Nears

6:55am February 01, 2019

Rachel Martin talks to Robert Daly, director of the Wilson Center's Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, about the latest in trade talks between the U.S. and China.

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