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Supreme Court confronts Trump and his tariffs in test of presidential power; OR health care workers threaten walkout, demand end to unpaid labor; WI's Door County residents call in-person CAFO hearing a 'win;' Cancellation of digital equity grants hinders ID libraries.

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The Public News Service Monday afternoon update.

I'm Mike Clifford.

Again and again since President Trump returned to the White House, the Supreme Court's conservative majority has blessed his boundary-pushing policies, allowing them to take effect on an interim basis while litigation plays out in the lower courts.

That's the take from the New York Times.

They report on Wednesday that justices will consider for the first time whether to say no to Mr. Trump in a lasting way.

At issue is the legality of his signature economic policy, the use of emergency powers to impose sweeping tariffs on nearly every U.S. trading partner.

Meantime, advanced practice providers represented by the Oregon Nurses Association at Oregon Health and Science University and Legacy Health have voted overwhelmingly to authorize strikes if they're unable to agree to contracts soon.

APPs, which include physician associates, nurse practitioners, and certified nurse midwives, say they are pushing for sustainable workloads, competitive wages, and more recognition.

According to Lee Worsing, a trauma physician associate at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center, APPs are expected to complete hours of unpaid administrative tasks like emailing with patients or ordering medication.

If five o'clock rolls around and people are getting injured and getting hurt and it gets super busy in the ER, those day shift providers are going to stay well past the time that their shift ends.

We stay and we're not paid.

Legacy has announced they are closing six clinics in the Portland area due to financial pressure.

Thanks to Wisconsin, where the Department of Natural Resources holds its first in-person public hearing in five years this week.

That after Door County residents requested their concerns be heard about local Dairy Farms expansion into a concentrated animal feeding operation.

Gilbert Farms is asking to nearly double in size from about 1,400 animals to more than 2,400.

This is the first time since 2020 that the DNR has granted an in-person hearing for a CAFO permit.

Door County resident Annette Vincent says for too long, virtual hearings have made it harder for rural residents to fully participate.

There's a lot of our population right within three to five miles of this CAFO and predominantly they're on well water.

So the risks from the CAFO spreading their manure slurry are significant.

I'm Judith Ruiz Branch reporting.

And the Trump administration put an end to the Digital Equity Act grant programs earlier this year.

Idaho was set to receive $6.3 million to implement its digital access for all Idahoans plan over the next five years.

Dylan Baker, Deputy State Librarian with the commission says the revocation was heartbreaking.

That would have provided for hiring what we call them digital navigators, staff that would be able to teach classes or one-on-one consultations, providing digital skills in person and virtually to community members.

Before the cancellation was announced, the Idaho Commission for Libraries had chosen around 29 sub grantees that would have reached more than 200,000 folks in Idaho.

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The 250th anniversary of the U.S. Postal Service is a milestone that predates the nation itself and its advocates want to shine a light on its immense and often unseen workforce that delivers mail and packages to every American address.

The Miami-Dade County Mayor's Office is just one that has issued a proclamation recognizing the Postal Service.

This comes as union leaders sound the alarm about renewed talks of privatizing the nation's mail delivery.

Wanda Harris, who leads postal operations for a large region of South Florida, calls the agency a national treasure built for the people.

The challenges we're facing right now at hand, we're facing postal privatization, we're facing banning mail-in ballots.

Just those two things alone can impact us to where the American people will be crushed.

Because if we're privatized, of course, everything will be very much more expensive.

The first Trump administration supported changes that union leaders warned could lead toward privatization.

And earlier this year, President Donald Trump said he was considering putting the service under control of the U.S. Commerce Department.

I'm Tramiel Gomes.

And as President Trump makes good on campaign promises to deport immigrants living in Colorado and across the U.S. without proper documentation, a new report spotlights the economic risk to Social Security and other programs that rely on payroll tax revenues.

As America's baby boomers continue to retire, the number of US-born workers is expected to dramatically decrease over the next decade.

Report author Josh Bivens says historically, normal GDP growth rates will be impossible to maintain without immigrant workers.

It does make things like Social Security and Medicare a little harder to sustain.

If we have a steady flow of younger immigrant workers coming in that just makes it much easier to sustain those really important social insurance programs.

Medicare and Social Security are largely funded by today's workers regardless of their immigration status through payroll taxes.

I'm Eric Galatis.

Finally, child poverty in Nevada hit 15 percent last year, two points higher than the national average.

That's according to a new analysis by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

Researchers found that the national child poverty rate almost tripled from 5 to 13 percent between 2021 and 2024, largely because Congress allowed pandemic-era policies providing extra support to low-income families to expire.

Leslie Bossier with the Annie E. Casey Foundation says a high concentration of poverty is a risk to a child's safety, health and success in school.

Those neighborhoods often have higher crime rates.

Schools tend to have lower resources and consequently the academic achievement of the children tends to be lower.

You also see significant stress on families and that stress has a direct impact on the well-being of children.

The numbers are much worse for children of color.

I'm Suzanne Potter.

This is Mike Clifford for Public News Service.

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