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Up First from NPR: Women in the Skilled Trades Face New Hurdles
<p dir="ltr">President Trump has a vision for the American workforce. Forget expensive college educations. His eye is on the skilled trades. The U.S. Department of Labor has adopted the slogan “Make America Skilled Again.”<p dir="ltr">But who gets to be part of this renaissance? <p dir="ltr">Since the 1980s, women have made small but meaningful gains in the construction trades. Now there are concerns that President Trump’s campaign to end diversity, equity and inclusion will stall that progress — setting back both women and the construction industry.<p dir="ltr">Today on the Sunday Story, we ask how women fit into this administration’s vision of this skilled trades future.<br/><br/>Learn more about sponsor message choices: <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a><br/><br/><a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179878450/privacy-policy">NPR Privacy Policy</a>
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Latino USA: Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Inolvidable: Predictions, Politics, and NFL’s Motives
<p>The NFL’s all-American spectacle is back with its Super Bowl halftime musical extravaganza…and it’ll be mostly en ESPAÑOL! Puerto Rico’s own Bad Bunny, is one of the biggest artists in the world, and on Feb. 8, all eyes will be on him</p> <p>We speak with Vanessa Diaz, co-author of "P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance"; journalist Tess Garcia, and Antonia Cereijido, host of LAist’s "Imperfect Paradise." They talk about the significance of a Spanish-language artist, speculate about the performance, and question the NFL's motives. Oh, and we play a game too. </p> <p><strong>Latino USA is the longest-running news and culture radio program in the U.S., centering Latino stories and hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa.</strong></p> <p><strong>Follow the show to get every episode.</strong></p> <p><strong>Want to support our independent journalism? </strong><a href="https://bit.ly/joinfuturoplus"><strong>Join Futuro+</strong></a><strong> for exclusive episodes, sneak peeks and behind-the-scenes chisme on Latino USA and all our podcasts.</strong></p> <p><strong>Follow us on </strong><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@futuromedia"><strong>TikTok</strong></a><strong> and </strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@LatinoUSA"><strong>YouTube</strong></a><strong>. Subscribe to our </strong><a href="https://www.futuromediagroup.org/subscribe/"><strong>newsletter</strong></a><strong>.</strong> </p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>