Tuesday Morning Economic News; NYS Major Pipeline Moves Towards Approval; Trump Administration & English Language Learners; Gen Z Wishes It Were 1997
The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 26, 2025
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Coming up on today's show:
- Lydia DePillis, New York Times reporter covering the American economy, and Shawn Donnan, Bloomberg News senior writer for economics, talk about the latest economic and tariff news, including U.S. investment in Intel and other deals involving foreign investment in U.S. businesses.
- A 37-mile pipeline that would carry gas from New Jersey to the Rockaways is moved closer to approval, following a revival of talks between President Donald Trump and Governor Kathy Hochul earlier this year. New York State Senator Liz Krueger (D, WF - 28th, Manhattan's East Side), chair of the Finance Committee, and Rich Schrader, New York government affairs director of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), talk about what's at stake for the environment if the project, known as The Northeast Supply Enhancement project, get the greenlight from the Governor.
- Ileana Najarro, reporter for Education Week covering race and opportunity in U.S. schools, and Kate Menken, professor of linguistics and a research fellow at the Research Institute for the Study of Language in an Urban Society at Queens College of the City University of New York (CUNY) and co-editor in chief of the journal Language Policy, discuss the news that the Trump administration has rescinded a 2015 directive standards for English Language Learners in U.S. schools.
- Nostalgia for the late '90s and early 2000s is roaringly popular among Gen Z right now. Listeners call in with stories of life before the internet and what it is about that era that younger listeners wish for today.
