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"content": "\u003cp>Several parts of the federal government have been shutdown for about a month now and cybersecurity professionals said government websites were becoming more vulnerable to security breaches each day the shutdown continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visitors to manufacturing.gov, for instance, are finding that the site has become unusable — its information about the manufacturing sector is no longer accessible. Instead, it features this message at the top of the homepage: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>NOTICE: Due to a lapse in appropriations, Manufacturing.gov and all associated online activities will be unavailable until further notice. \u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Security certificates help keep websites secure, but last week\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>the British security firm Netcraft reported that \u003ca href=\"https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2019/01/16/manufacturing-gov-and-white-house-security-suffer-under-u-s-shutdown.html\" target=\"_blank\">more than 130 certificates\u003c/a> used by U.S. government websites had expired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These certificates ensure users are actually accessing government resources and not a fraudulent website, said Dan Kaminsky, the chief scientist at the security firm White Ops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of a certificate makes it easier for a bad actor to trick users into going to a fake website. Even though there's a warning when users click on a website without an updated certificate, Kaminsky said, \"people might get used to ignoring the browser warnings\" because of the shutdown. \"Then you think you're really walking into this [web]site and you're really not.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He offered a worst-case scenario: Imagine if the security certificate was down for the Social Security Administration website and a fake one was set up. Someone could go to the bogus site, enter their password and give the hackers access to their personal information.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11694248/california-launches-new-effort-to-fight-election-disinformation\">California Launches New Effort to Fight Election Disinformation\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11694248/california-launches-new-effort-to-fight-election-disinformation\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/gettyimages-962143826-b7a6b3e247c9a8e41bf0f5a0fe98ba23a0dad668-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The shutdown also meant there were fewer information technology staff on hand. For instance, around 2,000 employees — down from the usual 3,500 — are working at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, one of the government arms leading the nation's cyber defenses, according to the White House Office of Management and Budget's \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/DHS%20Procedure%20Related%20to%20a%20Lapse%20in%20Appropriations%20%2812-20-2018%29%20-%20FINAL%20..._0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">contingency plans\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rob Ragan, a partner in the cybersecurity firm Bishop Fox, said that means a lot of important tasks may not be done, such as updating software with the latest security patches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You end up getting buried in a really big backlog of issues that you may never dig yourself out of,\" he said. \"One of those issues may have been an indicator of a compromise or a breach that may go unnoticed for months or years to come.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Security researchers worried that the shutdown was like putting a red blanket in front of a bull. Nations like Russia, China and Iran could see it as a signal to charge ahead. There is much information on government websites that's personal and even classified, Ragan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The likelihood of security lapses increase as the shutdown drags on, said Vikram Thakur, a technical director at the security firm Symantec. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As time goes on, that risk is most definitely going to go up exponentially,\" said Thakur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, Thakur said, having fewer personnel on the job lowers at least one kind of security risk: \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/05/04/526931972/google-doc-users-hit-by-massive-email-phishing-scam\" target=\"_blank\">email phishing\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Originally published Sep. 27, 2018.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]Y[/dropcap]ana Kiziryan has two children. The youngest, Eddy, looks just like his grandfather, Edward Agababian. Yana’s family is Armenian. They emigrated from Baku, Azerbaijan, during the pogroms in 1991. As the Soviet Union was crumbling, Azerbaijan’s government was rounding up and killing Armenians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yana’s family feared for their lives. Her dad, Edward, filed for refugee status. “We’re really lucky America took us in,” Yana says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yana’s father was 32 when the family arrived in the U.S. He didn’t speak English well, but he was determined to make a middle-class life for his family. In San Francisco, he found out he could make OK money driving a taxi. So, he started driving a cab. And he loved it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11695025\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11695025 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-800x600.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-800x600.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-160x120.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-240x180.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-375x281.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-520x390.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car.png 871w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Agababian inspects a car engine. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Yana Kiziryan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Edward liked meeting new people. He liked the community of other cabbies. And he loved all the driving. Whenever the family took trips, he insisted they drive instead of fly. He was a driver by nature, Yana says. He was also competitive by nature. A trait that really came out whenever he went to work at the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bunch of taxi drivers at San Francisco International Airport used to play chess. Back when Edward started driving, they never had to wait that long for a fare. So they played speed games. Yana said Edward never lost. After his shifts, Edward would come home and play against Yana. To make it easier on her, he would play without his queen. Then, when she was about to lose, he’d turn the board around and play as her. No matter the odds, he’d still find a way to win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving a cab was helping the family get by, but Edward wanted to ensure a secure future after he was gone. So Yana says he invested in the stock market. Twice he took a huge hit. Once in the dot-com boom. Then again in the 2008 financial crisis. His last big play was buying a taxi medallion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Safe Bet and a Retirement Plan\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Uber and Lyft, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10693923/for-san-francisco-cab-drivers-once-treasured-medallions-now-a-burden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">medallion was extremely desirable\u003c/a> for taxi drivers. A driver could lease the medallion to other drivers and make passive income on the medallion. Between that and driving the cab themselves, a taxi driver could make somewhere between $5,000 and $7,000 a month. Medallions were the de facto retirement plan for drivers. That’s exactly how Edward thought of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He thought if anything ever happens to me,” Yana says, “if I were to die, the family would be set. It was his insurance plan and his retirement plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco taxi medallions used to be awarded to drivers on a seniority basis. Drivers would wait on a list for their chance to get one. It could take 10 or even 15 years for your name to come up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2018/09/HarnettTaxiMedallionsfull.mp3\" title=\"San Francisco Made Millions Selling Taxi Medallions. Now Drivers Are Paying the Price\" program=\"KQED News\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Circle-of-drivers-e1538082779288.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in 2010, amid transit budget shortfalls, then-Mayor Gavin Newsom took a page out of the New York City playbook. He encouraged the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority (Muni) to “monetize” the medallions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA started selling medallions for $250,000 a pop. The city needed a lender to provide low-interest loans to cab drivers, many of whom were immigrants with limited credit history. So, it turned to the San Francisco Federal Credit Union, a local institution that usually lends its money in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2010, the SFMTA has sold around 700 medallions to drivers. The credit union, which financed almost all of these medallions, estimates that the city brought in $64 million from selling them. That money helped alleviate budget deficits that had accumulated after the 2008 financial crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The medallions were a boon for the city, but they quickly became toxic for the credit union and the drivers who bought them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Destruction of an Industry and a Way of Life\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edward was one of those roughly 700 drivers who bought a medallion. He made a down payment and took out a loan with the credit union to get his in 2011. At first it was great. But then Lyft and Uber really started taking off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA did not require Lyft and Uber to buy medallions for their drivers. Unlike taxis, there was no cap on the amount of vehicles these venture-backed companies could put on the road. And they took advantage of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the SFMTA says it did not have the authority to require Uber and Lyft to purchase medallions. It categorizes the companies at TNCs (Transportation Network Companies) instead of taxi companies. TNCs are regulated by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). The TNC classification is controversial. Taxi drivers argue the city could have pushed back harder against the CPUC and taken more of a charge in regulating Uber and Lyft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber and Lyft burned billions of dollars in venture capital to grow quickly. They put thousands and thousands of drivers on the road, which allowed them to offer cheap rides and quick pickups. The number of taxis meanwhile were capped by the medallion program, and the fare rates fixed, which ensured steady pay for the drivers. Lyft and Uber completely undercut the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber and Lyft engaged in a price war to gain customers, and as the cost of their rides went down, so did driver earnings. While customers were enjoying the ability to zip cheaply around the city on low prices subsidized by investment capital, drivers for taxis, Ubers and Lyfts were making less and less and less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who bought medallions were trapped in the industry. They had to make those loan payments. So even though his earnings were plummeting, Edward kept driving. Soon he was going out on the road, logging eight, 10 or 12 hours just to break even on the loan for his medallion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Edward became increasingly restless and nervous,” Yana says. “There were months were they didn’t have quite enough to make all their bills.” Sometimes she had to chip in to help out her parents. Yana said Edward even signed up to drive Uber and Lyft, just to try and get some extra rides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yana started worrying about her father’s health. “He internalized everything,” Yana says, “and I am sure it did not help with his blood pressure problem, and just overall health.” But Edward kept driving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Persistence and Loss\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two years ago, Yana and her whole family left for a short trip to the East Coast. Edward stayed home to drive. He went to the airport, like he did every day. There were so few fares at that point, drivers could sit for hours in their car waiting for a passenger. That’s where Edward’s friends found him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His friends at the airport right away noticed something was wrong,” Yana says. “They looked at him and he was green.” Edward said he wanted to go home. “They were like, 'no',” Yana says. “'You’re going to the hospital.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ambulance came and rushed him to the hospital. Edward’s aorta had torn. He was bleeding internally. Soon after getting to the hospital, he passed away.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We didn’t even get to say goodbye.'\u003ccite> Yana Kiziryan\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The doctor told us that when he got to the hospital, they asked him if he wanted to call his family,” Yana says, “and apparently he said, ‘I don’t want to make them nervous.’ And so we didn’t even get to say goodbye or anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Toxic Asset and Family Debt\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edward was 59 when he died. Even though he was gone, the family was still burdened by the medallion debt. The loan for the medallion was outstanding and would be counted against any inheritance. The family wanted to sell the medallion to recoup their losses, but there were no buyers. The market was totally frozen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11695028\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11695028\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-800x602.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-800x602.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-160x120.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-1020x767.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-1200x903.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-1180x888.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-960x722.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-240x181.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-375x282.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-520x391.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3.png 1514w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Agababian's family. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Yana Kiziryan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yana could not believe her family was still being plagued by this medallion that they could not get rid of it. “For a while we kept calling the SFMTA and sending them emails and trying to understand what was going to happen,” Yana said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under SFMTA rules, the medallion is inoperable after its owner dies. That means the family couldn't even lease out or drive on the medallion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yana said the family felt they had no options except to stop making the loan payments. So they defaulted, taking a hit on their credit score. “We’d never not paid for something when it was due,” Yana said. “It was a very uncomfortable feeling to know that you’re neglecting a payment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Frozen Market and a Slow-Moving Lawsuit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Federal Credit Union, which financed almost every one of these medallions, is relatively small, handling around just $1 billion in assets. It mostly invests locally, and the medallions seemed, at the time, like a great partnership with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Oliver is the CEO of the credit union. He said the credit union agreed to give low-interest loans to taxi drivers with limited credit history because the city assured that it would maintain the viability of the medallion market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oliver says the SFMTA wrote both in its transportation code and the agreement with the credit union that it would buy back the medallions if it ended the program — if it stopped allowing medallions to be sold. \"Prohibited the retransfer,\" \u003ca href=\"http://library.amlegal.com/nxt/gateway.dll/California/transportation/divisionii/article1100regulationofmotorvehiclesforh?f=templates%24fn=default.htm%243.0%24vid=amlegal:sanfrancisco_ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is the exact language in the transportation code\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one has bought a taxi medallion since 2016. The market is totally frozen. This is the central piece of a lawsuit the San Francisco Federal Credit Union has filed against the SFMTA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The credit union is arguing that the SFMTA has failed to maintain a viable market for medallions, effectively putting an end to the program. The SFMTA is arguing that it hasn't officially ended the program, and therefore doesn't have to buy back the medallions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit is in the discovery phase, and the credit union expects it will take until next summer for some action on the suit. That is a long way off for drivers who are struggling every month to make their loan payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the credit union wins or the city settles, it is unclear what will happen to the drivers and their individual debts. Or all the millions they have already paid into the loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No Relief in Sight\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11694430\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11694430\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inderjit Ghotra's family purchased six medallions. Now he's underwater on all of them. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yana's family is not alone. Over 150 families have defaulted on taxi medallions, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11651103/the-human-cost-of-uber-and-lyft-life-in-the-dying-taxi-industry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more taxi-driving families are defaulting every month\u003c/a>. The head of the taxi program for the SFMTA, Kate Toran, said if she could wave a magic wand, buy back the medallions and make this problem all go away, she would.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toran estimates that it would take $160 million to buy back all of the medallions. That’s probably not going to happen, she says. The SFMTA has been having meetings to discuss ways to make the taxi industry more viable. Nowhere has it discussed buying back the medallions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a meeting last fall, the city proposed six reforms. Things like allowing corporations to buy medallions, which the city hopes would unfreeze the market. Right now, only licensed cab drivers can buy one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cab drivers who attended the meeting were supposed to stick up post-it notes with their comments on each reform. Almost all of them said the same thing: Please buy back our medallions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the city decided to explore limiting the number of taxis which could pick up passengers at the airport. The hope is to help out those who spent the most on their medallions, but many drivers are upset at a plan that would divide drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since that meeting last fall, no move has been made to buy back the medallions sold to drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11694428\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11694428\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taxi drivers just want one thing from the city: for it to buy back their medallions. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yana’s family has struggled for years with this medallion. Her father died. The family defaulted on their loan. They lost all the money they sunk into the medallion. What Yana wants now from the city is just some accountability, some admission that the program failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is too late for her father, but she hopes something will be done for all the other families and drivers who are still on the hook for their loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Originally published Sep. 27, 2018.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">Y\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ana Kiziryan has two children. The youngest, Eddy, looks just like his grandfather, Edward Agababian. Yana’s family is Armenian. They emigrated from Baku, Azerbaijan, during the pogroms in 1991. As the Soviet Union was crumbling, Azerbaijan’s government was rounding up and killing Armenians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yana’s family feared for their lives. Her dad, Edward, filed for refugee status. “We’re really lucky America took us in,” Yana says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yana’s father was 32 when the family arrived in the U.S. He didn’t speak English well, but he was determined to make a middle-class life for his family. In San Francisco, he found out he could make OK money driving a taxi. So, he started driving a cab. And he loved it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11695025\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11695025 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-800x600.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-800x600.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-160x120.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-240x180.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-375x281.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car-520x390.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_car.png 871w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Agababian inspects a car engine. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Yana Kiziryan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Edward liked meeting new people. He liked the community of other cabbies. And he loved all the driving. Whenever the family took trips, he insisted they drive instead of fly. He was a driver by nature, Yana says. He was also competitive by nature. A trait that really came out whenever he went to work at the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bunch of taxi drivers at San Francisco International Airport used to play chess. Back when Edward started driving, they never had to wait that long for a fare. So they played speed games. Yana said Edward never lost. After his shifts, Edward would come home and play against Yana. To make it easier on her, he would play without his queen. Then, when she was about to lose, he’d turn the board around and play as her. No matter the odds, he’d still find a way to win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving a cab was helping the family get by, but Edward wanted to ensure a secure future after he was gone. So Yana says he invested in the stock market. Twice he took a huge hit. Once in the dot-com boom. Then again in the 2008 financial crisis. His last big play was buying a taxi medallion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Safe Bet and a Retirement Plan\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Uber and Lyft, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10693923/for-san-francisco-cab-drivers-once-treasured-medallions-now-a-burden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">medallion was extremely desirable\u003c/a> for taxi drivers. A driver could lease the medallion to other drivers and make passive income on the medallion. Between that and driving the cab themselves, a taxi driver could make somewhere between $5,000 and $7,000 a month. Medallions were the de facto retirement plan for drivers. That’s exactly how Edward thought of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He thought if anything ever happens to me,” Yana says, “if I were to die, the family would be set. It was his insurance plan and his retirement plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco taxi medallions used to be awarded to drivers on a seniority basis. Drivers would wait on a list for their chance to get one. It could take 10 or even 15 years for your name to come up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in 2010, amid transit budget shortfalls, then-Mayor Gavin Newsom took a page out of the New York City playbook. He encouraged the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority (Muni) to “monetize” the medallions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA started selling medallions for $250,000 a pop. The city needed a lender to provide low-interest loans to cab drivers, many of whom were immigrants with limited credit history. So, it turned to the San Francisco Federal Credit Union, a local institution that usually lends its money in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2010, the SFMTA has sold around 700 medallions to drivers. The credit union, which financed almost all of these medallions, estimates that the city brought in $64 million from selling them. That money helped alleviate budget deficits that had accumulated after the 2008 financial crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The medallions were a boon for the city, but they quickly became toxic for the credit union and the drivers who bought them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Destruction of an Industry and a Way of Life\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edward was one of those roughly 700 drivers who bought a medallion. He made a down payment and took out a loan with the credit union to get his in 2011. At first it was great. But then Lyft and Uber really started taking off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA did not require Lyft and Uber to buy medallions for their drivers. Unlike taxis, there was no cap on the amount of vehicles these venture-backed companies could put on the road. And they took advantage of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the SFMTA says it did not have the authority to require Uber and Lyft to purchase medallions. It categorizes the companies at TNCs (Transportation Network Companies) instead of taxi companies. TNCs are regulated by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). The TNC classification is controversial. Taxi drivers argue the city could have pushed back harder against the CPUC and taken more of a charge in regulating Uber and Lyft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber and Lyft burned billions of dollars in venture capital to grow quickly. They put thousands and thousands of drivers on the road, which allowed them to offer cheap rides and quick pickups. The number of taxis meanwhile were capped by the medallion program, and the fare rates fixed, which ensured steady pay for the drivers. Lyft and Uber completely undercut the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber and Lyft engaged in a price war to gain customers, and as the cost of their rides went down, so did driver earnings. While customers were enjoying the ability to zip cheaply around the city on low prices subsidized by investment capital, drivers for taxis, Ubers and Lyfts were making less and less and less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who bought medallions were trapped in the industry. They had to make those loan payments. So even though his earnings were plummeting, Edward kept driving. Soon he was going out on the road, logging eight, 10 or 12 hours just to break even on the loan for his medallion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Edward became increasingly restless and nervous,” Yana says. “There were months were they didn’t have quite enough to make all their bills.” Sometimes she had to chip in to help out her parents. Yana said Edward even signed up to drive Uber and Lyft, just to try and get some extra rides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yana started worrying about her father’s health. “He internalized everything,” Yana says, “and I am sure it did not help with his blood pressure problem, and just overall health.” But Edward kept driving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Persistence and Loss\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two years ago, Yana and her whole family left for a short trip to the East Coast. Edward stayed home to drive. He went to the airport, like he did every day. There were so few fares at that point, drivers could sit for hours in their car waiting for a passenger. That’s where Edward’s friends found him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His friends at the airport right away noticed something was wrong,” Yana says. “They looked at him and he was green.” Edward said he wanted to go home. “They were like, 'no',” Yana says. “'You’re going to the hospital.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ambulance came and rushed him to the hospital. Edward’s aorta had torn. He was bleeding internally. Soon after getting to the hospital, he passed away.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We didn’t even get to say goodbye.'\u003ccite> Yana Kiziryan\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The doctor told us that when he got to the hospital, they asked him if he wanted to call his family,” Yana says, “and apparently he said, ‘I don’t want to make them nervous.’ And so we didn’t even get to say goodbye or anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Toxic Asset and Family Debt\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edward was 59 when he died. Even though he was gone, the family was still burdened by the medallion debt. The loan for the medallion was outstanding and would be counted against any inheritance. The family wanted to sell the medallion to recoup their losses, but there were no buyers. The market was totally frozen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11695028\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11695028\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-800x602.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-800x602.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-160x120.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-1020x767.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-1200x903.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-1180x888.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-960x722.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-240x181.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-375x282.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3-520x391.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ed_fam3.png 1514w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Agababian's family. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Yana Kiziryan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yana could not believe her family was still being plagued by this medallion that they could not get rid of it. “For a while we kept calling the SFMTA and sending them emails and trying to understand what was going to happen,” Yana said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under SFMTA rules, the medallion is inoperable after its owner dies. That means the family couldn't even lease out or drive on the medallion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yana said the family felt they had no options except to stop making the loan payments. So they defaulted, taking a hit on their credit score. “We’d never not paid for something when it was due,” Yana said. “It was a very uncomfortable feeling to know that you’re neglecting a payment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Frozen Market and a Slow-Moving Lawsuit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Federal Credit Union, which financed almost every one of these medallions, is relatively small, handling around just $1 billion in assets. It mostly invests locally, and the medallions seemed, at the time, like a great partnership with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Oliver is the CEO of the credit union. He said the credit union agreed to give low-interest loans to taxi drivers with limited credit history because the city assured that it would maintain the viability of the medallion market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oliver says the SFMTA wrote both in its transportation code and the agreement with the credit union that it would buy back the medallions if it ended the program — if it stopped allowing medallions to be sold. \"Prohibited the retransfer,\" \u003ca href=\"http://library.amlegal.com/nxt/gateway.dll/California/transportation/divisionii/article1100regulationofmotorvehiclesforh?f=templates%24fn=default.htm%243.0%24vid=amlegal:sanfrancisco_ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is the exact language in the transportation code\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one has bought a taxi medallion since 2016. The market is totally frozen. This is the central piece of a lawsuit the San Francisco Federal Credit Union has filed against the SFMTA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The credit union is arguing that the SFMTA has failed to maintain a viable market for medallions, effectively putting an end to the program. The SFMTA is arguing that it hasn't officially ended the program, and therefore doesn't have to buy back the medallions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit is in the discovery phase, and the credit union expects it will take until next summer for some action on the suit. That is a long way off for drivers who are struggling every month to make their loan payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the credit union wins or the city settles, it is unclear what will happen to the drivers and their individual debts. Or all the millions they have already paid into the loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No Relief in Sight\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11694430\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11694430\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Driver-e1537831866926-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inderjit Ghotra's family purchased six medallions. Now he's underwater on all of them. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yana's family is not alone. Over 150 families have defaulted on taxi medallions, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11651103/the-human-cost-of-uber-and-lyft-life-in-the-dying-taxi-industry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more taxi-driving families are defaulting every month\u003c/a>. The head of the taxi program for the SFMTA, Kate Toran, said if she could wave a magic wand, buy back the medallions and make this problem all go away, she would.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toran estimates that it would take $160 million to buy back all of the medallions. That’s probably not going to happen, she says. The SFMTA has been having meetings to discuss ways to make the taxi industry more viable. Nowhere has it discussed buying back the medallions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a meeting last fall, the city proposed six reforms. Things like allowing corporations to buy medallions, which the city hopes would unfreeze the market. Right now, only licensed cab drivers can buy one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cab drivers who attended the meeting were supposed to stick up post-it notes with their comments on each reform. Almost all of them said the same thing: Please buy back our medallions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the city decided to explore limiting the number of taxis which could pick up passengers at the airport. The hope is to help out those who spent the most on their medallions, but many drivers are upset at a plan that would divide drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since that meeting last fall, no move has been made to buy back the medallions sold to drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11694428\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11694428\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Post-it-notes-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taxi drivers just want one thing from the city: for it to buy back their medallions. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yana’s family has struggled for years with this medallion. Her father died. The family defaulted on their loan. They lost all the money they sunk into the medallion. What Yana wants now from the city is just some accountability, some admission that the program failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is too late for her father, but she hopes something will be done for all the other families and drivers who are still on the hook for their loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When can companies in California classify their workers as independent contractors instead of employees?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the question that's been hot on the minds of California lawmakers, labor unions and tech companies since April, when the California Supreme Court ruled that businesses must satisfy \u003ca href=\"https://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/dynamex-operations-west-inc-v-superior-court-34584\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three guidelines\u003c/a> to classify workers as contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court\u003c/em>, the state Supreme Court ruled that a worker can be considered a contractor only if:\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719169/can-gavin-newsom-broker-a-deal-between-gig-workers-tech-and-unions\">The Bay: Can Newsom Broker a Deal Between Gig Workers, Tech and Unions?\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719169/can-gavin-newsom-broker-a-deal-between-gig-workers-tech-and-unions\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/UberHailing-1920x1372.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A. The worker is free from the control and direction of the hirer in connection with the performance of the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>B. The worker performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>C. The worker is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allan Zaremberg, head of the California Chamber of Commerce, said the ruling puts the Legislature in a unique position. A state law could override the court decision and return California to the pre-Dynamex test for employee status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Legislature has never developed a law on who's an employee and who's an independent contractor,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court’s decision is especially concerning to tech companies like Uber, Lyft and Instacart, whose businesses rely heavily on a revolving army of contractors. They're among a group of tech firms partnering with the state Chamber of Commerce to \u003ca href=\"https://imindependent.co/\">lobby for legislation\u003c/a> that would loosen restrictions on who could be included as a contractor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without a new law, these companies would have to abide by the court's guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber, which has long been the largest and most influential on-demand gig company in the country, has always insisted that its drivers are not employees. The San Francisco-based company argues that it’s not a taxi company, but rather a tech firm that creates a platform or marketplace to connect riders to independent drivers. In other words, it says, its employees are the people who build its technology, not the one who drive people around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the second requirement of the Dynamex ruling that poses the biggest dilemma for big gig-focussed companies like Uber. Because the San Francisco-based firm is in the business of giving rides, and its drivers are the ones who provide them, the company would be hard-pressed, under the court's guidelines, to classify those workers as anything but employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some companies feel like that test is going to alter their business model, and in some cases that's true,\" said Steve Smith, a spokesman for the California Labor Federation, which would like to see more workers classified as employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that presents a hardship for some tech companies, that’s just too bad, Smith added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you build your business model based on cheating workers out of protections they deserve. then perhaps those business models shouldn't survive,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How a worker is classified determines the type of protections and benefits they're eligible to receive. Employees generally qualify for things like minimum wage guarantees, workers' compensation, unemployment insurance and other benefits. Contractors, who are considered self-employed, aren’t eligible for any of those protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To that end, Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, authored \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB5\">AB 5\u003c/a>, a bill that would require companies to follow the court's guidelines. It might not make sense for all workers to be classified as employees, she said, but gig workers still need some protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're having these discussions. We're going to work on this,\" she said. \"But it's really important to remember that we can't just abandon this idea that workers belong in the middle class, that there is no new form of work that is just a side hustle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another bill, \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB71\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB 71, \u003c/a>would roll back the court's recent decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Uber and other gig companies have taken various steps in recent years to ensure that they can continue categorizing their workers as contractors. In some cases, like New York, they have set up drivers' organizations, which have less power than union organizations. Many workers\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> don’t see this as a sufficient solution.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This fight also places Gov. 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"content": "\u003cp>The path to innovation is not always a smooth, straight line. In some cases, it’s U-shaped. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, a 2,000-foot-long floating barrier, shaped like a U, was dispatched to the Great Pacific garbage patch between Hawaii and California, where roughly \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-22939-w\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1.8 trillion pieces\u003c/a> of plastic have formed a floating field of debris roughly twice the size of Texas. Made of connected plastic pipes, the barrier was meant to catch and clean-up the plastic. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Invented by Boyan Slat when he was just 17, the barrier has so far done \u003cem>some\u003c/em> of what it was designed to accomplish. It travels with wind and wave propulsion, like a U-shaped Pac-Man hungry for plastic. It orients itself in the wind and it catches and concentrates plastic, \u003cem>sort of\u003c/em>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as Slat, now 24, recently discovered with the beta tester for his design, plastic occasionally drifts out of its U-shaped funnel. The other issue with the beta tester, called \u003ca href=\"https://www.theoceancleanup.com/system001/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">System 001\u003c/a>, is that last week, a 60-feet-long end section broke off. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1EAeNdTFHU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first issue, Slat said, was likely due to the device’s speed. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/16/648560948/giant-pac-man-launched-to-gobble-garbage-patch\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In a September interview\u003c/a> with NPR, he said the device averages about four inches per second, which his team has now concluded is too slow. The break in the barrier was due to an issue with the material used to build it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In principle, I think we are relatively close to getting it working,” Slat said in an interview Saturday with NPR’s Michel Martin. “It’s just that sometimes the plastic is also escaping again. Likely what we have to do is we have to speed up the system so that it constantly moves faster than the plastic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the material failure, Slat said his team will probably try to locally reinforce the system to combat the problem of material fatigue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have a paper clip and you move that back and forward many times, essentially the material gets weaker,” he said. “That’s likely what has happened with material of the cleanup system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcRIE98y_UM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slat and the team at his nonprofit, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theoceancleanup.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Ocean Cleanup\u003c/a>, are now bringing the system back to Hawaii for repairs and upgrades. Slat \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/02/13/466680233/how-to-clean-up-all-that-plastic-in-the-oceans\">told NPR in 2016\u003c/a> that his structure is 10 times further away from land than the world’s most remote oil rig, subject to battering waves and storms. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the material failure occurred, it wasn’t due to the result of a major Pacific storm. It was just normal wear and tear, Slat said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had conditions twice as worse as we had last weekend, but the system already sort of moved back and forth about 1.5 million times since it’s been out there,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With an estimated cost of \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkart/2018/08/28/the-ocean-cleanup-is-starting-aims-to-cut-garbage-patch-by-90-by-2040/#263d8c2253ed\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$24.6 million reported by Forbes\u003c/a>, and a challenging work environment, the project is high-risk and Slat hopes, high-reward. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11716206\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/gettyimages-542117706_custom-4903d0d2a2c802fa193a3dde7f90be769cfab834-800x512.jpg\" alt=\"Inventor Boyan Slat presented a prototype of The Ocean Cleanup project on June 22, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11716206\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inventor Boyan Slat presented a prototype of The Ocean Cleanup project on June 22, 2016. \u003ccite>(REMKO DE WAAL/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But experts on plastic pollution have \u003ca href=\"http://www.southernfriedscience.com/i-asked-15-ocean-plastic-pollution-experts-about-the-ocean-cleanup-project-and-they-have-concerns/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expressed concerns\u003c/a> about the project’s effectiveness. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George Leonard, chief scientist at \u003ca href=\"https://oceanconservancy.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ocean Conservancy,\u003c/a> told NPR \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/11/646724291/a-massive-floating-boom-is-supposed-to-clean-up-the-pacific-can-it-work\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in September\u003c/a> that only 3 to 5 percent of the total amount of ocean plastic actually winds up in systems of circulating currents. He estimates that about 8 million metric tons of plastic go into the ocean each year — roughly the equivalent of one dump truck full of plastic every minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say efforts should be aimed at preventing plastics from going into the ocean in the first place, and that Slat’s barrier project could divert resources away from that goal. Others have expressed concern about the barrier’s impact on marine wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slat said that marine wildlife is be able to safely pass underneath a 10-foot deep screen under the pipe meant to catch debris. However, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/ocean-cleanup-skeptical-scientists/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wired reported\u003c/a> that the pipes could attract and lead animals straight into plastic-polluted waters, and may also shed nano-sized particles of plastic into the water when hit with the sun’s rays.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concern is that ultraviolet light from the sun can potentially disintegrate the plastic, but The Ocean Cleanup responded by telling Wired that the high-density polyethylene plastic used in their tubes can reflect UV radiation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slat’s confidence in his design hasn’t wavered, and said he was unfazed by the current setbacks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11716212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/gettyimages-542418248_custom-cf5afda129268fbb8d69f2d5d81457be5184e59d-s800-c85-800x475.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"475\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11716212\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/gettyimages-542418248_custom-cf5afda129268fbb8d69f2d5d81457be5184e59d-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/gettyimages-542418248_custom-cf5afda129268fbb8d69f2d5d81457be5184e59d-s800-c85-160x95.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boyan Slat walks in front of his first prototype ocean cleanup device on June 23, 2016. \u003ccite>(REMKO DE WAAL/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Considering the things we have been able to prove in the past few months and considering the problems that we have faced, they seem quite solvable,” he said. “I’m confident that the team will be able to design appropriate solutions for this and that we’ll have the system back in the patch in a few months from now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His team hopes to make the system fully operational sometime this year. If the project succeeds, Slat’s vision is to deploy a fleet of 60 more devices, projected to remove half of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch’s plastic within five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this vision, one he has held since his teens, support vessels would act like ocean garbage trucks; ships would carry the plastics back to land, where they would be processed, recycled, and reused — not dumped back into the ocean. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=An+Engineering+Wunderkind%27s+Ocean+Plastics+Cleanup+Device+Hits+A+Setback&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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It was just normal wear and tear, Slat said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had conditions twice as worse as we had last weekend, but the system already sort of moved back and forth about 1.5 million times since it’s been out there,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With an estimated cost of \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkart/2018/08/28/the-ocean-cleanup-is-starting-aims-to-cut-garbage-patch-by-90-by-2040/#263d8c2253ed\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$24.6 million reported by Forbes\u003c/a>, and a challenging work environment, the project is high-risk and Slat hopes, high-reward. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11716206\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/gettyimages-542117706_custom-4903d0d2a2c802fa193a3dde7f90be769cfab834-800x512.jpg\" alt=\"Inventor Boyan Slat presented a prototype of The Ocean Cleanup project on June 22, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11716206\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inventor Boyan Slat presented a prototype of The Ocean Cleanup project on June 22, 2016. \u003ccite>(REMKO DE WAAL/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But experts on plastic pollution have \u003ca href=\"http://www.southernfriedscience.com/i-asked-15-ocean-plastic-pollution-experts-about-the-ocean-cleanup-project-and-they-have-concerns/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expressed concerns\u003c/a> about the project’s effectiveness. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George Leonard, chief scientist at \u003ca href=\"https://oceanconservancy.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ocean Conservancy,\u003c/a> told NPR \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/11/646724291/a-massive-floating-boom-is-supposed-to-clean-up-the-pacific-can-it-work\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in September\u003c/a> that only 3 to 5 percent of the total amount of ocean plastic actually winds up in systems of circulating currents. He estimates that about 8 million metric tons of plastic go into the ocean each year — roughly the equivalent of one dump truck full of plastic every minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say efforts should be aimed at preventing plastics from going into the ocean in the first place, and that Slat’s barrier project could divert resources away from that goal. Others have expressed concern about the barrier’s impact on marine wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slat said that marine wildlife is be able to safely pass underneath a 10-foot deep screen under the pipe meant to catch debris. However, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/ocean-cleanup-skeptical-scientists/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wired reported\u003c/a> that the pipes could attract and lead animals straight into plastic-polluted waters, and may also shed nano-sized particles of plastic into the water when hit with the sun’s rays.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concern is that ultraviolet light from the sun can potentially disintegrate the plastic, but The Ocean Cleanup responded by telling Wired that the high-density polyethylene plastic used in their tubes can reflect UV radiation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slat’s confidence in his design hasn’t wavered, and said he was unfazed by the current setbacks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11716212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/gettyimages-542418248_custom-cf5afda129268fbb8d69f2d5d81457be5184e59d-s800-c85-800x475.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"475\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11716212\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/gettyimages-542418248_custom-cf5afda129268fbb8d69f2d5d81457be5184e59d-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/gettyimages-542418248_custom-cf5afda129268fbb8d69f2d5d81457be5184e59d-s800-c85-160x95.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boyan Slat walks in front of his first prototype ocean cleanup device on June 23, 2016. \u003ccite>(REMKO DE WAAL/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Considering the things we have been able to prove in the past few months and considering the problems that we have faced, they seem quite solvable,” he said. “I’m confident that the team will be able to design appropriate solutions for this and that we’ll have the system back in the patch in a few months from now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His team hopes to make the system fully operational sometime this year. 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"content": "\u003cp>Tesla made about 9,300 more vehicles than it delivered last year, raising concerns among industry analysts that inventory is growing as demand for the company's electric cars may be starting to wane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If demand falls, they say, the company will enter a new phase of its business. Like other automakers, Tesla will have to either cut production or reduce prices to raise sales. A drop in demand could also curtail the company's earnings and jeopardize CEO Elon Musk's promise to post sustained quarterly profits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Tesla did cut prices, knocking $2,000 off each of its three models. The company said the cuts will help customers deal with the loss of a $7,500 federal tax credit, which was reduced to $3,750 this month for Tesla buyers and will gradually go to zero by the end of 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They have for a long time had more demand than supply,\" Gartner analyst Michael Ramsey said. \"It's becoming apparent that that dynamic is changing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla reported that it produced 254,530 cars and SUVs last year and delivered 245,240. Tesla shares had fallen by as much a 10 percent since markets opened Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company's deliveries for the full year matched Wall Street estimates, but its figures for the fourth quarter didn't reach expectations. Tesla said it delivered 90,700 vehicles from October through December. Analysts polled by data provider FactSet expected 92,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Schuster, a senior vice president at the forecasting firm LMC Automotive, said demand for Tesla's lower-priced Model 3 has been artificially high for the past six months as the company overcame production problems at its Fremont factory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You've had these inflated months because of delayed deliveries,\" Schuster said. \"We're probably getting to that point where we're getting to equilibrium and consumers aren't necessarily waiting for vehicles.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Tesla reported that about 420,000 buyers had put down $1,000 deposits to join the Model 3 waiting list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LMC predicts that Tesla U.S. sales will rise in 2019 because it's the first full year on the market for the Model 3. It anticipates sales to then fall by about 10,000 in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Losing the tax credit will hit those who have been holding out for the $35,000 version of the Model 3, Schuster said. At present, Tesla is selling only versions that cost at least $44,000. Under federal law, buyers get the full tax credit until a manufacturer reaches 200,000 in sales since the start of 2010. Tesla hit 200,000 in July, but the full credit continued for vehicles delivered by Dec. 31. It was cut in half on Jan. 1 and will go away by the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You've had your early adopters. Those early followers have already come in\" to buy, Schuster said. \"Now you're trying to appeal to the mainstream market. I think that will have an impact on overall demand.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, inventory appears to be rising. The company parked hundreds of cars at lots and Tesla stores all over the country at the end of last year, which could indicate excess stock. Tesla wouldn't give inventory numbers but said it has lower stocks than its two biggest competitors, BMW and Mercedes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Associated Press found one lot on the north side of Chicago where Tesla was storing dozens of vehicles in late December, and Mark Spiegel, a hedge fund manager who bets against Tesla stock, said other lots were full across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla said it sometimes stores vehicles on lots as they're being shipped to company dealerships across the nation. The lot in Chicago has fewer cars on it now, the company said. \"Our inventory levels remain the smallest in the automotive industry,\" the company said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla also says Model 3 sales should grow worldwide as it expands distribution and begins to offer leases. 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"content": "\u003cp>From more revelations about Russian election interference to race-baiting, it has indeed been\u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/fiorefacebookmemories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> a very bad year for Facebook\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tech giant’s list of 2018 scandals is a long one that also includes data breaches and accusations of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/14/619488792/activists-in-myanmar-say-facebook-needs-to-do-more-to-quell-hate-speech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inciting violence\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below is a collection of Facebook cartoons I drew over the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s to a happier 2019 …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11714981\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/subverting_031918_final-800x610.jpg\" alt=\"Subverting by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"610\" 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"content": "\u003cp>Soon, students will be receiving their latest report cards, even though many already know their grades. Thousands of schools nationwide have adopted what's called “open grade books,\" online portals that allow both parents and kids to get up-to-the-minute progress reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The purpose of open grade books is to allow students and parents to keep up with assignments, message teachers and see the latest grade tabulation. The idea is to get ahead of potential struggles before the final report cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, I've noticed this whole system stresses out my 11-year-old daughter, Audrey, who says she often thinks about how I will react to the daily email I receive listing her grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seems that if my grades do decrease, I’m worried on what my parents are going to say,\" Audrey said during one late-night conversation. Hearing her say this breaks my heart. I wonder: Do other parents and kids feel this way? I put a call out to my network and found Carrie Du Bois.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought it was a mistake,\" says Du Bois, in reference to the open grade books. \"I thought our system was malfunctioning!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About three years ago, Du Bois called the school superintendent of the Sequoia Union High School District in San Mateo County to find out why she was receiving a daily email of her son’s grades. The superintendent at the time told her the portal was working as it should.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I went crazy,\" said Du Bois. \"I couldn’t believe that was our intent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Du Bois called every mental health professional she knew and they all told her the same thing: The supply of constant data on academic progress can overemphasize the importance of grades. Her district has since changed systems and no longer sends out daily grade updates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, hundreds of other schools in the Bay Area still do. Steven Adelsheim, a clinical professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, said it takes away student's freedom to make mistakes, to work through and solve problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We talk about innovation in this area a lot. But you know the notion of innovation also includes being able to feel comfortable trying things and risking and failing,\" said Adelsheim. \"When our focus is always on being successful and getting the A, we're not allowing necessarily the room for creativity in the room to attempt things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adelsheim said that while there are no scientific studies out there about the mental health impacts, he has had troubling conversations with students about daily grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s already a great deal of pressure that they’re feeling on their own and from their friends, and this potentially adds to it. It creates both stress and anxiety,\" Adelsheim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman for the Santa Clara Unified School District, the one my family is part of, said the feedback they’ve received from parents is overwhelmingly positive. The district uses the portal School Loop, which is also used by more than 3,500 schools in 30 states. Other parents have also told me the portals give them insights into their kids' lives and open up conversations beyond “how was your day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other critics say the portals have become a thorn in the sides of educators. Former high school English teacher Amanda Parrish Morgan wrote an op-ed piece in\u003cem> \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2018/09/25/how-instant-access-to-grades-and-other-data-is-contributing-to-helicopter-parenting/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.6ffadbd0e58f\">The Washington Post\u003c/a>\u003c/em> about how disturbed she was, watching students in the hallways between classes frantically checking their phones to see their latest grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We could stand in front of a classroom and do a mental health initiative where we're trying to talk about ... being a whole person is more important than your accomplishments,\" said Parrish Morgan. \"But I feel like it really sends the message to kids that this number is what matters.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the portals offer parents the option of turning off daily notifications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mental health care professionals advise that a healthier and more accurate measure of progress is checking grades once a week or even once a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s what I have decided to do, so that Audrey and I can spend our time talking about the important things, her experiences in life, what she’s learning, and the stuff that makes being 11 cool.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Soon, students will be receiving their latest report cards, even though many already know their grades. Thousands of schools nationwide have adopted what's called “open grade books,\" online portals that allow both parents and kids to get up-to-the-minute progress reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The purpose of open grade books is to allow students and parents to keep up with assignments, message teachers and see the latest grade tabulation. The idea is to get ahead of potential struggles before the final report cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, I've noticed this whole system stresses out my 11-year-old daughter, Audrey, who says she often thinks about how I will react to the daily email I receive listing her grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seems that if my grades do decrease, I’m worried on what my parents are going to say,\" Audrey said during one late-night conversation. Hearing her say this breaks my heart. I wonder: Do other parents and kids feel this way? I put a call out to my network and found Carrie Du Bois.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought it was a mistake,\" says Du Bois, in reference to the open grade books. \"I thought our system was malfunctioning!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About three years ago, Du Bois called the school superintendent of the Sequoia Union High School District in San Mateo County to find out why she was receiving a daily email of her son’s grades. The superintendent at the time told her the portal was working as it should.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I went crazy,\" said Du Bois. \"I couldn’t believe that was our intent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Du Bois called every mental health professional she knew and they all told her the same thing: The supply of constant data on academic progress can overemphasize the importance of grades. Her district has since changed systems and no longer sends out daily grade updates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, hundreds of other schools in the Bay Area still do. Steven Adelsheim, a clinical professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, said it takes away student's freedom to make mistakes, to work through and solve problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We talk about innovation in this area a lot. But you know the notion of innovation also includes being able to feel comfortable trying things and risking and failing,\" said Adelsheim. \"When our focus is always on being successful and getting the A, we're not allowing necessarily the room for creativity in the room to attempt things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adelsheim said that while there are no scientific studies out there about the mental health impacts, he has had troubling conversations with students about daily grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s already a great deal of pressure that they’re feeling on their own and from their friends, and this potentially adds to it. It creates both stress and anxiety,\" Adelsheim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman for the Santa Clara Unified School District, the one my family is part of, said the feedback they’ve received from parents is overwhelmingly positive. The district uses the portal School Loop, which is also used by more than 3,500 schools in 30 states. Other parents have also told me the portals give them insights into their kids' lives and open up conversations beyond “how was your day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other critics say the portals have become a thorn in the sides of educators. Former high school English teacher Amanda Parrish Morgan wrote an op-ed piece in\u003cem> \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2018/09/25/how-instant-access-to-grades-and-other-data-is-contributing-to-helicopter-parenting/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.6ffadbd0e58f\">The Washington Post\u003c/a>\u003c/em> about how disturbed she was, watching students in the hallways between classes frantically checking their phones to see their latest grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We could stand in front of a classroom and do a mental health initiative where we're trying to talk about ... being a whole person is more important than your accomplishments,\" said Parrish Morgan. \"But I feel like it really sends the message to kids that this number is what matters.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the portals offer parents the option of turning off daily notifications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mental health care professionals advise that a healthier and more accurate measure of progress is checking grades once a week or even once a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s what I have decided to do, so that Audrey and I can spend our time talking about the important things, her experiences in life, what she’s learning, and the stuff that makes being 11 cool.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>This fall, something unprecedented happened at Google: An estimated 20,000 workers at company campuses around the world walked out in protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The walkout was sparked by sexual harassment and golden parachutes given to executives, but the protesters’ concerns ranged from Google’s work with the U.S. military on drone technology to a lack of diversity at the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One issue they all had in common: power. Workers didn’t feel like Google gave them the power it promised when it hired them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companies like Google and Facebook have far more revenue than most corporations, which has helped them avoid traditional conflicts with labor over things like pay and benefits. And worker protests and organizing have never been a big part of Silicon Valley’s startup culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea was that these companies were supposed to be different — no stuffy bosses, no suits; instead, flat power structures and well-compensated employees who could focus on “making the world a better place.” But as the companies have grown into large multinational corporations, they now have increasingly dissatisfied workforces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Google walkout, Celie O’Neil-Hart demanded a number of things, including that the company put an employee on its board. “When we put our Noogler hats on,” Hart told the crowd, “you told us to have an owner’s mindset. You told us, ‘You aren’t just employees. You are owners.’ Well, the owners say time is up!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noogler hats are given to Google employees when they are first hired. They’re multicolored caps with little propellers. The hats embody the startup vibe of Google’s past. But today the company has over 85,000 full-time employees, and it’s close to joining Amazon and Apple as America’s only trillion-dollar corporations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11681049/the-latest-tech-disruption-labor-organizing\">Organizing in Silicon Valley\u003c/a> didn’t start with relatively well-paid tech employees, but instead with the industry’s shadow workforce — independent contractors. And there are tens of thousands of them. At Google they reportedly make up half the staff, doing everything from cooking to coding, but they don’t get high salaries or perks like free lunches and child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, contractors began organizing under a group called Silicon Valley Rising. They have achieved some things, like higher pay and unions for some bus drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it wasn’t until Donald Trump’s election in 2016 that full-time tech employees began organizing in earnest. A group called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11679302/in-a-direct-challenge-to-their-employers-tech-workers-begin-to-organize\">Tech Workers Coalition emerged\u003c/a> to complement Silicon Valley Rising. It has workers of all types, from contractors to full-time programmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the first things I noticed when I came to the Bay Area and started working in the tech industry was the blatant discrimination and basically a class system,” said Google employee Stephanie Parker. “How people were treated along the same old lines of race, class and gender that you see in any other industry — and even more stratified here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a woman of color working in the tech industry, Parker said she has often felt alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My story of feeling isolated and that no one else understands, of feeling that my co-workers just want to focus on building tools and building apps and are not worried about these larger issues — that story is present in so many tech workplaces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last year, workers at different tech firms have protested openly. At Microsoft, they spoke out against the company’s work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. At Amazon, they criticized the company for providing facial recognition software to police departments. And at Salesforce, they held a rally against the company’s work with Customs and Border Protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tech executives like CEO Sundar Pichai of Google are trying to placate workers. He spoke with The New York Times about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702872/google-employees-begin-global-walkout-to-protest-companys-treatment-of-women\">Google walkout\u003c/a>, which the company eventually supported publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Moments like this show that we didn’t always get it right,” Pichai said. “We are committed to doing better and we’re listening to employees, which is part of why I think today is important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some workers say they are scared of speaking up. 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"content": "\u003cp>Have you decided to quit Facebook yet?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not an idle question. This holiday season, a notable number of my “friends” on the social network are openly contemplating quitting; as if they were making a list of New Year’s resolutions and a clean break from the mesmerizing newsfeed seemed a sensible addition to goals like losing ten pounds and calling mom more often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, we learned that Facebook’s bid for global growth led it to willfully ignore warnings that the platform was being used to confuse and manipulate users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, there were stories about widespread data breaches, political manipulation and even race baiting that led to real world violence. For a company that likes to tout its ability to bring communities together, Facebook has been struggling to maintain the image of a good corporate citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the year began, Facebook was already on the defensive trying to explain why Russian actors were able to attempt to sway voters with such apparent freedom and sophistication during the 2016 presidential election. 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The pitch is this: more than two billion monthly, active users you can sift through to target specific interest groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve known for a long time that these algorithms were at risk of manipulation,” said Kurt Wagner, who covers social media for the technology news outfit \u003ca href=\"https://www.recode.net/authors/kurt-wagner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Recode.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What 2018 did was kind of open everyone’s eyes to the fact that it can also be manipulated for much more sinister purposes, which is what we saw around the 2016 election, trying to turn people against one another by stoking these really important but divisive issues,” Wagner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stoking continues, as does the ribbing from comedy shows like \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saturday Night Live\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8UZn7PmyXc]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also impossible in 2018 to ignore a growing number of reports about Facebook failing to address race-baiting and even violence in countries like Malaysia and Nigeria, where the social platform has expanded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook has since begun hiring tens of thousands of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702239/why-its-so-hard-to-scrub-hate-speech-off-social-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hate speech screeners\u003c/a> and it works more closely now with third parties to bolster its efforts to clean up its platforms, including WhatsApp and Instagram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, the companies were caught flat-footed. But they probably shouldn’t have been, given that there were people warning about this for years prior,” said academic researcher \u003ca href=\"http://aviv.me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aviv Ovadya\u003c/a>, who is launching a nonprofit focused on technology’s impact on the information ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ovadya argued we’re careening toward a future where the ability to distort reality shakes the foundations of democracy. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is \u003ca href=\"https://eshoo.house.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anna Eshoo\u003c/a>, one of Silicon Valley’s congressional representatives, grilling Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg back in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/2CaJoQk9VLc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/2CaJoQk9VLc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The congressional hearings followed explosive reports that the British political consulting firm \u003ca href=\"https://cambridgeanalytica.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cambridge Analytica\u003c/a> had access to detailed, personal information on millions of Facebook users during 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as that story scandalized the world, it also lifted the curtain on Facebook’s business model, built on offering detailed, personal information to all kinds of advertisers. The pitch is this: more than two billion monthly, active users you can sift through to target specific interest groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve known for a long time that these algorithms were at risk of manipulation,” said Kurt Wagner, who covers social media for the technology news outfit \u003ca href=\"https://www.recode.net/authors/kurt-wagner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Recode.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What 2018 did was kind of open everyone’s eyes to the fact that it can also be manipulated for much more sinister purposes, which is what we saw around the 2016 election, trying to turn people against one another by stoking these really important but divisive issues,” Wagner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stoking continues, as does the ribbing from comedy shows like \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saturday Night Live\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Z8UZn7PmyXc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Z8UZn7PmyXc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also impossible in 2018 to ignore a growing number of reports about Facebook failing to address race-baiting and even violence in countries like Malaysia and Nigeria, where the social platform has expanded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook has since begun hiring tens of thousands of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702239/why-its-so-hard-to-scrub-hate-speech-off-social-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hate speech screeners\u003c/a> and it works more closely now with third parties to bolster its efforts to clean up its platforms, including WhatsApp and Instagram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, the companies were caught flat-footed. But they probably shouldn’t have been, given that there were people warning about this for years prior,” said academic researcher \u003ca href=\"http://aviv.me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aviv Ovadya\u003c/a>, who is launching a nonprofit focused on technology’s impact on the information ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ovadya argued we’re careening toward a future where the ability to distort reality shakes the foundations of democracy. Also, that Facebook is so big, it might want to think about independent advisory boards for each of its individual products in every geographic region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11714414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11714414\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/MaxineW-1180x909-800x616.jpg\" alt='\"87 percent or so of the people who use Facebook are not in North America,\" Maxine Williams, head of global diversity for Facebook, told KQED in July, 2018. \"Think about what the world looks like. It is such an incredibly diverse space. But what we have a responsibility to be is more diverse, more perspectives, more people who can reflect that diversity in the world.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/MaxineW-1180x909-800x616.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/MaxineW-1180x909-160x123.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/MaxineW-1180x909-1020x786.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/MaxineW-1180x909.jpg 1180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“87 percent or so of the people who use Facebook are not in North America,” Maxine Williams, head of global diversity for Facebook, told KQED in July 2018. “Think about what the world looks like. It is such an incredibly diverse space. But what we have a responsibility to be is more diverse, more perspectives, more people who can reflect that diversity in the world.” \u003ccite>(Steve Jennings/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For instance, an advisory board for not only WhatsApp in Malaysia, but also the Rohingya community on WhatsApp in Malaysia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Companies like Facebook need better ways of interfacing with third parties in order to actually gain advice and contacts about what the impacts of what they’re doing have on the world,” Ovadya said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ovadya was much gentler in his criticism than the Hungarian businessman George Soros, who reportedly inspired a Facebook smear campaign after he laid into the social media giant at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, arguing that Facebook and Google are threatening democratic government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There could be an alliance between authoritarian states and these large, data-rich IT monopolies that would bring together nascent systems of corporate surveillance with an already developed system of state-sponsored surveillance,” Soros said. “This may well result in a web of totalitarian control the likes of which not even Aldous Huxley or George Orwell could have imagined.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/WaHzUlR2MUg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/WaHzUlR2MUg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Soros was simply following in the footsteps of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMotykw0SIk&t=9s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chamath Palihapitiya\u003c/a>, an early senior executive at Facebook, who argued along similar lines in November 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As this year winds to a close, media coverage continues to direct the public narrative about Facebook, increasingly with the help of former employees like Palihapitiya.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s how we learned explosive tidbits like the recent revelation the company allowed other tech giants access to content many Facebook users would find invasive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Netflix and Spotify, for example, were able to read Facebook users’ private messages. 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You're still in Facebook's influence-directing orbit, and recent media reports document Instagram is rife with fake ads and Russian trollers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"677\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS31521_Screen-Shot-2018-06-20-at-1.05.35-PM-qut-800x677.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS31521_Screen-Shot-2018-06-20-at-1.05.35-PM-qut-160x135.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS31521_Screen-Shot-2018-06-20-at-1.05.35-PM-qut-1020x864.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS31521_Screen-Shot-2018-06-20-at-1.05.35-PM-qut-1200x1016.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS31521_Screen-Shot-2018-06-20-at-1.05.35-PM-qut.jpg 1396w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still on Instagram? 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