It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. We're going to talk to former U.S.

Labor Secretary Robert Rice later in the show should be really interesting. You know,

when he was Labor Secretary under President Clinton, he was a big opponent of NAFTA.

But now that President Trump is in office and undoing all these trade deals, including

NAFTA, even undid a lot of NAFTA in his first term. So much of the progressive critique seems to be that,

hey, what are you doing with all this tariff stuff? So it's really going to be interesting to get

Robert Reisch's take on that later in the show, have his politics changed. We'll remember

the 1999 big anti-world trade demonstrations in Seattle. Anybody

remember those, right? Big iconic from the left protests. Well, what about now? So Robert

Reich on that, also on the firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Chief, after

disappointing job numbers came out, as looking to the world like China, a lot of people are

saying, where the politics drive the official data numbers rather than the other way around.

So I'll have to talk to Robert Reich about as he's got a new memoir that traces some of that history and his involvement in it coming up.

But we begin today with something that maybe surprisingly is not much of an issue in the New York City mayoral race.

It's the latest numbers from New York City's specialized public high schools, so-called

specialized, and what they reveal about racial segregation in this, one of the nation's

most watched education systems.

You know the schools, Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, Brooklyn Tech, among the best public

high schools in the country. But as most of you know,

admission is based almost entirely on one standardized test, the S-H-S-A-T. And year after year,

the demographics of the student body reflect not the city, but the test. And in many ways,

the resources require to prep for it. Just 3%, these are new numbers,

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