The changing rules of who's entitled to services in America

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🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The Trump Administration today said it will restrict undocumented immigrants from accessing public programs, including Head Start. Kimberly explains how the move fits into the government’s broader effort to change who’s entitled to services in the United States. And, the Supreme Court gave Trump the green light to continue mass federal layoffs, for now. We’ll get into the emotional rollercoaster many of these workers have been on this year. Plus, we’ll play a round of Half Full/Half Empty!

Here’s everything we talked about today:

"What the Media Gets Wrong About Medicaid ‘Cuts'" from DC Journal
"Taxpayer-Funded Benefits Are for American Citizens — Not Illegals" from The White House
"Trump to cut off Head Start for immigrants in US illegally" from AP News
"State Department fires more than 1,300 employees in downsizing plan" from The Washington Post
"Federal workers fearful after Supreme Court backs Trump’s mass firings plan" from The Washington Post
"How Trump’s immigration policies could threaten Social Security" from Marketplace
"Tariffs push companies to rethink traditional forecasts" from Marketplace
"In new food fad, protein products are no longer just for gym-goers" from Marketplace
"Microsoft Pledges $4 Billion Toward A.I. Education" from The New York Times
"A 70-hour work week? Some job listings are foregoing work-life balance" from Marketplace
”The disturbing parallels between modern accounting and the business of slavery” from Marketplace

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I'm Rima Jres. Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today makes sense.
0:12.0	And I'm Kimberly Adams. Thank you for joining us for our weekly Friday happy hour, Economics on Tap.
0:18.0	It is Friday. It is July the 11th. And so whether you are joining the YouTube
0:22.1	live stream or listening to the podcast later on, thank you for joining us. And we hope that you
0:27.1	are able to wind down for the week because it's just nonstop. It's not too much. So yeah,
0:34.5	today we're going to do the drinks, or rather we're going to do some news and then play a game.
0:39.3	But first, let's talk about the drinks. What are you drinking?
0:43.0	Well, as I was just telling you before the show, I had like an epic struggle trying to open this bottle of like sparkling blackberry water that I was going to use for my cocktail.
0:53.0	And I literally could not get it open.
0:55.1	So instead I had this bottle of like concentrated berry black tea that I just mix with water
1:03.1	and then I added bourbon to it.
1:05.0	But I've got it in our 25 year anniversary marketplace glass for the throwbacks who might have that gift from back in the day.
1:13.4	What do you have? And you're in the DC Bureau, right? Yeah. Mm-hmm. That's nice. I... Yes, I'm sorry. No
1:20.4	our tax today. I know. I have to bring Sim-on to compensate.
1:25.3	Yes. Who knows? I had big ambitions myself.
1:28.3	I was going to make something from my garden or like try to experiment and make a concoction
1:33.0	of sorts.
1:34.5	But I'm feeling under the weather, so I'm being, I'm a little boring.
1:37.8	I'm just drinking water with electrolytes to try to hydrate.
1:40.3	You know what?
1:41.3	You gotta do it sometimes and bounce back.
1:43.3	I'm glad that you're feeling a little bit better.
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