Voters want affordability, elections show
Here & Now Anytime
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🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Then, Salman Rushdie talks about his book "The Eleventh Hour," a quintet of stories set in India, America, and England. It's his first fiction he has published since he suffered a knife attack in 2022.
And, the team at the New England Aquarium in Boston has created a “geriatric island” for their elderly penguin residents. Eric Fox, associate curator of penguins at the aquarium, discusses the benefits of the special retreat.
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| 0:00.0 | This week on Consider This, a big few days for the Democratic Party, decisive wins on Election Day, and Nancy Pelosi announces she'll retire next year, what it all can mean in 2026, plus the latest action from the Trump administration to limit the flow of refugees into the U.S. |
| 0:16.6 | Catch up on the news you've missed in short daily episodes of Consider This. Listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:25.4 | WBUR Podcasts, Boston. |
| 0:32.8 | You're doing everything you can and your wages simply aren't enough because now not only do we have |
| 0:39.0 | to worry about food, how are you providing for those children for Christmas? |
| 0:43.3 | This week, voters made it clear how important affordability is to them. |
| 1:02.0 | It's Friday, November 7th, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBUR Boston. |
| 1:03.4 | I'm Shiko The Uri. |
| 1:10.1 | Today on the show, Salman Rushdie survived a knife attack three years ago. Now he's out with a new collection |
| 1:11.9 | of short stories about the end of life. It focuses the mind on such subjects as mortality. |
| 1:18.1 | And some older folk need peace and quiet in their retirement years. Turns out aging penguins need |
| 1:24.2 | the same. |
| 1:30.7 | But first, let's talk about affordability. |
| 1:36.6 | In Tuesday's elections, candidates who underscored the high cost of living won big across the country. |
| 1:38.8 | We're going to lower health care costs. |
| 1:43.1 | We're going to crack down on predatory, pharmaceutical practices, and surprise billing. |
| 1:50.0 | Because of you, we will make this city one that working people can love and live in again. |
| 1:56.7 | That was Virginia's governor-elect Abigail Spanberger, and Zoran Mamdani, New York City's next mayor. |
| 2:02.2 | Both Democrats. Last year, President Trump won the presidency also pledging to fight inflation, |
| 2:07.8 | but now he says Republicans have dropped the ball on the issue. Here he is on Fox News earlier this week. It's no good if we do a great job and you don't talk about it. And I don't think they talk |
| 2:12.7 | about it enough. You know, they have this new word called affordability and they don't talk about it |
| 2:16.5 | enough. David Leonhardt has been writing about affordability for a long time. |
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