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Mental health experts, child advocates, at least one actors union and others are pushing for a federal law that would standardize work and pay and ensure that increasing numbers of young reality stars are protected.

Tuesday, June 3, 2025 at 9 pm. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! This is the remarkable story of the determined people who clung to their homes and way of life, enduring drought, dust, disease — even death — for nearly a decade. Less well-known than those who sought refuge in California, typified by the Joad family in John Steinbeck’s "The Grapes of Wrath," the Dust Bowlers who stayed overcame an almost unbelievable series of calamities and disasters.

Rising retail sales in China have been a powerful force behind the country's unprecedented economic growth over the past two decades. As a result, America's leverage over China has diminished dramatically. President Obama departed Thursday for a multi-stop tour of Asia. The Obama administration is anxious to obtain key concessions, but it won't be an easy adjustment for U.S. officials.

Taking a cue from "What the World Eats," a book written by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio, students at High Tech High International have been investigating what San Diego eats.

A day after a mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, military post killed at least 13 people and wounded 30 others including himself, investigators on Friday sought to learn why an Army psychiatrist might have carried out the assault.

Now that the off-year elections are over, Democrats are bracing for losses in Congress next year — and history tells them they should. A first-term president's party almost always loses seats during the midterm elections.

Republicans, fresh off electoral wins this week, are looking ahead to the 2010 midterms with their hit lists ready. Some of their top House targets: Blue Dog Democrats, many of whom have pushed back on the president's top domestic initiatives.

We'll hear the true story behind the children's book and musical "Armando and the Blue Tarp School," based on events in Tijuana.

Airs Wednesday, October 28 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV

Since the 1960s, Americans have looked at employer-based health insurance as though it were the natural order of things. But economic historians say there was never any central logic at work in building that system.