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Research indicates that customers prefer to shop at retailers who slashed pay from top executives, not rank and file employees.

Irene Monroe and Emmett Price offered their take on pushback to the rebranding of Aunt Jemima, from a relative of the woman whose likeness was used in the company logo.

Independent restaurants are short on funds for hiring workers to enforce mask usage among customers, Kummer says.

Owens and Steil urged state legislators to ratify legislation extending the eviction moratorium and offering more aid to renters and homeowners impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Higgins explained the fine line between social media being a platform for shared learning or performative posting.

The state Senate's police reform bill includes a statewide ban on government use of facial recognition software.

Today:GBH's Adam Reilly and Callie Crossley help us launch our media analysis segment we're calling "Press Play."And, Boston Globe columnist and podcaster Meredith Goldstein discusses some of her latest love letters.

GBH Music is about to kick off a new string of live jazz shows. For this week’s Live Music Friday, we’ll hear from four-time Grammy winner Oscar Stagnaro and his band TRIAD. We’ll also talk about the series with GBH Music's Sam Brewer & JazzBoston’s Ken Field.Retired Federal Judge Nancy Gertner on what courts can and can’t do to reign in Trump’s orders on birthright citizenship and the mass firing of federal officials. Love Letters advice columnist Meredith Goldstein on why our brains lose plasticity as we age and how this impacts our relationships.We launch a new media analysis segment with GBH's Callie Crossley & Adam Reilly.

Political analyst Chuck Todd is back for a D.C. news roundup.Former secretary of public safety Andrea Cabral reflects on the Mayor Eric Adams fiasco and the leader of the “Zizian” cult being held without bail in Maryland. Plus, more law and order headlines. Travel guru Rick Steves has a new book called “On the Hippie Trail,” a collection of journal entries from his youth during travels from Istanbul to Kathmandu in 1978. Investigative comedian Adam Conover of “Adam Ruins Everything” joins ahead of a show at the Wilbur.

Today:Comedian Adam Conover calls into the show ahead of a stop at the Wilbur on his "Nihilism Pivot" tour.And, travel guru Rick Steves discusses his new memoir "On The Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer."

Today: Comedian Nikki Glaser calls in ahead of six shows at the Wang Theater this weekend.And, our latest iteration of “How Do You Two Know Each Other?” Husband-and-wife duo Roger Brown and Linda Mason – global aid workers, co-founders of Bright Horizons -- discuss the importance of community.