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population needs more of that care.
Marketplace's Elizabeth Troval has another story in our series, Help Not Wanted, about how changing immigration policy is affecting the workforce.
And the head of the College Athletics Association wants the Federal Commodity Futures Trading Commission to put a stop to predictions markets on college sports, which offer a kind of unregulated betting.
The NCAA's Charlie Baker says he is, quote, imploring federal regulators to pause these markets until the rules are tightened.
He called for restrictions by age and on advertising.
He called for ways to prevent athletes from getting harassed and for more safeguards to prevent the rigging of predictions markets.
In Los Angeles, I'm David Brancaccio with the Marketplace Morning Report from APM American Public Media.
Hey, it's David Brancaccio, host of the Marketplace Morning Report.
It has been one year since the costliest set of wildfires in California history, U.S.
history, and by at least one calculation, the history of the world.
Sixteen thousand structures were destroyed, most of them homes.
I can quote you figures about insured versus uninsured losses measured in billions.
But as people in the fire zones face year two, we go from macro to micro.
I'm checking in with the neighbors on one street in Altadena where 15 homes were destroyed on a single block.
These are my own neighbors.
I lost a home on that street too.
Join us for on-the-ground reporting as we hear from people still dealing with insurance, getting permits, finding contractors.
One guy had to go through 30 contractors to find one with the right skills he could afford.
Plus, for most, rebuilding is taking years.
How do people find the money to live elsewhere?