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NPR Fundraising & Cross-Promotion
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The episode pauses for two interstitial segments. First, a fundraising appeal reminds listeners that Congress recently eliminated more than $1 billion in public media funding and urges donations at plus.npr.org. Then, a brief cross-promotion highlights a Sunday Story episode from Up First about a group of disabled protesters in Denver in 1978 who helped spark the modern disability rights movement. These segments fill the space between the show intro and the first grievance, after which Whalen hands the floor to Steven Bisaha.
The episode's NPR fundraising segment notes that Congress eliminated more than $1 billion in funding for public media just over a year ago.
Traditional restaurant checkout forces customers through four separate waiting steps — flag the server, wait for the check, wait for card pickup, wait for card return. Handheld payment devices like Toast's are cutting that down dramatically, with one server reporting his service time nearly halved.
