{"id":198796,"date":"2026-03-10T20:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T20:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/198796\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T20:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T20:56:09","slug":"hello-houston-the-commuter-cut-march-10-2026-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/198796\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Houston \u2013 The Commuter Cut (March 10, 2026) \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-517232\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/HH_Podcast-Cover_The-Commuter-Cut-1000x1000.jpg\" alt=\"Hello Houston: The Commuter Cut\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/>Hello Houston: The Commuter Cut<\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s edition of &#8220;The Commuter Cut,&#8221; we break down what&#8217;s behind the large number of job losses in the latest jobs report with <a href=\"https:\/\/liberalarts.utexas.edu\/prc\/faculty\/hamermes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Daniel Hamermesh<\/a>, an emeritus professor of economics at the University of Texas, who also explains what this means for Houstonians.<\/p>\n<p>Next, we hear from Oliver James, a literacy activist, motivational speaker, and influencer, who shares the story of his struggles with adult illiteracy before making the decision to learn to read and how TikTok played a role in achieving this goal.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/hellohouston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, we learn all about the local non-profit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonbeautiful.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keep Houston Beautiful<\/a>, with Alan Steinberg, a volunteer board member for the organization, who discusses how they tackle their mission of cleaning up the city, and what individuals can do to help.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: The Commuter Cut In today&#8217;s edition of &#8220;The Commuter Cut,&#8221; we break down what&#8217;s behind the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[78500,78501,13613,78502,918,2245,2246,56,58,57,78503,2184,78504,78505,78534,3287,66,223,78507],"class_list":["post-198796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-adult-illiteracy","tag-alan-steinberg","tag-books-libraries","tag-daniel-hamermesh","tag-economy","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-commuter","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-illiteracy","tag-jobs","tag-jobs-in-houston","tag-jobs-report","tag-keep-houston-beautiful","tag-literacy","tag-local","tag-news","tag-oliver-james"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}