Micah Yason

Chicago

Producer at WBEZ-FM (Chicago, IL)

Producer for @WBEZreset 🗣 || Formerly @WFYI @AllinIndiana 🎙@gocasted 🎧 || she/her 🇵🇭 || [email protected]

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State budget but no transit deal: What results of Illinois’s legislative session mean for you

5 days ago | wbez.org | Micah Yason

Illinois lawmakers passed a $55.2 billion state budget Saturday night, successfully filling a $1 billion gap by levying tax hikes on tobacco users, sports gamblers and out-of-state corporations with a footprint in Illinois. Reset spoke with a couple reporters to get the details. GUESTS: Alex Degman, WBEZ statehouse reporterMitchell Armentrout, Chicago Sun-Times reporter covering government and politics
How Chicago’s Vietnamese community was built

2 weeks ago | wbez.org | Micah Yason

In 1975, the Vietnam War ended with the fall of Saigon. Afterward, a large wave of Vietnamese refugees fled the country and arrived in neighboring countries like Cambodia and the Philippines, but the United States as well. Many found community on the coasts like in California or New York, but others created enclaves in the Midwest and Chicago.
What could cuts to SNAP mean for Chicago?

2 weeks ago | wbez.org | Micah Yason

Millions of people across the country rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP for food assistance, including nearly 2 million people in Illinois. The program is fully funded by the federal government with states helping pay for administrative costs. But that could change. House Republicans are proposing an estimated $300 billion in cuts to SNAP spending and looking to states to fill the financial gaps.
President Pritzker? President Emanuel? JB and Rahm may run in 2028

3 weeks ago | wbez.org | Micah Yason |Daniel P. Tucker

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Chicago’s Kānaka Maoli are reclaiming Native Hawaiian culture and heritage

3 weeks ago | wbez.org | Micah Yason

Before Hawaiʻi was annexed by the United States in 1898, the nation was led by a constitutional monarchy and was recognized as an independent kingdom. Before Hawai’i’s last monarch, Queen Lili’uokalani, was overthrown by non-native American businessmen in 1893, the queen sent a royally-charted Hula troupe to the World's Columbian Exposition to share the culture and stories of Kanaka Maoli, or Native Hawaiians. This is just the beginning of the community’s history in Chicago.
Looking back at the ‘Memories and Milestones’ of South Asians in Illinois

4 weeks ago | wbez.org | Micah Yason

To mark Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Reset learns more of the past, present and future of Illinois’s South Asian community. GUESTS: Shobhana Johri Verma, executive director, South Asian American Policy & Research InstituteJulie Thomas Achettu, education consultant, South Asian American Policy & Research Institute
Singer Yukimi’s first solo album is for me and ‘For You’

1 month ago | wbez.org | Micah Yason

Hailing from Gothenburg, Sweden, singer and songwriter Yukimi gifts the world with new music that makes listeners experience heartache, love and power all at once, packaged in her first solo album titled “For You.”Reset sits down with the singer during her stop in Chicago for her North American For You Tour and talks about motherhood, the joys and pains of being alive and connecting to one another. GUEST: Yukimi, singer and member of the band Little Dragon
How to get started with Medicare

1 month ago | wbez.org | Micah Yason

We’ve covered what Medicare is, how it works, understanding drug plans and more on the program. But how does one actually sign up for it? Reset breaks down the process and answers our listeners questions. GUEST: Sandy Leith, director of the Illinois Senior Health Insurance ProgramYou can start the process by creating an account online at ssa.govIf you want to sign up in-person, you will have to try to make an appointment with the Social Security Administration.
Is banning cars the key to bringing people downtown?

1 month ago | wbez.org | Micah Yason

As a part of the Harris Policy Innovation Challenge, UChicago graduate students were tasked with answering the question, “What can Chicago do over the next three years to create a thriving downtown for the next 20 years?”The winning team came up with a proposal to revitalize a stretch of Michigan Avenue – from the river to Roosevelt Road – into a pedestrian-focused cultural corridor. Reset learns more about the potential benefits of a car-free zone.
Trump admin makes major changes on student loans

1 month ago | wbez.org | Micah Yason

The Department of Education announced it would send student loans in default to debt collection on May 5. Over five million people have student loans in default. Another four million borrowers are at risk. Having debt in collection can have drastic consequences on people from their credit taking a hit to the government garnishing 15% of their salaries.