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This Week On Beacon Hill

The Massachusetts Legislature restored millions in spending to the state budget during a rare Saturday session, over the objections of Governor Charlie Baker. State House News Service reporter, Matt Murphy tells New England Public Radio’s Carrie Healy, lawmakers squeezed in some work over the weekend in-between national party conventions…as they face a July 31st deadline to wrap up formal sessions.

Study: Religion, Race And Discrimination

A new study on religion out of U-Conn began with an old saying:

Sunday morning at eleven o’clock is the most segregated hour in America.”

Researcher Brad Wright wanted to know if that church segregation was due — at  least in part — to discrimination. Wright explains how he went at it.

Click the audio player above to hear Wright’s conversation with New England Public Radio’s Carrie Healy.