While the future of Temporary Protected Status remains in limbo, TPS recipients across Massachusetts could lose their jobs as soon as July 22.

Why it matters: Delays in processing renewal applications are colliding with new restrictions under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

• The result: Tens of thousands of TPS holders could be without work authorization while they wait for work permits they applied to renew earlier this year.

Catch up quick: The law and subsequent regulations impose not only new fees for asylum and TPS petitions, but also prevent TPS holders with pending renewal applications from working before renewal is granted.

• For TPS holders from El Salvador, Sudan and Ukraine, work permits expire on July 22, even though their status is expected to expire in September (El Salvador) or October (Sudan and Ukraine).
• Haitian TPS holders' work permits were set to expire on July 10, but the expiration was delayed by a legal challenge that was recently reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Now it's up to the lower courts to decide on the matter, including when they lose their protected status.

The latest: A coalition of labor and immigrant rights groups from Massachusetts sued the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Department of Homeland Security last week in Boston federal court over the new rules and fees.

What they're saying: "TPS holders, like all working people, depend on our jobs to put food on the table for ourselves and our families," said José Palma, a TPS holder from El Salvador and coordinator of the National TPS Alliance.

• "The Trump administration is trying to make our lives impossible by preventing us from working."

The other side: A USCIS spokesperson called the legal complaint "another frivolous lawsuit being brought on by the open border left" to undermine President Trump's authority over immigration policies.

• "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is faithfully implementing the law as enacted by Congress," the spokesperson said in a statement to Axios.

By the numbers: Massachusetts is home to an estimated 45,000 TPS holders, including nearly 9,000 from El Salvador, Sudan and Ukraine combined, plus more than 22,000 from Haiti, per estimates from a UMass Boston report in April.

• In Massachusetts, TPS holders work as home health aides, nurses, construction workers and teachers, as well as in other high-demand jobs, per the UMass report.

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Shawne Robinson bases his biggest decisions on the data, which is why he was horrified to learn two years ago that his son had based his college soccer career plans on vibes.

• The vast majority of student-athletes do the same, Robinson later learned.

Why it matters: That revelation inspired the creation of Andover-based Tosch.ai, which calls itself the first AI platform for unified college sports data.

• Robinson, the co-founder and CEO, sees the platform as a game changer for a field still reliant on paperwork and whiteboards for coaches, scouts and high school recruits.

Driving the news: Tosch.ai, which launched in November, unveiled on Tuesday an expanded data platform with stats on individual athletes and coaches.

• Tosch.ai shares and analyzes data from 2,000 U.S. colleges in at least five sports leagues (including the NCAA).
• It has teams from 13 sports and counting, Robinson says.

What they're saying: College sports leagues and schools collect millions of data points, but they don't make them easily accessible, Robinson says.

• "The transparency was really important to facilitate arming each of the stakeholders with the information that they need to make data-informed decisions."

Zoom in: The team includes Robinson, his chief technology officer and Robinson's son and co-founder, Myles, who works part-time as the chief product officer.

• The younger Robinson also works in sales for the NFL's Arizona Cardinals.

How it works: Think of this as a Bloomberg terminal of sorts for college sports.

• There's data on teams, including coach turnover, athletes' output and performance stats dating back to 2021.
• A coach could use this to identify gaps in their roster.
• Student-athletes and their parents could analyze a variety of stats about prospective colleges, including coach turnover and how much playing time freshmen typically get.

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🪧 More than 4,400 nurses at Brigham and Women's Hospital plan to go on strike Wednesday in what could be the largest nurse strike in state history. (GBH News)

• The latest: Gov. Maura Healey assembled representatives from MGB, nurses and clinicians yesterday at the State House in hopes of facilitating negotiations to no avail.

💰 Vertex Pharmaceutical plans to buy Crinetics Pharmaceuticals, a San Diego biotech, for $10 billion, the Boston company's largest acquisition to date. (BBJ)

✏️ Cambridge Public Schools made all eighth graders take Algebra I, but nearly two-thirds of them performed so poorly on standardized tests that they have to retake the class in ninth grade. (Hechinger Report)

Helen Murray, a former Boston Housing Authority secretary, was sentenced to two years probation and ordered to forfeit her pension and repay $72,000 for overtime hours she didn't work in 2023 and 2024. (UniversalHub)

🍋 ICYMI: Boston police shared new photos of a second suspect, likely a 14-year-old boy, in last month's lemonade stand robbery in Southie. (CBS Boston)

Juici Patties, a Jamaican chain in New York, Florida and Georgia, is opening at Gateway Center in Everett.

• They also plan to expand to Roxbury and Brockton.

🍷 Liars, a sister bar to the James Beard Award-nominated Spoke Wine Bar, is coming to Teele Square, though an opening date hasn't been announced.

🍭 Salem's Ye Olde Pepper Candy Company, the nation's oldest candy seller, has launched a pop-up out of the Old North Church, running 11am-4pm through Oct. 31.

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Americans are spending less time hanging out than they were 20 years ago — and the trend cuts across every generation, per new American Time Use Survey data.

Why it matters: It's a fundamental shift in the way we live our lives that has implications for everything from what we believe to how long we live.

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