51 Episodes

  1. Without a home in a pandemic

    Published: 11/06/2020
  2. There are cracks in the foundation of our housing system

    Published: 03/06/2020
  3. Unemployment benefits are hard to get. That’s on purpose.

    Published: 27/05/2020
  4. An unequal history of quarantines

    Published: 20/05/2020
  5. You’re an essential worker. Do you get essential protections?

    Published: 13/05/2020
  6. A History of Now: The Trailer

    Published: 06/05/2020
  7. A new piece of the opioid crisis origin story, revealed

    Published: 19/12/2019
  8. George Bush’s infamous crack speech, 30 years later

    Published: 05/09/2019
  9. Kicking the habit

    Published: 18/04/2019
  10. Supply

    Published: 11/04/2019
  11. Welcome to Wise County

    Published: 04/04/2019
  12. Sentencing

    Published: 28/03/2019
  13. What happened to Keith?

    Published: 22/03/2019
  14. George H.W. Bush and his baggie of crack

    Published: 21/03/2019
  15. The Uncertain Hour Season 3: Inside America’s Drug War

    Published: 07/03/2019
  16. “A mosquito in a nudist colony”

    Published: 08/03/2018
  17. Law and Odor: a crime story about orchids, pig smell, refineries and you

    Published: 26/01/2018
  18. Who’s regulating whom?

    Published: 05/01/2018
  19. Your regulations questions, answered

    Published: 21/12/2017
  20. The sentence that helped set off the opioid crisis

    Published: 13/12/2017

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Each season, we explain the weird, complicated and often unequal American economy — and why some people get ahead and some get left behind. Host Krissy Clark dives into obscure policies and forgotten histories to explain why America is like it is. The latest season examines the “welfare-to-work industrial complex” and the multi-million dollar companies running today’s for-profit welfare centers.

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