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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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Recent episodes

  • Integration Generation (bonus episode from “Unlocking the Gates”)Mar 7, 2025 · 23 min
  • The $80 Million Acre (from “How We Survive”)Nov 14, 2023 · 33 min
  • Chapter 6: The Welfare to Temp Work PipelineApr 26, 2023 · 55 min
  • Chapter 5: Profits and Perverse IncentivesApr 19, 2023 · 49 min
  • Chapter 4: The Battle of NewburghApr 12, 2023 · 36 min
  • Chapter 3: Race and rumorApr 5, 2023 · 36 min
  • Chapter 2: The compliance machineMar 29, 2023 · 54 min
  • Chapter 1: The dreamMar 22, 2023 · 45 min
  • Season 6: The Welfare-to-Work Industrial ComplexMar 15, 2023 · 4 min
  • 25 years after welfare reform, let’s revisit “the magic bureaucrat”Aug 20, 2021 · 41 min

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