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The Uncertain Hour

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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.

  • 14 November 2023, 11:00 am

    The $80 Million Acre (from “How We Survive”)

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    33 minutes 10 seconds
  • 26 April 2023, 10:00 am

    Chapter 6: The Welfare to Temp Work Pipeline

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    55 minutes 29 seconds
  • 19 April 2023, 10:00 am

    Chapter 5: Profits and Perverse Incentives

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    49 minutes 21 seconds
  • 12 April 2023, 10:00 am

    Chapter 4: The Battle of Newburgh

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    35 minutes 37 seconds
  • 5 April 2023, 10:00 am

    Chapter 3: Race and rumor

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    36 minutes 10 seconds
  • 29 March 2023, 9:09 pm

    Chapter 2: The compliance machine

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    54 minutes 3 seconds
  • 22 March 2023, 7:58 pm

    Chapter 1: The dream

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    44 minutes 55 seconds
  • 15 March 2023, 8:05 pm

    Season 6: The Welfare-to-Work Industrial Complex

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    4 minutes 23 seconds
  • 20 August 2021, 7:31 pm

    25 years after welfare reform, let’s revisit “the magic bureaucrat”

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    41 minutes 7 seconds
  • 24 March 2021, 7:49 pm

    My boss is an app

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    48 minutes 13 seconds
  • 17 March 2021, 5:28 pm

    Inside baseball

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    46 minutes
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