Thanks to unemployment insurance, poverty declined last year (with Amy Goldstein and Elliott Morris)
It’s been a little over a month since the unemployment benefits programs that were established by the CARES Act expired, so we’re taking a look at how well they worked. Washington Post writer Amy Gold...
19 Okt 202132min
How corporate concentration hurts the economy (with Stacy Mitchell)
Anti-monopoly and pro-local advocate Stacy Mitchell joins the show to talk about small business, big business, and decentralizing economic power. Stacy Mitchell is the co-director of the Institute f...
12 Okt 202132min
Why philanthropy isn’t the answer (with Anand Giridharadas)
Few books have shaken the philanthropy world more than ‘Winners Take All’, Anand Giridharadas’s blistering critique of wealthy do-gooders. Global elites who ostentatiously give away hundreds of millio...
5 Okt 202149min
Redefining skill (with Nichola Lowe)
Who are the winners and losers in our skill development system? How can we move the onus of skill further into the purview of employers and away from our education system? UNC Professor Nichola Lowe t...
1 Okt 202133min
Capitalism is working better in Finland (with Anu Partanen and Trevor Corson)
Contrary to popular belief, Nordic countries aren’t actually socialist! No, friends, the Nords are capitalists—but they pull it off much better than we do. To help re-imagine American capitalism, writ...
28 Sep 202146min
Right-to-work is bad for workers (with Shane Larson)
Right-to-work laws, which make unionizing more difficult in 28 states, could more accurately be referred to as right-to-work… for less. Why? On average, worker pay drops 3.1% when right-to-work laws a...
24 Sep 202128min
How neoliberalism captured Democrats (with James Kwak)
Democrats used to be known as the party of the working people—so how did they get so off track? Who took over the party, and why? Author and professor James Kwak joins Nick and Paul in a blistering an...
21 Sep 202145min
Why restaurants can’t find workers (with restaurateur Mark Bucher)
DC restaurateur Mark Bucher explains what’s behind the “labor” shortage (hint: it’s the wages), the role that restaurant owners need to play in stopping the “churn and burn” model of low-wage workers,...
17 Sep 202130min
