The Uncertain Hour
A podcast by Marketplace
50 Episodes
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The $80 Million Acre (from “How We Survive”)
Published: 11/14/2023 -
Chapter 6: The Welfare to Temp Work Pipeline
Published: 4/26/2023 -
Chapter 5: Profits and Perverse Incentives
Published: 4/19/2023 -
Chapter 4: The Battle of Newburgh
Published: 4/12/2023 -
Chapter 3: Race and rumor
Published: 4/5/2023 -
Chapter 2: The compliance machine
Published: 3/29/2023 -
Chapter 1: The dream
Published: 3/22/2023 -
Season 6: The Welfare-to-Work Industrial Complex
Published: 3/15/2023 -
25 years after welfare reform, let’s revisit “the magic bureaucrat”
Published: 8/20/2021 -
My boss is an app
Published: 3/24/2021 -
Inside baseball
Published: 3/17/2021 -
Big Boss, Little Boss
Published: 3/10/2021 -
To catch a chicken
Published: 3/3/2021 -
The liquid workforce
Published: 2/24/2021 -
“To suffer or permit to work”
Published: 2/17/2021 -
Who’s the boss?
Published: 2/10/2021 -
Congratulations! You’re an entrepreneur now
Published: 2/3/2021 -
‘The Uncertain Hour’ is back!
Published: 1/27/2021 -
Answering your “History of Now” questions
Published: 6/17/2020 -
Without a home in a pandemic
Published: 6/11/2020
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.