The Uncertain Hour

A podcast by Marketplace

50 Episodes

  1. There are cracks in the foundation of our housing system

    Published: 6/3/2020
  2. Unemployment benefits are hard to get. That’s on purpose.

    Published: 5/27/2020
  3. An unequal history of quarantines

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

    Published: 5/13/2020
  5. A History of Now: The Trailer

    Published: 5/6/2020
  6. A new piece of the opioid crisis origin story, revealed

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

    Published: 9/5/2019
  8. Kicking the habit

    Published: 4/18/2019
  9. Supply

    Published: 4/11/2019
  10. Welcome to Wise County

    Published: 4/4/2019
  11. Sentencing

    Published: 3/28/2019
  12. What happened to Keith?

    Published: 3/22/2019
  13. George H.W. Bush and his baggie of crack

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

    Published: 3/7/2019
  15. “A mosquito in a nudist colony”

    Published: 3/8/2018
  16. Law and Odor: a crime story about orchids, pig smell, refineries and you

    Published: 1/26/2018
  17. Who’s regulating whom?

    Published: 1/5/2018
  18. Your regulations questions, answered

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

    Published: 12/13/2017
  20. The peanut butter verdict

    Published: 11/22/2017

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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.