We The Podcast

Keri Leigh Merritt is the author of Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South. Keith and Keri Leig... Read more

George Lakoff is a professor of cognitive linguistics and philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley. Now, y... Read more

On this special Labor Day episode of We The Podcast, Keith interviews Lee Saunders, President of AFSCME, about the histo... Read more

The Republican Party talks about "voter fraud" all the time. President Trump even claims he lost the popular vote becaus... Read more

A few weeks ago, we learned that Amazon is buying Whole Foods for $13 billion. When big firms merge, it drives up market... Read more

Six bucks. That’s all someone working full-time at the federal minimum wage would have left over after paying the averag... Read more

The transgender community is more visible than ever. But this increased visibility hasn’t improved the lives of all tran... Read more

For years, millions of Americans were frightened of two words: pre-existing conditions. Before the Affordable Care Act, ... Read more

Women experience the economy different than men. They pay more for everything from clothes and hygiene products, to dry ... Read more

Faith is critical to the lives of so many working Americans, so I talked to Sister Simone Campbell, Rev. Dr. Serene Jone... Read more

When people can come together and ask for better wages and working conditions on the job, we all do better. Unfortunatel... Read more

Barry Lynn is the head of the Open Markets Institute, a think tank that examines the problem of corporate consolidation,... Read more

Unions raise wages and worker protections for everybody – even if you’re not in a union! These jobs aren’t so simple eit... Read more

There are millions of women around the country fighting for equal pay, for better working conditions, for an end to sexu... Read more

Millions of Americans lack credit scores or have scores that are too low to gain access to affordable credit. The proble... Read more

Two years ago, we started We the Podcast so we could tell stories about how people engage with the economy. Twenty-three... Read more

Just last month, we found out that Wells Fargo Bank committed a years-long scam that stole from their customers, inflate... Read more

We spend a lot of time talking about how important unions are. On this episode, we’re going to see organized labor in ac... Read more

How many of you work 40 hours a week? If you’re a salaried worker, guess what: your employer is pretty happy. After all,... Read more

Let’s be honest, few people enjoy paying their taxes. But most of us understand that taxes serve a critical purpose—the ... Read more