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The Uncertain Hour

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 ... Read more

Warning: This podcast is a series podcast

This means episodes are recommended to be heard in order from the very start. Here's the 10 best episodes of the series anyway though!

Ranked #1

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What’s love (styles) got to do with it?

What’s love (styles) got to do with it?

What do you think of when you think of welfare? Probably something along the lines of help or money given to families li... Read more

26 May 2016

34mins

Ranked #2

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The Peanut Butter Grandma goes to Washington

The Peanut Butter Grandma goes to Washington

Donald Trump, the business man president, isn’t the first politician to rail on government regulations. In 1979 Jimmy Ca... Read more

26 Oct 2017

33mins

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Ranked #3

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The road not taken

The road not taken

What’s the best path out of poverty — work or education? Twenty years ago, welfare reformers came to this fork in the ro... Read more

7 Jul 2016

43mins

Ranked #4

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White gloves, aluminum cans and plasma

White gloves, aluminum cans and plasma

Perhaps more than any other group, women on welfare have been stigmatized. In this episode, we introduce you to two wome... Read more

11 May 2016

34mins

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Ranked #5

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The Magic Bureaucrat

The Magic Bureaucrat

In the summer of 1996, on the lawn of the White House Rose Garden, President Clinton signed a bill that would dramatical... Read more

28 Apr 2016

41mins

Ranked #6

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George H.W. Bush and his baggie of crack

George H.W. Bush and his baggie of crack

It was the perfect political prop: drugs seized by government agents right across the street from the White House, just ... Read more

21 Mar 2019

45mins

Ranked #7

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Welcome to Wise County

Welcome to Wise County

It’s the deadliest drug epidemic our country has ever faced. We go to ground zero, where “nothing changes except for the... Read more

4 Apr 2019

35mins

Ranked #8

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What happened to Keith?

What happened to Keith?

One day, early in the semester, Keith Jackson didn’t show up to class. He’d been arrested for selling crack, but for his... Read more

22 Mar 2019

32mins

Ranked #9

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The peanut butter verdict

The peanut butter verdict

For the past two episodes, we’ve been telling you the birth story of a single regulation, one of the most misunderstood,... Read more

22 Nov 2017

38mins

Ranked #10

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The Peanut Butter Wars

The Peanut Butter Wars

It’s 1959 and Ruth Desmond, the gurney-climbing, cook-from-scratch co-founder of the Federation of Homemakers was prowli... Read more

10 Nov 2017

37mins

Ranked #11

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“A mosquito in a nudist colony”

“A mosquito in a nudist colony”

President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress rolled back a gun regulation last year that would have restricted som... Read more

8 Mar 2018

1hr 19mins

Ranked #12

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Law and Odor: a crime story about orchids, pig smell, refineries and you

Law and Odor: a crime story about orchids, pig smell, refineries and you

There are lots of different ways to commit a crime. Some of them are obscure — it’s a crime to sell Swiss cheese without... Read more

26 Jan 2018

1hr 8mins

Ranked #13

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Who’s regulating whom?

Who’s regulating whom?

The U.S. Constitution doesn’t mention corporations once. But if you want to talk about federal regulations, you have to ... Read more

5 Jan 2018

45mins

Ranked #14

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Sentencing

Sentencing

The drug bust and the trial were a “farce,” but the full force of the law still came down on Keith Jackson — and thousan... Read more

28 Mar 2019

48mins

Ranked #15

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The sentence that helped set off the opioid crisis

The sentence that helped set off the opioid crisis

When OxyContin went to market in 1996, sales reps from Purdue Pharma hit one point particularly hard: Compared to other ... Read more

13 Dec 2017

1hr 5mins

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