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The Uncertain Hour

The Uncertain Hour

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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.

Recent Episodes

  • Integration Generation (bonus episode from “Unlocking the Gates”)

    4 months ago

  • The $80 Million Acre (from “How We Survive”)

    2 years ago

  • Chapter 6: The Welfare to Temp Work Pipeline

    2 years ago

  • Chapter 5: Profits and Perverse Incentives

    2 years ago

  • Chapter 4: The Battle of Newburgh

    2 years ago

  • Chapter 3: Race and rumor

    2 years ago

  • Chapter 2: The compliance machine

    2 years ago

  • Chapter 1: The dream

    2 years ago

  • Season 6: The Welfare-to-Work Industrial Complex

    2 years ago

  • 25 years after welfare reform, let’s revisit “the magic bureaucrat”

    4 years ago