Season 4, Episode 1 • March 16, 2022

Episodes

America’s racist economy

• With Valerie Wilson, director of EPI’s Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy (PREE)
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Reimagining the American dream

• With Chris Lu, former deputy secretary of labor under President Barack Obama, University of Virginia Miller Center fellow
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Building worker power

• With Heidi Shierholz, EPI director of policy
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Killing U.S. manufacturing is a policy choice

• With Mickey Ray Williams, Firestone plant worker in Gadsden, Alabama, and Rob Scott, EPI director of trade and manufacturing policy research
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 Uber and the gig economy fallacy

• With driver and activist Sergio Avedian and EPI Distinguished Fellow Larry Mishel
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I want to see myself in the data

• With Rhonda Sharpe, director of the Women’s Institute for Science, Equity and Race
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Native Americans too often left out of economic debate

• With Patrice Kunesh, director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis’ Center for Indian Country Development
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Racialized women’s unrecognized community work uplifts everyone

• With Nina Banks, economics professor at Bucknell University and a board member at the Economic Policy Institute
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America’s debtor prison system must be stopped • State of Working America Podcast

• With Damion Shade, criminal justice policy analyst at the Oklahoma Policy Institute
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America’s labor revival

• With Steven Greenhouse, author of Beaten Down, Worked Up and a long-time New York Times labor reporter
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Fact-checking the labor shortage hype

• With Heidi Shierholz and Josh Bivens of the Economic Policy Institute
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The Whiteness of Wealth

• With Dorothy A. Brown, author of The Whiteness of Wealth and Asa Griggs Candler Professor at Emory University School of Law
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Democracy, Race, & Justice: Writings of Sadie Alexander. Nina Banks

• Nina Banks discusses her new book Democracy, Race, and Justice: The Speeches and Writings of Sadie T. M. Alexander.
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The Black Agenda

• Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman discusses her new book, The Black Agenda.
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