How did wealth inequality fare in 2021? U.S. corporate after-tax profits hit a record high of $2.5 trillion in the third quarter of 2021, further enriching wealthy executives and shareholders […]
Racial Disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program
The federal Paycheck Protection Program, part of the 2020 CARES Act, was designed to help small businesses, especially those in underserved or rural markets, weather the pandemic. To date, the […]
Understanding India’s COVID Crisis
India has reported more than 300,000 daily COVID-19 cases for three consecutive weeks. “People are dying due to lack of oxygen, and the cost of cremation has gone up so […]
Internet Access and the Digital Divide
As with many other social and economic problems, the pandemic has only deepened the digital divide. “Unlike in other wealthy nations, the federal government has imposed no cost controls to […]
Disaster Capitalism and Lessons from Post-Katrina New Orleans
Disaster capitalism describes the process of private industries springing up to profit from large-scale crises, according to Naomi Klein, who popularized the term in her influential 2007 book The Shock […]
Rebroadcast: The Case for Universal Basic Income with Annie Lowrey
This show was originally broadcast on October 23, 2019. The universal basic income (UBI) movement is gaining momentum in the United States, where cities like Stockton, California have implemented pilot […]
