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 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.
Episodes (52)
Integration Generation (bonus episode from “Unlocking the Gates”)
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The $80 Million Acre (from “How We Survive”)
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Chapter 6: The Welfare to Temp Work Pipeline
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Chapter 5: Profits and Perverse Incentives
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Chapter 4: The Battle of Newburgh
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Chapter 3: Race and rumor
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Chapter 2: The compliance machine
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Chapter 1: The dream
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Season 6: The Welfare-to-Work Industrial Complex
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25 years after welfare reform, let’s revisit “the magic bureaucrat”
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My boss is an app
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Inside baseball
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Big Boss, Little Boss
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To catch a chicken
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The liquid workforce
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“To suffer or permit to work”
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Who’s the boss?
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Congratulations! You’re an entrepreneur now
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‘The Uncertain Hour’ is back!
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Answering your “History of Now” questions
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Without a home in a pandemic
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There are cracks in the foundation of our housing system
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Unemployment benefits are hard to get. That’s on purpose.
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An unequal history of quarantines
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You’re an essential worker. Do you get essential protections?
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A History of Now: The Trailer
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A new piece of the opioid crisis origin story, revealed
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George Bush’s infamous crack speech, 30 years later
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Kicking the habit
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Supply
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Welcome to Wise County
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Sentencing
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What happened to Keith?
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George H.W. Bush and his baggie of crack
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The Uncertain Hour Season 3: Inside America’s Drug War
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“A mosquito in a nudist colony”
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Law and Odor: a crime story about orchids, pig smell, refineries and you
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Who’s regulating whom?
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Your regulations questions, answered
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The sentence that helped set off the opioid crisis
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The peanut butter verdict
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The Peanut Butter Wars
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The Peanut Butter Grandma goes to Washington
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The Uncertain Hour dives into red tape
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The Album, “Work Makes the Difference”
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The road not taken
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“Pregnant? We can help.”
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Everything but the kitchen sink
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What’s love (styles) got to do with it?
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White gloves, aluminum cans and plasma
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