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When talking about our economy, nightly newscasts only seem to report on the stock market and the unemployment rate. But that doesn’t tell us much about how millions of Americans are getting by. From prison phone rates to the high cost of diapers, Congressman Keith Ellison looks at how the people ou...
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Social Wealth Funds with Matt Bruenig
Matt Bruenig, founder of the People's Policy Project, joins We The Podcast to discuss wealth inequality and a potential solution: a social wealth fund...
Nancy Altman - Medicare For All
Social Security Works' Nancy Altman joins Rep. Keith Ellison remotely to discuss why Medicare for All is more efficient than the privatized health ins...
We The Podcast - Dream Act Now with Erika Andiola
We need a DREAM Act to protect 800,000 Dreamers whose lives were thrown into turmoil by Donald Trump. Dreamer activist Erika Andiola put her body on t...
Taking on Amazon with Lina Khan and Stacy Mitchell
On this We The Podcast, we sit down with Lina Khan (Open Markets Institute) and Stacy Mitchell (Institute for Local Self-Reliance) on the monopolistic...
Franchising: Part II
This week, Keith revisits the topic of franchising, with former guest Megan Edwards, who joined with other franchisees to successfully sue Curves Gym...
Racism and Economic Hardship with Keri Leigh Merritt
Keri Leigh Merritt is the author of Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South. Keith and Keri Leigh Merritt discuss the link bet...
Market Concentration with Barry Lynn from Open Markets Institute
Barry Lynn is the head of the Open Markets Institute, a think tank that examines the problem of corporate consolidation, market concentration, and mon...
Labor Day with Lee Saunders
On this special Labor Day episode of We The Podcast, Keith interviews Lee Saunders, President of AFSCME, about the history and future of labor rights...
Framing the Message with Professor George Lakoff
George Lakoff is a professor of cognitive linguistics and philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley.
Now, you might be as...
Voting Rights/Ari Berman
The Republican Party talks about "voter fraud" all the time. President Trump even claims he lost the popular vote because more than 3 million people v...
Pre-Existing Conditions
For years, millions of Americans were frightened of two words: pre-existing conditions. Before the Affordable Care Act, private insurance could deny c...
Market Concentration
A few weeks ago, we learned that Amazon is buying Whole Foods for $13 billion. When big firms merge, it drives up market concentration. But how does...
The Fight for $15 and a Union
Six bucks. That’s all someone working full-time at the federal minimum wage would have left over after paying the average rent for a one-bedroom apart...
The Gender Lens
Women experience the economy different than men. They pay more for everything from clothes and hygiene products, to dry cleaning and vehicle repairs....
The Transgender Community and The Economy
The transgender community is more visible than ever. But this increased visibility hasn’t improved the lives of all transgender people. Nationwide, vi...
Unions Leading in Education
Unions raise wages and worker protections for everybody – even if you’re not in a union! These jobs aren’t so simple either. It takes a lot of trainin...
Women In the Age of Trump
There are millions of women around the country fighting for equal pay, for better working conditions, for an end to sexual harassment. But in an age o...
Credit Access
Millions of Americans lack credit scores or have scores that are too low to gain access to affordable credit. The problem affects young people, Africa...
Best of We the Podcast (Special Election Day Episode)
Two years ago, we started We the Podcast so we could tell stories about how people engage with the economy. Twenty-three episodes and 75,000 downloads...
Bank Workers
Just last month, we found out that Wells Fargo Bank committed a years-long scam that stole from their customers, inflated their stock price, and lined...
Minnesota Nurses Strike
We spend a lot of time talking about how important unions are. On this episode, we’re going to see organized labor in action on the streets of my home...
Overtime Pay
How many of you work 40 hours a week? If you’re a salaried worker, guess what: your employer is pretty happy. After all, they’re getting free work. Th...
Tax Havens with Frank Clemente
Let’s be honest, few people enjoy paying their taxes. But most of us understand that taxes serve a critical purpose—the public good. And since we all...
The Housing Crisis with Matthew Desmond
What does "home" mean to you? For millions of people in America, a safe and stable home is something they dream about but is out of reach. There is a...
The Woman Behind the New Deal
Every single American has felt the benefits of the New Deal – and for low-income folks, working families, and seniors, the New Deal has been the diff...
Diaper Need Update (From the White House)
This week, We The Podcast took a field trip to the West Wing of the White House to talk with Cecilia Munoz, the Director of the President’s Domestic P...
Payday Loans
Payday loans aren’t like the kinds of loans you usually see, like car loans or student loans. They’re small dollar amounts, often as small as a few hu...
#SayHerName with Dr. Kimberle Crenshaw
When we talk about race, decision makers rarely talk about women. And when we talk about women’s issues, we rarely talk about black girls and women.
Voter Turnout with Dr. Theda Skocpol
In 2014, voter participation was at its lowest since World War II. Why is that? Keith talks with Dr. Theda Skocpol about voter ID laws and how we can...
Special Episode: The Supreme Court
The Supreme Court is supposed to have 9 justices. Today, we've got 8. On this week's We The Podcast, we talk about what this means for reproductive ri...
Episode XII: Diaper Need
On this week's We The Podcast, we talk about "diaper need." That's the urgent need that many American parents have for affordable diapers. With one th...
Episode XI: Prison Phone Rates
How much do you pay for your monthly phone plan? How much would you pay? Would you pay $14 a minute? On this episode of We The Podcast, we talk about...
Episode X: Criminal Justice Reform
More than 2.4 million people are locked up in the United States today. Our country has 5% of the world's population and more than 25% of the world's p...
Episode IX: E-Waste and the Hard to Place
This week on We The Podcast: what happens to our gadgets when we're done with them? How many cell phones and computers have you gone through? What are...
Episode VIII: Poverty and Shame
This week on We The Podcast, we talk about how our society treats the poor. In what ways is poverty stigmatized and shamed in the world we live in, an...
Special Investigation: Franchising
A special We The Podcast investigation into the way franchisees, the people who own corporate restaurant franchises, are treated by their parent compa...
Episode VII: Zero Waste
If you threw away a piece of trash today, where would it go? How does this affect us? How will it affect our children? Is a world without waste possib...
Episode VI: Money in Politics
How do the people outside of the millionaire and billionaire class (you know, most of us), engage with our economy and influence politics? Music: Viva...
Episode V: The Voting Gap
What is driving the disconnect between our legislators and working Americans?
Music: "Future People" & "Don't Wanna Fight" by Alabama S...
Episode IV: Faith and the Economy
Faith is critical to the lives of so many working Americans, so I talked to Sister Simone Campbell, Rev. Dr. Serene Jones, Rabbi Marcia Zimmerman and...