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The Uncertain Hour
In The Uncertain Hour, host Krissy Clark dives into one controversial topic each season to reveal the surprising origin stories of our economy. From the Marketplace Wealth & Poverty Desk, each season goes beyond buzzwords to bust longstanding myths

25 years after welfare reform, let’s r...

It’s been 25 years since our country upende...

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: 41 minutes : 20-Aug-2021

Season 6: The Welfare-to-Work Industrial

“Get a job!” That sums up our current cas...

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: 4 minutes : 15-Mar-2023

Chapter 1: The dream

When a struggling mother of two in Milwaukee ...

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: 44 minutes : 22-Mar-2023

Chapter 2: The compliance machine

Americans who turn to public assistance have ...

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: 54 minutes : 29-Mar-2023

Chapter 3: Race and rumor

In the 1950s, a rumor that people were moving...

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: 36 minutes : 05-Apr-2023

Chapter 4: The Battle of Newburgh

In 1961, city officials in Newburgh, New York...

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: 35 minutes : 12-Apr-2023

Chapter 5: Profits and Perverse Incentiv

Antoine Dukes is a natural born salesman. And...

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: 49 minutes : 19-Apr-2023

Chapter 6: The Welfare to Temp Work Pipe

Since the 1990s, most cash welfare recipients...

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: 55 minutes : 26-Apr-2023

The $80 Million Acre (from “How We Sur

This week, we’re dropping into your feeds t...

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: 33 minutes : 14-Nov-2023

Integration Generation (bonus episode fr...

In a new collaboration between Marketplace an...

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: 22 minutes : 07-Mar-2025

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