Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, national higher education reporter for The Washington Post, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss what was supposed to be an easier, more user-friendly FAFSA, how instead it now leaves students questioning if they’ll have funding, and the schools that are unable to tally enrollment dollar.
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Nora Kenworthy is a professor at the University of Washington Bothell, and she joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why so often GoFundMe campaigns fail and why even the most successful fundraising efforts mask the inequities of a health system that’s too expensive for most Americans.
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Some of us are so good at delaying rewards for a rainy day that we miss out on reaping those rewards altogether.
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USC professor Elizabeth Currid-Halkett discusses the small towns across America that are thriving and, by many metrics, outperforming much larger urban centers.
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Kurt Eichenwald discusses his reporting into sham bank accounts being opened by crime rings with real and fake identities and the large profits they make for financial institutions.
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New York magazine writer Simon van Zuylen-Wood discusses a burgeoning industry of at-home sperm testing and whether or not amping up reproduction should be a priority for our warming, resource-strapped planet.
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Journalist Nick Bowlin discusses his trip to a mining conference, which revealed an industry excited about the lithium, manganese and zinc that will be needed to fuel a clean-energy revolution.
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UT Austin professor Michael Lind discusses the forces that curbed bargaining power for workers and why he feels restoring it is essential to the future of democracy and the nation.
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USC professor Elizabeth Currid-Halkett discusses the small towns across America that are thriving and, by many metrics, outperforming much larger urban centers.
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Finn Murphy discusses his attempt at a Colorado hemp farm, battling the elements and a disappearing bank account, and his pivot to middleman as he pursued his American Dream.
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Anne Helen Petersen, Substack newsletter writer, explains why older generations have grown used to layoffs and the case against layoffs as a cost-saving measure in the first place.
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Mary Childs, co-host and correspondent for NPR’s “Planet Money” podcast, talks about Bill Gross, known as “The Bond King,” his rise to the top of a volatile world and his eventual undoing.
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