We’ll get a better understanding of how the bill will affect everyday Americans from Chye-Ching Huang, Deputy Director of Federal Tax Policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
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Entitled To More: A Challenging Future For Millennials
Malcolm Harris talks about how the Millennial stereotype doesn’t match up with their financial and professional realities.
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Poverty From A Kids Point Of View
Jezza Neumann joins us to talk about how poverty affects kids.
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Can Capitalism Work Forever?
UT-Austin professor Raj Patel joins us to talk about how crises throughout history have actually helped capitalism thrive by making things cheaper.
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America’s Jails Are Filled With People Who Can’t Afford Bail
Journalist Bryce Covert talks about how the cash bail industry traps many defendants in jail even if they haven’t been convicted of a crime.
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Not So Golden Years: Seniors On The Road
Jessica Bruder joins us to talk about how the Great Recession created a new breed of migrant worker – primarily older Americans.
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Capitalism With Compassion
Nobel Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus joins us to talk about how we can improve capitalism – and the world in the process.
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Black And Bankrupt: The Tilted Scales Of Justice
Paul Kiel joins us to talk about how black debtors benefit far less from the bankruptcy system than their white counterparts.
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How One Small Bank Became A Wall Street Scapegoat
Steve James joins host Krys Boyd to tell the story of the bank’s fight to clear its name, the subject of his Frontline documentary “Abacus: Small Enough to Jail,” which airs Tuesday night on PBS stations.
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Making Enough To Marry?
Virginia Commonwealth sociologist Victor Tan Chen joins us to talk about how many Americans are, once again, considering their unions in economic terms.
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The Best And Worst Places To Be Poor In America
Brookings economist Carol Graham joins us to talk about how when individuals stop believing they have a future, they cease to invest in them.
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Redefining “Rich”: Not Just The 1%
Richard Reeves joins us to talk about why the class division in America is really between the top 20 percent of earners – the upper middle class – and everyone else.
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