Lori Teresa Yearwood talks about the fines and fees that those who find themselves homeless incur – and the devastating consequences they have on the path to recovery.
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Why being single costs you double
Anne Helen Petersen talks about why the rate of singles and solo-living individuals is growing in America, what happens as the cost of living rises, and why she believes the nation is set up to reward the partnered and the married.
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How employers prey on your passion
Erin A. Cech discusses why the mantra of finding your calling in a career helps fuel a culture that sacrifices balance for long hours and low pay and solidifies class inequalities.
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How to gauge where you are on your career path
Dorie Clark teaches executive education at Duke University, and she joins us to talk about how we can analyze our progress up the career ladder and know when it’s time to make a move.
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When your kids don’t understand you because you grew up poor
Rev. Esau McCaulley talks about his childhood in a low-income neighborhood and how that’s sometimes created a disconnect between him and his more well-off kids.
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What’s so great about Texas?
Farhad Manjoo of The New York Times discusses why, after filtering tens of thousands of towns with populations over a thousand, he arrived at the conclusion that cities in North Texas are among the most desirable in the country.
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Making work from home work forever
Charlie Warzel discusses the takeaways from work-life balance that have come out of Covid working arrangements, and what the future of corporate HQ might look like.
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The global poor need mental health care, too
Vox reporter Dylan Matthews discusses the work of the Happier Life Institute, which found that access to psychotherapy should be central to foreign aid and charity work abroad in order to increase well-being.
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Why day care centers are on the verge of collapse
Bloomberg Businessweek columnist Claire Suddath explains why daycare centers struggle with staffing and profit margins, and why, despite the demand, the industry is struggling to survive.
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Want to help the planet? Stop buying so much
J. B. MacKinnon joins us to talk about the push-pull between the supposed economic harm of less shopping with the environmental impacts of buying too much.
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Meet the moms taking over social media
Kathryn Jezer-Morton, author of the “Mothers Under the Influence” Substack, joins us to talk about the moms of TikTok, Instagram and other social media platforms who have turned their lives into profitable enterprises.
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When killing a newspaper is good business
McKay Coppins, a staff writer at The Atlantic, joins us to talk about a hedge fund that is buying up newspapers across the country and dismantling them at an alarming rate.
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