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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...
Matt Bruenig, founder of the People's Policy Project, joins We The Podcast to discuss wealth inequality and a potential solution: a social w...
Social Security Works' Nancy Altman joins Rep. Keith Ellison remotely to discuss why Medicare for All is more efficient than the privatized...
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...
On this We The Podcast, we sit down with Lina Khan (Open Markets Institute) and Stacy Mitchell (Institute for Local Self-Reliance) on the mo...
This week, Keith revisits the topic of franchising, with former guest Megan Edwards, who joined with other franchisees to successfully sue C...
Keri Leigh Merritt is the author of Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South. Keith and Keri Leigh Merritt discuss th...
Barry Lynn is the head of the Open Markets Institute, a think tank that examines the problem of corporate consolidation, market concentratio...
On this special Labor Day episode of We The Podcast, Keith interviews Lee Saunders, President of AFSCME, about the history and future of lab...
George Lakoff is a professor of cognitive linguistics and philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley. Now, you might be asking y...
The Republican Party talks about "voter fraud" all the time. President Trump even claims he lost the popular vote because more than 3 millio...
For years, millions of Americans were frightened of two words: pre-existing conditions. Before the Affordable Care Act, private insurance co...
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...
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-bed...
Women experience the economy different than men. They pay more for everything from clothes and hygiene products, to dry cleaning and vehicle...
The transgender community is more visible than ever. But this increased visibility hasn’t improved the lives of all transgender people. Nati...
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...
There are millions of women around the country fighting for equal pay, for better working conditions, for an end to sexual harassment. But i...
Millions of Americans lack credit scores or have scores that are too low to gain access to affordable credit. The problem affects young peop...
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...
Just last month, we found out that Wells Fargo Bank committed a years-long scam that stole from their customers, inflated their stock price,...
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...
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 fre...
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 sin...
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. T...
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...
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...
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 a...
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 an...
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 h...
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 repro...
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. W...
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 t...
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...
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...
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 l...
A special We The Podcast investigation into the way franchisees, the people who own corporate restaurant franchises, are treated by their pa...
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 wa...
How do the people outside of the millionaire and billionaire class (you know, most of us), engage with our economy and influence politics? M...
What is driving the disconnect between our legislators and working Americans? Music: "Future People" & "Don't Wanna Fight" by Alabama Shakes...
Faith is critical to the lives of so many working Americans, so I talked to Sister Simone Campbell, Rev. Dr. Serene Jones, Rabbi Marcia Zimm...
When people can come together and ask for better wages and working conditions on the job, we all do better. Unfortunately, some politicians...
Home healthcare workers take care of our loved ones. So why aren't they paid well? And what can we do to help them?
When employers threaten workers, it often chills union activity. But retaliation doesn't intimidate everyone.