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Podcast: Democracy in Color with Steve Phillips
Episode: Rewriting the Story on Unemployment
Description: The enormity of this crisis has revealed the ugly underpinnings of our public assistance system — both in terms of how we think about people who are struggling financially and also about the systems designed to help those people.
Unemployment figures in the U.S. are at their highest since the Great Depression—nearly 40 million people have filed for unemployment since the pandemic began. (That's greater than the combined population of 21 states, according to Forbes.)
In this episode, we talk about why we have a system that is so adversarial to people in dire economic straits and how this crisis also pres...