The Uncertain Hour

Author: Marketplace

Each season, we explain the weird, complicated and often unequal American economy and why some people get ahead and some get left behind. Host Krissy Clark dives into obscure policies and forgotten histories to explain why America is like it is. The latest season examines the welfare-to-work industrial complex and the multi-million dollar companies running todays for-profit welfare centers.
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Language: en

Genres: Government, News

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Integration Generation (bonus episode from “Unlocking the Gates”)
Friday, 7 March, 2025

In a new collaboration between Marketplace and APM Studios called “Unlocking the Gates,” host Lee Hawkins investigates how a secret nighttime business deal unlocked the gates of a Minnesota suburb for dozens of Black families seeking better housing, schools, and safer neighborhoods. His own family included.