Answering your “History of Now” questions

The Uncertain Hour

Marketplace

Government, News

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

We’ve spent the past five weeks trying to make sense of this moment, where the inequalities of our society have been suddenly set in high relief. In that time, you all have written in with a bunch of questions big and small. Today, we’re going to cap off this pop-up season by answering a few of them. Questions like: What would chicken cost if plant workers got better wages and benefits? And how did health insurance get tied to our jobs anyway? We’ll also look back at two very clear moments, both after pandemics, when economic inequality started to fall dramatically.

Thanks so much to everyone who listened and sent in questions. We’ll be back later this year with new episodes. Until, then, there’s always our first three seasons.

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0:00.0	Hey, Chrissy here.
0:07.8	Welcome to the Uncertain Hour.
0:11.0	This is the final episode of our special pop-up emergency podcast season, a history of now,
0:17.9	where we try to make sense of this moment.
0:20.5	The pandemic, the economic fallout, skyrocketing unemployment, protests against police brutality
0:27.4	and four black lives.
0:29.7	This moment when the inequalities that already existed in our society are suddenly set in
0:35.1	high relief.
0:36.8	And we've heard from so many of you over the past six weeks with your questions about
0:41.5	how some of this has been playing out.
0:43.8	Thank you for your emails and your tweets, for your big questions, and your questions
0:49.3	about the little details.
0:51.8	Because of course, as we talk about a lot on this show, the big, head-y stuff comes from
0:56.8	all that little nitty-gritty stuff, the fine print.
1:01.5	So we want to take some time this week to answer your questions about the price of chicken,
1:07.7	about healthcare benefits, and more.
1:11.1	And our show producers are going to help me with that, starting with senior producer
1:14.2	Caitlin Esch, hey, Caitlin.
1:16.1	Hey, Chrissy.
1:17.2	We got a lot of questions about the chicken industry after the episode that you reported
1:21.7	about essential workers who lack essential job protections and good wages.
1:27.1	And that episode had listeners thinking a lot about where their chicken comes from and
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