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This Is Uncomfortable

Barred from benefits (from The Uncertain Hour)

This Is Uncomfortable

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Business, News

4.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Millions of Americans who are out of work don’t receive unemployment benefits. That’s by design. An episode from “The Uncertain Hour’s” pop-up season “A History of Now.”


If you liked this epsiode, you can hear more at uncertainhour.org.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, all.

0:03.8

It's Rima.

0:04.8

So our second season of This is Uncomfortable was technically supposed to end this month, but

0:09.9

because this is such an unprecedented time, we want to keep bringing you all new stories.

0:15.0

And so through July, we're going to release a new episode every other week and that

0:19.9

will officially kick off on June 4th, which is next Thursday.

0:24.6

But in the meantime, I wanted to share an episode from another marketplace podcast called

0:28.7

The Uncertain Hour.

0:30.2

Our colleagues over there are doing something really cool, sort of like a pop-up season

0:34.0

that looks at why some people's livelihoods are getting hit harder by this pandemic and

0:39.7

the history and policies that allow that to happen.

0:43.2

Their latest episode is about the unemployment benefit system and why that system was designed

0:49.0

to keep a lot of people out.

0:51.7

I hope you all enjoy it and I will catch you all very soon.

0:56.6

Hey Peter.

0:57.6

Hey Chrissy.

0:58.6

So you just did an interview.

1:01.8

I did with a woman named Candace Gordon from Locust Grove, Georgia.

1:07.0

And she told me about this dream she has for what she wants to do with her life.

1:11.4

I want to sell sex toys.

1:13.6

What?

1:14.6

Yeah, sex toys.

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