Going for Broke: Can Work Be Love?

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🗓️ 17 August 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

How we live is indelibly intertwined with the care and empathy we give to each other. What if we put care into helping Americans find homes and build dwellings, into keeping their bodies and minds sound, and finding meaningful and well-paid work? In this three part series, "To The Best Of Our Knowledge" and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project bring you real life stories about economic struggle in our time, as well as ideas for solutions.

Original Air Date: November 19, 2022

Interviews In This Hour:
Do they need to know that I'm blind? — The work of care is vital. Why don't we pay like it is? — A sonnet for a lineworker — Barbara Ehrenreich on writing the American labor story

Guests:
Andrea Dobynes Wagner, Angela Garbes, Rodrigo Toscano, Barbara Ehrenreich

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0:00.0	Hey, friends, it's Anne.
0:03.6	Today on to the best of our knowledge,
0:05.5	we're bringing you the third and final episode
0:07.5	of our special series, Going for Broke.
0:10.0	It's a co-production with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project
0:13.1	and hosted by longtime journalist Ray Suarez.
0:16.4	Welcome back, Ray.
0:17.8	Thanks, Anne.
0:18.9	In this episode, we wanted to talk to people about how they feel about their work.
0:24.2	Because in America, somewhere along the line, we decided that some jobs are worth more than
0:29.1	others.
0:30.1	And I think that's a problem.
0:31.3	I mean, don't we all deserve work that not only pays the bills, but gives us meaning
0:36.3	and substance.
0:41.2	That's the question we're asking in this hour. Can work be love?
0:44.3	Stay tuned.
0:49.3	From WPR.
0:55.0	Is to the best of our knowledge, I'm Anne Strange Champs.
1:06.0	Interviewing for a job can be a nerve-wracking experience, no matter how well-qualified you are. Especially when you know from the start, the deck is stacked against you.
1:21.9	So I was applying for a job at a university that I allowed to remain nameless.
1:32.3	And I was in a very small conference room with six other people and someone tried to shake my hand. But I did not see them. I guess they assumed I was being rude or they were like, hey,
1:41.3	you don't want to shake my hand? But I didn't see their hand extended.
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