Introducing ‘The Uncertain Hour’
The Uncertain Hour
Marketplace
4.7 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2016
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
The Uncertain Hour is an immersive docu-pod that reveals the origin stories of our economy in unexpected and provocative ways. Host Krissy Clark dives deep into one topic each season, unpacking what we see as normal to show it didn’t just happen. Brought to you by Marketplace’s Wealth & Poverty Desk, the first season explores the uncertainties of welfare as we don’t know it. Season one episodes are biweekly beginning April 28.
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| 0:00.0 | on season one of the uncertain hour. |
| 0:03.2 | All right, so we're gonna talk about love styles. |
| 0:08.4 | That room full of middle-class couples |
| 0:10.8 | in a relationship skills workshop, |
| 0:13.3 | and this struggling mother of two. |
| 0:15.6 | Not everybody is homeless because of drugs or violence |
| 0:20.6 | or a bad decision. |
| 0:22.1 | Sometimes the drug really is just pulled out from under you |
| 0:25.7 | and that's what happened to me in mine. |
| 0:27.3 | And this dusty cassette tape, |
| 0:29.5 | once commissioned by a county bureaucrat. |
| 0:32.1 | We developed some welfare to work songs and... |
| 0:36.5 | Welfare to work songs. |
| 0:38.1 | Oh, yes, Prack One. Welfare is temporary. |
| 0:48.8 | All share a strange bond. |
| 0:51.5 | In surprising and very specific ways, |
| 0:54.5 | they're all part of the story |
| 0:56.0 | of something that culminated 20 years ago |
| 0:58.8 | in the White House Rose Garden |
| 1:00.4 | when a president signed a bill |
| 1:02.6 | and enacted some of the most sweeping changes ever |
| 1:05.4 | to the way we try to combat poverty. |
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