Support for Kiki Weedy Podcasts comes from San Francisco Opera, a company sister Helen Prejean on a life-altering journey where her faith is put to the test.

This fall celebrate the homecoming of one of America's most important operas, Dead Man Walking, September 14th through the 28th.

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From KQED.

Music From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.

Robert Reich has been an educator, an author, and an academic.

He was also Labor Secretary under President Bill Clinton.

So for decades, Reich has argued for economic justice, trying to create an American economy that works for more people.

His life's work has come in the context of drastic changes to our economic system since the late 1970s,

which have seen more and more of the country's money

concentrated in the very richest among us. We'll talk with him about wealth, poverty, and why

inequality threatens our democracy. It's all coming up next right after this news. Alexis Madrigal here. We've got a little pledge break going right now, so you get a bonus on the

pledge-free stream, the podcast on our replay at night, I write these meditations on the people

and places that make the Bay Area what it is, and we call the series one good thing. The Bay Area

lost a legend just a few weeks ago when Malcolm Margolin died of complications from Parkinson's.

Margoleyn was a writer, an editor, a publisher, and a pillar of California culture.

He founded the independent publisher Hayday and wrote a crucial book about the Bay Area's

Indigenous people, the Olone Way, in the early 1970s.

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