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Explain It to Me

The case for subsidized jobs

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.48K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Indi Dutta-Gupta of the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality's big idea for turning Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) into an effective recession-fighting tool. What to read: "Recession ready: Fiscal policies to stabilize the American economy" by Heather Boushey, Ryan Nunn, and Jay Shambaugh, Brookings "'If the goal was to get rid of poverty, we failed': the legacy of the 1996 welfare reform" by Dylan Matthews, Vox "The Legacy of the TANF Emergency Fund" by LaDonna Pavetti, Ph.D. "Why politicians should promise every American a job" by Matthews Yglesias, Vox Guest: Indi Dutta-Gupta (@IndivarD), Co-Executive Director at the Georgetown Center on Poverty & Inequality Host: Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox More to explore: Subscribe to Impeachment, Explained on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Overcast, Pocket Casts, or your favorite podcast app to get stay updated on this story every week. About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds **COME SEE THE WEEDS LIVE ON FRI., DECEMBER 18TH IN WASHINGTON D.C. (TICKETS HERE)** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The way you see the world depends on how you look at it.

0:04.0

Where some see walls, others see windows of opportunity,

0:08.0

and where some see barriers, some see the potential to break out.

0:12.0

Unicess can help you find the power to overcome the obstacles you encounter.

0:16.0

You can push what's possible with Unicess,

0:19.0

a multinational information technology company that provides hardware,

0:23.0

software, and IT services across a digital workspace.

0:27.0

To learn more, visit unicess.com.

0:30.0

That's unisys.com. Unicess, keep breaking through.

0:38.0

Prescription weight loss injections are all over the news right now.

0:42.0

People want them, people can't get them, everyone is talking about them.

0:45.0

They seem to work by removing hunger, but what does that really mean?

0:49.0

This episode of Gastropod, we talked to people who've taken these drugs

0:52.0

and felt their hunger suddenly disappear.

0:54.0

We also talked to the researchers who are figuring out the science of hunger and fullness,

0:59.0

how it works, and how it shapes our lives, plus why each of us experiences it so differently.

1:04.0

Come with us behind the headlines to hear what these drugs can tell us

1:07.0

about the feelings that bookend each and every meal.

1:10.0

Listen to Gastropod, wherever you get your podcasts.

1:15.0

I'm really obsessed with the question of what are we going to do at the next time there's a recession?

1:20.0

How can we do a better job than we did during the Great Recession?

1:23.0

Indy Dada Gopta is the co-executive director of the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality.

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