Everybody, it's Kai, Kimberly and I are coming back to your feeds tomorrow with our weekly

Tuesday show.

But today you're going to hear about some of the history behind the nation's welfare

system because, as I like to say on this podcast, history matters.

It's an episode from our investigative podcast, The Uncertain Hour, all about obscure policies

and forgotten histories.

And in its new season, Chrissy Clark and her team dig into the origins of America's welfare

to work system, how it came to be and how it has led to the rise of the welfare to work

industrial complex we have right now.

It's a super smart episode.

We think you'll enjoy it.

Here's Chrissy.

I've spent a fair bit of time in the last few years getting tours of four profit welfare

offices, like this one in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where a video of a corporate motivational speaker

is beaming down on me from a TV screen in the lobby.

Look yourself in there.

And with excitement and enthusiasm, say, I love my job because they pay me for working

there.

Have you ever heard of a for-profit welfare office before?

Me neither, until I started reporting this story.

But back when Congress passed so-called welfare reform in the 1990s and made work a requirement

for getting certain types of government aid, that same law also allowed the government

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