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A firsthand account of overcoming ‘benefits cliffs’ to escape poverty
Season 1 Episode 14
Trying to get out of chronic poverty is challenging. Sometimes, government programs designed to help can actually make upward mobility feel harder to…
2 years, 11 months ago
A better way to frame the child care debate
Season 1 Episode 13
Child care is frequently at the center of family policy debates in Washington, D.C. and in state capitals across the country. As evidenced by the Bid…
2 years, 11 months ago
Eboo Patel on how religious differences are actually necessary for healthy democracy
Season 1 Episode 12
Religious faith is often viewed as a source of division, and sometimes there's an expectation that people of faith should keep their religion confine…
2 years, 11 months ago
Rep. John Curtis on the conservative approach to climate change
Season 1 Episode 11
Debates about climate change, energy policy and the environment can feel very polarizing. These discussions often pit right and left against one anot…
3 years ago
Rep. Blake Moore on urgency of reining in federal spending
Season 1 Episode 10
Rep. Blake Moore of Utah's 1st Congressional District joins the show to discuss runaway federal spending and how to shift away from America's "debt c…
3 years ago
Rep. Burgess Owens on education, family and infrastructure
Season 1 Episode 9
Rep. Burgess Owens of Utah's 4th Congressional District joins the show to discuss upward mobility, with a special focus on the importance of options …
3 years ago
Massachusetts' denial of Catholic foster couple is a loss for kids & religious freedom
Season 1 Episode 8
A Massachusetts couple's application to become foster parents was denied by the state. The reason? Their Catholic faith. Sutherland Institute Religio…
3 years ago
How programs to help the poor can harm upward mobility
Season 1 Episode 7
Imagine you're offered a raise that, if you accepted, would actually make your family worse off.
This is the experience of some families in poverty wh…
3 years, 1 month ago
Want to Improve Education? Stop Looking to Congress
Season 1 Episode 6
It's common for voters to complain that Congress doesn't do enough on a number of different issues, citing gridlock and political dysfunction. But wh…
3 years, 1 month ago
Best Defense of Capitalism Acknowledges its Imperfections
Season 1 Episode 5
These days it’s popular in some circles to be very critical of capitalism and free enterprise. In fact, some polling data shows a decline in American…
3 years, 1 month ago