The Uncertain Hour

In a new collaboration between Marketplace and APM Studios called “Unlocking the Gates,” h... more

This week, we’re dropping into your feeds to tell you about another podcast we make here a... more

Since the 1990s, most cash welfare recipients have been required to get a job or do mandat... more

Antoine Dukes is a natural born salesman. And when he started working for a for-profit wel... more

In 1961, city officials in Newburgh, New York, declared war on their poorest residents by ... more

In the 1950s, a rumor that people were moving to Newburgh, NY to live off welfare riled up... more

A single mother of two in Chicago was working and taking classes to become an addiction co... more

When a struggling mother of two in Milwaukee hits hard times, she turns to a local welfare... more

There is a growing chorus of politicians who argue that there’s a simple solution to help ... more

It’s been 25 years since our country upended its welfare system – and so we’re... more

The gig-app workforce has arrived at our doorstep. But Silicon Valley’s innovations in hir... more

In minor league baseball, professional athletes train, suit up and play for wages that wou... more

After Jimmy Nicks’ job was subcontracted, he took both companies to court — the subcontrac... more

When chicken catcher Jimmy Nicks’ job was subcontracted, virtually overnight, he started d... more

Over a quarter of the world’s largest employers don’t just make or sell products — they al... more

This week we’re finally going to tell you what happened to Jerry Vazquez — and how his sto... more

Jerry Vazquez was in the cleaning business now, and his clients liked him. They’d leave hi... more

Jerry Vazquez always dreamed of working for himself. So when he saw a notice in the PennyS... more

Employment as we know it is changing. The kinds of jobs where one person works for one emp... more

We’ve spent the past five weeks trying to make sense of this moment, where the inequalitie... more

On any given night last year, half a million people in the United States were experiencing... more

The COVID-19 pandemic arrived at a moment when the gap between rich and poor in this count... more

Millions of Americans who are out of work don’t receive unemployment benefits. That’s by d... more

As long as there’s been such a thing as quarantine, each person’s experience under it has ... more

Chicken is America’s most popular meat. But chicken supply chains — in fact, many of our f... more

There’s not much more uncertain than our current moment. Our day-to-day lives and ou... more

We just found the answer to a really big question that’s been bugging us for years, about ... more

On this day, 30 years ago, President George H.W. Bush gave his first address from the Oval... more

Many people in Wise County agree that they can’t jail their way out of a drug epidemic, bu... more

It’s not easy being an undercover cop in a county of just 40,000 people. But drugs were ma... more