Thanks so much to @LoebAwards for choosing The Uncertain Hour as a finalist in the audio category for this year's competition. Proud of our team & honored to have our work named among such great journalism.
Hear our series about welfare & work here: https://t.co/Zu3St7T7hk
Very proud and excited The Uncertain Hour’s last season is a @LoebAwards finalist. It’s a huge honor for our season investigating the big business, dark history and harsh reality of welfare work requirements. Thank you for the recognition!
Journalists @kristianiaclark, @pbalonon_rosen and @GraceRubin9 from @Marketplace won in the small category for their podcast episode of The Uncertain Hour investigating for-profit welfare contractors. Judges praised Clark’s history of shining a light on the welfare system.
WOAH we've been nominated for a Peabody!!!
Our last season of The Uncertain Hour (RIP)- the podcast I made & hosted for 6 yrs - was just recognized by @PeabodyAwards!!!
So grateful for our amazing team & all the folks who shared their stories to shed light on welfare-to-work.
Season 6 of The Uncertain Hour was just named a finalist for the IRE Awards in the long-form audio division. So much amazing reporting was honored— proud to be among it. Congrats to our whole team!
If you want to understand how work requirements tied to food stamps (SNAP), welfare (TANF) and Medicaid do NOT lift people out of poverty, but rather make private companies rich, you must listen to @kristianiaclark@Marketplace podcast #TheUncertainHour. #DebtCeiling fact check
Ep 6 of #TheUncertainHour season six out today. (The season finale!)
Come for the breathtaking scene at a temp company that staffs a sausage factory. Stay for the intvw w/ an architect of our modern welfare-to-work system: Former WI Gov Tommy Thompson.
https://t.co/xKdkQ3fRT5
Next season on #TheUncertainHour, we dive into the welfare-to-work industrial complex.
The fraught history of work requirements, how the current system works, and how it benefits for-profit companies.
New season coming soon. Listen to the trailer now.
https://t.co/pjrxir71Vm
if @iamjohnoliver thinks the U.S. welfare system is concerning/weird/full of oddities, so should you!
Check out ep one of The Uncertain Hour where this reporting first lived: https://t.co/uQtHoWCuKd
P.S. new season next week! subscribe! 🫣😏
https://t.co/9rctuppG92
New season of #TheUncertainHour !
Been working real hard on this one.
We dive into the "welfare-to-work industrial complex," the fraught history of work requirements, and the for-profit companies running many of America's welfare offices
Trailer: https://t.co/u9kiAsxc1z
The Everglades is about half the size it once was. And the environmental fallout from draining the Everglades haunts South Florida today.
On #HowWeSurvive, we get into the connection between the future (and past) of the Everglades and South Florida. https://t.co/91XmZwBGH9
Hey @SteveSchultzeJS - I’m a producer with @Marketplace working on some stories about WI politics & Tommy Thompson re: welfare reform. Let’s connect via email? [email protected]
San Francisco’s poverty rate is 10%; Detroit’s is 33%.
San Francisco’s unemployment rate is 3%; Detroit’s is 20%.
Yet, San Francisco’s homelessness rate is a whopping 3 times higher than Detroit’s.
Why?
If you want to understand homelessness, follow the rent: