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There are about 20 million people in the United States with felony records and unemployment rates among the formerly incarcerated is especially high — 27%, a few years ago, according to the Prison Policy Initiative. Compare that with the overall unemployment rate around the same time, which was less than 4%. The stigma of a criminal record has long influenced this reality, but with the Great Resignation unfolding before us, the situation for these folks seems to be looking up. Today, we'll hear from L.A. Times business reporter Don Lee, who has written about the issue, and from someone who's working to connect formerly incarcerated people with jobs — and who was formerly incarcerated himself.
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Once shunned, people convicted of felonies find more employers open to hiring them
Russian aggression against Ukraine high on the agenda for today's Biden-Putin conversation. The fast-spreading Omicron variant. 80 years since the attack on Pearl Harbor. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
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This week, Jay and Tammy talk with Alex Rivera, a filmmaker, media artist, immigrant rights activist, and MacArthur genius, about crypto.
What is crypto currency? How does it work? And why is it often cast as a right-wing, libertarian, carbon-depleting project?
Can the left reclaim crypto for the people? How might decentralized financial networks power social movements? Post-national transactions? Worker cooperatives? Global decision-making?
For more, check out:
* The National Day Laborer Organizing Network (Donate and get yourself some merch!)
* Alex and Cristina Ibarra’s film, The Infiltrators
* Alex’s film, Sleep Dealer (pictured above)
* Jay and Aaron Lammer’s podcast, “CoinTalk”
* Jay on his toad NFT
* Alex on border technologies, via “Tech Won’t Save Us”
* Crypto Communism by Mark Alizart, translated by Robin Mackay
* Murtaza Hussain on crypto remittances
* Crypto POC economies
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Bruno Demuro is first and foremost, a father of 2 children. He says this is the single most awesome thing, and yet at the same time, the most challenging thing. He has a background in industrial engineering and design, but considers himself a generalist and a relentless problem solver (which he admits, can be hard on this wife). He loves all thing tech - hardware, software, you name it. But beyond tech, he loves working on and restoring classic cars, along with surfing on a long board.
Earlier in Bruno's life, his mother had to undergo surgery to have a brain tumor removed. Though the surgery went WELL, in order to remove a tumor the size of a penny, the doctor's had to make an opening the size of a grapefruit. When Bruno asked why, the Doctor said that it was the only way they could be sure that the tumor would be accessible. Bruno found this answer to be unacceptable.
This is the creation story of Armor Bionics.
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In which a forgotten Gilded Age celebrity suggests reinventing the tax code so that landowners pay their fair share, and John is discomfited by the city of Altoona. Certificate #41467.
The second Roman emperor was Tiberius. His right-hand man was the leader of his Praetorian Guard, Lucius Aelius Seianus, known to us as Sejanus. Over the years, Sejanus slowly gained power and influence as well as a host of enemies throughout Rome. Eventually, however, all of his social-climbing and power acquisition eventually came to an end in one spectacular and disastrous day. Learn more about Sejanus and his spectacular downfall, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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