Maybe you've heard these things on social media, in the news, and take them as fact: More than half of the adults in the US live paycheck to paycheck, the trade deficit is always bad, and making the super wealthy pay their fair share will fix everything.
Well, the truth isn't so simple. Today on the show: economic mythbusting. We take three factoids about the American economy and run them through the fact checkers.
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Audio Poem of the Day - Love Song
by Mary Carolyn Davies
On Our Watch - BONUS: “The Prison Beat” | S2: New Folsom
Reporting on prisons from the outside is often difficult; it’s a closed and secretive world. But there is also important reporting being done by people who are inside prison, which comes with dangers of its own. Sukey and Julie sit down with two formerly incarcerated journalists, Rahsaan Thomas and Jesse Vasquez, to talk about the challenges and opportunities of prison reporting.
Rahsaan Thomas is the Executive Director of Empowerment Avenue and a producer at Ear Hustle.
Jesse Vasquez is the Executive Director of the Pollen Initiative and former Editor-in-Chief of the San Quentin News.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - A Brief History of Central America
Located between Mexico and Columbia, in a strategic area connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific, is the region we call Central America.
The countries that makeup Central America were mostly former Spanish colonies, but unlike other Spanish colonies to the north and south, Central America wound up as a series of small countries rather than one big one.
But why?
Learn more about the history of Central America and how the current borders came to be on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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NPR's Book of the Day - Kathleen Hanna remembers her path to becoming the OG ‘Rebel Girl’
Before she founded the riot grrrl movement of the 1990s, Kathleen Hanna was a teenager volunteering at a rape and domestic violence shelter in Olympia, Washington. In today's episode, the Bikini Kill and Le Tigre frontwoman tells NPR's Kelly McEvers how the anger and grief she absorbed there manifested into lyrics and performances that would take the punk and music scenes by storm. That story is at the heart of Hanna's memoir, Rebel Girl, which also grapples with setting boundaries, carrying the feminist torch of a generation and lending a hand to younger bands.
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Read Me a Poem - “Death Fugue” by Paul Celan
Amanda Holmes reads Paul Celan’s “Death Fugue,” translated from the German by Pierre Joris. Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.
This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.
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The Indicator from Planet Money - Unveiling our mascot’s new name and merch!
MERCH! You asked for it. We got it. After rebranding our podcast earlier this year, we decided it was time to create our own merch. On today's show, a brief oral history of early merch, how to score an Indicator t-shirt, and the winning name of our new mascot.
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Audio Poem of the Day - Places Our People Are Martyred for the Last Time
By Troy Osaki
The Bookmonger - Episode 510: ‘Detrans’ by Mary Margaret Olohan
John J. Miller is joined by Mary Margaret Olohan to discuss her new book, 'Detrans.'
Everything Everywhere Daily - The History of Money (Encore)
Money is a very strange thing. All of us use it. We spend it, earn it, and save it. We know it when we see it.
Yet, even some of the world’s best economists have a very hard time defining it.
It has been around for thousands of years, yet innovation is still being made with it today.
Learn more about the history of money, how it came about, and how it developed over time on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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