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OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas

Apr 24, 2020

Rebecca sits down with law professor and former tenants’ rights organizer Ray Brescia, to discuss his new book “The Future of Change: How Technology Shapes Social Revolutions.”

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Apr 22, 2020

Rebecca talks with Azza Altiraifi of CAP’s Disability Justice Initiative about how asset limits have become a deadly poverty trap in the age of Coronavirus.

 

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Apr 16, 2020

As the grim data on racial disparities of who’s losing their lives to COVID19 continue to roll in, Rebecca sits down with Angela Hanks of the Groundwork Collaborative for a deep-dive into how structural racism is exacerbating the coronavirus pandemic for black people—and especially black women.

 

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Apr 5, 2020

“This chart is a portrait of disaster. I have spent the last 20 years studying the labor market and have never seen anything like it. Unemployment insurance claims for the last two weeks are mind-blowing.” –EPI’s Heidi Shierholz


Apr 4, 2020

The fight to make sure some of the poorest people in the US get direct emergency payments, explained (with Chuck Marr, director of tax policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities).