Anne Strainchamps and Ray Suarez talk about reporting on poverty and why the care economy matters

11/26/22 • 14 min

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The hosts of "Going for Broke" discuss reporting on poverty and how to give economic insight a tone of empathy and a tangible sense of human connection.
More about the series at ttbook.org/goingforbroke.

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Can Work Be Love?

In this final part of our series, we’re talking about work — about the right to meaningful work, the search for jobs that pay enough to live, and what happens to people who look for work while also having a disability that’s invisible to most.

Original Air Date: November 19, 2022

Guests:
Andrea Dobynes Wagner — Angela Garbes — Rodrigo Toscano — Barbara Ehrenreich

Interviews In This Hour:
Do they need to know that I'm blind? — The work of care is vital. Why don't we pay like it is? — A sonnet for a lineworker — Barbara Ehrenreich on writing the American labor story

About Going For Broke: The Care EconomyHow we live is indelibly intertwined with the care and empathy we give to each other. What if we put care into helping Americans find homes and build dwellings, into keeping their bodies and minds sound, and finding meaningful and well-paid work? In this three part series, "To The Best Of Our Knowledge" and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project bring you real life stories about economic struggle in our time, as well as ideas for solutions.

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Learn more about the series at ttbook.org/goingforbroke.
About the Economic Hardship Reporting Project
EHRP supports independent journalists so they can create gripping stories, often countering the typical narratives. They then inject this high-quality journalism into the mainstream media, mobilizing readers to change systems perpetuating economic hardship. Learn more about EHRP here.

About To The Best Of Our Knowledge
”To the Best of Our Knowledge” is a Peabody award-winning national public radio show that explores big ideas and beautiful questions. Deep interviews with philosophers, writers, artists, scientists, historians, and others help listeners find new sources of meaning, purpose, and wonder in daily life. Whether it’s about bees, poetry, skin, or psychedelics, every episode is an intimate, sound-rich journey into open-minded, open-hearted conversations. Warm and engaging, TTBOOK helps listeners feel less alone and more connected – to our common humanity and to the world we share. Learn more about the show here.

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Introducing Other People’s Pockets: Ray Suarez on Aging and Work

In this special episode, we’re sharing a conversation Ray had on the new podcast, Other People’s Pockets. On Other People’s Pockets, journalist Maya Lau asks people from all walks of life to get radically transparent about their personal finances in order to learn more about who we are and level the financial playing field along the way. Ray and Maya chat about how Ray found it difficult to find desirable jobs the older he gets ... and he’s not afraid to admit he’s angry about it.
If you like what you hear, be sure to listen to Other People’s Pockets at https://podcasts.pushkin.fm/opp?sid=broke.

Going for Broke - Anne Strainchamps and Ray Suarez talk about reporting on poverty and why the care economy matters

Transcript

Anne Strainchamps00:00:00.589

Hi. I'm Anne Strainchamps, host of "to the best of our knowledge."

Anne Strainchamps00:00:07.000

By now you've heard some of Going for Broke. The podcast series we co-produced with our friends and partners at the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. It's the kind of idea driven audio work that, to the best of our knowledge, does every week. If you want to get a sense of the pretty extensive range of subject