The Uncertain Hour

Marketplace

Each season, we explain the weird, complicated and often unequal American economy — and why some people get ahead and some get left behind. Host Krissy Clark dives into obscure policies and forgotten histories to explain why America is like it is. The latest season examines the “welfare-to-work industrial complex” and the multi-million dollar companies running today’s for-profit welfare centers.

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The Uncertain Hour

Episodes (52)

Mar 7, 2025 Integration Generation (bonus episode from “Unlocking the Gates”)
Nov 14, 2023 The $80 Million Acre (from “How We Survive”)
Apr 26, 2023 Chapter 6: The Welfare to Temp Work Pipeline

The Uncertain Hour

Mar 7, 2025
23 minutes
21 MB

In a new collaboration between Marketplace and APM Studios called “Unlocking the Gates,” host Lee Hawkins investigates how a secret nighttime business deal unlocked the gates of a Minnesota suburb for dozens of Black families seeking better housing, schools, and safer neighborhoods. His own family included.

The Uncertain Hour

Integration Generation (bonus episode from “Unlocking the Gates”)

Marketplace

00:00 -22:50