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Chapter 5: Profits and Perverse Incentives
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The liquid workforce
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Who’s the boss?
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Congratulations! You’re an entrepreneur now
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About the show
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.