Going for Broke

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Going for Broke

The Economic Hardship Reporting Project and To The Best Of Our Knowledge

12 episodes

9 months ago

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 w...

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Episodes (12/12)

Going for Broke

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

2 years ago

43 minutes

Going for Broke

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

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.

2 years ago

14 minutes

Going for Broke

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, 2022Guests: Andrea Dobynes Wagner — Angela Garbes — Rodrigo Toscano — Barbara EhrenreichInterviews 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...

2 years ago

51 minutes

Going for Broke

Making Up Our Minds

Post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health challenges can push people into poverty. Meanwhile, the experience of financial desperation can also create even more trauma, even more suffering. How do you break the cycle? How do we truly care for people mentally and financially?If you or someone you know are having mental health struggles, we wanted to make sure you are aware of some resources. The National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline is available 24 hours a day by calling 9-8-8. The ...

3 years ago

51 minutes

Going for Broke

Change of Address

In the first of three episodes of "Going For Broke" all about the care economy, we're thinking about housing. Many of us would consider it a basic human right. But in America, it can be hard to come by.Original Air Date: November 05, 2022Guests: Bobbi Dempsey — David Harvey — Annabelle Gurwitch — Justin Garrett MooreInterviews In This Hour: When the walk home from school keeps changing — Creating a compassionate geography — More supportive housing can start with sharing space. And upending as...

3 years ago

51 minutes

Going for Broke

Coming November 5: Going For Broke on the Care Economy

Going for Broke returns and this time, we're talking about the care economy. This three-part series hosted by broadcaster Ray Suarez centers on Americans who have lived on the edge. They share their sometimes startling economic experiences and also insight into our society as a whole. Each hour also includes some of our country’s top thinkers on income inequality, among them the legendary writer Barbara Ehrenreich, author of the classic “Nickel and Dimed,” who passed away in September 2022. I...

3 years ago

1 minute

Going for Broke

Jen Fitzgerald: A Poet Without a Home

During the pandemic, Jen Fitzgerald, a poet and teacher, became a statistic, forced to find an apartment under duress as the city closed down around her. The situation the fifth-generation New Yorker and single mom found herself in has everything to do with what has happened to her city—and other hyper-prosperous American metropolises—during the last decade. They are now built to exclude the poor and even the unstable middle class, and certainly most of the poets.In COVID lockdown, Fitzgerald...

3 years ago

24 minutes

Going for Broke

John Koopman: A Veteran of America

John Koopman has been a Marine, a war correspondent in Iraq, and a manager at a strip club, among other things. His journey through precarity in the weird 21st century started in earnest after the bottom fell out of the newspaper business. That was when sacrifice or experience seemed to matter, and John found himself laid off and out of the middle class. It was a different war than the one he had experienced before: This time the battle was for consistent and meaningful employment, and its ti...

4 years ago

26 minutes

Going for Broke

Lisa Ventura: The Daughter’s Burden

Lisa Ventura is a housing case manager by day, but for years she's also been her family’s unofficial social worker by night. Lisa was just a kid when she learned to help her Spanish-speaking mother navigate the welfare system. It was a struggle, but she could handle it. But she wasn’t prepared for what it would feel like when her isolated father lost his job during the pandemic and needed her help filing for unemployment. Battling the bureaucracy during Covid on top of a troubled fa...

4 years ago

26 minutes

Going for Broke

Ann Larson: The Cashier Philosopher

“What would it look like for that man in the business suit who comes in in his SUV and loads up with groceries… what if he had to work in the grocery store?” On this week’s episode of Going for Broke With Ray Suarez, Ann tells us how her co-workers at the grocery store where she works chase shoplifters and clean up bathrooms, while shoppers, afraid of contagion, treat her like she’s untouchable. Ann grew up working class and trained to be a college professor but then the academic jo...

4 years ago

28 minutes

Going for Broke

Ray Suarez: A Veteran Journalist Finds Himself the Center of the Story

Ray Suarez never wanted to be the center of the story. He’s been a journalist of one kind of another all of his adult life, on radio, on television, in books and newspapers. He was the host of NPR’s Talk of the Nation, he was a senior correspondent for PBS NewsHour, and he had his own daily news show on Al Jazeera America. When that last network ceased operations in 2016, he figured it might take a while to find work, but he had a reputation and good connections that would eventuall...

4 years ago

21 minutes

Going for Broke

Lori Yearwood: Sleepless on the Streets

Lori Yearwood had never thought much about sleep, until she found it almost impossible to catch a wink. After a series of tragedies in her life, including losing her home in a fire, Lori was suddenly catapulted into homelessness. The shelters Lori found herself in were a nightmare, and the streets were hardly better—for two years, Lori struggled to get through each day without ever getting a full night’s sleep. The trauma of homelessness was compounded by the trauma of involuntary sleeplessne...

4 years ago

27 minutes