Made to Fail
14 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -From healthcare, to unemployment insurance, to exercising the right to vote, the COVID-19 crisis has affected every part of American life. The rampant employment. The social unrest in American cities. It's pulled back the curtain on the policies that time and time again, have failed the people they were supposed to protect. But what's happening in our country is something much bigger than a pandemic. Something that's been in the works for a long, long time.
Made to Fail tells the stories of Americans in states across the country, and the ways in which our country has left our institutions gutted, corrupted, and unaccountable. As we confront an unprecedented era of economic uncertainty, amidst a health crisis and a national reckoning on race the question is...how do we find a way out?
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Episodes
Goat Rodeo Presents: Long Shadow
August 19, 2021 15:02 - 45 minutes - 62.7 MBA new series from Goat Rodeo: Many Americans watched the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001 unfold right before our eyes. What happened on 9/11 and how it changed our world is the most important story of the modern age. It’s the hinge on which so much changed. But in the years since the history we've come to tell of that day is incomplete—and sometimes wrong. Hosted by journalist Garrett Graff, author of the bestselling book THE ONLY PLANE IN THE SKY: AN ORAL HISTORY OF 9/11, "Long ...
BONUS: Made to Succeed: Bold Ideas for a Biden Administration to Transform the Economy
December 07, 2020 08:18 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBAs the President-elect prepares to take office amid a global pandemic and a worsening economy, he must also face—and address—the broken political and economic system that we laid out in our previous episodes. While Made to Fail showed us how the conservative project has hurt our institutions, in this new era we have the opportunity to rebuild those broken institutions. What has been made to fail can and must be restored to succeed. Made to Fail host Elliot Williams recently moderated a vi...
Epilogue
October 12, 2020 12:00 - 4 minutes - 5.74 MBHosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Chapter Eight: Busted in Wisconsin
October 12, 2020 04:02 - 39 minutes - 54.9 MBWhen COVID-19 began to burn across America, the hospitals of Madison, Wisconsin weren’t ready. They weren’t ready to meet the needs of the patients -- collapsing in the emergency room, dying while awaiting ventilation -- but they also weren’t ready to meet the needs of the doctors. And the nurses. And the custodial staff. The front line workers who were forced to wear the same dirty masks, shift after shift, as more and more COVID-19 patients poured through the doors, gasping for care. It ...
Chapter Seven: Sold Out in Maine
October 05, 2020 05:00 - 39 minutes - 54.2 MBThe Paycheck Protection Program was co-written by Maine’s very own Republican Senator Susan Collins, and it was signed into law as a means for small businesses with fewer than 500 employees to pay their workers and keep operations running during the pandemic. But, a loophole written into the program allowed for several major chains to receive millions of dollars in PPP loans from the same finite bucket of money, leaving crumbs for small businesses who followed the strictest of rules. Those l...
Chapter Six: Flatlined in North Carolina
September 28, 2020 04:38 - 40 minutes - 55.8 MBIn just North Carolina alone 10 hospitals have closed in the last decade, with 7 of those hospitals closing in the last 5 years. For the hospitals still in operation, it's not just coronavirus that has the staff overworked and on edge...it’s the entire medical system. Many of North Carolina’s hospitals are rural hospitals, serving those on the lower end of the economic spectrum. For people living in these parts of North Carolina, it’s the only medical and emergency care for hours. The pa...
BONUS: Julian Castro and Panel on "Made to Fail"
September 21, 2020 03:54 - 43 minutes - 60.1 MBDuring the week of the Republican National Convention, the Hub Project and Roosevelt Forward hosted a live-stream launch event to elevate the stories of Americans across the country, call attention to the conservative policies that got us to where we are today, and offer a way out of this crisis. Secretary Julián Castro joined Made to Fail host Elliot Williams, President & CEO of Roosevelt Forward Felicia Wong, President & CEO of the NAACP Derrick Johnson, and President of Community Change...
Chapter Five: Polluted in Arizona
September 14, 2020 03:50 - 46 minutes - 64.5 MBIn May of 2020, the Navajo Nation made national headlines with the highest per capita Covid-19 infection rate in the United States, outpacing New York City. Frontline Navajo workers, many of them relatives and neighbors of those infected, rushed to save the most vulnerable. Already, residents of the Navajo Nation face higher rates of preexisting conditions. The grim situation highlights the historical failings of the US government. Over 150 years after the treaty signing between the Navajo ...
Chapter Four: Targeted in Minnesota
September 07, 2020 03:41 - 42 minutes - 58.5 MBOn May 26, people took to the Minneapolis streets in masks to protest the killing of George Floyd, a 46-year-old local black man. The incident, caught on a bystander’s cell phone camera, shows Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, kneeling on George Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds.In Minneapolis, police use force against black people at 7 times the rate of whites. And 1 in every 1000 black men can be expected to be killed by police...that’s 2 ½ times more likely than white America...
Chapter Three: Corrupted in Georgia
August 31, 2020 04:00 - 37 minutes - 51.6 MBOn January 24th, 2020 the Senate Health Committee got a private, all-senators briefing from administration officials on coronavirus. Among the attendees was Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler from Georgia. The very same day as the briefing, an asset manager for Senator Loeffler began making stock trades. Selling thousands of shares in stocks across multiple sectors. Elected officials are cloaked in a tremendous amount of privilege. Privileges that afford them information and opportunities ...
Chapter Two: Disconnected in Florida
August 24, 2020 04:13 - 43 minutes - 59.3 MBIn Florida, the online unemployment system is not working. Interface glitches, missing support services, hold music heard ad nauseum … this is all to be expected from Florida’s CONNECT system. Today, some Floridians still haven’t seen a single penny in benefits. Now, the governor has called for an investigation into the system’s initial contract and has admitted publicly that the system may have been designed to discourage users from, well, using it. After a deep dive into the history of the ...
Chapter One: Badgered in Wisconsin
August 17, 2020 04:18 - 45 minutes - 63 MBOn April 7th, 2020, the voters of Wisconsin lined up to cast their ballots in the Democratic primary election. They lined up in masks and in gloves. They lined up out the door of the polling places, and down the block, and tried throughout the day to keep their distance from one another. Because Republican state lawmakers refused to push back the election, the voters of Wisconsin were forced to turn out in the middle of the pandemic. They were forced to make a choice between their right to vo...
Prologue
August 17, 2020 04:05 - 6 minutes - 9.22 MBOn March 11, 2019 a crowd of reporters gathered at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to cover the announcement of the site of the Democratic National Convention. Over a year later, the United States has become paralyzed by the novel coronavirus as our institutions are being pushed to their breaking point. As our nation grapples with an out of control pandemic, the greatest recession in living memory, and a national reckoning on race, the question remains...what’s the way out? This is M...
Trailer: Made to Fail (Coming Aug 17)
July 22, 2020 14:42 - 2 minutes - 2.88 MBThis crisis wasn't an accident. Listen to Made to Fail on August 17th. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.