Latest Economicinequality Podcast Episodes

1500 Stories Episode 11 Twinning

1500 Stories - July 22, 2021 04:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
1500 Stories take a break from the gloom and doom of class and economic inequality in the U.S. to share the stories of people who are twins, in this sweet and entertaining bonus episode written and edited entirely by interns for the project.

1500 Stories Episode 10 Even the Engineers Are Renting Part Two

1500 Stories - June 10, 2021 04:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
  This episode is the second of a two-parter about the housing crisis in the Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay Area.  It focuses on stories at both end of the housing crisis--home owners and the unhoused.  

1500 Stories Episode 9 Even the Engineers Are Renting Part One

1500 Stories - May 27, 2021 04:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
This episode is the first of a two-parter about the housing crisis in the Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay Area.  It explores stories of how expensive it is to live here, how overcrowded housing gets a result, and how the high cost of living makes it difficult to get ahead.

1500 Stories Episode 8 Farming while Black or Brown Part 2

1500 Stories - May 13, 2021 04:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
Agrarian realities today look a lot more like industrial realities, thanks to the rise and dominance of commercial agriculture. And like all industrial realities, farmwork is shaped by the indignities of racism and poverty in the U.S.

1500 Stories Episode 7 Farming while Black or Brown Part 1

1500 Stories - April 22, 2021 04:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
Those first two episodes in this mini-series about farm work and the agrarian myth asked us to move beyond our images of red barns and silos to understand with more nuance the challenging realities of contemporary farm work, even for Wisconsinites who grew up on family farms.  These next two epi...

1500 Stories Episode 6 Beyond Red Barns and Silos Part 2

1500 Stories - April 08, 2021 04:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
This episode looks behind Americans imaginings and stereotypes about rural life--what scholars call the agrarian myth--to see the realities underneath.  The realities of rural life turn out to be a lot more complex than our stereotypes. 

1500 Stories Episode 5 Beyond Red Barns and Silos Part 1

1500 Stories - March 25, 2021 04:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
In the first of a four episode mini-series exploring the myths and realities of farm work in the U.S., we go beneath the surface of what social scientists refer to as the agrarian myth to share the more complex experiences of people who spent their formative years working on farms.  

1500 Stories Episode 4 There Is No Such Thing as Middle Class

1500 Stories - March 11, 2021 05:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
In this third and final episode of a mini-series about middle-classness in the U.S., we explore the curious contradiction that while many Americans prefer to identify as middle class, many also question whether the middle class even exists anymore.  Many view the class system as one in which the...

1500 Stories Episode 3 The Happy Medium

1500 Stories - February 25, 2021 05:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
In the second episode of a three part mini-series exploring the appeal of “middle-classness” as a label, we hear from ordinary Americans about what middle-classness means to them.  Middle-classness isn’t just a matter of not being poor or not being rich financially; it is about being seen as a c...

1500 Stories Episode 2 Not Rich Not Poor

1500 Stories - February 11, 2021 05:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
Not Rich Not Poor is the first of a three episode mini-series exploring the appeal of “middle-classness” as a label.  No matter how much money Americans have, many still insist on the label of middle-class.  In the mini-series, we hear from ordinary Americans about what middle-classness means to...

1500 Stories--Trailer

1500 Stories - January 10, 2021 05:59 - 2 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratings
The 1500 Stories podcast cracks open the uncomfortable subjects of money and economic class.  1500 Stories is an art and digital storytelling project about economic inequality in the United States and its host, Jen Myhre, is an artist and sociologist.  Since she founded the project back in 2015,...