Off-Kilter Podcast Announces New Launch with The Century Foundation

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Off-Kilter is a podcast about economic liberation—and the shifts in collective consciousness it will take to set us all free. Every week, Rebecca Vallas talks with visionary leaders and organizations working to reinvigorate our shared imagination and disrupt the imbalance of power in our society. Find Off-Kilter on the Progressive Voices Network, the We Act Radio network in D.C., local radio stations across the U.S., and wherever you get your podcasts.

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Inside the Raise the Wage Act, with EPI's David Cooper: Rebecca sits down with the Economic Policy Institute's David Cooper for a deep dive into Democrats' Raise the Wage Act, which would raise the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2025. show notes: by OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas
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Reimagining Anti-Monopoly Activism Through Racial Justice -- feat. Liberation in a Generation's Jeremie Greer: Amid a global pandemic that has killed people of color at dramatically higher rates, and forced so-called 'essential workers'--again, disproportionately people of color--to risk illness and death to keep the a struggling economy churning... the... by OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas
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When will the pandemic end?: Rebecca sits down with Be A Hero’s Matthew Cortland for a look at the challenges with the vaccine rollout so far, and what it would take to get to the vaccination rates we need in the U.S. and globally to bring the COVID-19 pandemic to an end. Show... by OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas
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Down-Ballot Deep Dive with Daniel Nichanian: Rebecca talks to Daniel Nichanian, founder of The Appeal's Political Report, for a deep dive into some of the most important down-ballot stories from the 2020 election -- from ballot measures to state and local races that will shape policymaking in... by OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas
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The Purge, 2020 edition: Rebecca talks to disability lawyer Matthew Cortland about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the disability community so far, the ageism and ableism underpinning claims that "we need to learn to live with it," and more. Show notes:... by OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas
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Claudia Sahm on why we shouldn't be worried about inflation right now: Earlier this week, in a hearing on the state of America's economic recovery, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testified before the Senate Banking Committee that the employment rate for low-wage workers—those hit hardest by the pandemic—is... by OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas
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How Biden is Expanding SNAP: Rebecca talks to Brookings Fellow Lauren Bauer about the steps the Biden administration is taking to increase too-low federal food assistance benefits, starting with updating an archaic policy called the "Thrifty Food Plan" -- and the larger agenda to... by OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas
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Rebecca Cokley on Leading the First U.S. Disability Rights Portfolio at a Major U.S. Foundation: With the Senate announcing they’re heading into recess without passing the Build Back Better Act, we figured why not get out of the news cycle for Off-Kilter’s last episode of the year and instead have a far more good-news conversation that... by OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas
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Transition Talk with Dorian Warren + Angela Hanks: Rebecca talks to Dorian Warren & Angela Hanks about the work ahead now that the Biden/Harris transition team has been formed; some of the most exciting new members of Congress to watch; why Jan 5 matters so much; how Democrats can avoid falling... by OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas
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“How Mass Incarceration Became a Poverty Trap”: Rebecca talks to the Brennan Center's Ames Grawert & Terry Ann Craigie about their research finding that people who spend time in prison see their lifetime earnings cut in half, further entrenching poverty and the racial divide -- the annual... by OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas
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Sherrod Brown on the COVID relief workers & families urgently need: Sherrod Brown on the COVID relief workers & families urgently need Mini-pod: With poverty on the rise, Rebecca talks to Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown about the debate in Congress around COVID economic relief -- and the stakes for the tens of millions... by OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas
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The Case for a U.S. Child Allowance: Rebecca joined Greg Duncan and Sam Hammond for a panel discussion about the prospects for a U.S. child allowance -- and why it's needed now more than ever -- hosted by the American Constitution Society's New York Chapter. Subscribe to Off-Kilter on... by OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas
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Vox's Ian Millhiser on why we need to nuke the filibuster to save democracy: Rebecca talks to Vox's Ian Millhiser about the ongoing debate over what to do with the filibuster -- and why it isn't just standing in the way of much of the Biden-Harris agenda, but key democracy reform measures the GOP wants to stop at all costs. ... by OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas
32 min listen
The Ever-Growing Case for Guaranteed Income -- feat. Dorian Warren and Aisha Nyandoro: Results are in from the first year of a universal basic income experiment in Stockton, California, which gave randomly selected residents $500 per month with no strings attached—and they’re striking. The income boost improved recipients’... by OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas
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How President-Elect Biden Could Cut Poverty in Half Without the GOP -- Feat. Vox's Dylan Matthews: Vox's Dylan Matthews breaks down everything you need to know about "budget reconciliation" -- a tool that if used strategically in the Senate could mean Dems' fragile majority could be enough to create a pathway for powerful policy change at a... by OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas
60 min listen
Desmond Meade and Sheena Meade Talk Second Chance Month: Off-Kilter continues our Second Chance Month series with two of the directly impacted leaders driving transformational change on second chance policies and rights restoration in the states, who also happen to be a powerhouse husband-wife team: Desmond... by OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas
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Help Is On the Way: With President Joe Biden’s signature, the American Rescue Plan Act became law on Thursday of this week. This wide-ranging package of relief measures—which despite garnering widespread bipartisan support among voters, passed both chambers of... by OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas
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State Leaders Talk #SecondChanceMonth: Fair Chance Licensing and Clean Slate: As leaders at all levels of government work to “build back better”—and to address the nation’s legacy of racial injustice and persistent racial inequality—removing barriers to employment for workers with records is more urgently needed than... by OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas
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The Poverty Line Is Too Damn Low: Last month, the U.S. Census Bureau put out its annual snapshot of income, poverty, and health insurance in the United States—which serves as something of an annual report card on the economic well-being of America’s families. One of the most... by OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas
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Eligibility doesn’t equal access — feat. Center for Taxpayer Rights’ Nina Olson and Community Legal Services’ Jen Burdick: Poverty researchers estimate that the income-boosting provisions in the American Rescue Plan Act, which President Biden signed into law last month, will cut child poverty in half, and that overall poverty in the U.S. will fall by one-third over the... by OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas
63 min listen
How to Put People at the Center of Policy Change: Last month, the newly launched Congressional Progressive Staff Association published a of more than five hundred Congressional staff. The results were damning. who weren’t in management reported their pay was so low they were struggling to make... by OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas
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“Child Poverty Was Always a Political Choice”: What’s Next for America’s Child Allowance?: The year 2021 was one for the history books in many areas of American economic policy. And one thing it will be remembered as is Unfortunately, that policy victory was short-lived, and the expanded Child Tax Credit signed into law as part of the... by OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas
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Lindsay Owens on This Week’s D.C. Drama and Progressives’ Push to #HoldTheLine: This week in Washington has featured no shortage of drama, with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell saddling Democrats with the threat of both a government shutdown and default on the nation’s debts by withholding Republican votes for keeping the... by OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas
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You Shouldn’t Need a Law Degree to Access Disability Benefits: For this week's pod, we're bringing you a conversation Rebecca moderated at this week's National Academy of Social Insurance conference on "Pathways to Economic Security" about how America's social insurance and public assistance system is falling... by OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas
55 min listen
What's Really Going on in the Labor Market -- feat. Heidi Shierholz: The April jobs data released by the Department of Labor last week spurred an avalanche of hysteria and conservative hand-wringing about supposedly widespread labor shortages, with many on the right pointing to pandemic jobless benefits as the... by OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas
44 min listen
The Real Culprit Driving Inflation? Corporate Greed.: With the clock ticking on Democrats’ “Build Back Better” legislation, which passed the House last month and now awaits Senate action, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin has cited yet another in a never ending string of “new” reasons for... by OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas
60 min listen
The End of Roe v. Wade?: With the biggest threat to abortion rights in fifty years reaching the Supreme Court this week, in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization—which centers around Mississippi’s fifteen-week abortion ban—Rebecca sat down with... by OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas
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‘Racism Is Profitable’: How Liberation in a Generation Is Putting People of Color at the Center of Policy Change: “We believe that it is possible to create an economy where all Black, Latinx, Asian, Indigenous, and Pacific Islander people thrive—in one generation. To accomplish this we must fight to dismantle what we call the Oppression Economy. Today, elite... by OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas
60 min listen
“Crime, Boy, I Don’t Know….”: In recent months, a wave of champions of the “tough on crime” approach to criminal justice have been trumpeting a spike in U.S. homicides in 2020 as fodder for rolling back critical reforms to America’s broken criminal legal system, and for... by OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas
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The Long Road Ahead for the Millions with “Long COVID”: Some twenty months into the COVID-19 pandemic, estimates suggest that between may have “long COVID,” which can bring long-term and, in some cases, debilitating symptoms ranging from chronic pain and fatigue to brain fog, respiratory problems,... by OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas
60 min listen

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Off-Kilter Podcast Announces New Launch with The Century Foundation

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