Going For Broke (A Three Part Series from To the Best of Our Knowledge)

Series produced by Wisconsin Public Radio

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Image by: Penny Blatt (Economic Hardship Reporting Project) 

What if we measured the success of our economy less in terms of profit and more in terms of care? What if we tracked gains and losses in the quality of our lives instead of in dollars? Going for Broke explores the reality of economic struggle in our time.

Full episodes will be available beginning November 5th.

Going for Broke is a co-production of PRX’s To the Best of Our Knowledge at Wisconsin Public Radio and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. The 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. In each episode we ask: what would result if we put more care into how we dealt with housing or mental health crises or our workplaces? Going for Broke explores these questions, moving from powerful personal accounts to visionary solutions.

Full episodes will be available beginning November 5th.

Episode One: Change Of Address
Episode Two: Making Up Our Minds
Episode Three: Can Work Be Love? Hide full description

Full episodes will be available beginning November 5th. Going for Broke is a co-production of PRX’s To the Best of Our Knowledge at Wisconsin Public Radio and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. The 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. In each episode we ask: what would result if we put more care into how we dealt with housing or mental health crises or our workplaces? Going for Broke explores these... Show full description


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Going For Broke, Part Three: Can Work Be Love?
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Going For Broke (A Three Part Series from To the Best of Our Knowledge)
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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 w...

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  • Added: Oct 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Going For Broke, Part Two: Making Up Our Minds
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Going For Broke (A Three Part Series from To the Best of Our Knowledge)
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In episode two of our three-part series on the care economy: Post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health challenges can push people into...

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  • Added: Oct 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Going For Broke, Part One: Change Of Address
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Going For Broke (A Three Part Series from To the Best of Our Knowledge)
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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...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WGBH Radio Boston, WKSU, WGUC/ WVXU, Iowa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12