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- A Conversation with Dr. DeCuir, co-founder of myCOVIDMD
We speak with Dr. Briana DeCuir, one of the co-founders of Shared Harvest Fund and myCOVIDMD.
myCovidMD safely connects residents to resources in real-time, by real people. They help under-resourced communities get free testing and access to telehealth services during the Coronavirus Public Health crisis.
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22 min - Fake Clinics, Crisis Pregnancy Centers & Coercion
What are Crisis Pregnancy Centers, and how do they mislead expecting people? How are black and brown communities especially at risk of being targeted by these centers? This week, Candace O’Brien from YellowHammer Fund in Alabama joins us to talk about how CPCs target vulnerable populations with false advertising of reproductive care.
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14 min - The Highest Rates of Maternal Deaths in the Developed World
Why are black mothers more likely to experience maternal mortality in the United States? Dr. Declerq, Professor of Community Health Sciences at Boston University School of Public Health has investigated the challenges associated with defining the American mortality rate as well as America’s outlier status as a poor provider of maternal protection. He joins us this week in part two of our reproductive justice series to talk about how healthcare missteps and systemic failures leave American mothers with grim birth outcomes, and how we could attempt to reverse the trend.
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15 min - From Coerced Sterilization to Forced Birth
How has the government-sanctioned forced reproductive sterilization? Since the 1930s, over thirty state eugenics boards approved the coerced sterilization of over sixty thousand Americans. This week, author of “Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare” and Rutgers associate department chair and professor, Johanna Schoen, joined us to explain how state governments forcibly took reproductive rights from our most vulnerable citizens.
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16 min - Environmental Bias, Right in our Backyards
Why does environmentally triggered illness disproportionately affect black and brown people? This week we look into a plastics company’s plan to introduce nearly 800 tons of air pollution a year near a historically black community. A team of lawyers at Earthjustice join us from the front lines of the Formosa Plastics fight.
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12 min - One Person, One Nope. The Electoral College with Jesse Wegman
How does the winner of the popular vote lose elections? How did segregationists team up with an unlikely ally to prevent us from abolishing the electoral college in the 1970s?
Jesse Wegman is a member of The New York Times editorial board, where he has written about the Supreme Court and legal affairs since 2013. He joins us in this special bonus episode to talk about his new book, Let the People Pick the President, The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College. We discuss the shortcomings of the electoral college.
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12 min - Remember That Time We Blocked Black Homeownership?
The black homeownership rate is lower today than it was in the 1950s. In this week’s episode, we explore the source of the Black and White wealth gap. Ken Chilton, Professor of Public Administration at Tennessee State University and Sarah Miktarian, Senior Economist at Zillow Research, discuss income inequality, changing real estate markets, and the government’s role in legally blocking Black homeownership.
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17 min - Almost 12% of Households Are Food Insecure
In a developed nation with massive food export operations, one in seven households with children were affected by food insecurity in 2018. Food deserts, high costs, and systematic food waste make it difficult for families to access nutritious and secure food sources. Pearson King of Food Forward and Riya Rahman of No Kid Hungry joins us to explain how these problems came to be, and what we can do to correct them. We wrap up with a touching story about the lasting effects of food insecurity from author and former educator, Nikki Kay.
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25 min - Childcare Costs are Hindering the American Family
Childcare costs can be more than seven times the recommended average for families in the United States. Lea Austin, Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Childcare Employment at UC Berkeley, explains how childcare can cost nearly $25,000 a year for some parents. Mandy Kimble, Director of Public Policy at Children at Risk, shares why those of us without children should be more concerned. According to their report, Building Brains & Economies, the lack of affordable child care forces many families to reduce hours or drop out of the workforce, which results in an estimated $8.3 billion annually in lost wages.
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24 min - We owe $580 billion to our students
Why does the average nonwhite school district receive $2,226 less per student than a white school district? Join us this week as we figure out how nearly 600 billion dollars didn’t make it to America’s promise of public education. Hear from Rebecca Sibilia, founder, and CEO of EdBuild, Leigh Dingerson, freelance author and part of the research team on Confronting the Education Debt and the President of the Baltimore Teachers Union, Diamonte Brown.
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About Seriously America
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A show about the people, politics, and profits that form a system of oppression in America. Remember that time the government legally blocked black homeownership? Guess which country has the worst…
maternal death rates in the developed world? The federal minimum wage hasn't been raised in 10 years. Seriously? Join Taylor & Quay as they consult experts who offer simple explanations to complex topics.