We The Podcast

On this week's We The Podcast, we talk about "diaper need." That's the urgent need that many American parents have for affordable diapers. With one third of all parents struggling to pay for diapers, it's a big need.

How much do you pay for your monthly phone plan? How much would you pay? Would you pay $14 a minute? On this episode of We The Podcast, we talk about prison phone rates - the charges that incarcerated Americans incur when they talk on the phone to their loved ones.

More than 2.4 million people are locked up in the United States today. Our country has 5% of the world's population and more than 25% of the world's prison population. This week on We The Podcast, we talk about criminal justice reform.

This week on We The Podcast: what happens to our gadgets when we're done with them? How many cell phones and computers have you gone through? What are you going to do with the device you're reading this on? Think about it.

This week on We The Podcast, we talk about how our society treats the poor. In what ways is poverty stigmatized and shamed in the world we live in, and what does this mean for low-income folks?

A special We The Podcast investigation into the way franchisees, the people who own corporate restaurant franchises, are treated by their parent companies.

If you threw away a piece of trash today, where would it go? How does this affect us? How will it affect our children? Is a world without waste possible? In this week's We The Podcast, we find out. Music: Redemption Song, by Bob Marley

How do the people outside of the millionaire and billionaire class (you know, most of us), engage with our economy and influence politics? Music: Viva La Vida by Coldplay

What is driving the disconnect between our legislators and working Americans?

Music: "Future People" & "Don't Wanna Fight" by Alabama Shakes from the album Sound and Color

Faith is critical to the lives of so many working Americans, so I talked to Sister Simone Campbell, Rev. Dr. Serene Jones, Rabbi Marcia Zimmerman and Imam Makram El-Amin about what faiths in the United States tell us about the economy.

MUSIC: "Let It Carry You" and "With the Ink of a Ghost" by José González from the album Vestiges and Claws (2015).