Off-kilter With Rebecca Vallas

Another Disability Justice Initiative takeover of Off-Kilter, for mental health awareness month.

Conversations from this year’s Ideas Conference, with Betsey Stevenson, Darrick Hamilton, and Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes.

The nationwide effort to repeal a decades-long attack on mothers and families; how disabled students get left behind in the responses to school shootings; plus, the Trump Administration’s latest HUD rule that cruelly targets immigrant families.

How Structural Racism Is Killing Black Moms and Babies, Trump’s proposal to artificially “reduce” the poverty rate by fudging the numbers, and an update on the nutrition assistance crisis in Puerto Rico.

How TurboTax has been tricking low-income tax filers into paying for online tax filing that’s supposed to be free—PLUS: meat processing is already a dangerous job. It’s about to get a lot worse.

Off-Kilter commemorates the 5-year anniversary of the Flint Water Crisis — and digs into why a regional minimum wage, an idea currently gaining traction in Congress, would lock in low-wages for workers of color.

Vox’s Dylan Matthews on Democrats’ ambitious new plan to slash child poverty, plus a conversation with an elementary school teacher and mom fighting to strengthen the EITC and CTC for families like hers.

We’re bringing you a roundup of some of our favorite segments and will be back next week but until then check out conversations with: Vanessa Williamson on taxing the rich; Nick Turner on how we can reimagine prison; and Kristen Arant on how a record can be a life sentence to poverty.

Stephanie Land joins to talk Maid, her powerful best-selling memoir on living in poverty in America; plus the team behind the sex work documentary Blowin’ Up discuss the first ever dedicated sex trafficking court in the United States.

It’s another Disability Justice Initiative Takeover episode! Rebecca (Vallas) is joined by Rebecca Cokley, Azza Altiraifi & Valerie Novack of CAP’s disability program, plus special guest Matt Cortland (aka Medicaid Matt), for a conversation on the growing surveillance state targeting people with disabilities.

Rebecca talks with CAP budget gurus Seth Hanlon and Lily Roberts about Part Deux of Trump’s Cruelty Olympics, aka his budget proposal, which came out earlier this week—and Indivisible’s Chad Bolt returns for another installment of ICYMI.

Rebecca talks with Pat Garofalo, author of The Billionaire Boondoggle: How Our Politicians Let Corporations and Bigwigs Steal Our Money. But first—Indivisible’s Chad Bolt and CAP senior advisor Jesse Lee swing by the studio to recap Trump’s latest budget.

How America treats its black farmers, Ben Carson’s backdoor attempt to private public housing, and Chad Bolt returns with the news of the week ICYMI.

Ivanka says Americans “don’t want a guaranteed living wage,” the 6 minutes of the Cohen hearing that may mean we finally get to see Trump’s tax returns; Miami-Dade College is going to shameful lengths to keep its adjuncts from organizing; and more.

A D.C. snow day gives us the chance to revisit some of our favorite conversations, including the Times’ Emily Badger on the Elizabethan origins of the term “able-bodied”; plus in honor of President’s Day, Alex Lawson and a pre-Indivisible Ezra Levin on a Founding Father’s vision for ending poverty.

How the CFPB is siding with predatory payday lenders over consumers; Pat Garofalo on the fight for a minimum wage in the Minor Leagues; PLUS Chad Bolt joins for the news of the week ICYMI.

New Orleans’ top public defender Derwyn Bunton on how the public defender crisis has set up a two-tiered system of justice based on income—PLUS: Chad Bolt returns for a massive #SOTU fact-check on the state of the Trump economy (and other news of the week).

DC’s high housing costs pushed me in and out of homelessness for 30 years”; on top of everything else, the shutdown hung farmers out to dry right before spring planting; PLUS: Chad Bolt returns with another roundup of the week’s biggest stories in poverty & inequality.

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney on how he’s fighting poverty in the poorest big city in the U.S.—and Indivisible’s Chad Bolt returns with yet another update on Trump’s shutdown & other news of the week ICYMI.

We nerd out *hard* on the minimum wage as House Dems renew their push for $15—PLUS: Chad Bolt returns to break down all the news of the week, ICYMI.