Off-kilter With Rebecca Vallas

Indivisible’s Chad Bolt joins to co-host our first episode this year, filling Jeremy’s shoes on this week’s ICYMI; plus we break down everything you need to know about the shutdown with Sam Berger; and Talk Poverty’s Pat Garofalo joins to explain all things PAYGO.

A roundup of some of the year’s most under-covered stories on poverty and inequality, with special guest Mara Pellittieri, editor-in-chief of TalkPoverty.org—and a teary goodbye to our own Jeremy Slevin.

This week on Off-Kilter, it’s another Disability Justice Initiative takeover, holiday edition!

A Farm Bill deal looms on the horizon; we debate the pros and cons of Opportunity Zones; plus the news of the week ICYMI.

The latest on Trump’s Medicaid work reporting requirements, with Dr. Jamila Michener; PLUS: how Michigan’s GOP is subverting democracy to stop a minimum wage hike, and other news of the week ICYMI.

A special episode featuring conversations with some of the justice reform leaders behind the newly-launched national #CleanSlate campaign to ensure a criminal record is no longer a life sentence to poverty.

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Prof. Carol Anderson on how Trump’s stoking white rage and resentment through policy as well as rhetoric; Ian Millhiser on where SCOTUS is headed with its new right-wing supermajority; PLUS: TalkPoverty’s Pat Garofalo drops by with a roundup of ballot measures getting voted on next week.

A conversation with Rudy Valdez, the filmmaker behind HBO’s The Sentence, a documentary highlighting the toll mandatory minimums take on families; Vera Institute of Justice President Nick Turner on “reimagining prison”; and the news of the week, ICYMI.

The latest on the voter registration goat rodeo in Georgia, inside Ben Carson’s plot to stop HUD from fighting housing segregation, the toll toxic media coverage on Kavanaugh is taking on survivors 1 year after the launch of #MeToo, plus the news of the week ICYMI.

Rebecca sits down with three of her favorite colleagues & friends—Mara Pellittieri, Laura Durso, and Rebecca Cokley—to talk body shame, fashion, respectability politics and more—to take a break from the soul-crushing news cycle.

Inside the 2018 national prison strike with Amani Sawari of Jailhouse Lawyer Speaks; Greg Kaufmann on how a universal basic income found its way to Mississippi; plus the news of the week ICYMI.

Inside Trump’s “public charge” attack on immigrant families with the Protecting Immigrant Families campaign; Jocelyn Frye on how little has changed since Anita Hill; and Jeremy Slevin returns with the news of the week.

DC Council makes moves to overturn a wage increase for tipped workers; thousands continue to struggle in Puerto Rico one year after Hurricane Maria made landfall; and the news of the week ICYMI (with special guest Chad Bolt!)

Jared Bernstein unpacks the new Census data on poverty, income, and health insurance; Liz Weintraub on how Kavanaugh’s confirmation would set disability rights back 50 years or more; and Jeremy Slevin returns with the news of the week, In Case Yachts Missed It

The Kavanaugh hearings start this week and we welcome Jesse Lee, Vice President for Communications at CAPAF, to detail every twist and turn; plus Joel Berg, CEO of Hunger Free America, explains the new data that shows 40 million Americans struggle against hunger.

Part two of our summer review: ahead of the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, we recap what Kennedy’s retirement means with Ian Milhiser; plus legal aid attorney Pat Levy-Lavelle on his work representing people facing evictions.

A few of our favorite conversations from this year including: Professor Philip Alston and his poverty report for the U.N.; Thea Bryan, a DC bartender who lost her job after speaking out in favor of Initiative 77; and Chad Bolt on why Indivisible’s 435 campaign is backing activists-turned-candidates to bring about a Blue Tsunami in November.

The U.S. has always victimized single moms, but a new anthology of research shows just how deep that mistreatment goes; Christy Felling of No Kid Hungry explains why summer is especially difficult for food insecure kids and how the House Farm Bill will only make it worse.

This week Off-Kilter took a trip to New Orleans for Netroots Nation, which for more than a decade has been bringing together progressive leaders, candidates, grassroots activists and independent media once a year. For the first of two episodes featuring conversations from Netroots, this week Rebecca talks with Joe Dinkin, national campaign director for the Working Families Party, one of the lead sponsors of this year’s conference and a longtime Netroots goer; Danica Roem, the first openly trans elected official in the Commonwealth of Virginia; and Chad Bolt, associate director of policy at Indivisible (and a friend of the show) who’s been talking tax at Netroots—including this week’s news that the Trump administration is trying to bypass Congress to give millionaires and billionaires another $100 billion in tax cuts they don’t need.