Introducing: White Picket Fence
This special episode of The Pay Check features "What Could Have Been", the latest episode of White Picket Fence from Wonder Media Network. How did the...
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More than 150 years after the end of slavery in the U.S., the net worth of a typical white family is almost seven times greater than that of the average Black family. Season 3 of The Pay Check digs into into how we got to where we are today and what can be done to narrow the yawning racial wealth gap in the U.S.Jackie Simmons and Rebecca Greenfield co-host the season, which kicks off with a personal story about land Jackie's family acquired some time after slavery that they're on the verge of losing. From there the series explores all the ways the wealth gaps manifests and the radical solutions, like affirmative action, quotas, and reparations, that can potentially lead to greater equality.
Introducing: Breakthrough
On Breakthrough, a new series from the Prognosis podcast, we explore how the pandemic is changing our understanding of healthcare and medicine. We sta...
Bonus: The Making of The Pay Check
With the season behind us, Rebecca Greenfield and Jackie Simmons sat down during the Bloomberg Businessweek conference to go inside the making of The ...
Moving Forward by Looking Back
For our final episode of season 3, we take a look at how reckoning with our history, collectively, and personally, can help us move forward. Closing t...
Reparations Gone Wrong
Reparations for slavery in the U.S. aren't happening any time soon. But there are other countries that have compensated populations for persecution. T...
A Reparations Experiment
This week on the Pay Check, we look at the long fight for reparations for slavery in the U.S. Economists have calculated that each Black American is o...
The Problem With Affirmative Action
For the last few weeks, we've talked about the origins of the racial wealth gap. This week, we're turning our attention to one of the first major effo...
The Black Homeownership Tax
Homeownership has been a main source of intergenerational wealth in the U.S. But it’s one that is out of reach for many Black Americans. Decades after...
A Quick Note From The Pay Check
The Pay Check team has a request for our listeners. Experts estimate closing the racial wealth gap would cost around $13 trillion. That amounts to aro...
'The Last Plantation'
The top five White landowners in the U.S. own more land than all the Black landowners combined. And over the last century, Black farmers have lost nea...