The underground economy is where drug wars and police lockdowns meet urban America. Americaâs underground economy includes an estimated $2 trillion in off-the-books work and trade. Much of it is in tough neighborhoods where the formal economy is very thin and the hand of the law is very heavy.
Alice Goffman finds an urban economy and culture so shadowed by police and incarceration that it lives âon the run.â Alice Goffman spent six years living in Philadelphia, and her close observations and often harrowing stories reveal the pernicious effects of drug wars and police lockdowns.
"A dramatic record of how race is still a key predictor of whether or not some young Americans will have a chance at a 'pursuit of happiness.'" ~ Los Angeles Review of Books
Alice Goffman, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin â Madison talks to Tom Ashbrook. Alice is the author of âOn The Run: Fugitive Life In An American Cityâ. Source: On Point: Life âOn The Runâ In America's Big Cities
Elizabeth Kolbert on Species Extinction
Elizabeth Kolbert talks to Sasha Weiss about the species extinction that is apparently caused by humanity's activities. Source: New Yorker's Out Loud: Elizabeth Kolbert on extinction
Music includes Compassionate Conservatives - In The Garden Of Eden, Matisyahu - One Day (New Album Version), FDR 1-20-1937, Dave Puls - The Mother Earth Destruction Blues, Devendra Banhart - Heard Somebody Say (original music video), Hair - Air, David Rovics - Here At The End Of The World, The Kinks - 20th Century Man, Champion Jack Dupree - I'm Going to Write the Governor of Georgia, Annette Hanshaw - Happy Days Are Here Again, Dala Girls - Levi, Hair - Three-Five-Zero-Zero, Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Concentration Moon, Johnny Paycheck - Take This Job And Shove It, Jimi Hendrix - Castles, Armik - Tango Flamenc
On Point: Life âOn The Runâ In Americas Big Cities http://onpoint.wbur.org/2014/06/10/fugitives-philadelphia-crime-america
New Yorkers Out Loud: Elizabeth Kolbert on extinction http://www.elizabethkolbert.com/
also see http://greatspeechesandinterviews.blogspot.com/2014/11/meet-underground-economy.html
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