OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas

Feb 15, 2019

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.

Feb 7, 2019

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).

Feb 1, 2019

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.

Jan 25, 2019

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.

Jan 17, 2019

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.