Amanda Aronczyk has been a public radio reporter and new media producer for over 15 years, and has worked at Radiolab, Marketplace, Weekend America and The Next Big Thing. As a freelancer, she has produced podcasts for the The New Yorker and Slate, as well as reported and produced for a variety of programs, including the BBC World Service, Freakonomics and Studio 360. She’s also an adjunct faculty member at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. She's currently working on The Cost of Crime, a multimedia investigation into the financial repercussions of imprisonment.
Features By Amanda Aronczyk
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Philadelphia collects court debt decades later
Since 2010, the courts of Philadelphia have embarked on a massive debt collection from ex-offenders. It’s an attempt to collect on $1.5 billion in old fees, fines and forfeited bail owed to the criminal justice system.
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A poem: O Euro! My Euro!
With apologies to Walt Whitman, the Wall Street Poet considers the euro in verse, circa 2002 and the present day.
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Inside Kodak, U.S.A.
As Kodak struggles to avoid bankruptcy, Economy 4.0's David Brancaccio visits Rochester, N.Y., to remember the middle class communities the company helped create.
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Why Do You Give to Charity?
If you're answer is: "For the tax breaks, of course!" you might be offered less of an incentive in the near future....
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"I Have Found a Flaw..."
These few words, a shocking admission at the time, were uttered by former chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, back in October 2008. ...
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Happy: The Movie
A new documentary about the search for happiness is playing in Boulder tonight, Bellingham tomorrow as well as Buffalo, New York City, Flagstaff,...
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The Appalachian Trail Index
On Tuesday, David checked in on some unconventional economic indicators from early in the recession, and while researching, another unusual indic...
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"The Department of Happiness"
The LA Times recently blogged about the possibility of a Department of Happiness:
Someday in the not-too-distant future, the U.S. departments...
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Watching Occupy Wall Street
As the protest enters it's fourth week, more and more people are heading down to Lower Manhattan to have a look for themselves at Occupy Wall...
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Before There Was Money, There Was Debt
Debt: The First 5,000 Years is a new book by anthropologist, author and general provocateur, David Graeber. It gives a long and global view on th...
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