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Aug 6, 2020 · Season 2 · Episode 23
Joaquin Andrade on his bike

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  • Jul 16, 2020 · Season 2 · Episode 22

    Money makes me sick

    Believe it or not, this is what helping someone confront their finances looks like (in a pre-COVID) world.
    Ben Hethcoat/Marketplace

    Meet the professional auditor who can’t stand to look at his own bank account. Our team goes on an adventure to help a man who’s anxious about his spending get more comfortable checking his finances.

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  • Jul 2, 2020 · Season 2 · Episode 21

    The fight for fair pay in Big Tech

    Pinterest's headquarters in San Francisco in 2019.
    Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

    One woman’s fight against Silicon Valley’s racial pay gap. Plus, why it’s so hard for Black workers in tech to get ahead.

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  • Jun 18, 2020 · Season 2 · Episode 20

    How to pay for college

    Nikki Massie and her parents when she completed her bachelor's degree.
    Courtesy Nikki Massie

    Years ago, one woman put college on hold because she couldn’t afford it. Now she faces a hard choice to keep history from repeating itself. Plus: What will college even look like this fall?

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  • Jun 5, 2020 · Season 2 · Episode 19

    It’s expensive to get arrested

    It’s expensive to get arrested
    JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images

    A teenager protesting police brutality lands in jail, and we try to understand the tricky business of bail.

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  • May 28, 2020 · Season 2 · Episode 18

    Barred from benefits (from The Uncertain Hour)

    ![Some of the first recipients wait to receive benefits at the division office of the State Employment Service in San Francisco, California, 1938.
    Library of Congress

    Millions of Americans who are out of work don’t receive unemployment benefits. That’s by design. An episode from The Uncertain Hour’s pop-up season A History of Now.

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  • May 21, 2020 · Season 2 · Episode 17

    School’s out (forever?)

    When we started talking with Mayán Alvarado-Goldberg and Mahta Ahmed, she was planning to go to Northwestern on a full-tuition scholarship, and he was applying for the super-competitive engineering program at UCLA.
    Courtesy: Mayán Alvarado-Goldberg

    When you’re 17 or 18, you make choices that can dictate the course of your life. Making those choices during a pandemic is even harder.

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  • May 15, 2020 · Season 2 · Episode 16

    Our parents’ debts (from Terrible, Thanks for Asking)

    Our parents’ debts (from Terrible, Thanks for Asking)
    Courtesy: Terrible, Thanks for Asking

    This week, we’re featuring one of our favorite episodes of one of our favorite podcasts.

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  • May 7, 2020 · Season 2 · Episode 15

    From prison to pandemic

    After his exoneration and release from prison, Kevin Harrington had to spend two weeks self-quarantining at a hotel.
    Courtesy Daniel Harrington

    Kevin Harrington was exonerated last month after spending 17 years in prison for a first-degree murder conviction. He and his family are overjoyed, but the coronavirus pandemic means freedom looks a little different right now.

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  • Apr 30, 2020 · Season 2 · Episode 14

    Confessions of a shopaholic

    Online shopping doesn't hit quite the same.
    Spencer Platt/Getty Images

    Is a global pandemic the best or worst time to confront a shopping addiction and pay off a dozen credit cards? For this woman, it’s been a bit of both.

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About the show

This is Uncomfortable is the award-winning show about life and how money messes with it. Each week, Marketplace’s Reema Khrais explores how money shapes our decisions, relationships, and sense of self through conversations that are intimate, surprising, and deeply human. From the economic headlines that hit our wallets to the choices that keep us up at night, the show digs into the money questions we’re too afraid to ask and gives listeners a way to feel less alone in this increasingly complicated world. Produced and distributed by Marketplace from American Public Media, you can find “This Is Uncomfortable” wherever you get your podcasts.

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