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OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas — 100 episodes

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Inside West Virginia's New Economic Bill of Rights–with Troy N. Miller

2

Redefining Wealth–with Aisha Nyandoro

3

Shifting the Paradigm on Disability Employment—with Bryan Gill and Nan Gibson

4

"It doesn't have to be this way"—with Jen Burdick of Community Legal Services

5

Older Workers in Physically Challenging Jobs Are in Trouble

6

Inside the Voices of Disability Economic Justice Project–with Emily Ladau

7

Labor of Love: A Sit-down with America's Most Celebrated Labor Reporter—with Steven Greenhouse

8

American Identity in Crisis–with Kat Calvin

9

Inside the Disabled Journalists' Association–with Cara Reedy

10

Speaking about pain—with Kate Nicholson

11

"Find your north star and your strategy" —with Indi Dutta-Gupta

12

"Combining head and heart in the work" —with Kathleen Romig

13

"My passion is my superpower"—with Zaki "The Barber" Smith

14

On Resilience—with Alejandra Vazquez-Baur

15

"Lead with empathy, fight with fire"—with Mia Ives-Rublee

16

Claiming Identity as Self-Care —feat. Andraea Lavant

17

The Poverty Line Is Too Damn Low, Part 2: Redefining Poverty as Collective Self-Care

18

How to Embed a Disability Lens Across Policymaking (and detoxing from the White House as self-care, too!) —feat. Kim Knackstedt

19

"Finding Beauty in the Struggle"—feat. Michele Evermore

20

Marking a Year of Collective Progress for Disability Economic Justice

21

"We're Either Whole Human Beings or We're Cogs in the Wheel"—feat. Julie Kashen

22

"You Have to Work Until You Die" and Other Barriers to Self-Care for People with Disabilities

23

"Swimming with Dragons": What We Can Learn From "Spoon Theory" About Self-Care

24

Learning from Long-Haulers about Rest and Radical Pacing

25

Time Travel as a Tool for Social Change and Self-Care

26

Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About Boundaries But Were Afraid to Ask

27

Celebrating Judy Heumann, Godmother of the Disability Rights Movement (1947-2023)

28

How Philanthropy Can Support Self-Care for Social Justice Leaders

29

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility as Self-care (and Intuition, Too!)

30

The Economic and Emotional Costs of Masking

31

Finding the Technique That's Relevant for You

32

"Work Won't Love You Back"

33

Self-Care Is Political Warfare

34

The Stock Market Is Not the Economy

35

"Tough-on-Crime" Fearmongering Falls Flat in the Midterms

36

Updating the Archetype of Public Policy Expert

37

"Believe Disabled People": How the Pod Access Initiative Is Removing Barriers to Entry for Deaf and Disabled Podcasters

38

SSI at 50: The Safety Net America Forgot

39

Your Work Is Not Your Worth, Part 2

40

Your Work Is Not Your Worth

41

"We Will Not Go Back to Normal": Moving Beyond 'Cutting Poverty' to a Vision of Economic Liberation

42

Visioning the Future of Disability Policy

43

Not a Crime to be Disabled: The Criminalization of Disability in America

44

Reproductive Justice is Disability Justice

45

"The Long Haul": How Long COVID Fits Into Disability Policy (Part 2 of an #ADA2022 Special)

46

"The Long Haul": Inside the Patient Advocacy Revolution of the COVID Era (Part 1 of an #ADA2022 Special

47

"Child Poverty Was Always a Political Choice": What's Next for America's Child Allowance?

48

Trevor Smith on How We Build Narrative Power behind Reparations

49

The Human Toll of Defunding the Social Security Administration

50

Inside the Fight for Automatic Record-Clearing with Leaders from the Clean Slate Movement

51

The Road Ahead for Roe

52

How Student Debt Became a $1.6 Trillion Crisis

53

Announcing the Disability Economic Justice Collaborative

54

"Ban Secret Deals": Meet the New Coalition Working to Ban NDAs in Corporate Subsidy Deals

55

"The Invisible Kingdom"

56

Meet TCF's New Disability Economic Justice Team

57

'Racism Is Profitable': How Liberation in a Generation Is Putting People of Color at the Center of Policy Change

58

How The Kelsey Is Putting Disabled People at the Center of Housing Policy

59

Putting People at the Center of Criminal Justice Reform

60

Putting People at the Center of Climate Policy

61

How to Put People at the Center of Policy Change

62

Rebecca Cokley on Leading the First U.S. Disability Rights Portfolio at a Major U.S. Foundation

63

The Real Culprit Driving Inflation? Corporate Greed.

64

The End of Roe v. Wade?

65

An Open Letter from West Virginia Moms to Senator Manchin on Build Back Better

66

The Long Road Ahead for the Millions with "Long COVID"

67

"The Kids Aren't Alright": Biden's Plan for Overhauling America's House-of-Cards Child Care System

68

"Crime, Boy, I Don't Know…."

69

Inside the Push to Remake "the Fed"

70

The Poverty Line Is Too Damn Low

71

The Racist Roots of Work Requirements

72

Lindsay Owens on This Week's D.C. Drama and Progressives' Push to #HoldTheLine

73

"It's Just Been Like This Rolling Cliff:" What's Next for America's Crumbling Unemployment Insurance System?

74

Inside the Fight to Make America's New Child Allowance Permanent

75

The ongoing fight for disability economic justice, over thirty years after the ADA

76

Off-Kilter Podcast Announces New Launch with The Century Foundation

77

Why Strengthening SSI Needs to Be Part of "Building Back Better"

78

"Broke in America"--feat. Joanne Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox

79

What's Really Going on in the Labor Market -- feat. Heidi Shierholz

80

State Leaders Talk #SecondChanceMonth: Fair Chance Licensing and Clean Slate

81

Cage Free Cannabis Talks #SecondChanceMonth -- feat. co-founder Adam Vine and National Expungement Week's Felicia Carbajal

82

Desmond Meade and Sheena Meade Talk Second Chance Month

83

The Second Chance Gap -- feat. JJ Prescott and Colleen Chien

84

Eligibility doesn't equal access — feat. Center for Taxpayer Rights' Nina Olson and Community Legal Services' Jen Burdick

85

Reimagining Anti-Monopoly Activism Through Racial Justice -- feat. Liberation in a Generation's Jeremie Greer

86

The Ever-Growing Case for Guaranteed Income -- feat. Dorian Warren and Aisha Nyandoro

87

Help Is On the Way

88

You Shouldn't Need a Law Degree to Access Disability Benefits

89

Claudia Sahm on why we shouldn't be worried about inflation right now

90

The Case for a U.S. Child Allowance

91

How Biden is Expanding SNAP

92

When will the pandemic end?

93

Inside the Raise the Wage Act, with EPI's David Cooper

94

Vox's Ian Millhiser on why we need to nuke the filibuster to save democracy

95

How President-Elect Biden Could Cut Poverty in Half Without the GOP -- Feat. Vox's Dylan Matthews

96

Sherrod Brown on the COVID relief workers & families urgently need

97

"How Mass Incarceration Became a Poverty Trap"

98

Transition Talk with Dorian Warren + Angela Hanks

99

Down-Ballot Deep Dive with Daniel Nichanian

100

The Purge, 2020 edition