Explain It to Me
Vox
Should I buy a house? Why do I say “like” so much? Should Gen Z bother to save for retirement?Explain It to Me is the hotline for the issues that matter to your life. Send us your questions about health, personal finance, relationships, and anything else that matters to you. Host Jonquilyn Hill will take you on a journey to find the answers, whether it's to the halls of Congress or the local bar. You’ll get the answers you were looking for, and sometimes ones you didn't expect — and always with a dose of humor. New episodes every Sunday. Part of Vox and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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Oct 18, 2017 • 9min
The Impact: The curious case of the $629 Band Aid
Introducing The Impact, a new show from Vox hosted by Sarah Kliff.
The Impact explores how policy affects real lives. This season, we’re focusing on healthcare, and the first episode tackles with one of thorniest questions in the American healthcare system: prices.
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Oct 17, 2017 • 1h 2min
How do you solve a problem like Harvey Weinstein?
Sarah, Ezra, and Matt dig into the Harvey Weinstein story, talk a bit about tax reform, and cover new research on Medicaid expansion and savings.
White paper: Medicaid and Household Savings Behavior: New Evidence from Tax Refunds
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Oct 13, 2017 • 1h 7min
Trump couldn't repeal Obamacare, so he's making it worse
Dylan Scott joins Sarah and Matt to dive into the newest forms of Obamacare sabotage, and to talk about heroin.
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Oct 10, 2017 • 1h 5min
CHIPping away at gerrymandering
Sarah, Ezra, and Matt talk about CHIP reauthorization, the Supreme Court's big gerrymandering case, and a seminal Richard Thaler paper (Mental Accounting and Consumer Choice).
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Oct 6, 2017 • 1h 3min
Republicans have big dreams and big problems on tax reform
Dylan Matthews and Andrew Prokop join Matt to talk about Republicans hopes, dreams, and nightmares on tax reform.
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Oct 3, 2017 • 1h 13min
Australia solved its gun problem. Could America?
Sarah, Ezra, and Matt talk about gun control in the wake of Las Vegas, the GOP tax reform blueprint, and job-sharing in Germany.
White paper: The Employment and Output Effects of Short-Time Work in Germany
Referenced articles:
What Do We Know About the Association Between Firearm Legislation and Firearm-Related Injuries?
A Dynamic Analysis of Permanent Extension of the President’s Tax Relief
After a year of work, Republicans have decided nothing on corporate tax reform (Matt's piece)
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Sep 29, 2017 • 55min
The Puerto Rico disaster and Trump's inadequate response
Eliza Barclay and Alexia Fernández Campbell join Matt to talk about Hurricane Maria and its aftermath.
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Sep 26, 2017 • 1h 8min
What's budget reconciliation, and how did it eat the Senate?
Sarah, Ezra, and Matt delve into Senate procedure arcana, break down the latest GOP repeal bill, and talk about a surprisingly easy way to reduce theft.
White paper: SNAP Benefits and Crime: Evidence from Changing Disbursement Schedules
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Sep 22, 2017 • 1h 23min
Weeds Live: Canadian immigration and a health insurance experiment
Dara Lind joins Matt and Sarah at the Now Hear This Festival to discuss the Canadian immigration system, and the audience chooses a white paper (https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9174.html) for them to talk about.
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Sep 20, 2017 • 1h 4min
The worst GOP healthcare bill yet
Ezra and Sarah parse through Graham-Cassidy, the latest Republican repeal bill.
White paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3025749
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