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What’s the Skinny on Laws that Make Salaries Public? - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

What’s the Skinny on Laws that Make Salaries Public?

Thanksgiving Prep: An Optimist’s Guide to Dinner Table Debate - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

Thanksgiving Prep: An Optimist’s Guide to Dinner Table Debate

Retcon on Season One (+ Executive Orderpalooza) - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

Retcon on Season One (+ Executive Orderpalooza)

How Health Insurance Got Shackled to Jobs - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

How Health Insurance Got Shackled to Jobs

Optimist Q&A: Evidence for UBI, What to Do About Billionaires, and Where Will the U.S. Economy Be After Trump? - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

Optimist Q&A: Evidence for UBI, What to Do About Billionaires, and Where Will the U.S. Economy Be After Trump?

Can We Fix America's Broken Unemployment Insurance System? - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

Can We Fix America's Broken Unemployment Insurance System?

The Ghost Recession: A Brief Economic History of Now - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

The Ghost Recession: A Brief Economic History of Now

The Cash-for-Kids Study: Misread and Misrepresented - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

The Cash-for-Kids Study: Misread and Misrepresented

The Case for Going Big on Paid Leave - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

The Case for Going Big on Paid Leave

Aren’t Free School Meals a Conservative's Dream Policy? - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

Aren’t Free School Meals a Conservative's Dream Policy?

Looking Beyond the Unemployment Rate - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

Looking Beyond the Unemployment Rate

GDP Was Never Going to Make You Happy - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

GDP Was Never Going to Make You Happy

How to Actually Help Young Men Struggling in Our Economy - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

How to Actually Help Young Men Struggling in Our Economy

What You Don’t Know About Poverty - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

What You Don’t Know About Poverty

Q&A Part 2: Working Two Jobs, Incentives vs. Handouts, the Gold Standard, and Government ROI - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

Q&A Part 2: Working Two Jobs, Incentives vs. Handouts, the Gold Standard, and Government ROI

Q&A Part 1: Tax Philosophy, Liberal vs. Conservative Economists, Marriage vs. Poverty and More - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

Q&A Part 1: Tax Philosophy, Liberal vs. Conservative Economists, Marriage vs. Poverty and More

A Million Reasons to Raise the Minimum Wage - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

A Million Reasons to Raise the Minimum Wage

Collective Bargaining Without the Unionization Battles - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

Collective Bargaining Without the Unionization Battles

The Tax We’re 99.93% Sure That You Will Never Pay - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

The Tax We’re 99.93% Sure That You Will Never Pay

About That College Grad Who Can’t Find a Job… - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

About That College Grad Who Can’t Find a Job…

Simple Immigration Economics: Bigger is Better - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

Simple Immigration Economics: Bigger is Better

Work Requirements Don’t Work - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

Work Requirements Don’t Work

The U.S. is in the Hole. Will We Stop Digging? - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

The U.S. is in the Hole. Will We Stop Digging?

College Rules! But Student Loans are a Hot Mess! - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

College Rules! But Student Loans are a Hot Mess!

OE Lightning Round: Kathryn Edwards Takes Your Economy Questions - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

OE Lightning Round: Kathryn Edwards Takes Your Economy Questions

The Invisible Hand Doesn’t Want to Change Diapers - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

The Invisible Hand Doesn’t Want to Change Diapers

A Family Bill for a Shrinking U.S. - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

A Family Bill for a Shrinking U.S.

Progress is a Long Game - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

Progress is a Long Game

Paid Sick Days for Lady Gaga (and Everyone Else Too) - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

Paid Sick Days for Lady Gaga (and Everyone Else Too)

AI Suggested Five Horrible Titles for This Episode - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

AI Suggested Five Horrible Titles for This Episode

Work Rules for the Modern World - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

Work Rules for the Modern World

Robin Loves a Tax Story - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

Robin Loves a Tax Story

Social Security Don’t Miss - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

Social Security Don’t Miss

Is This a Recession or Not? - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

Is This a Recession or Not?

An Elegy for the DEI Boogeyman - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

An Elegy for the DEI Boogeyman

All We've Tried is Nothing! - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

All We've Tried is Nothing!

Welcome to Optimist Economy - Optimist Economy Podcast Episode

Welcome to Optimist Economy

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What’s the Skinny on Laws that Make Salaries Public?

What’s the Skinny on Laws that Make Salaries Public?