TED Talks
TED: What does poverty look like on a plate? | Huiyi Lin
TED Fellow and economic policy researcher Huiyi Lin is cocreator of "The Poverty Line," an art project examining poverty through the lens of food. By photographing the daily food choices of people living at the poverty line in 38...
Crash Course
The Economics of Healthcare: Crash Course Econ
Why is health care so expensive? Once again, there are a lot of factors in play. Jacob and Adriene look at the many reasons that health care in the US is so expensive, and what exactly we get for all that money. Spoiler alert: countries...
SciShow
Bad Science: Breast Milk and Formula
We've all heard, “breast is best," but is it true? What's the real science behind breast milk and baby formula?
TED Talks
TED: Poverty isn't a lack of character; it's a lack of cash | Rutger Bregman
Ideas can and do change the world, says historian Rutger Bregman, sharing his case for a provocative one: guaranteed basic income. Learn more about the idea's 500-year history and a forgotten modern experiment where it actually worked --...
TED Talks
Hans Rosling: The magic washing machine
What was the greatest invention of the industrial revolution? Hans Rosling makes the case for the washing machine. With newly designed graphics from Gapminder, Rosling shows us the magic that pops up when economic growth and electricity...
Curated Video
Lebanon’s ‘orchestrated’ financial crisis bringing poverty to the middle classes | On The Ground
Lebanon was once known as the Paris of the Middle East, but is now in the grip of one of the worst economic collapses in modern history, according to the World Bank. The global body has blasted the country’s ruling class for...
PBS
Does Wealth Make You Meaner?
Books and movies love to show wealthy people as cruel, unfeeling, and miserly. Turns out science has an explanation for why greater amounts of wealth can turn us into Scrooges. Should you just avoid growing your wealth… or is there a...
Healthcare Triage
The Medicaid Expansion and Its Effects
So often, when we implement new policy, I wish we had better ways to capture its effects so that we could expand our knowledge base as to how decisions change health and health care. The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, and its older...
Healthcare Triage
Obamacare Helped the Uninsured, but the Underinsured, Not So Much
The Affordable Care Act in the US, like most health care reform efforts, focuses on uninsurance. That's fine, as people without insurance do face significant problems accessing the healthcare system in the United States. But...
Healthcare Triage
The Senate's BCRA Bill: High Premiums, Huge Deductibles, AND Massive Medicaid Cuts
Republicans in Congress continue their attempts to repeal and replace Obamacare, but the bill is moving through the Senate more slowly than Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell would like. This week, Aaron tells you all about the Better Care...
Healthcare Triage
Obamacare and October 1st: Healthcare Triage #1
Healthcare Triage is a new series from Dr. Aaron Carroll and the team behind Crash Course and Mental Floss Videos. In this episode, Aaron gets a visit from noted hypochondriac John Green, and allays some of his fears about Obamacare. He...
TLDR News
The Explosion in Beirut Explained: What Really Happened & What Happens Now? - TLDR News
On Tuesday news spread about a huge explosion in Beirut (Lebanon). At the time it was unclear where the blast came from and what impact it would have. Just over a day later we now want to run through what we currently believe happened,...
Hip Hughes History
ObamaCare: The Affordable Care Act Explained
Explaining the fundamentals of Obamacare for students and lifelong learners.
Healthcare Triage
CBO to Trump: Ending Cost Sharing Increases Deficit
This week, the Congressional Budget Office delivered a report on how Donald Trump's suggestion that the federal government may stop making cost sharing payments to private health insurance companies. This would be problematic for health...
Financial Times
Crunched: is capitalism really ending poverty?
The FT's Federica Cocco and John Burn-Murdoch look at the measures for poverty and inequality and unpick the argument that capitalism is benefiting everyone.
Healthcare Triage
TANF, Cash Assistance, and How Work Requirements Effect Poverty Relief
Last week we talked about different ways to promote work in safety net programs: incentives or carrots, like the Earned Income Tax Credit and disincentives or sticks like work requirements. Policy makers have tried out work requirements...
The Economist
Mapping poverty in America
America is the richest country in the world, but it also has one of the biggest divides between rich and poor. What can a zip code reveal about inequality?
The Economist
Can poverty ever be eradicated?
Poverty rates have fallen faster in the past 30 years than at any other time on record. This is a remarkable achievement, but one in five people in developing countries still live on less than $1.90 a day. The UN wants to eradicate...
Healthcare Triage
The Healthcare System of the United States
We've been getting a lot of requests to talk about the health care systems of different countries. It's really hard to compress the complexities of each into an episode, but we're going to try. First up is the United States. Others will...
Curated Video
Trump Tariff: Trump Calls India & Russia Dead Economies, Slaps Penalties for Oil
Trump Tariff: Trump Calls India & Russia Dead Economies, Slaps Penalties for Oil |
Curated Video
How is extreme poverty being measured in China?
President declares victory over destitution, but critics are questioning poverty bar and sustainability of initiative.
Curated Video
Who should look after migrant workers affected by the pandemic?
Remittances dry up as foreign workers lose their jobs and salaries.
Curated Video
Power bills are going up — and this housing advocate says people living on the financial edge will feel it
While the provincial government announced tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to keep electricity bills from skyrocketing, customers could be paying 10 per cent more come Canada Day. Dan Meades, co-ordinator of transition houses in...
Curated Video
Why some say disability support budget measure falls short
People who receive disability support payments are expressing disappointment about a measure in the new federal budget. They say Ottawa's new Canada Disability Benefit doesn't come close to meeting the objective of lifting people with...