Home S6E6 Live Finale Throughout history, the U.S. and other countries have paid reparations to a wide range of people and groups, for a variety S6E5: White Brutality Throughout the nation’s history, time and again, promising signs of African American progress have been shattered by acts of violence S6E4: Whitening the Middle Class Time and again, the route to upward mobility in American society has been blocked for African Americans. Consider the GI Bill, S6E3: A Tale of Two Cities How the Federal Government Promoted Housing Segregation and Thwarted Black Home Ownership Home ownership played an important role in how S6E2: This Land is My Land The Racial Wealth Gap’s Roots in Federal Policy The promise of “40 acres and a mule” officially was made in S6E1: Not So Long Ago One Nation Under Slavery White households in Boston have a median net worth of about $247,000 dollars. The median net Announcing Season 6 Series ARC of Justice The ARC of Justice: From Here to Equality The Ways & Means podcast series ARC of Justice responds to the Live Event: Climate Whistleblowers The Ways & Means podcast team hosted the live Climate Whistleblowers event as a part of Duke Energy Week 2020. S5E6 Reparations: How it Could Happen The question of whether and how to compensate descendants of people formerly enslaved in the United States has hung over S5E5 Secrets of Great Political Leadership What makes a great leader during a deeply divided time? And what can we learn from one of the most S5E4 When Local News Dries Up A look at why local news is struggling, why that matters for democracy and what can be done about it. S5E3 The Battle Over Guns in America - What's Changed On this episode of Ways and Means we ask – how did the gun control movement become a force in S5E2 Why Young People Don’t Vote – And How to Change That There’s a big gap between young Americans’ intention to vote and the chance that they will actually do it. In S5E1 How Afterschool Programs Can Empower Parents Research into how government-funded afterschool programs for poor families are empowering politically motivated parents. Features Chicago and Durham, NC programs. Ways & Means Podcast Dedicates Season Five to Issues in Politics Season 5 of Ways & Means is dedicated to issues in U.S. politics, civic life and hot topics in the S4E6 Beyond Elmo: How Puppets Teach Preschoolers Self-Control New research into how to best help children control themselves in the classroom. S4E5: Answering New Parents’ Cries for Help We go inside an innovative, free public program that helps new moms and dads adjust to life with a newborn. S4 Episode 4: Adding Up the Bill for Climate Change Who will take the hardest hit financially as the world heats up, and can anything be done about it? S4 Episode 3: A Small Green Idea to Power Rural Nepal A research team from Duke University treks into the Himalayas to investigate why a promising way to deliver electricity to S4 Episode 2: A Greener Commute: One City’s Story Using behavioral economics to nudge commuters into leaving their cars behind. S4 Episode 1: How Parenthood Affects Climate Change Skeptics Explore new research into how to overcome partisanship when it comes to belief about climate change. Climate Change Miniseries Season 4 launches with a miniseries featuring policy ideas for understanding and dealing with our changing climate. Ways & Means Podcast Wins Award for International Series Ways & Means wins CASE Award for the second year in a row. S3 Episode 6: Life After Loss for Orphans in Africa A research team is testing a novel new approach to helping orphans in Kenya get mental healthcare. S3 Episode 5: Childbirth, Babies & Bonuses New research on how providing incentives for doctors in the developing world might help more women survive childbirth. (Malur, India.) S3 Episode 4: How Sputnik Sent Women to College How the authors of the National Defense Education Act turned politics of crisis into a law that opened the door S3 Episode 3 How Do Criminals Get Their Guns? Learning about how criminals actually get their guns could lead to a change in how law enforcement does its job. S3 Episode 2: Robots, WikiLeaks & The Fight Against Human Trafficking There’s evidence that diplomacy and public shaming are helping shine a light on a problem that depends on secrecy to S3 Episode 1: Slum Detectives How researchers are using Google Earth to find the undocumented slums of India. S2 Episode 7: Secret Life of Muslims How hyper-vigilance about the possible threat of Muslim-American violence might be making all Americans less safe. 1 2 Next »
