Media professionals can get more information in the media kit.

Selected Media Interviews and Mentions

BBC News: Will coronavirus change America’s jobless stigma?
By Natalie Sherman

Next Question with Katie Couric: How will the pandemic change jobs—and who will be left behind?
Interview by Katie Couric

Página/12 (Argentina): El desempleo amenaza con convertirse en la nueva pandemia de Estados Unidos
By Guido Vassallo

Book: Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
By Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

• From the Publishers Weekly review: “Kristof and WuDunn avoid pity while creating empathy for their subjects, and effectively advocate for a ‘morality of grace’ to which readers should hold policy makers accountable.”

The New York Times: Who Killed the Knapp Family?
By Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

The Atlantic: The Not-So-Great Reason Divorce Rates Are Declining
By Joe Pinsker

Book: The War on Normal People: The Truth about America’s Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
By Andrew Yang

NPR’s With Good Reason
Interview by Sarah McConnell
—Full interview embedded above (segment begins at 1:10)
—Feature story (3:36)
—Rebroadcast on May 15, 2020

The Leonard Lopate Show
Interview by Leonard Lopate, WNYC, New York Public Radio

BBC News: American Dream breeds shame and blame for job seekers
By Debbie Siegelbaum

Selected Writing

Cooperatives can make economies more resilient to crises like COVID-19 (with Katherine K. Chen)
Fortune

The Second Phase of Unemployment Will Be Harsher (with Ofer Sharone)
The Atlantic

Meritocracy’s Casualties
Dissent

Adulting While Poor
Dissent

Beware of this misleading snapshot
Newsday

America, Home of the Transactional Marriage
The Atlantic

Are Campus Activists Too Dogmatic?
The Atlantic

The Spiritual Crisis of the Modern Economy
The Atlantic

An Economy of Grace
Religions

Living in an Extreme Meritocracy Is Exhausting
The Atlantic

All Hollowed Out: The Lonely Poverty of America’s White Working Class
The Atlantic

Forget Denmark: The United States Should Emulate Canada
The Atlantic

Other Selected Writings

• The Pain Behind the Pennsylvania Primary, Zócalo Public Square
• No full-time worker should live in poverty, Newsday
• Hate the Game, Contexts
• Some Sociological Inspiration, Orgtheory
• The Journalist and the Ethnographer, Orgtheory
• To Anonymize, or Not to Anonymize, Orgtheory
• The Page 99 Test, Campaign for the American Reader
• Debunking the myth of self-made success, Zócalo Public Square

Other Selected Interviews

Central Time
Interview by Rob Ferrett, Wisconsin Public Radio

Virginia Public Radio: Census Data Suggests Gap Between the Rich and Poor Varies Across Virginia and Proposed Cuts to SNAP Benefits Could Hit Rural Virginia Especially Hard
By Michael Pope

Think
Interview by Krys Boyd, KERA, Dallas (NPR affiliate)

Central Time
Interview by Veronica Ruekert, Wisconsin Public Radio

New Books Network
Interview by CUNY’s Richard Ocejo

Virginia Public Radio: Food Stamps in Virginia: A Look at the Numbers
By Michael Pope

8News Investigates: Food stamp fraud
Interview by Kerri O’Brien, 8News (ABC affiliate), Richmond, Virginia

The Joy Cardin Show
Interview by Joy Cardin, Wisconsin Public Radio

Viewpoints
By Gary Price

America’s Work Force Radio
Interview by Ed “Flash” Ferenc

The David Pakman Show
Interview by David Pakman (segment begins at 30:25)

• The Peter B. Collins Show
• The Matt Townsend Show, BYUradio, Provo, Utah
• The Voice of the People, interview by Tony Trupiano, BlogTalkRadio (segments begin at 30:00), August 10, 2015, August 3, 2015, July 27, 2015, July 20, 2015
• The Rick Smith Show (video), Carlisle, Pennsylvania
• Stateside with Cynthia Canty, Michigan Radio, Ann Arbor, Michigan (NPR affiliate)
• 8 O’Clock Buzz, interview by Jan Miyasaki, WORT FM, Madison, Wisconsin
• The Matthew Filipowicz Show (video), Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
• The Progressive Forum, KPFT 90.1 FM, Houston, Texas
• The Joe Show, KBAI 930 AM, Bellingham, Washington
• The Peter Werbe Show, WRIF 101, Detroit
• UComm Radio with Kris LaGrange, WABC, New York (segment begins at 25:23)
• The Union Edge (segment begins at 7:15)
• Equal Time Radio, interview by Traven Leyshon, WDEV, Vermont
• Conversations LIVE with Cyrus Webb, BlogTalkRadio
• The Frankie Boyer Show, BizTalkRadio
• IdeaSphere, interview by Guy Rathbun, KCBX, San Luis Obispo, California (NPR affiliate)