Society Episode 8: Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Starts With the Truth Claire Suddath 4/29/21, 4:00 AM EDT My family owned slaves. I wanted to know more about that.
equality Episode 7: How to Repay a Community For Discrimination, Lessons from the U.K. Olivia Konotey-Ahulu 4/22/21, 4:00 AM EDT Episode 7 of The Pay Check podcast looks at why Britain’s Windrush Compensation Scheme became a cautionary tale
equality Episode 6: Who Gets How Much Susan Berfield 4/15/21, 9:03 AM EDT A small city agreed almost unanimously that reparations were called for. Then the arguments began in earnest.
equality Episode 5: The Complicated Relationship Between Black Wealth and Education Kelsey Butler 4/8/21, 4:00 AM EDT Episode 5 of The Pay Check takes a hard look at affirmative action and its promises and failures.
equality Episode 4: Four Numbers That Explain Racial Disparities in Homeownership Brentin Mock 4/1/21, 4:00 AM EDT Episode 4 of The Pay Check Podcast takes on the persistent inequality in one of the main sources of intergenerational wealth: homeownership.
Capital Episode 3: How Black Farmers Fought the Wealth Gap Elizabeth Rembert and Shelly Banjo 3/25/21, 8:29 AM EDT Black farmers received $20.8 million from Trump's Covid relief packages. Now, the American Rescue Plan dedicates $5 billion to farmers of color. The inequity is part of a long legacy of discrimination.
Podcast Episode 2: Four Numbers That Show the Cost of Slavery on Black Wealth Today Catarina Saraiva 3/18/21, 4:00 AM EDT Episode 2 of The Pay Check podcast does the math on moments in U.S. history that led to the racial wealth gap.
equality Episode 1: My Family’s Long-Gone Texas Land Shows How Black Wealth Is Won and Lost Jacqueline Simmons 3/11/21, 4:00 AM EST When I searched my ancestral history, I found clues to a legacy of land redistribution.
Capital Coming Soon: The Pay Check Season 3 Rebecca Greenfield 3/2/21, 9:46 AM EST An in depth look at the racial wealth gap in the U.S.
Business Episode 6: When the U.S. Government Paid For Childcare Francesca Levy 5/15/19, 5:00 AM EDT In the last episode of The Pay Check, we explore the lasting legacy of a radical World War II-era experiment.
Business Episode 5: Reversing the One-Child Policy Isn’t As Easy As Just Ending It Jillian Goodman 5/8/19, 6:00 AM EDT More than 30 years of restricting births have left China with a demographic crisis.
Business Episode 4: Dads Should Take Paternity Leave. Here’s Why Jillian Goodman 5/1/19, 6:40 AM EDT Until men are as involved in childcare as women, moms will continue to take a pay hit.
economics Episode 3: Elizabeth Warren’s Childcare Policy Could Spark $700 Billion of Growth Janet Paskin 4/24/19, 6:00 AM EDT Episode three of The Pay Check examines how the cost of childcare holds back women’s earning power. Is there a better way?
Business Episode 2: Was Your Boss Weird About Your Pregnancy? You’re Not the Only One Claire Suddath 4/17/19, 10:10 AM EDT On this week’s episode of The Pay Check, a look at pregnancy discrimination and why companies struggle to treat expectant moms fairly
economics Episode 1: Having Kids Is Terrible for Women’s Earning Power Janet Paskin 4/10/19, 6:00 AM EDT Bloomberg’s The Pay Check returns for an in-depth look at how motherhood explains so much of the $28 trillion global gender-pay gap
economics Episode 1: A Big, Expensive, Global Mystery Jordyn Holman 5/9/18, 5:00 AM EDT In the first episode of The Pay Check, we go deep on pay discrimination. Host Rebecca Greenfield tells us about an equal pay fight in her own family. We take you inside a gender discrimination case that’s been unfolding at Goldman Sachs for over a decade. And we look at how companies magically make their pay gaps disappear—without actually paying women more
Business Episode 2: The Surprising Origins of the Gender Pay Gap Rebecca Greenfield and Claire Suddath 5/16/18, 5:01 AM EDT Rebecca Greenfield talks to Claire Suddath about how a century of rules and laws saying what women can and can’t do have made it easy for companies to pay women less. Then Claire talks with Lilly Ledbetter, whose fight for gender equality at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. seemed like an open and shut case—until a loophole in the law denied her justice.
Business Episode 3: Why Some People Don’t Believe in the Pay Gap Francesca Levy, Rebecca Greenfield, Jordyn Holman and Max Abelson 5/23/18, 5:01 AM EDT Skeptics say the gender pay gap is explained by choices women make about family and career. Rebecca Greenfield unpacks those arguments with the help of professors from Harvard and Georgetown. Then, Jordyn Holman goes inside a contract negotiation between Netflix and the comedian and actress Mo’Nique that went south.
Business Episode 4: Can Companies Be Shamed Into Closing the Pay Gap? Rebecca Greenfield, Suzi Ring and Claire Suddath 5/30/18, 5:00 AM EDT The U.K.’s big, nationwide experiment for pay equality just started. It’s already creating a big mess.
Business Episode 5: The Company Where Everybody Knows What You Make Rebecca Greenfield 6/6/18, 5:00 AM EDT After years of pay secrecy, Fog Creek has revealed the salaries of all its employees.
Business Episode 6: These Women Want to Solve the Pay Gap. Are They Discriminating? Rebecca Greenfield and Jordyn Holman 6/13/18, 5:00 AM EDT Ladies Get Paid just wanted to help women get more money. Then it got sued.
Business Bonus Episode: ‘Have You Ever Been Sexually Harassed?’ Rebecca Greenfield 8/22/18, 5:00 AM EDT Sallie Krawcheck, a pioneer for women in finance, talks with up-and-comer Bianca Caban about the uncomfortable reality of being a woman in a male-dominated industry
Business Bonus Episode: 'Why Aren't There More Women in Poker?' Rebecca Greenfield 8/29/18, 4:00 AM EDT First we head to the competitive world of poker, where stakes are high and representation of women is low. Then we talk to journalists Manoush Zomorodi and Rose Eveleth talk about sexism in media and the difficulties of finding a mentor.