1500 Stories

A podcast about something Americans don't like to talk about--economic class. No matter where we fall on the economic ladder, everyone has a story.

1500 Stories Episode 11 Twinning 07/22/2021

1500 Stories Episode 11 Twinning 1500 Stories take a break from the gloom and doom of class and economic inequality in the U.S. to share the stories of people who are twins, in this sweet and entertaining bonus episode written and edited entirely by interns for the project. /episode/index/show/1500stories/id/19890323

1500 Stories Episode 10 Even the Engineers Are Renting Part Two 06/10/2021

1500 Stories Episode 10 Even the Engineers Are Renting Part Two This episode is the second of a two-parter about the housing crisis in the Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay Area. It focuses on stories at both end of the housing crisis--home owners and the unhoused. /episode/index/show/1500stories/id/19422338

1500 Stories Episode 9 Even the Engineers Are Renting Part One 05/27/2021

1500 Stories Episode 9 Even the Engineers Are Renting Part One This episode is the first of a two-parter about the housing crisis in the Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay Area. It explores stories of how expensive it is to live here, how overcrowded housing gets a result, and how the high cost of living makes it difficult to get ahead. /episode/index/show/1500stories/id/19208738

1500 Stories Episode 8 Farming while Black or Brown Part 2 05/13/2021

1500 Stories Episode 8 Farming while Black or Brown Part 2 Agrarian realities today look a lot more like industrial realities, thanks to the rise and dominance of commercial agriculture. And like all industrial realities, farmwork is shaped by the indignities of racism and poverty in the U.S. /episode/index/show/1500stories/id/17753024

1500 Stories Episode 7 Farming while Black or Brown Part 1 04/22/2021

1500 Stories Episode 7 Farming while Black or Brown Part 1 This mini-series about farm work and the agrarian myth asked us to move beyond our images of red barns and silos. These next two episodes explore what it means to farm while black or brown, or more precisely what it means to do farm work while black and brown. Because the stories of Black and Latinx 1500 Stories respondents who grew up doing farm work aren’t stories about family farms. They are stories about laboring in the fields for commercial agriculture. /episode/index/show/1500stories/id/17752973

1500 Stories Episode 6 Beyond Red Barns and Silos Part 2 04/08/2021

1500 Stories Episode 6 Beyond Red Barns and Silos Part 2 This episode looks behind Americans imaginings and stereotypes about rural life--what scholars call the agrarian myth--to see the realities underneath. The realities of rural life turn out to be a lot more complex than our stereotypes. /episode/index/show/1500stories/id/17752904

1500 Stories Episode 5 Beyond Red Barns and Silos Part 1 03/25/2021

1500 Stories Episode 5 Beyond Red Barns and Silos Part 1 In the first of a four episode mini-series exploring the myths and realities of farm work in the U.S., we go beneath the surface of what social scientists refer to as the agrarian myth to share the more complex experiences of people who spent their formative years working on farms. /episode/index/show/1500stories/id/17752838

1500 Stories Episode 4 There Is No Such Thing as Middle Class 03/11/2021

1500 Stories Episode 4 There Is No Such Thing as Middle Class In this third and final episode of a mini-series about middle-classness in the U.S., we explore the curious contradiction that while many Americans prefer to identify as middle class, many also question whether the middle class even exists anymore. Many view the class system as one in which the middle class has largely disappeared. /episode/index/show/1500stories/id/17752784

1500 Stories Episode 3 The Happy Medium 02/25/2021

1500 Stories Episode 3 The Happy Medium In the second episode of a three part mini-series exploring the appeal of “middle-classness” as a label, we hear from ordinary Americans about what middle-classness means to them. Middle-classness isn’t just a matter of not being poor or not being rich financially; it is about being seen as a certain type of person. /episode/index/show/1500stories/id/17752691

1500 Stories Episode 2 Not Rich Not Poor 02/11/2021

1500 Stories Episode 2 Not Rich Not Poor Not Rich Not Poor is the first of a three episode mini-series on the appeal of “middle-classness” as a label. No matter how much money Americans have, many still insist on the label of middle-class. This episode focuses on the economic reasons why people prefer to see themselves as middle class. /episode/index/show/1500stories/id/17585111

1500 Stories--Trailer 01/10/2021

1500 Stories--Trailer The 1500 Stories podcast cracks open the uncomfortable subjects of money and economic class. 1500 Stories is an art and digital storytelling project about economic inequality in the United States and its host, Jen Myhre, is an artist and sociologist. Since 2015, over 700 Americans, people living in very different economic situations, have opened up to the project about their lives. In each episode, we’ll hear them share openly about things Americans avoid talking about. /episode/index/show/1500stories/id/17409812

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