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About Stephen Pimpare
Stephen Pimpare is Professor of Public Policy at Vermont Law and Graduate School. He is the author of The New Victorians (New Press, 2004), A People's History of Poverty (New Press, 2008), Ghettos, Tramps & Welfare Queens (Oxford, 2017), and Politics for Social Workers (Columbia, 2021).NBN Episodes hosted by Stephen:
September 5, 2024
A Second Chance
The police officer who brutalized Abner Louima. A purveyor of child pornography. These are some of the defendants to have come before U.S. District Co…
August 18, 2024
Protect Your People
Over two million Americans are currently in prison or jail. Another 4.5 million are on probation or parole. And nearly one in two Americans have a fam…
August 11, 2024
Class Attitudes in American Politics
It has long been a truism that Americans’ disdain for poor people--our collective sense that if they only worked harder or behaved more responsibly th…
July 18, 2024
Equal Care
Health inequity is one of the defining problems of our time. But current efforts to address the problem focus on mitigating the harms of injustice rat…
July 9, 2024
Dismantling Mass Incarceration
In recent years, a searching national conversation has called attention to the social and racial injustices that define America’s criminal system. The…
May 30, 2024
Poverty for Profit
Poverty is big business in America. The federal government spends about $900 billion a year on programs that directly or disproportionately impact poo…
May 24, 2024
The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison
For 40 years, this classic text has taken the issue of economic inequality seriously and asked: Why are our prisons filled with the poor? Why aren't t…
March 30, 2024
Work, Retire, Repeat
The issue of the future of Social Security, on which millions of Americans depend, produced great political theater at the State of the Union address.…
March 22, 2024
Universal Basic Income
Karl Widerquist's Universal Basic Income (MIT Press, 2024) is an accessible introduction to the simple (yet radical) premise that a small cash income…
March 12, 2024
Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land
Two decades ago, a group of Indonesian agricultural workers began occupying the agribusiness plantation near their homes. In the years since, members …
March 1, 2024
Life Underground
Aboveground, Manhattan’s Riverside Park provides open space for the densely populated Upper West Side. Beneath its surface run railroad tunnels, disus…
February 17, 2024
Handbook of Research Methods and Applications for Social Movements
Addressing practice-oriented questions, this handbook engages with both theoretical and political dimensions, unpacking the multidimensional nature of…
February 7, 2024
The Alternative
Winners Take All meets Nickel and Dimed: a provocative debunking of accepted wisdom, providing the pathway to a sustainable, survivable economy. Conf…
February 4, 2024
Grassroots Activisms: Public Rhetorics in Localized Contexts
What is the nature of grassroots activism? How and why do individuals get involved or attempt to make change for themselves, others, or their own comm…
February 3, 2024
Dignity Not Debt
American households have a debt problem. The problem is not, as often claimed, that Americans recklessly take on too much debt. The problem is that US…
January 22, 2024
The Stigma Trap
An eye-opening look at how all American workers, even the highly educated and experienced, are vulnerable to the stigma of unemployment. After receiv…
December 20, 2023
Postindustrial DIY
A pioneering Detroit automobile factory. A legendary iron mill at the edge of Pittsburgh. A campus of concrete grain elevators in Buffalo. Two monumen…
December 1, 2023
Practical Radicals
In the tradition of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals and Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce’s Practical Radicals: Seven Str…
November 12, 2023
Countermobilization
The most successful policies not only solve problems. They also build supportive coalitions. Yet, sometimes, policies trigger backlash and mobilize op…
October 14, 2023
Why SNAP Works
How did the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program evolve from a Depression-era effort to use up surplus goods into America's foundational food ass…
October 12, 2023
Rust Belt Union Blues
In the heyday of American labor, the influence of local unions extended far beyond the workplace. Unions fostered tight-knit communities, touching nea…
October 1, 2023
When We Walk By
Think about the last time that you saw or interacted with an unhoused person. What did you do? What did you say? Did you offer money or a smile, or di…
September 17, 2023
Your Money Or Your Life
A riveting exposé of medical debt collection in America -- and the profound financial and physical costs eroding patient trust in medicine For the cri…
September 15, 2023
Poverty in the Pandemic
Zachary Parolin's book Poverty in the Pandemic: Policy Lessons from COVID-19 (Russell Sage Foundation, 2023) is interested in poverty during the COVID…