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The Poverty Trap

Joan DeMartin

A Podcast for those who are fed up with the inequality baked into America's system and want to collectively make change. povertytrap.substack.com

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144 episodes

  1. Americans Can’t Afford Their Lives... 10:10
  2. September—Mid-October 2026 Reading Round Up: 14:40
  3. How Older Homeowners Are Losing Their Biggest Asset... 11:39
  4. Corporate Welfare — Explained for Everyday Folks 12:37
  5. The Real Welfare Queens 10:10
  6. July Reading Round-Up... 9:58
  7. Rising Health Care Premiums And Deductibles Equal... 14:59
  8. "The Happiness Of The People" 11:53
  9. Inequality In Stock Market Investment 10:26
  10. New Medicaid Work Requirements (Including The June 1, 2026 Interpretive Rule Overlay) 16:24
  11. Reading Round-Up: May, 2026 11:33
  12. Inflation Pain 10:20
  13. Reading Round-Up, April 2026: 7:00
  14. Inequality In The Age Of Trump 14:56
  15. Pockets Of Poverty... 8:40
  16. Mortgage Foreclosures Are Increasing... 13:52
  17. The Power Of Song 9:24
  18. Power Of The People 13:42
  19. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. And Today's Political Climate... 7:22
  20. U.S. Poverty In 2025... 9:58
  21. The Poverty Trap's Most Popular Posts: 2025 6:47
  22. Social Safety Net Programs: Part II 12:49
  23. Social Safety Net Programs: Part I 12:21
  24. The SNAP Benefit Saga Is Not Over... 13:20
  25. Food Assistance Or No Food Assistance? 12:16
  26. Chronic Illness Equals Chronic Debt... 8:59
  27. The Legacy Of Two Icons, A Different Inequality, And Vaccine Hesitancy 7:21
  28. The Presidential Speech We All Need To Hear... 9:50
  29. Labor Day Reading: Workers And The Environment 11:53
  30. "And Justice For All"... 8:59
  31. Now It's Middle-Income Americans Who Are Priced Out of The Home Ownership Market... 12:55
  32. Predatory Lenders Will Swoop In For The Kill... 13:43
  33. I Was On Medicaid And Food Stamps... 10:46
  34. As The "Big Beautiful Bill" Makes Its Way Through The Senate... 9:58
  35. What We Are Losing And Why We Must Protest 7:51
  36. Graft Like Our Country Has Never Seen: Our Government Is Literally Taking From The Poor To Give To The Rich... 11:41
  37. The Medicaid Debacle 16:15
  38. Link Round-Up: The Short-Changed Working Class, Why Tariffs Are A Tax On The Poor, A Leg Up Through The Generations, And What We Must Do NOW To Fight! 7:20
  39. The Lies That Sow Distrust In Government And Threaten Our Democracy: 15:11
  40. Thoughts On Poverty... 12:38
  41. The Working Homeless... 10:19
  42. Goodbye to February...Video Clip And Link Roundup: 8:06
  43. The Death Of The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 12:09
  44. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 10:37
  45. A Fair Shot... 9:28
  46. The Poverty Trap's Most Popular Posts: 2024 11:01
  47. Is Scrooge Our New Role Model? 11:55
  48. What Does An Informed Electorate Look Like? 11:28
  49. The Incredible Shrinking Middle Class 12:31
  50. The Strange Correlation Between Vaccination Rates and Political Parties... 11:56