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A comedic round table discussing labor, local, national politics, and more with a pro-worker slant. Featuring comedians, writers, and performers James Mastraieni, Matt Newell, Jake Lloyd Bacon and guests from the world of entertainment, politics, and much more. Part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network.

This is a space to remind you (and ourselves) of the things that are true, with vulnerable conversations and God’s wisdom.

The budget battles of recent years have amplified the warnings of demographic doomsayers who predicted that a wave of baby boomers would bleed America dry, bankrupting Social Security and Medicare as they faded into an impoverished old age. On the contrary, argues award-winning journalist Chris Farrell, we are instead on the verge of a broad, positive transformation of our economy and society.

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"Put Your Phone to Work Doing Some Good" is from the October 03, 2016 Technology section of The New York Times. It was written by Kit Eaton and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

Renyi Hong theorizes the notion of being "passionate about your work" as an affective project that encourages people to endure trying situations like unemployment, job change, repetitive and menial labor, and freelancing. Not simply a subject of aspiration, passion has been deployed as a means to build resilience and mend disappointments with our experiences of work. Tracking the rise of passion in nineteenth-century management to trends like gamification, coworking, and unemployment insurance, Hong argues that the ideal of passionate work sustains a condition of cruel optimism.

Today's ways of working are not working - even for professionals in "good" jobs. Responding to global competition and pressure from financial markets, companies are asking employees to do more with less, even as new technologies normalize 24/7 job expectations. In Overload, Erin Kelly and Phyllis Moen document how this new intensification of work creates chronic stress, leading to burnout, attrition, and underperformance. "Flexible" work policies and corporate lip service about "work-life balance" don't come close to fixing the problem.