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Today, we're welcoming actress Denée Benton to the show.

She stars as Peggy Scott in HBO's The Gilded Age, and on Broadway in Jocelyn B.O.' 's Schoolgirls, or the African Mean Girls play.

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You wrote an article about the financial truth of divorce for many women, specifically women who are middle or upper class.

I mean, why was it important for you to highlight how upper and middle class women have been impacted by changing divorce laws? Like, I imagine many aspects of society, people feel like, oh, we're overly focusing on these women.

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It is an interesting idea.

It's impossible, Brittany.

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Today, we are welcoming back friend of the pod, Mona Chalabi.

She's a Pulitzer Prize-winning data journalist, and she's written her first book called 10 Lies, which tracks the economic realities of 10 Americans over the course of five years.

I

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Okay, so when did you start noticing private equity's involvement in the restaurant industry? What was a moment or something you saw that made you go, okay, private equity is all over this?

Well, private equity has been doing this with food for decades.

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know i i do i mean people people should read more we should all read i feel like that should be that might be controversial

i take we should all read more So today we're going to play an episode of It's Been a Minute where our host Brittany Luse gets into what's behind this male literacy crisis with acclaimed young adult author Jason Reynolds.

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This week, we're talking with Jason Reynolds, MacArthur Genius Grant recipient and National Book Award winning author of the beloved young adult books, Look Both Ways, Stunt Boy in the Meantime, and Soundtrack.

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Thank you, Brittany, for having us.

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