Beyond The Workforce
Beyond the Workforce is a bold, no-bs look at labor, economics, and the future of work. It’s about cutting through political spin and corporate jargon to show how policy, money, and power actually hit workers’ lives. The podcast takes the same sharp, straight-talking style as the articles, mixing history, economics, and real-world stories, to give workers, union members, and leaders the clarity and tools they need to fight for a fair, sustainable workforce in the 21st century.
Podcasting since 2025 • 7 episodes
Beyond The Workforce
Latest Episodes
Not Your Dad’s Portfolio Part 1
The 60/40 portfolio is dead, and nobody noticed. No headlines. No CNBC tribute. Just a quiet funeral for the financial strategy that built America’s middle class while Wall Street quietly dragged its corpse around like Weekend at Bernie’s.<...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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13:17
The Lie You Were Sold - Part 1
For nearly a century, Americans have been told Social Security is their safety net, a promise that if you work hard, pay in, and stay loyal, you’ll be taken care of in the end. But that promise was never real. It was a political invention built...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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18:29
The Machine We Built Part 3
For over a century, the Federal Reserve has sold Americans the story of control, that it can fine-tune the economy with the pull of a lever. Raise rates, lower rates, pump liquidity, pull it back. Stability on command. But the truth is harder: ...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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22:13
What is Beyond the Workforce
Beyond the Workforce isn’t just another podcast about labor, it’s a declaration. Hosted by David Thomas Graves, this show calls out the truth about a rigged economy, corporate manipulation, and union leaders who’ve gotten too comfortab...
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Season 1
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2:23
The Machine We Built Part 2
What happens when money loses its anchor? In this episode of Beyond the Workforce, David Thomas Graves unpacks how two pivotal decisions, Franklin Roosevelt’s 1933 gold confiscation and Richard Nixon’s 1971 closure of the gold window, reshaped ...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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26:52