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We’ll be back next week… but until then, with tax day approaching we bring back Vanessa Williamson on taxing the rich — PLUS: for second chance month, Nick Turner on how we can reimagine prison, and Kristen Arant on how a record can be a life sentence to poverty. Subscribe to Off-Kilter on iTunes.

This week, Off-Kilter is bringing you a round up of our favorite conversations in honor of tax week and Second Chance Month. We’ll be back next week with a new episode!

First up, Rebecca talks with Vanessa Williamson, author of Read My Lips: Why Americans Are Proud to Pay Taxes, unpacks how taxes became a four-letter word — and how Americans really feel about paying their taxes.

Next, Rebecca talks with Nick Turner, President of the Vera Institute of Justice, about their “Reimagining Prison” initiative, which aims to “radically alter how prisons function by infusing human dignity into every aspect of correctional operations.”

Finally, Rebecca talks with Kristen Arant, a single mom from Kentucky and Ohio who was able to turn her life around after spending time behind bars due to struggles with substance abuse — thanks to Medicaid. As Kristen writes in TalkPoverty.org, adding work requirements to Medicaid, as both of the states she hails from are seeking to do, could be nothing short of a death sentence for people like her.

This week’s guests:

• Vanessa Williamson, author of Read My Lips: Why Americans Are Proud to Pay Taxes
• Nick Turner, president of Vera Institute for Justice
• Kristen Arant, mom and social work student