The Deeper Dig

Recent Episodes

What keeps Vermonters together across a widening income divide?

Posted November 18, 2022 • 00:17:50

Data from 21 billion Facebook friendships shows that when you know more high-income people, your income is more likely to rise over time, according...

Vermont wasn’t always a safe haven for reproductive rights

Posted November 4, 2022 • 00:38:33

Next week, Vermont voters could write abortion protections into the state constitution. But 50 years ago, Vermont was a state where most people went...

Competition in the Kingdom

Posted October 19, 2022 • 00:24:56

For the past two years, Reps. Katherine Sims, D-Craftsbury, and Vicki Strong, R-Albany, have served alongside each other in the Vermont House, jointly...

Exiting education

Posted October 7, 2022 • 00:25:02

Over the summer, and into the first few months of the school year, school districts across the state scrambled to fill not just teaching positions,...

Building a Vermont haven for Ukrainian families

Posted September 2, 2022 • 00:24:00

At first, the Shapovalov family thought they’d be able to avoid the worst of the fighting. Their village, Skelky, along the Dnipro River in Ukraine,...