Exploitation Nation is a mixtape for liberation. Every month it uncovers the hidden economy of extraction shaping American life. This narrative podcast digs into the systems designed to take and the people forced to pay, sometimes with their life, sometimes with their savings. Through storytelling, research, and frontline voices, host Brittany Friedman, Ph.D., exposes how exploitation operates in the shadows of everyday life, from prisons to workplaces to the digital world. If you’ve ever felt squeezed by the systems that insist you’re free, Exploitation Nation reveals why and more importantly, who’s benefiting. We expose the cost.

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