Podcast: Hope and Hopelessness in Bakersfield

Maria Bustillos and Elizabeth Fladung discuss a day spent exploring inequality in Bakersfield, “The India of the U.S.,” and a very interesting person they met along the way.

This podcast is an encore posting from our State of Inequality series.

Maria Bustillos is a journalist and critic living in Los Angeles.

Elizabeth Fladung is a Brooklyn-based, CalArts-trained photojournalist. Her work has appeared in The Nation, La Repubblica, The Fader and Wax Poetics Magazine.