Growth or greed? Kathryn Anne Edwards brings 'A Working (Class) Economy' to Jon Stewart

The labor economist's full episode passed 160,000 views in ten hours, and a Short with her sharpest line kept pace beside it.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 255,509 views a day, 7 times a normal first day on this channel (36,242).

A Working (Class) Economy w/ Kathryn Anne Edwards | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

"A Working (Class) Economy w/ Kathryn Anne Edwards" is this week's full episode of The Weekly Show, the podcast Jon Stewart hosts alongside his Monday nights at The Daily Show. The subject is one most listeners know from their own bank statements: prices keep climbing while paychecks lag behind.

Edwards, a labor economist who hosts the podcast Optimist Economy, walks Stewart through how decades of policy choices and corporate habits wore down workers' bargaining power and sent the gains upward. The description says the two also sketch a way to rebalance things so workers share more fairly in what they help produce. The episode closes in lighter territory, with Stewart taking listener questions about impeaching Trump, the White House press secretary and Daylight Saving Time.

The episode drew a far bigger first-day crowd than this channel usually gets, at a moment when the channel as a whole has been running well below its normal pace. The run-up helped. Over two days the team posted short clips of Edwards, and one of them, "Productivity Vs. Wages," went past 120,000 views on its own. It carries the line from her that the Short's description quotes: government did not get in the way of growth, it got in the way of greed. Several commenters on the full episode say those clips are what sent them looking for it.

Much of the comment section is about Edwards herself and how plainly she explains a tangled subject, and more than one viewer suggests she belongs in government. One of the longer comments sets a grandfather's single blue-collar wage, enough for a row home and a big family, beside what a computer science degree pays now, which is the episode's argument told as a family history.

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The numbers

One guest carried both of the channel's fast starts: the full episode and a short clip from it.

the video's first day

usual first day here

36,242

this video

255,509

subscribers

880,000

▲ 3,000 in the last 7 days

total views

139,655,595

views per day

88,566

typical day: 269,629

the video

views

161,925

likes

3,756

comments

656

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

Avi Yemini

936,000

Owen Jones

886,000

The Weekly Show with Jon …

880,000

Pondering Politics

870,000

Hawk's Podcasts / mdg650h…

866,000

Katie Phang

837,000

As of October 8, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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