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We hear a lot about the challenges placed upon today’s workforce. It’s not easy. Now, compare that to those working at nonprofit organizations. The...
- Added: Apr 04, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
One of the most vulnerable business sectors during the coronavirus is nonprofits. A recent story in The Wall Street Journal reads “Nonprofits Strug...
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- Added: Mar 31, 2020
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Americans may vote for polar opposite candidates … liberal or conservative. Their vote may express ideological differences.
But, on principles and ...
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- Added: Apr 19, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The “right to work.” The phrase sounds fair and equitable. After all, who shouldn’t have a right to work if they wish to? Twenty-six states now hav...
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- Added: Dec 06, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
It’s become a critical fact of life in America: Runaway inequality.
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- Added: Jan 27, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Rendered follows up with Etsy about some of the concerns sellers brought up about the company on our April episode and get an update on how the com...
- Added: Aug 23, 2015
- Length: 18:09
Victor Tan Chen, sociology professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, has studied the plight of the American worker … from successf...
- Added: Jul 09, 2015
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
Over one million North Carolinians make the minimum wage at their job: Seven-twenty-five an hour. While many states and cities have recently raised...
- Added: Apr 12, 2015
- Length: 04:57
Every day of the week John stands near the corner of Laburnum Avenue and Brook Road in Richmond, Virginia’s Northside. He holds a sign that reads: ...
- Added: Mar 13, 2015
- Length: 27:05
Americans’ pensions are gone. Housing is down and 401k are unreliable. But our Social Security system is totally funded for more than two decades.
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Organizing the Maine Lobstering Union
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 06:59
- Purchases: 2
Willie Sanchez sells flowers in bulk in downtown LA.
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 01:58
Today 4.7 million Americans have been unemployed for more than six months. In France it’s more than ten percent; Israel is above seven percent; and...
- Added: Feb 04, 2014
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 2
David was looking for a slingshot. Goliath had money and power. This is the story of the fight against proposed and granted casinos in Philadelphia.
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- Added: Aug 06, 2013
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 1
Author Sherry Blackman bring to life the vivid tale of a young wife and mother who awoke one day unable to feel her own body. Despite Jane Gagliard...
- Added: Jun 13, 2013
- Length: 28:58
In his new book, economist Gar Alperovitz speaks plainly about why the time is right to democratize the ownership of wealth as a way to strengthen ...
- Added: May 21, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 2
Live Local. Live Small.
Create big changes in your home, your finances
and your community.
- Added: Apr 01, 2013
- Length: 06:32
Hugh Sinclair traveled to several continents while working for numerous banks, agencies and institutions, and saw microfinance from the ground up. ...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 28:59
Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty and Our Democracy is the subtitle of professor Gar Alperovitz's updated work centering the most recent developme...
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- Added: Jan 04, 2012
- Length: 28:52
- Purchases: 1
Bob Jordan has a 3000-degree forge in his garage. He’s a blacksmith with over 40 years of experience – including work with German, Italian and Nort...
Bought by PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 04, 2011
- Length: 04:27
- Purchases: 3
A new survey disputes the claim that small business owners are as anti-union as their big business counterparts.
- Added: May 28, 2010
- Length: 03:51
In Northern California's Humboldt County, one octogenarian just won't quit working.
- Added: Oct 07, 2009
- Length: 04:20
A look into the world of ice cream truck drivers in southern Maine.
- Added: Jan 21, 2009
- Length: 06:28
A profile of Millinocket, Maine, after the mill shut down.
- Added: Jan 20, 2009
- Length: 06:50
Dan Scofield's been a fishmonger in Portland, Maine for ten years. But these days, there just aren't enough fish to go around.
Bought by The Nature Podcast and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Nov 17, 2008
- Length: 06:02
- Purchases: 2