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I have heard that inequality in America is at its highest point since the age of the Robber Barons. If true, many suspect it may get worse before i...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 03, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In the winter of 2009, a social worker with the Iowa Department of Human Services, received an anonymous tip:
A couple dozen disabled men were liv...
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- Added: Aug 15, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Is this post-industrial town dying, or being born again? Drawing from 300 years of labor and women’s history, the writing of novelist Mary Lee Sett...
Bought by WMMT
- Added: Aug 03, 2016
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 1
What is the future of work? Today, all of our careers are being transformed by big data, from how we find it, to how we collaborate with others, to...
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 22:15
In her new play, Sweat, Lynn Nottage gives voice to the human cost of workers without work.
Bought by WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNJR
- Added: Feb 05, 2016
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
Immigration. That’s a major hot button issue.
In recent years, a handful of states have passed laws designed to make it easier to deport unauthor...
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- Added: Feb 03, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jan 27, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Over the past 35-years, the economy has been reasonably productive. It’s worked well for investors and high-level executives, but not for ordinary ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 17, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Jack London is known for his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North. But, that’s overlooking the real story. London was a reporter who made n...
- Added: Sep 10, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 3
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
My brother Thomas recounts a diving accident he lived through early in his career as a commercial diver.
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 08:51
When he was just a boy, Victor Ayala whose family was struggling in Guadalajara crossed the Rio Bravo on his own, only to be taken back to Mexico. ...
- Added: Jul 17, 2015
- Length: 28:06
We return to Prince Edward Island where we’ll spend the next half hour with a father and daughter who produce what PEI has come to be known for the...
- Added: Jul 10, 2015
- Length: 27:06
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
Today, 47-million Americans live in poverty. That places this country at the bottom among industrial nations for the divide between the haves and h...
- Added: Mar 25, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
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
Ilan Stavans is a Mexican-American essayist, lexicographer, cultural commentator, translator, short-story author, TV personality, and teacher known...
- Added: Mar 03, 2015
- Length: 23:33
Mike Notter (currently with the bands Motopony and Hannalee) used to be in a band with a bunch of other window washers (Shim). Back then, cleaning ...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Dec 05, 2014
- Length: 16:10
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 11:19
British naturalist and jungle survivor of Borneo, Amazonia and the Congo, O’Hanlon sets off this time on a commercial fishing ship in the harsh wat...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Dec 02, 2014
- Length: 09:56
- Purchases: 2
What exactly is a dream job? Is it one that pays a lot of money? One where you don’t have to do much work? Is it one that makes you famous? …Or, is...
- Added: Sep 25, 2014
- Length: 04:58
Organizing the Maine Lobstering Union
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 06:59
- Purchases: 2
Behind drawn shades in a brightly lit room downtown, dispatchers for the Los Angeles Police Department answer 9-1-1 calls and send officers to thei...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 03:46
- Purchases: 1
