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Although the minimum wage law was originally designed to guarantee workers decent pay, it now promises them no more than poverty-level wages.
- Added: May 20, 2011
- Length: 03:16
The child labor laws that protect young workers from severe exploitation are under serious attack.
- Added: May 13, 2011
- Length: 04:55
The AFL-CIO is promising the launch a campaign to shrink the ever-widening pay gap between working people and major company CEOs, who averaged $11....
- Added: Apr 21, 2011
- Length: 05:36
It's time to increase the pay of America's poorest workers, time to raise the pitifully inadequate minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.
- Added: Apr 14, 2011
- Length: 03:43
The January 8, 2011 shooting in Tucson, Arizona has ignited a fiery discussion about the shooter's cultural context. Some have claimed that Jared L...
- Added: Jan 15, 2011
- Length: 09:03
In marking Ronald Reagan's centennial, don't forget he was one of the most viciously anti-labor presidents working Americans ever faced.
- Added: Jan 14, 2011
- Length: 06:02
Raising the minimum wage provides essential help to the poorest Americans while boosting the entire sagging economy.
- Added: Dec 02, 2010
- Length: 04:34
In this program recorded on site in northeastern Pennsylvania, we follow the Marcellus Shale trail and find the fracturing of the bedrock under thi...
- Added: Nov 09, 2010
- Length: 55:30
- Purchases: 2
New census figures show that women workers, despite lagging behind men in earnings generally, are doing much better than men among higher paid work...
- Added: Oct 29, 2010
- Length: 03:07
It's a perfect match: unions need new members if they are to grow, and young workers need to join unions if they are to improve what's been their s...
- Added: Oct 14, 2010
- Length: 03:03
A Catholic scholars group says opposing unions is a mortal sin.
- Added: Jun 21, 2010
- Length: 03:28
Former Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz, who died on April 24, was one of the greatest friends working people ever had.
- Added: Apr 29, 2010
- Length: 05:10
Workers Memorial Day on April 28 will honor the millions of men and women who've needlessly suffered and died because of workplace hazards.
- Added: Apr 23, 2010
- Length: 03:49
Dr. Joanna Macy is a long-time peace, justice, and ecology activist. A celebrated Buddhist teacher, Dr. Macy’s wide-ranging work spans Eastern and ...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Feb 23, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Interviews from an indigenous climate change conference during the summer of 2009 in Alaska.
Bought by WGBH Radio Boston
- Added: Dec 14, 2009
- Length: 54:58
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Dec 14, 2009
- Length: 55:00
- Purchases: 1
This piece looks at something bigger than "amazonfail".
- Added: Apr 19, 2009
- Length: 05:16
- Added: Mar 12, 2009
- Length: 55:00
- Purchases: 2
New York Times takes a look at a prostitute's MySpace page so we don't have to.
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 02:16
