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There’s a severe shortage of people to care for older Americans in their homes and nursing facilities. And it’s only expected to get worse.
Could ...
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 21:23
New economic research reveals how difficult it is for some people to gain wealth in America, even when they do everything right.
- Added: Oct 09, 2018
- Length: 03:08
In recent years, there has been a push to get people with disabilities into the general workforce. But despite these initiatives, some students who...
Bought by KZYX and Kansas Public Radio
- Added: Feb 02, 2018
- Length: 03:20
- Purchases: 2
In this three-part episode of "Crosscurrents" KALW's Liza Veale looks into the Bay Area’s sex industry: it's advantages, it's complications, and it...
- Added: Jul 17, 2015
- Length: 22:46
The Missouri Bootheel is a region emblematic of the social and medical problems facing rural Missouri, and really, all of rural America. Life expec...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WABE
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 06:13
- Purchases: 2
The way we make a living is changing. For about a third of Americans, regular hours and benefits are giving way to a patchwork of contracting, temp...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 06:45
- Purchases: 1
At a full-service restaurant you know the drill. You eat your food, you get your bill, and then you calculate the tip. But not at Sous Beurre Kitch...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 09:06
Then, Henry suffered from what is called a brain stem dissection. That stroke left him trapped, unable to lift a finger at first, or say a word. Bu...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 13, 2015
- Length: 09:33
- Purchases: 2
Coal is embedded into the culture and image of Eastern Kentucky, but the industry is declining in the region. And it's declining permanently. The c...
- Added: Dec 12, 2013
- Length: 18:17
In robust economic times, America’s armed services have had to hustle to recruit qualified soldiers. But when civilian unemployment is high and th...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Dec 06, 2013
- Length: 03:20
- Purchases: 1
The Senate’s immigration reform proposal offers a fast track to citizenship for agricultural workers so that they can “continue to do the vital wor...
- Added: May 03, 2013
- Length: 04:02
The trains of Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina are falling apart. A group of train workers and student activists says the problem is that private co...
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 08:36
After decades of neglect, prison rehabilitation programs are seeing a resurgence, despite some hiccups. For California, this emphasis on rehabilita...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Dec 02, 2012
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 2
Similar to prison guards, police unions advocacy for their members has helped perpetuate cycles of criminalization and incarceration that plague Am...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 09:17
Support, or opposition from a prison guard union can make or break a campaign for office. The most powerful of them all is the California Correcti...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 11:30
Business execs in Northern Virginia, typically a core Republican constituency, are beginning to lose patience with the GOP over its refusal to rais...
- Added: Mar 14, 2010
- Length: 04:41
We go to Postville, Iowa and Laurel, Mississippi--two communities where the largest workplace immigration raids happened in 2008.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Jan 20, 2010
- Length: 14:53
- Purchases: 1
Charlotte-area small business Tyler 2 Construction is putting laid-off workers on "attached unemployment" and still paying their health insurance b...
Bought by Michigan Radio Economy Special and KUOW
- Added: Nov 23, 2009
- Length: 03:24
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Mar 06, 2009
- Length: 04:09
A look at the economic forces that push the Purepecha from home and pull them toward Seattle.
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 09:02
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 08:52
- Purchases: 1
