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Federal judges overseeing the massive litigation hope to keep cases from dragging on for years. As many as a million people were exposed to contami...
Bought by KTEP, Texas Public Radio, WRFA-LP, KUT, and KRPS
- Added: Jun 01, 2023
- Length: 03:46
- Purchases: 5
The National Guard fell about 9,000 troops short of its goal in 2022. Some states are improving their outreach and incentive plans to try to counte...
Bought by WRFA-LP, KPBS, Texas Public Radio, and KUT
- Added: Dec 20, 2022
- Length: 03:57
- Purchases: 4
In Part 2 of our special series on 988, we explore the scramble to staff the country’s new mental health crisis line and the workforce lessons 988 ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jun 02, 2022
- Length: 26:45
- Purchases: 1
In Part 2 of our special series on 988, we explore the scramble to staff the country’s new mental health crisis line and the workforce lessons 988 ...
- Added: Jun 02, 2022
- Length: 04:00
The Department of Veterans Affairs said its frontline health workers must get vaccinated by mid-September or they'll lose their jobs.
Bought by WRFA-LP, KCUR, KJZZ, North Country Public Radio, Texas Public Radio and more
- Added: Aug 05, 2021
- Length: 03:41
- Purchases: 6
Who are the three people memorialized on a mural to essential workers in the Latino neighborhood of Pilsen?
- Added: Nov 21, 2020
- Length: 23:52
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
California was the first state to adopt heat illness regulations for outdoor workers, but there are still violations, and there are still fatalities.
Bought by KWMR, PRX Remix, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Aug 13, 2013
- Length: 05:03
- Purchases: 3
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
When the Oakland Police Department put out a call for new recruits earlier this year, more than 2,000 people applied – mostly from outside of Oakla...
- Added: Aug 29, 2012
- Length: 07:45
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
Activists gathered in Sacramento Monday as part of a weeklong demonstration against budget cuts to schools. Sixty-five protesters were arrested for...
- Added: May 16, 2011
- Length: 06:53
TTT’s ANDY DRISCOLL talks with a labor scholar, reporter/analyst and those on the front lines of public employment to talk about why this has come ...
- Added: Mar 22, 2011
- Length: 57:31
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
The irony of food poverty in California’s agriculturally rich Central Valley and a look at community gardens popping up in food deserts. We also ex...
- Added: Nov 03, 2009
- Length: 29:00
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -1: How the South (or White Supremacy?) Won the War (1865 - 1877)
From: Alan LipkeSeries: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
From the founding of the Ku Klux Klan by ex-Confederate officers, through the defeat of Reconstruction: How history is made and remade, with histor...
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 58:19
- Purchases: 3
This story explores what life is like in the US working without papers
Bought by KUOW, KRUA, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 14, 2008
- Length: 04:40
- Purchases: 3
In our special collaboration with public televison?s P.O.V., Directors Katie Galloway and Po Kutchins take us to ?Prison Town, USA? and explore how...
Bought by KRUA
- Added: Jul 17, 2008
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Ed Paige had been homeless for twenty years. But now, thanks to an innovative housing facility in Portland Maine, Ed finally has a stable place to ...
- Added: Dec 06, 2007
- Length: 02:28
- Purchases: 2
One export from China that American businesses can?t get enough of are highly-skilled workers, especially those in the high tech industry. Workers ...
- Added: Aug 06, 2007
- Length: :03
From: WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
Series: Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands
Series: Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands
Youth Flight in Falmouth: If the next generation of teachers, nurses, and firefighters can't make the Cape their home, then who will serve and take...
- Added: Feb 16, 2007
- Length: 04:52
- Added: Nov 20, 2006
- Length: 04:50
- Purchases: 1
Israel is deporting all 200,000 of its illegal migrants, including Juan, Josie and their three children from the Philippines. (29:29)
- Added: Sep 11, 2004
- Length: 29:29
