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California is in the early days of one of the most ambitious initiatives ever to address Medicaid patients’ social needs in hopes of improving thei...
- Added: Sep 26, 2022
- Length: 30:48
During the pandemic, Cleveland officials and local health care providers took too long to get translators for Spanish speaking COVID-19 patients. T...
- Added: May 29, 2022
- Length: 19:19
Our collaborator at Cicero Independiente investigates active measures being taken by local government there to suppress Latinos' freedom of speech.
- Added: May 29, 2022
- Length: 20:05
We go back to Schuyler, Nebraska to learn whether educational equity is being achieved there. We found that while changes are happening, more is ne...
- Added: May 29, 2022
- Length: 15:35
In this episode of The Etiquette Show, Ronny Dawson discusses an alien home invasion and his close encounter experiences.
- Added: Jun 16, 2021
- Length: 27:08
In Charleston, South Carolina and its suburbs questions of environmental justice and wetland protections arise as development encroaches.
- Added: Aug 31, 2020
- Length: 33:46
Many recovering COVID patients need rehabilitation before they go home. That's stretching inpatient rehab facilities to their limits.
- Added: May 26, 2020
- Length: 05:36
Scientists are trying to figure out how Earth developed an atmosphere rich in oxygen. The answer to this billion-year-old mystery may lie in an unl...
Bought by Delta College Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, Interlochen Public Radio, WCPN, North Country Public Radio and more
- Added: Aug 24, 2016
- Length: 03:29
- Purchases: 6
It’s been a year since Governor Mike Pence declared a public health emergency in response to the historic HIV outbreak in Scott County, Indiana. Th...
Bought by WABE and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Apr 05, 2016
- Length: 03:34
- Purchases: 2
How do you clean up 100,000 tons of air pollution? Boatloads of air filters, and some basic high school chemistry. This story takes the listener in...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Dec 18, 2015
- Length: 04:25
- Purchases: 1
Resources are pretty sparse down here in the Bootheel. No single town has every service to meet the homeless community’s needs. The apartments at S...
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 06:24
Almost 17 percent of the babies born here in Dunklin County are born premature. According to data from the World Health Organization, if this were ...
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 06:10
For such a small region, this sprawling landscape of the Bootheel has some of the most productive farmland in the U.S. A solid water supply and nut...
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 06:50
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
Outspent 3 to 1 by multinational seed companies, the citizens of Jackson County, Oregon successfully campaigned to ban GMO crops.
- Added: Jun 09, 2014
- Length: 07:42
While many schools across the country are facing budget cuts and teacher layoffs, students at highly reputable universities are signing up in drove...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WXDU
- Added: Feb 17, 2014
- Length: 11:18
- Purchases: 2
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
New Bedford Harbor ranks among the worst harbors in the country for surface oil spills. Harbor officials and environmental groups can’t even agree ...
- Added: Jun 03, 2013
- Length: 06:50
In Ohio, some of the best pockets of oil and gas in the East run right under Amish country. Reid Frazier found the drilling boom is confronting the...
- Added: Mar 11, 2013
- Length: 06:37
TOMS shoes promises that if you buy a pair of its canvas slip-ons, they'll give a pair to a child in need. The company's "Buy One, Give One" busine...
- Added: Mar 15, 2012
- Length: 19:11
- Purchases: 3
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 health-care debate is focused on quantity: how many people – and how much care they will get. But perhaps quality, rather than quantity of care...
Bought by KZYX, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WGBH Radio Boston, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Nov 12, 2009
- Length: 08:58
- Purchases: 5
Shawn Allee looks at a dioxin and soil study and how the science might influence other clean-ups around the country.
- Added: Nov 06, 2009
- Length: 03:37
Shawn Allee finds old dioxin pollution from a Dow chemical plant poses a health risk today.
- Added: Nov 06, 2009
- Length: 03:29
Whether they're prompted by ice storms in Kentucky or hurricanes along the Gulf Coast, during electrical outages, many Americans turn to portable g...
- Added: Apr 27, 2009
- Length: 04:51
