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HOUR ONE: "Center Of The World" - Opiate addiction. Lost jobs. Lost hope. Producer Charles Monroe-Kane heads back to his Ohio hometown to see why p...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:58
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HOUR ONE: "Center Of The World" - Opiate addiction. Lost jobs. Lost hope. Producer Charles Monroe-Kane heads back to his Ohio hometown to see why p...

  • Added: May 31, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
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HOUR ONE: "Center Of The World" - Opiate addiction. Lost jobs. Lost hope. Producer Charles Monroe-Kane heads back to his Ohio hometown to see why p...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
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Michael Gene Sullivan talks opening minds, speaking truth to power, and the myth of the middle class.

  • Added: Jul 16, 2017
  • Length: 33:23
Caption: Timely, in-depth, progressive analysis since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: French Election Highlights the Failure to Address Unemployment and Inequal...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Looking out for you
Quick moving show dealing with four callers all with clear needs and wanting help. The show has some humor and practical tips along with helping pe...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2016
  • Length: 52:48
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In the 1920s, the United States enjoyed unprecedented prosperity, and many people assumed that poverty would be eliminated entirely. However, Mayor...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2015
  • Length: 28:41
Caption: Sarah Rogers poses with her NUMMI-made car, a Toyota Tacoma named Goldie, Credit: Angela Johnston
When the NUMMI auto factory in Fremont closed five years ago, close to 5,000 people lost their jobs. An estimated 20,000 others were also out of w...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2015
  • Length: 28:37
Caption: North Beach Citizens, Credit: Ellery Stritzinger
North Beach Citizens is a community-driven, non-profit organization located in San Francisco, California, that addresses the needs of local homeles...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2014
  • Length: 02:39
Caption: Rosa Robinson turns out cupcakes and other confections for Sweet Dreams Bake Shop, Credit: Sukey Lewis
Sky-high rents, Google buses and gentrification are all buzzwords around the Bay Area. But that is not the case in the city of Richmond. With unemp...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 05:59
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Hear closeted terrorists, unclad Scottish loins, and Joan Rivers roasting her own funeral in this week’s Final Edition Radio Hour.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 50:44
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Unemployed? Take heart: if this scammer can get paid to write his inane job search guide, then SOMEBODY will pay you to do SOMETHING . . .

  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 03:51
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San Francisco currently has the third lowest unemployment rate of all California's counties. But while that’s good news, it doesn't mean that much ...

  • Added: May 17, 2014
  • Length: 06:47
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Two and one half minute commentary on paying for restoring unemployment benefits to the long-term unemployed by cutting corporate welfare.

  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Catherine Breese, Credit: Bryan Ward
Writer Catherine Breese shares her experience with a virtual online job interview for a job she frankly does not want. She describes the painful in...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 05, 2014
  • Length: 04:39
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Host Martha Burk
In January 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson announced the War on Poverty. Much has changed, but much has stayed the same.

  • Added: Jan 02, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Host Martha Burk
The recent budget deal had plenty for war contractors, but jobless Americans were left in the cold. For them, it's going to be a very Unhappy New ...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Paola Gueli is one of a dwindling number of tailors in Italy, a country renowned for its tailoring tradition. , Credit: Luigi Fraboni
Skilled tailoring is a dying art. Many of the best tailors hail from Italy where the tradition is unraveling due to a lack of training opportuniti...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 08:20
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Italian Negar Azhar Azari makes a ring by hand in the centuries-old Florentine tradition.  , Credit: Maurizio Rufino
Italian artisans craft exquisite objects with their hands, particularly in Florence. Yet aging artisans crippled by Italy’s bureaucracy aren’t abl...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 07:37
  • Purchases: 1
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The majority of the Middle East currently faces a youth bulge, which many policy analysts have deemed as the single most important development prob...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 07:18
Caption: Stephen Hancock reads in his new apartment in San Bruno, Credit: Mariel Waloff
Finding an apartment in San Francisco these days is an uphill battle on any kind of budget. Among those who find it most difficult are chronically ...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2012
  • Length: 09:53
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It's been about 20 years since South Africa emerged from apartheid, but a recent series of violent confrontations between police and striking mine ...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2012
  • Length: 01:59
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With an unemployment rate three times higher than that of adults, there are 75 million youth worldwide looking for work. International Labour Organ...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Aug 08, 2012
  • Length: 12:11
  • Purchases: 1
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With an unemployment rate three times higher than that of adults, there are 75 million youth worldwide looking for work. International Labour Organ...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Aug 08, 2012
  • Length: 12:33
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Work gang at Cummins Prison Farm, Arkansas, 1972. Photo by Bruce Jackson.
Join us as we examine the working life in story and song. From hard times trying to find work in the Great Depression, to prison work songs, the pe...

Bought by KMXT, KMSU, KHNS, and KHNS


  • Added: Feb 10, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:59
  • Purchases: 4