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In the winter of 2009, a social worker with the Iowa Department of Human Services, received an anonymous tip:
A couple dozen disabled men were liv...
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- Added: Aug 15, 2016
- Length: 29:00
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Did you know that Benjamin Franklin was a “whistleblower?”
Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her inter...
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- Added: Mar 03, 2016
- Length: 28:00
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Immigration. That’s a major hot button issue.
In recent years, a handful of states have passed laws designed to make it easier to deport unauthor...
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- Added: Feb 03, 2016
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- Added: Jan 27, 2016
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Over the past 35-years, the economy has been reasonably productive. It’s worked well for investors and high-level executives, but not for ordinary ...
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- Added: Dec 17, 2015
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Do service-sector workers represent the future of the U.S. labor movement?
Mid-twentieth-century union activism transformed manufacturing jobs fro...
- Added: Aug 18, 2015
- Length: 01:01:11
Victor Tan Chen, sociology professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, has studied the plight of the American worker … from successf...
- Added: Jul 09, 2015
- Length: 29:01
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Today, 47-million Americans live in poverty. That places this country at the bottom among industrial nations for the divide between the haves and h...
- Added: Mar 25, 2015
- Length: 29:00
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Americans’ pensions are gone. Housing is down and 401k are unreliable. But our Social Security system is totally funded for more than two decades.
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 29:00
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Doctors and dietitians recommend that we eat more fruits and vegetables for better health. But do you know who harvests our produce, and under what...
- Added: Aug 01, 2014
- Length: 28:00
A Vietnamese proverb says: “when eating a fruit, think of who planted the tree.” Taking that sentiment a step further, how often do we consider the...
- Added: May 23, 2014
- Length: 28:00
Bobby Righi, Tom Lux, and Kristen Biefus of Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action (PSARA), Just Transition, Part 3
- Added: Jan 17, 2014
- Length: 28:10
David was looking for a slingshot. Goliath had money and power. This is the story of the fight against proposed and granted casinos in Philadelphia.
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- Added: Aug 06, 2013
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In his new book, economist Gar Alperovitz speaks plainly about why the time is right to democratize the ownership of wealth as a way to strengthen ...
- Added: May 21, 2013
- Length: 28:58
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Achieving full employment has been at the center of the progressive project for more than a century. If work is available at decent wages for ever...
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- Added: Dec 30, 2012
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...
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- Added: Mar 11, 2009
- Length: 29:30
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From: Chris Goldstein
Duke university Professor Felicia Kornbluh- discusses her book The Battle For Welfare Rights : Politics and Poverty in Modern America
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- Added: Oct 22, 2008
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