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Staffing the Mission
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ayushi Vig
We hear a lot about the challenges placed upon today’s workforce. It’s not easy. Now, compare that to those working at nonprofit organizations. The...

Bought by WHFR and KCBX


  • Added: Apr 04, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Panics without Borders
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Gregory Mitchell
“Zombie Statistics” is what professor Gregory Mitchell calls them. Those are the chunks of data officials use to prove there is a rise in sex-traff...

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  • Added: Nov 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The History of Democracy Has Yet to be Written
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Thomas Geoghengan
End the filibuster. Abolish the Senate. Make everyone vote. Only if we do this, and a little bit more, says labor lawyer and former candidate for A...

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  • Added: Sep 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Coming of Neo Feudalism
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Joel Kotkin
Feudalism. Now that’s a word you don’t hear very often. It’s been a long time since we’ve had a structured society of that nature. But, even more c...

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  • Added: Aug 25, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Tell the Bosses We're Coming
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Shaun Richman
A myriad of issues have come to light as we deal with the COVID pandemic. We are discovering weaknesses in our health care and workforce. Neither i...

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  • Added: Jul 14, 2020
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Debs In Canton
From: The National Audio Theatre Festivals
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American labor leader Eugene V. Debs gave a speech in June of 1918 to a movement rally in which he condemned US involvement in the First World War....

Bought by KUNM and KFCF FM


  • Added: May 01, 2020
  • Length: 57:48
  • Purchases: 2
Staffing the Mission: Improving Jobs in the Nonprofit Sector
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Besy Leondar-Wright
One of the most vulnerable business sectors during the coronavirus is nonprofits. A recent story in The Wall Street Journal reads “Nonprofits Strug...

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  • Added: Mar 31, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
In Defense of Public Service
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Cedric Alexander
The folks who do the behind-the-scenes work that keeps our country running have been frequently disparaged by the Trump administration. The “Deep S...

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  • Added: Mar 24, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Crime of Punishment
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Virginia State Penitentiary
The Virginia State Penitentiary in its early years was considered an extremely progressive prison. That didn't last long. Not long after it opened...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2019
  • Length: 27:05
The Scotch Bonnet Republic, Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Hardy and Patti Plyler, Credit: Charles McGuigan
this is the conclusion of The Scotch Bonnet Republic, Ocracoke Island, and how local fisherman saved their way of life.

  • Added: Aug 22, 2019
  • Length: 24:42
The Scotch Bonnet Republic, Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: James Gaskil, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Ocracoke Island is the Key West of the southeast. And where that notable Key claims the conch as its emblem, this remote island off North Carolina...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2019
  • Length: 27:26
A Technology Tsunami
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Ed Hess
America is set to lose tens of millions of job in the next 15 years. Some of the best research today estimates that one half of all U.S. jobs will ...

Bought by KCBX, KZYX, and KCBX


  • Added: Apr 22, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Dying to Work: Death and Injury in the American Workplace
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jonathan D. Karmel
America’s workers are experiencing another setback in workplace safety. The Trump Administration is blocking a rule that requires most employers to...

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  • Added: Mar 22, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The War On Normal People
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Andrew Yang
According to a 2016 report by Business Insider magazine, three of the world’s largest employers are now replacing their workers with robots.

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Shaping the Future of Work
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Tom Kochan
America’s workforce and the economy are rapidly changing. As is the type of work we do. Flip that coin over and you’ll see that institutions and po...

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  • Added: Aug 15, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Toxic Inequality
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Thomas M. Shapiro
Income and wealth inequality is now a regular topic of conversation. The standard of living for most Americans’ since the Great Recession is either...

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  • Added: Jul 20, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Humility is the New Smart Age
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Edward D. Hess
If we were on a ship at sea, and learned of the impending tsunami, we’d do everything we could to prepare for the collision.

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  • Added: Jul 03, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The One Percent Solutiion
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Gordon Lafer
Americans may vote for polar opposite candidates … liberal or conservative. Their vote may express ideological differences. But, on principles and ...

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Nation of Immigrants: Crossing Over
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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BLEEP loved the city of his birth, the pearl of the west, Guadalajara, second largest city in Mexico. He wandered its streets as a boy visited the...

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  • Added: Feb 17, 2017
  • Length: 28:07
  • Purchases: 1
Right to Work
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Cedric de Leon
The “right to work.” The phrase sounds fair and equitable. After all, who shouldn’t have a right to work if they wish to? Twenty-six states now hav...

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Viking Economics
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: George Lakey at Occupy Philly
The Scandinavian countries … Sweden, Norway and Denmark … boasts the world’s happiest, most productive people. They have equality, low unemployment...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 29, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dan Barry
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
  • Purchases: 1
Playwright Lynn Nottage unmasks the cost of industrial decline in Sweat
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Scene from Sweat, Credit: C. Stanley Photography
In her new play, Sweat, Lynn Nottage gives voice to the human cost of workers without work.

Bought by WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 05, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Integration Nation
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Susan Eaton
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
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Runaway Inequality
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Runaway Inequity , Credit: Labor Institute Press
It’s become a critical fact of life in America: Runaway inequality.

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1