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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
Community Wealth Building: An Economic Reset
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Low wages, precarious jobs, shuttered Main Streets and bleak futures — do towns have a way out of poverty that doesn't involve begging and bribing ...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Do Black Lives Matter to Big Banks?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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A national uprising in the wake of the murder of George Floyd pressured corporations and big banks to acknowledge their own roles in systemic racis...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK


  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
H. Claire Brown Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that prison labor may be used in producing some of the food products you purchase at the supermarket? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 25, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Pandemic Economy (release date December 30, 2020)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The economic collapse unfolding before our eyes is much bigger than it appears and the solution isn’t simply to “build back better.” COVID-19 didn’...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK


  • Added: Dec 22, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Leone Jose Bicchieri Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that workers in meat packing plants are at increased risk for Covid-19, and other work-related injuries due to increasing line speeds ...

Bought by KVMR and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 03, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • 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...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 31, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Addressing Economic Class Conflict
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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While some organizations and individuals believe there is multidimensional inequality in the U.S., this PEACE TALKS RADIO program is only about eco...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, WRIR, and KUNM


  • Added: Sep 25, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
United Slaughterhouse of America: Josh Specht on the Cattle-Beef Complex
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In Red Meat Republic author Joshua Specht brings to life a turbulent era marked by Indian wars, Cowboy myths, Chicago labor unrest, and food riots ...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 58:26
Episode 82: Hidden Tax Benefits
From: Shira Rascoe
Series: No Jargon
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Food stamps, Social Security, and Medicaid are not the only, or even the largest, social welfare programs in America. Professor Suzanne Mettler rev...

  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 23:45
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 ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 19, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Burning Out and Feeling Overwhelmed - The Emotion Roadmap can Help
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
Caption: Feeling the tension
Burn out and feeling overwhelmed seem to be on the rise again. Becoming more emotionally intelligent can help. Expert Cary Cherniss and a caller to...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2017
  • Length: 55:00
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...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 06, 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.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 27, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode #27: MusiCares Stories
From: Kill Rock Stars
Series: The Future of What
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Benefits can be hard to come by in the music business. So where do people turn in emergencies? In 1989 the Recording Academy created the MusiCares ...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 53:45
Commerce With Compassion
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: La Montanita Food Coop, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Credit: La Montanita
A look at some businesses that promote social justice, fair trade and labor practices, and thereby peace.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Nov 24, 2015
  • Length: 57:36
  • Purchases: 1
Everyone Has Something to Sell - The Culture of Multi-Level Marketing
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we explore multi-level marketing. Is it a pyramid scheme? Is it good for the seller? What are people’s impressio...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2015
  • Length: 01:07:58
Uptalk on Jeopardy (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Uptalk is that rising, questioning tone some people use when ending a statement. And women aren't the only ones who do it—so finds a study of conte...

Bought by WJCT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KPVL, WKCC, KRDP and more


  • Added: Sep 04, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Cut Loose
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Victor Tan Chen
Victor Tan Chen, sociology professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, has studied the plight of the American worker … from successf...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Jul 09, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Under Magnolia
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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When Frances Mayes moved to Tuscany, Italy she left behind her family and roots in Fitzgerald, Georgia. In her new memoir Under Magnolia, the renow...

Bought by WJCT, WKCC, WABE, KVSC, KENW and more


  • Added: May 29, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Social Security Works
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Eric Kingson
Americans’ pensions are gone. Housing is down and 401k are unreliable. But our Social Security system is totally funded for more than two decades.

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Uptalk on Jeopardy (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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If you pay close attention to the contestants on the gameshow Jeopardy, you might notice a rising, questioning tone in their voices. Especially whe...

Bought by WJCT, WMNF, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KVSC, WLIW and more


  • Added: Jul 25, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Food Sleuth Radio, Jose Oliva Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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How much do you know about the living conditions and wages of the people who pick, process and prepare your food? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 25, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Pam McKissick Without Reserve - Multi-Generational Workforce
From: Auction Network Productions
Series: Pam McKissick Without Reserve
Caption: Host Pam McKissick, Credit: Auction Network Productions
This program is all about embracing our multi-generational workforce. The focus is on the differences in the way generations of Americans -- BabyBo...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 17, 2014
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 1
Flawed System/Flawed Self
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ofer Sharone
Today 4.7 million Americans have been unemployed for more than six months. In France it’s more than ten percent; Israel is above seven percent; and...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 04, 2014
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2