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Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 15
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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The second chapter of the series, Carbon Valley.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Sep 16, 2022
  • Length: 49:59
  • Purchases: 2
Labor Looks Up After Amazon Union Vote
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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“The opportunities for labor right now are virtually limitless,” says Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, the country’s largest labor federat...

Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: May 12, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
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
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
Wealth Inequity and Universal Basic Income
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Chuck Collins, Credit: Author
President Donald Trump’s tax plan may exacerbate wealth inequity in the US. Chuck Collins, Director of the Program on Inequality at the Institute f...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WRIR


  • Added: Jan 16, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
Emotion Revolution in the Workplace - Andrew Faas and Yale Center for EI
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
Caption: Be part of the Emotion Revolutiion
Andrew Faas has a new book and a new alliance. The book is "From Bully to Bull's-Eye: Move Your Organization Out of the Line of Fire" and the allia...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2017
  • Length: 49:16
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
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
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
Sawbill Outfitters owner Bill Hansen on unique work credit system that keeps both employees & owners happy
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Ann Possis & Dick Swanson chatted with Bill Hansen, owner of Sawbill Outfitters in Tofte with his wife Cindy, about their unique work credit...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2014
  • Length: 22:41
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
Strategy & Soul
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Daniel Hunter
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.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 06, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
What Then Must We Do?
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Chelsea Green jacket cover
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 ...

Bought by KCBX and KCBX


  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
Getting a Job in the "New" US Auto Industry with Deputy Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank
From: Green Connections Radio
Caption: Deputy Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank, Ph.D. touring the 2013 DC Auto Show, Joan Michelson of Green Connections holding mic, Credit: Austin Lee
Getting a Job in the "New" US Auto Industry with Deputy Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank - An Interview from the 2013 DC Auto Show

  • Added: Feb 16, 2013
  • Length: 04:54
Building Green
From: Bill Baue
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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 ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Not My Job: Tales From the "Degreasing Room."
From: Chelsea Merz
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Matthew Works has been living on the streets for ten years. Here he remembers one of his last paying jobs, assembling Braille typewriters, which th...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, WLPR , KUT, KUOW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 30, 2007
  • Length: 08:42
  • Purchases: 7