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Episode topics: Millennial work stress and berries.
- Added: Jul 18, 2016
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
On this edition of Making Contact we’ll take you on a trip through LA’s garment district, notorious for sweatshop conditions, abuse, and the outrig...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Mar 25, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Episode topics: Physician assistants and nurse practitioners and fall vegetables.
- Added: Mar 17, 2016
- Length: 28:00
During the great recession, we all started to buy a lot less stuff. And the thing is, there’s whole industry built around bringing you the stuff yo...
- Added: Sep 03, 2015
- Length: 21:58
- Purchases: 3
On this edition of Making Contact we’ll hear from a panel of labor reporters, professors, and policy analysts as they discuss post-recession labor ...
- Added: Jul 26, 2015
- Length: 29:00
The Missouri Bootheel is a region emblematic of the social and medical problems facing rural Missouri, and really, all of rural America. Life expec...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WABE
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 06:13
- Purchases: 2
This is the first in a series of podcasts in collaboration with EthicalSystems.org to explore behavioral science in the workplace. In this installm...
- Added: Apr 13, 2015
- Length: 25:59
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
- Purchases: 2
The way we make a living is changing. For about a third of Americans, regular hours and benefits are giving way to a patchwork of contracting, temp...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 06:45
- Purchases: 1
Jaclyn Wong discussed the beauty premium.
Bought by WMUU-LP, RadioFreePalmer, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KPVL
- Added: Dec 18, 2014
- Length: 29:58
- Purchases: 4
How safe your children are might depend on where you live. Today we hear about how one pesticide has been banned for household use, but affects the...
Bought by KMUN
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Tragic incidents in Bangladesh brought the issue of labor rights to the global stage once again. What are some new approaches to keeping factory wo...
- Added: Jul 31, 2014
- Length: 21:14
In Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and a new generation of business leaders have launched a cultural shift, with many trying to increase female co...
- Added: Jun 09, 2014
- Length: 21:25
Rent control has been a way for cities to regulate their housing prices and evictions since World War One, in the wake of a big housing shortage in...
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 05:13
When you fill out a job application, you expect to answer some basic questions. Things like your employment and education history, and relevant ski...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 07:14
News from Detroit, Connecticut, and DC.
- Added: Dec 09, 2013
- Length: 02:59
2 Minute Teach-In on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, or TPP, gives facts about this massive trade and investment treaty being negotiated i...
- Added: Mar 08, 2013
- Length: 01:59
Our worldwide monetary system is outdated. That’s the claim from international monetary expert Bernard Lietaer and award winning journalist Jacqui ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Feb 14, 2013
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 1
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...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 30, 2012
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Consulting firms have long helped corporations make their operations more efficient and profitable, but now moral leadership is being added to the ...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Sep 04, 2012
- Length: 14:32
- Purchases: 1
Consulting firms have long helped corporations make their operations more efficient and profitable, but now moral leadership is being added to the ...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Sep 04, 2012
- Length: 20:40
- Purchases: 1
Both left and right agree that the U.S. income gap is widening. It's harder to agree on how to solve it. Fred Setterberg yearns for the solidarity ...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Aug 16, 2012
- Length: 12:43
- Purchases: 1
Both left and right agree that the U.S. income gap is widening. It's harder to agree on how to solve it. Fred Setterberg yearns for the solidarity ...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Aug 16, 2012
- Length: 14:29
- Purchases: 1
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
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
