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Will Millennials Be Left Behind?
From: Open to Debate
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The oldest members of the Millennial generation are reaching their forties and feel they’ve been left behind emotionally and financially. Those who...

Bought by WMUU-LP and KCPW Salt Lake City


  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
EE 23-21: The Chocolate Moose is more than ice cream, 5/19/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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Local ice cream shop puts the focus on community with Food Truck Fridays.

  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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
StoryCorps: Angeline Presley and Les Harris
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Les Harris and Angie Presly at their StoryCorps interview in Springfield, MO on April 22, 2022., Credit: By Sarah Padgett for StoryCorps.
Les Harris and his daughter Angie Presley talk about how the accident that left him paralyzed changed their lives.

Bought by St. Louis Public Radio and Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Apr 04, 2023
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 2
2023-03-17 A Global Just Transition – For Whom?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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According to the United Nations Development Program, 54 countries, accounting for half the world’s population, face such critical debt burdens that...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KUNM, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 12
230317: A Global Just Transition – For Whom?, 3/17/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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According to the United Nations Development Program, 54 countries, accounting for half the world’s population, face such critical debt burdens that...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
EE 23-06: Rethinking the restaurant industry, 2/3/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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A conversation with geographer Jen Watkins on her experience as a server and her research on the industry.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
Work as Dance!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Allison Orr, Credit: Jonica Moore
Founder and Artistic Director of Forklift Danceworks Allison Orr talks about the community-based dance company and its many collaborations.

Bought by WMPG, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., RADIOLEX, KZUM, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jan 02, 2023
  • Length: 28:16
  • Purchases: 5
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...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Labor Day Special - "Workin’: The Work Song in Jazz and Popular Music"
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Jazz for the Labor Day holiday, with special guest jazz historian Ted Gioia (author of the book WORK SONGS). Featured artists include Duke Ellingt...

Bought by WNMU-FM, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, KAZU Seaside, Calif., WNMU-FM, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 42
EE 22-34: Making the invisible visible: our food system’s dependence on the labor of forced migrants, 8/19/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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A conversation with Elizebeth Cullen Dunn on the elements of our food system that most of us prefer to keep hidden from view.

  • Added: Aug 18, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
30: The Midwestern Urban Farming Movement, 08/04/2022
From: Heritage Radio Network
Series: Eat Your Heartland Out
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In this episode, we travel to Kansas City and St. Louis to learn about the impact of urban farming in the Midwest. We speak with Semra Fetahovic, ...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Aug 04, 2022
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 1
2022-06-05 Conscious Machines
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Would a race of thinking, autonomous, conscious machines be our slaves, our masters, or our partners?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KTSW 89.9, KMUN, KSKQ, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 06, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
Beating Poverty by Investing in Teachers: A Labor Story for May Day
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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McDowell County, West Virginia, in the heart of what used to be coal country, is one of the most impoverished counties in the US — a place that emb...

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


  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
New Brand Browsing: Diverse Stores Add New Chapter to Minnesota's Mall History
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Local business owners, such Donna Green of Dreams and Diamonds (top right, with sales rep Kelando Roberts) and Doie Lemi of DMoxi (bottom right) are building community and a loyal customer base at Northtown Mall, Credit: Mike Moen
Minnesota and indoor shopping malls have a high-profile history, with the Mall of America getting all the love. But some slightly smaller spots are...

  • Added: May 02, 2022
  • Length: 04:26
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 2
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two pieces about booms and busts.

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


  • Added: Apr 26, 2022
  • Length: 52:01
  • Purchases: 2
Time to 1.5 | 8 | Prayers of Steel I
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
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Steel is the signature material of the Industrial Revolution. It’s also an essential component of the wind turbines, electric cars, and climate-fri...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Apr 20, 2022
  • Length: 44:52
  • Purchases: 1
EE 22-11: Emily Broad Leib has an expansive view of food safety, 3/11/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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Emily Broad Leib of the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic argues that narrowly focused food safety regulations in the US are failing to address th...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
2022-01-28 State of the Unions: Navigating Job Creation and Destruction
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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With expanding electrical infrastructure and some jurisdictions beginning to ban gas appliances in new construction, the transition to a clean ener...

Bought by KUHF, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Maine Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KGUA and more


  • Added: Jan 26, 2022
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 11
220128: State of the Unions: Navigating Job Creation and Destruction, 1/28/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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With expanding electrical infrastructure and some jurisdictions beginning to ban gas appliances in new construction, the transition to a clean ener...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2022
  • Length: 58:57
643: If Your Clothes Could Talk / 644: Why The Classics Matter, 12/4/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: 'If Your Clothes Could Talk' - Whether you know it or not, your closets are filled with personal information. Do you think about what are...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
Finntown
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Building Brooklyn
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In the early 1900s, if you walked around Sunset Park, you might have heard Finnish being spoken on the streets. That's because the neighborhood was...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2021
  • Length: 18:31
I&I - What's up with the labor markets?
From: Justin Angle
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Incentives & Instincts is a monthly series on A New Angle in which Justin Angle, marketing professor at the University of Montana College of Busine...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2021
  • Length: 28:31
EE 21-41: ‘Food Safety’ Could Include Long-term Health and Environmental Concerns , 10/8/2021
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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Emily Broad Leib of the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic argues that narrowly focused food safety regulations in the US are failing to address th...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
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

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