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Is the American Dream in Decline?
From: Open to Debate
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The American Dream – the idea that anyone can achieve success in the U.S. through hard work and determination – is under scrutiny, and some worry i...

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


  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 3
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
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
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
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
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...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 24, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The U.S. Economy Is Not Democratic or Good for the Planet
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The U.S. economy, weak or strong, is the question at the heart of the election. But it doesn't get to the reality which is that, whatever else it m...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WRIR, and KDNK


  • Added: Feb 05, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
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...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 22, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
NYC Organizers Say #NOHQ2 and Win
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Before the news broke of Amazon's HQ2 pulling out of NYC's L.I.C., we looked at the resistance the plan provoked and why, and considered how develo...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Strike Through the Mask: Labor Strikes Are Essential History
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: A strikers' orchestra in the occupied Flint GM plant.
Loomis focuses on the necessity of government supporting workers’ rights for there to be any Union movement. The state has to protect the worker an...

Bought by KZYX and KMUN


  • Added: Jan 23, 2019
  • Length: 59:15
  • Purchases: 2
SEEING RED: A TIME TRAVELING MUSICAL -- Rotimi Agbabiaka
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Rotimi Agbabiaka, San Francisco, CA 8/2/18, Credit: Andrea Chase
Rotimi Agbabiaka talks discovering hidden history, questioning assumptions, and having his mind blown open.

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Aug 08, 2018
  • Length: 25:39
  • Purchases: 1
Capital’s (Hidden) Art of War and the Belly of Revolution
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Logistics, the management of the flow of things between the point of origin and the point of consumption, logistics, has its origins in military ca...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2018
  • Length: 58:14
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.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
DOLORES -- Dolores Huerta and Peter Bratt Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Peter Bratt & Dolores Huerta, San Francisco, CA 9/4/17, Credit: Andrea Chase
Dolores Huerta and Peter Bratt talk common denominators, the war for truth, and controlling the narrative.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:42
  • 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...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 20, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Women in the Workplace
From: Brooklyn College Radio
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Three women detail their experiences in the paid labor force and how invaluable women are as workers and providers.

  • Added: Apr 11, 2017
  • Length: 08:41
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
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...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Shaping the Future of Work
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Tom Kochen
Over the past 35-years, the economy has been reasonably productive. It’s worked well for investors and high-level executives, but not for ordinary ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 17, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Ending Extreme Inequality
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Scott Myers-Lipton
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...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 25, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Food Sleuth Radio, Seth Holmes Interview - Part 2
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Doctors and dietitians recommend that we eat more fruits and vegetables for better health. But do you know who harvests our produce, and under what...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
The French Sensation
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Capital is a giant, data-packed tome on income inequality covering three hundred years of history by the French economist Thomas Piketty. Is there ...

  • Added: May 02, 2014
  • Length: 58:35
It's Time We Cut Welfare
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Two and one half minute commentary on paying for restoring unemployment benefits to the long-term unemployed by cutting corporate welfare.

  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 02:30