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Increases in the number of migrants arriving in San Francisco have stress-tested the city’s shelter system, revealing the dire need for more housin...
- Added: Apr 12, 2024
- Length: 29:30
The impact of the COVID 19 pandemic led to a rise in fatal overdoses among the tens of thousands of Indigenous Mayans living in the Bay area.
That...
- Added: Apr 12, 2024
- Length: 29:30
The first years of the COVID-19 pandemic are behind us and it’s time for an early reckoning of our successes and failures. An epidemiologist shares...
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 21:30
On the forefront of the next labor revolution, we visit a coffee shop in Maine called Little Dog whose workers start to organize a union and we tal...
Bought by KMUN, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jan 02, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
This week we continue delving into community-rooted disaster relief in California. From building mutual aid networks, to translating emergency mess...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Dec 12, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
In early January, Medicare took an unprecedented step to restrict patients’ access to the first new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease in nearly 20 ...
- Added: Jan 20, 2022
- Length: 22:47
On May 8, 2013, a man named Timothy Jones was arrested in Chicago. He says it wasn’t until he got to the police station that he found out that he w...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 31:41
Generation Z has been called a lot of things: The internet generation. The Instagram generation. And as some say: the activist generation. Claire H...
- Added: Jun 24, 2019
- Length: 08:29
In the U.S., juries are often seen as democracy in action. Twelve men and women are asked to hear an entire case, and ultimately, decide another pe...
- Added: Jan 21, 2016
- Length: 23:13
When prisoners act out, they get put in solitary confinement-- the penal version of 'go to your room and think about what you've done.' But for the...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 28, 2015
- Length: 24:26
- Purchases: 1
Amateur sleuths armed with their own laptops, public information and a lot of spare time are working alone and in groups to crack criminal cases. S...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, KVNF, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 24, 2015
- Length: 32:30
- Purchases: 4
Alzheimer’s is the incurable disease that destroys memory, speech and function. Scientists say the number of Americans with Alzheimer's may triple...
Bought by KOSU, WNYC, KQED, KZYX, and Maine Public Radio
- Added: Nov 18, 2011
- Length: 58:30
- Purchases: 5
So-called ‘quality of life’ policing may temporarily decrease crime, but it has harsh consequences for innocent people caught up in the frenzy of a...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Nov 30, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In this program recorded on site in northeastern Pennsylvania, we follow the Marcellus Shale trail and find the fracturing of the bedrock under thi...
- Added: Nov 09, 2010
- Length: 55:30
- Purchases: 2
The campaign for Vermont's open seat in the U.S. Senate turned into the most expensive election per capita in the country. It provides a jumping of...
Bought by KXOT Public Radio, KWCW, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Nov 02, 2006
- Length: 58:29
- Purchases: 3
