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Fines and fees have become the default way we punish people; deterrence is the ultimate goal, but do fines actually deter bad behavior?
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KOWS, and KMXT
- Added: Nov 30, 2023
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 4
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews:
Canadian Scholar Warns America is Moving Toward Democracy Collapse & Right...
- Added: Jan 19, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
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
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews:
Coronavirus Health and Economic Crisis Exacerbates U.S. Inequality;
Seeki...
- Added: May 06, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
In this episode, we start with updates from Operation PUSH. After that, we continue hearing from Craig, who spent significant time in the Monroe Co...
- Added: Jan 27, 2020
- Length: 29:08
This week, we feature two snapshots from fast-developing situations inside the prison system. First, we share an anonymized statement from a prison...
- Added: Jan 27, 2020
- Length: 28:48
First off, we include an update from outside supporters of Operation PUSH, the strike in Florida prisons that is now in its fifth day. We will cont...
- Added: Jan 27, 2020
- Length: 29:28
-Walmart claims to provide employment and low prices, but does it do so at the social cost of low wages, anti-union activity and squeezing supplier...
Bought by WCNY, WTJU, WRGY, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan and more
- Added: Apr 25, 2019
- Length: 53:57
- Purchases: 11
Yesterday evening in Bloomington about 70 people attended a march and rally in solidarity with an international migrant strike. The event was held ...
- Added: May 02, 2017
- Length: 07:27
Hear old-timey prospectors, bathroom romance, and sanctified stroking in this week’s Final Edition Radio Hour.
- Added: Apr 26, 2016
- Length: 49:39
While advocates and politicians seek an alternative, more integrative model to the AbilityOne program, Gladys, a disabled worker wonders if the Abi...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 03:55
- Purchases: 1
Comments:
> Spaniards have just said NO to privatizing healthcare.
> The big squeeze is on and the middle class is feeling it.
> Conservatives s...
- Added: Aug 22, 2014
- Length: 28:15
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
The findings from a new Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism report show that despite the opportunity to solve some of these problems, the...
- Added: Mar 03, 2014
- Length: 03:16
News from Detroit, Connecticut, and DC.
- Added: Dec 09, 2013
- Length: 02:59
Julie Eaton is the captain of the Cat Sass. She spends 6 months of the year on the water, and is ready to haul in a union.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 02, 2013
- Length: 04:43
- Purchases: 2
Thousands gathered in downtown Oakland to occupy the ports and shut them down. Exploring a night with the Occupy Oakland movement, partly a party...
- Added: Nov 29, 2011
- Length: 06:15
Farm workers have suffered a heavy blow in their drive to win union rights.
- Added: Jul 07, 2011
- Length: 04:03
Today on The Union Edge Talk Radio Show, "Buy American" with Barbara Toncheff and Lawson Nichols, owner of The All American Clothing Company based ...
- Added: May 11, 2011
- Length: 50:00
Today on The Union Edge, Michael J Wilson and Will Rice of Americans for Democratic Action, (ADAction.org) on the "Top 10 Reasons to Reject Ryan", ...
- Added: May 10, 2011
- Length: 50:00
Today,on The Union Edge, Pres Michael Goodwin and Deana Fox of OPEIU 212 in Buffalo NY to talk about employees being locked out, and later a wrap u...
- Added: May 10, 2011
- Length: 50:00
Today on the Union Edge, we have Ted Chandler, the Chief Operating Officer for the AFL CIO housing income trust. Then, a segment from What Vets Nee...
- Added: May 06, 2011
- Length: 50:00
Today on The Union Edge, Paula E. Peinovich, PhD President of the National Labor College discusses classes, concentrations, campus life and even th...
- Added: Apr 28, 2011
- Length: 50:01
Today on The Union Edge, Charlie McCollester and Rosemary Trump are on for our labor history & current events program. Terry Miale tells her story ...
- Added: Apr 27, 2011
- Length: 50:02
Rich Fitzgerald discusses air toxicity and other topics previously brought up by GASP and Clean Water. Then, International President Ray Hair of Th...
- Added: Apr 27, 2011
- Length: 50:03
