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Tipping culture is changing in America. What’s driving tipflation and tipcreep – and what’s expected of consumers?
- Added: Mar 14, 2024
- Length: 52:51
- Purchases: 3
The US is seeing an unusual spike in union activity and public support for unions. What does this moment mean for the future of labor in America?
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 4
We speak with Jenny Odell, author of "Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock," about how the ways we think about time shapes our lives. A...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
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
As fires ravaged California’s wine country in 2017, farm and service workers, especially non-English speakers, were some of the hardest hit. Hear m...
Bought by KMUN and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Dec 05, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
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
A conversation with Americonned Director Sean Claffey. Despite an increase in productivity in recent decades, compensation for the American worker ...
- Added: Jun 21, 2023
- Length: 07:19
There’s a severe shortage of people to care for older Americans in their homes and nursing facilities. And it’s only expected to get worse.
Could ...
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 21:23
In Part 2 of our special series on 988, we explore the scramble to staff the country’s new mental health crisis line and the workforce lessons 988 ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jun 02, 2022
- Length: 26:45
- Purchases: 1
In Part 2 of our special series on 988, we explore the scramble to staff the country’s new mental health crisis line and the workforce lessons 988 ...
- Added: Jun 02, 2022
- Length: 04:00
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
After COVID-19 - a Palmdale couple grapple with completely different receptions upon returning to work.
- Added: Feb 05, 2021
- Length: 06:44
Undocumented hotel housekeepers are among some of the most vulnerable workers in the pandemic. In this episode, we hear one of their stories.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 15, 2020
- Length: 22:18
- Purchases: 1
New York City bus operators Tyrone Hampton and Frank de Jesus talk about how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted their calling.
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Jun 15, 2020
- Length: 02:13
- Purchases: 1
Gig Workers, driver's for app companies such as Lyft and Uber, are struggling during COVID-19. They're considered essential workers, so they can st...
Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
- Added: May 11, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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
Interview by Gary Kanter: David describes the Website/email news, The Stand, and various other worker issues.
- Added: Feb 07, 2020
- Length: 28:00
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
This week on the show: The Florida Keys were devastated by Hurricane Irma over one year ago — we check in to see how residents are coping with de...
- Added: Nov 28, 2018
- Length: 30:00
Spectrum: The dogged, interminable struggle with diabetes -
This week on the show, DW reports from a special conference in Bochum, where experts ...
- Added: Oct 24, 2018
- Length: 30:00
It seems like the only tech headlines we have are about disasters. But what about the original promise of tech to innovate and empower? Bex Hong Hu...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: May 24, 2018
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
