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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
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
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
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
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
Unions are getting weaker, and even more threatening, says labor leader and author Bill Fletcher Jr., the general public no longer understands or s...
- Added: Jul 24, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Since January, thousands of coal miners have been laid off in Central Appalachia. We’ve heard a lot of opinions about the causes of this decline a...
Bought by WRNC-LP
- Added: Oct 18, 2012
- Length: 11:31
- Purchases: 1
Business execs in Northern Virginia, typically a core Republican constituency, are beginning to lose patience with the GOP over its refusal to rais...
- Added: Mar 14, 2010
- Length: 04:41
A Colombian immigrant was recently denied her investor's visa, forcing her to shut down her U.S. company and fire her six employees. Does immigrati...
- Added: Sep 11, 2009
- Length: 01:30
BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Mar 11, 2009
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
From: Chris Goldstein
Duke university Professor Felicia Kornbluh- discusses her book The Battle For Welfare Rights : Politics and Poverty in Modern America
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Oct 22, 2008
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
More than one million Americans are facing loss of their badly needed Unemployment Insurance benefits.
- Added: Sep 17, 2008
- Length: 02:33