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From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

Equipped with a facemask and a selfie stick, Laura Flanders reports in this episode (from a responsible distance) on the impact of Covid-19 on one ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer

How We Got Here, Part 3: The Fight For Meaningful Work

From: Sam Harnett
Series: How We Got Here

The final section of a 3-hour radio documentary about why Americans are so precarious and acceptable to crisis like the current pandemic. Part 3 lo...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Farm Worker to Farm Owner

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

There’s a shift happening in American agriculture that has been hard to spot. Farm workers have entered mainstream consciousness through coverage o...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer

Special Report: Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party's Radical Rise

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

What difference does a Party make? This week on the Laura Flanders Show, we talk about what's happening in the UK where one of the two main partie...

Bought by KDNK

Democratizing Wealth, Expanding Power - The Preston Model

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

On this week's program, coproduced with the Democracy Collaborative, Laura reports on a transatlantic experiment in cooperative community wealth bu...

Bought by KDNK

Life of the Law #91: Death on a Dairy

From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law

Caption: Arminio Órtiz Pérez, Credit: Eilís O’Neill

Working on a dairy--especially a small dairy--is one of the most dangerous jobs in the country, more dangerous even than construction. Over the pas...

Life of the Law #83: Recuse Yourself

From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law

When should a judge step aside? As more and more money floods into judicial elections across the nation, states are grappling with this question. P...

Episode 7: Bishop Castle

From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here

In this episode of Wish We Were Here, we tell the remarkable story of Bishop Castle--an incredible piece of folk architecture that is likely one of...

New Orleans Reconstruction Workers Fight to Remain

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Immigrants and supporters march down Poydras Street in New Orleans on July 10., Credit: Jasmin Mara Lopez

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Southern Gulf Coast. Reconstruction after Katrina drew thousands of people from India, Bra...

Bought by XRAY.fm

Karen Buscemi & The Quest for A Fashion District in Detroit#17

From: Romy Kochan
Series: Season One: Bonfires of Social Enterprise

Caption: Detroit Garment Group Founder Karen Buscemi, Credit: Boswell

The Bonfires of Social Enterprise episode with Detroit fashion writer turned job maker and social enterprise entrepreneuer. Karen Buscemi is trying...

Part Two: Desperately Seeking Doctors

From: KBIA
Series: Shortage in Rich Land

Caption: Judith Haggard is one of two nurse practitioners at the Otto Bean Medical Center in Kennett, Mo. The clinic has no full-time doctor so Haggard works with a collaborating physician outside of the SEMO Health Network, which runs Otto Bean., Credit: Bram Sable-Smith

The Missouri Bootheel is a region emblematic of the social and medical problems facing rural Missouri, and really, all of rural America. Life expec...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WABE

Futurework

From: Spectrum Radio

IEEE Spectrum Radio explores what the workplace will look like and what the meaning of work will be 30 years into the future.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KHNS, KTSW 89.9, WUFT, KUER and more

San Francisco City College – A Casualty in the War Against Public Education?

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

In California a surprising trend is taking place, one that is threatening precisely what makes community colleges unique – their accessibility to a...

Armed forces scale back, PA young people often disappointed

From: PublicSource

Caption: Recruiters for the U.S. Marines canvass shopping plazas, high schools and job fairs for potential soldiers., Credit: Alexandra Kanik/PublicSource

In robust economic times, America’s armed services have had to hustle to recruit qualified soldiers. But when civilian unemployment is high and th...

Bought by WXDU

Underground Trade Part 7: Modern Day Slavery in America

From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Underground Trade: From Boston to Bangkok

Caption: Chinatown, Manhattan, Credit: Meredith Nierman, WGBH

If you think slavery ended in 1865, think again. Human traffickers have picked up where Jim Crow left off.

Bought by KUER, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUOW, and WRPI

Can Chicago Factory Occupiers Form a Co-op?

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

One Chicago factory became a flashpoint back in 2008, when workers occupied the floor for days in protest. Now, those same employees are trying to...

Labor Day: Creating More Jobs by Helping Small Businesses Succeed

From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel

Caption: The Emotion Roadmap to Inspired Performance

Graduate students at UCONN are helping small businesses learn about enterprise risk management and they are producing stellar results.

At Auto Plants, A Reversal of Fortune

From: Changing Gears
Series: Changing Gears: Remaking the Manufacturing Belt

Caption: Brothers Justin and Derick Jewell, 22 and 24 years old. Justin is a two-tier worker and makes $16 an hour. As a traditional worker, Derick makes $28 an hour.

The American Dream is that each generation will do better than the last. But the families of auto workers no longer have that expectation. As Detro...

Expanding the Northwest Detention Center

From: Seattle Globalist

Caption: Northwest Detention Center, Credit: Alex Stonehill

April 16, 2009 - On any given day, 30,000 people are being held in detention centers across the country. With plans to expand the Northwest Detenti...