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Wrongfully convicted man fighting to save his name after prison
From: KALW
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Maurice Caldwell is just one of hundreds of former inmates whose convictions have been overturned after spending years in prison. Now, Caldwell is ...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 19, 2012
  • Length: 10:46
  • Purchases: 2
Buffalo Creek Disaster Remembered
From: WMMT
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This Sunday, February 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the Buffalo Creek Disaster in Logan County, West Virginia. The disaster occured when the da...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Feb 24, 2012
  • Length: 08:53
  • Purchases: 1
Seniority policy puts Futures Elementary teachers at risk
From: KALW
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Activists gathered in Sacramento Monday as part of a weeklong demonstration against budget cuts to schools. Sixty-five protesters were arrested for...

  • Added: May 16, 2011
  • Length: 06:53
TruthToTell March 14: THE WAR ON PUBLIC EMPLOYEES: Myths and Realities
From: Andy Driscoll
Series: TruthToTell
Caption: Wisconsin Solidarity, Credit: Barb Kucera-Workday Minnesota
TTT’s ANDY DRISCOLL talks with a labor scholar, reporter/analyst and those on the front lines of public employment to talk about why this has come ...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2011
  • Length: 57:31
Gridlock, On Highways and In Legislature
From: David Schultz
Caption: Scientists at the Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia perform cutting edge neuroscience research. A Janelia Farm exec says Northern Virginia's congested highways makes hiring and retaining employees difficult., Credit: Matt Staley/Janelia Farm
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
The Local Aftermath of Bush-Era Workplace Immigration Raids
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We go to Postville, Iowa and Laurel, Mississippi--two communities where the largest workplace immigration raids happened in 2008.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jan 20, 2010
  • Length: 14:53
  • Purchases: 1
Struggling Company Goes Out of Way to Help Laid Off Workers
From: NPR Economic Training Project
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Charlotte-area small business Tyler 2 Construction is putting laid-off workers on "attached unemployment" and still paying their health insurance b...

Bought by Michigan Radio Economy Special and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 23, 2009
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 2
How We Survive: Sprouting Up in Empty Breadbaskets
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The irony of food poverty in California’s agriculturally rich Central Valley and a look at community gardens popping up in food deserts. We also ex...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
Low Income Women and Green Cleaning
From: Tena Rubio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Low income immigrant women own their own green, eco-friendly cleaning businesses.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 07:32
  • Purchases: 1
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -1: How the South (or White Supremacy?) Won the War (1865 - 1877)
From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
Caption: An American Terrorist
From the founding of the Ku Klux Klan by ex-Confederate officers, through the defeat of Reconstruction: How history is made and remade, with histor...

Bought by WCPN, WRPI, and KUNM


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 58:19
  • Purchases: 3
The Zell Effect
From: Patrick Burke
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The LA Times is shrinking and reporters are suing.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: 04:09
"A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE POOR"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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A modern look at the world's poor and the causes of poverty

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Feb 02, 2009
  • Length: 01:00:48
  • Purchases: 1
Migrants in Central Oregon
From: KLCC
Caption: Gloria Sauceda and her husband Armando own Gloria's Espresso in Madras. They have noticed a drop in income as the economy has slowed down.
This story explores the changing migrant population in Central Oregon.

  • Added: Jan 05, 2009
  • Length: 06:48
Follow the Money
From: Liz Jones
Series: A Village Away from Home
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A look at the economic forces that push the Purepecha from home and pull them toward Seattle.

  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 09:02
Growing Pains
From: Liz Jones
Series: A Village Away from Home
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A look at the tensions in a new immigrant community.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 08:52
  • Purchases: 1
Rust Belt Series: Manufacturing
From: WYSO
Caption: PRX default Piece image
How the Presidential candidates are addressing problems in the manufacturing industry.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 10, 2008
  • Length: 03:53
  • Purchases: 1
An Immigrant's Perspective
From: Robynn Takayama
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This story explores what life is like in the US working without papers

Bought by KUOW, KRUA, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 14, 2008
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 3
"Prison Town, USA"
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In our special collaboration with public televison?s P.O.V., Directors Katie Galloway and Po Kutchins take us to ?Prison Town, USA? and explore how...

Bought by KRUA


  • Added: Jul 17, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Out of Work
From: War News Radio
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An in depth look at the Iraqi unemployment crisis.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and KGOU


  • Added: May 09, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Dumped Tires Land on Doorsteps
From: Zak Rosen
Caption: The finished product
Re-purposing dumped tires combats poverty, vacant lots, and environmental degredation

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 05, 2008
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 2
Eco-therapy for war vets
From: Northwest News Network (N3)
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A novel program under the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs uses nature to heal the wounds of war

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 31, 2007
  • Length: 03:25
  • Purchases: 3
Housing the Homeless
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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Ed Paige had been homeless for twenty years. But now, thanks to an innovative housing facility in Portland Maine, Ed finally has a stable place to ...

Bought by WMPG and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Dec 06, 2007
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 2
Green Card Applicants Protest
From: Michelle Chang
Caption: PRX default Piece image
One export from China that American businesses can?t get enough of are highly-skilled workers, especially those in the high tech industry. Workers ...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2007
  • Length: :03
Bridges over troubled waters (4:50 edit)
From: John Ryan
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Winner, 2007 PRNDI award for Best News Series

Bought by KLCC


  • Added: Jul 23, 2007
  • Length: 04:50
  • Purchases: 1
Major-league mariners
From: John Ryan
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A midnight run on a giant oil tanker

  • Added: Apr 07, 2007
  • Length: 06:39