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Tipping culture is changing in America. What’s driving tipflation and tipcreep – and what’s expected of consumers?

Bought by RADIOLEX, KSTK, and KMXT


  • Added: Mar 14, 2024
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 3
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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?

Bought by KMXT, KSTK, KOWS, and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 4
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Denise Tuite recalls volunteering at The Lesbian Switchboard, a helpline for gay women that operated in New York City from the 70s to the 90s.

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Jan 12, 2024
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 1
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This pediatric neurosurgeon has saved the lives of countless children–from fetuses in the womb to teenagers. Here are their stories.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Dec 28, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 4
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Historian Carolyn Zola's research illuminates the lives of women hucksters of nineteenth century America.

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 26, 2023
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 2
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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
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Childhood friends Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez and Jim Murphy grew up together on the south side of Tucson, Arizona, but were less than friends initially...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2023
  • Length: 02:33
Caption: Inside the Bybee Stone Mill (Alex Chambers)
Limestone work used to be quite dangerous. Joyce Jeffries remembers workers, including her grandfather, dying or getting injured. It’s gotten safer...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 51:59
Caption: Angelina McCall after graduating from nursing school in the spring of 2020. , Credit: Photo courtesy the participants
After Angelina McCall left her job at a Tucson ER, she wondered if she was cut out for nursing. Then a volunteer position on the US-Mexico border h...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2023
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 1
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Americans are obsessed with work. American workers spend a lot more time at their jobs than other highly developed nations. Why?

Bought by KUHF, KSTK, RadioStPete Florida, RADIOLEX, KOWS and more


  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Les Harris and Angie Presly at their StoryCorps interview in Springfield, MO on April 22, 2022., Credit: By Sarah Padgett for StoryCorps.
Les Harris and his daughter Angie Presley talk about how the accident that left him paralyzed changed their lives.

Bought by KWMU St. Louis and Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Apr 04, 2023
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 2
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An astronaut experiences a juxtaposition of the sublime and the mundane, sensing God while floating weightless, fixing cables outside his spacecraft.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Nov 07, 2022
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 3
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Personal experiences illustrating God's guiding hand.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
Caption: Ashley and Nicholas Cosme at their StoryCorps interview in Chicago, Illinois on July 27, 2022., Credit: Taken for StoryCorps
Ashley Cosme sits down with her husband, Nicholas, to talk about how they are keeping alive her father’s memory and his love of cars.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Aug 09, 2022
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 1
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Dorothy Salmon-Lindsay speaks with Rowan Allen, the EMT who saved her son’s life and inspired her to become a nurse.

  • Added: Dec 28, 2021
  • Length: 01:59
Caption: The Action Tours protest at the Macy’s 34th St Store in NYC on Nov 29, 1991., Credit: Meryl Levin
On Black Friday 1991, AIDS activists protested the department store's refusal to rehire a Santa who had HIV. The man who inspired the protest recon...

Bought by KALW and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:13
  • Purchases: 2
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Casimiro “Cas” Torres reflects on how his childhood led him to incarceration at New York City’s Hart Island, where he buried the poor and unclaimed...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 1
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After COVID-19 - a Palmdale couple grapple with completely different receptions upon returning to work.

  • Added: Feb 05, 2021
  • Length: 06:44
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Debra Fisher, an occupational therapist in the New York City Public School System, speaks with her friend Emma Pelosi, a special education teacher,...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 02:24
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Dr. Ayim Darkeh speaks with his mother, Shirley, about his experiences being one of the few Black students at his predominantly white elementary sc...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 03:04
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode we profile Helen Hernandez, CEO of the North American Travel Journalist Association. We start from her humble beginnings and labor...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2020
  • Length: 23:58
Caption: Craig Boddie and Evette Jourdain, both mail carriers in Palm Beach, Fla., spoke for a remote StoryCorps conversation last month about the job risks created by the coronavirus outbreak., Credit: Courtesy of Craig Boddie and Evette Jourdain for StoryCorps.
Palm Beach, Florida Mail Carriers Evette Jourdain and Craig Boddie talk about how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted their daily lives--at work, an...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 16, 2020
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: New York City MTA bus operators Tyrone Hampton (left) and Frank de Jesus spoke last week about how the coronavirus pandemic has affected their work. They talked during a remote StoryCorps conversation., Credit: Tyrone Hampton and Frank de Jesus.
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
Caption: Thomas Germano and Tom Germano at their StoryCorps interview in North Babylon, NY, on February 7, 2020. , Credit: Camila Kerwin for StoryCorps.
Tom Germano speaks with his son, Thomas, about the Great Postal Strike of 1970, and his love of delivering the mail.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jun 15, 2020
  • Length: 02:15
  • Purchases: 1
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In 2018, Puerto Rico based actor, composer and filmmaker Juan Botta left job security behind to center on his creative life. That’s when he launche...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2019
  • Length: 12:52