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Bestselling business writer Jim Collins on what makes a successful nonprofit.

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Dec 02, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Saru Jayaraman
Americans eat out more than any other people. But the workers who put food on our restaurant tables are struggling to feed themselves and their fam...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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Co-founder/CEO and the National Director of Free The Girls explain how this organization helps women and girls who are victims of human trafficking

  • Added: Oct 06, 2013
  • Length: 49:36
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Labor Day was created in the 19th century by the unions, to celebrate the economic achievements of American workers. But if we look at the 21st ce...

Bought by KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Aug 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 3
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Most of us learned in history class that slavery in the U.S. ended with the Thirteenth Amendment. But the trade in human beings—for sex and labor—i...

Bought by WJCT, Troy Public Radio, WFHB, and KVLU


  • Added: Jul 22, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Most of us learned in history class that slavery in the U.S. ended with the Thirteenth Amendment. But the trade in human beings—for sex and labor—i...

Bought by WCNY, KWIT, and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 22, 2013
  • Length: 53:51
  • Purchases: 3
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Two and one half minute commentary by series host Martha Burk on the immigration debate and what it means for women.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
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Are most airline stewards gay? How did their legal battles with airlines advance gay rights and gender workplace equity? History professor Phil Tie...

  • Added: May 30, 2013
  • Length: 28:54
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Two and one-half minute commentary by Equal Time host Martha Burk on the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act and what still needs to be done.

  • Added: May 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
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Two and one-half minute commentary by Equal Time host Martha Burk on who won, who lost on Tax Day.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:30

  • Added: Mar 30, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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Commentary: More than 850,000 minimum wage workers in 10 states will be getting raises in the new year.

  • Added: Dec 27, 2012
  • Length: 04:03
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It's time for President Obama to help the country's home care workers.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2012
  • Length: 02:21
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

  • Added: Dec 14, 2012
  • Length: 01:52:57
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Commentary: Student athletes get very little of the millions generated by college football's bowl games.

  • Added: Dec 06, 2012
  • Length: 04:01
Caption: Inmate Johnny Ames demonstrates his welding skills., Credit: Kyung-Jin Lee
After decades of neglect, prison rehabilitation programs are seeing a resurgence, despite some hiccups. For California, this emphasis on rehabilita...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Dec 02, 2012
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 2
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Commentary: It's time to enact a proposed law that would give workers the absolute right to unionization.

  • Added: Nov 29, 2012
  • Length: 04:13
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Labor was a big election winner.

  • Added: Nov 15, 2012
  • Length: 02:45
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Raising the minimum wage should be a key post-election priority.

  • Added: Nov 08, 2012
  • Length: 04:33
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Commentary: Labor faces its greatest election challenge in California.

  • Added: Oct 25, 2012
  • Length: 02:41
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Repealing the union-crippling Taft-Hartley Act should have been a prime issue throughout the election campaign.

  • Added: Oct 18, 2012
  • Length: 03:13
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Commentary: John Steinbeck was a great champion of farm labor.

  • Added: Oct 12, 2012
  • Length: 02:56
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Commentary: Although we're recovering from the Great Recession, most of the new jobs are low-paying, non-union jobs.

  • Added: Oct 05, 2012
  • Length: 03:01
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Commentary: The great health hazards facing tobacco harvesters are being largely ignored.

  • Added: Sep 27, 2012
  • Length: 03:36
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Series host Martha Burk interviews United States Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis. Solis addresses the state of the recovery and what to expect for...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2012
  • Length: 28:37