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Are we addicted to the Internet? Is it even appropriate to use the language of addiction about smartphones and other digital devices?

  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 24:30
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Big data is revolutionizing health and medicine, from genomics to wearable technologies to precision health. But is our medical care system prepare...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 26:51
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What is the future of work? Today, all of our careers are being transformed by big data, from how we find it, to how we collaborate with others, to...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 22:15
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Your normal, everyday digital footprints can reveal surprisingly intimate facts – like whether your parents are divorced, and whether you own a gun.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 22:03
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School Boards seem to have arisen alongside public schooling in general. In 1826 Massachusetts formally established the system of school committees...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2014
  • Length: 55:19
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Segment One: Making the Case Against Cages. Prison abolitionist Micol Seigel, an associate professor in the departments of American Studies and His...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 59:01
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Emmet Hedin grew up on an organic vegetable farm in southeast Minnesota. He worked on the farm during his childhood, and never thought there was an...

  • Added: May 02, 2014
  • Length: 15:20
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Live Local. Live Small. Create big changes in your home, your finances and your community.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2013
  • Length: 06:32
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Born in New Orleans in 1902, Omer Simeon is the least known of the early clarinetist of the 1920s. He was apparently very quite and reserved, didn...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 58:58
Caption: Music for Occupy, Credit: Matt Pless
Jennie Arnau - Better Luck Next Time from Occupy This Album

  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 04:06
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The need to combat sexual harassment on the job is drawing lots of attention.

  • Added: Dec 15, 2011
  • Length: 02:53
Caption: Created, Written and Produced by Brad Dunn
Steve Miles imports an exciting and cutting-edge portfolio of Spanish wines.

  • Added: Dec 13, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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For the sake of the country's future, teachers are one group of public employees we must all support.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2011
  • Length: 03:11
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Politicians and others who caused our economic troubles are attempting to shift the blame to public employees, whose vital work benefits us all.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2011
  • Length: 05:45
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The pioneering Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, a leader in the fight for racial equality, should be high on the list of those we honor during ...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2011
  • Length: 04:02
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U.S. employers are in effect stealing millions of dollars from their employees by underpaying them.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 03:19
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Republican members of Congress are trying to block President Obama's plan to modernize the country's crumbling infrastructure.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2010
  • Length: 03:14
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Those seeking ways to revitalize the declining US labor movement need look no further than the drive launched 75 years ago this month by the fledgl...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2010
  • Length: 03:53
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Democrats and their allies, particularly organized labor, who lost big in the midterm elections, are facing major contests with Republicans in the ...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2010
  • Length: 05:31
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It's way past time that we updated the law that supposedly guarantees women workers pay equal to that of men.

  • Added: Sep 23, 2010
  • Length: 03:16
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An AFL-CIO report shows that many of those who rescued victims of the 9/11 attacks are still suffering from serious injuries and illnesses.

  • Added: Sep 17, 2010
  • Length: 04:13
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The AFL-CIO has begun a drive to recruit young workers to grow and strengthen the labor movement.

  • Added: Sep 09, 2010
  • Length: 03:10
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Labor Day is a good time to honor the invaluable but much maligned public employees.

  • Added: Sep 03, 2010
  • Length: 03:44
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Labor and Democratic Party leaders worry that labor's rank and file may not provide Democratic candidates the support they'll need in November's el...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2010
  • Length: 03:05
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As a new federal report shows,unionized workers not only earn more than non-union workers, but also have much better benefits.

  • Added: Aug 06, 2010
  • Length: 04:19