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- Added: Jan 27, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Over the past 35-years, the economy has been reasonably productive. It’s worked well for investors and high-level executives, but not for ordinary ...
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- Added: Dec 17, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Over one million North Carolinians make the minimum wage at their job: Seven-twenty-five an hour. While many states and cities have recently raised...
- Added: Apr 12, 2015
- Length: 04:57
Americans’ pensions are gone. Housing is down and 401k are unreliable. But our Social Security system is totally funded for more than two decades.
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
In his new book, economist Gar Alperovitz speaks plainly about why the time is right to democratize the ownership of wealth as a way to strengthen ...
- Added: May 21, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 2
Live Local. Live Small.
Create big changes in your home, your finances
and your community.
- Added: Apr 01, 2013
- Length: 06:32
Air Occupy radio show interviews Noam Chomsky about Gaza, Occupy Wall Street movement, Labor, and the media.
- Added: Feb 20, 2013
- Length: 44:18
Achieving full employment has been at the center of the progressive project for more than a century. If work is available at decent wages for ever...
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- Added: Dec 30, 2012
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
America’s middle class is in dramatic decline. But, what caused the downfall?
- Added: Jul 23, 2012
- Length: 28:54
Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty and Our Democracy is the subtitle of professor Gar Alperovitz's updated work centering the most recent developme...
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- Added: Jan 04, 2012
- Length: 28:52
- Purchases: 1
The need to combat sexual harassment on the job is drawing lots of attention.
- Added: Dec 15, 2011
- Length: 02:53
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
U.S. employers are in effect stealing millions of dollars from their employees by underpaying them.
- Added: Dec 16, 2010
- Length: 03:19
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
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
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
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
Labor Day is a good time to honor the invaluable but much maligned public employees.
- Added: Sep 03, 2010
- Length: 03:44
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
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
Farm worker advocates have lost a major battle to grant the highly exploited workers the legal right to overtime pay that most other workers have.
- Added: Jul 30, 2010
- Length: 04:50
The number of serious on-the-job accidents this year have made very clear the need for expanded and tightened government safety regulations.
- Added: Jul 21, 2010
- Length: 05:09
Union organizers Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings were the victims of one of the most outrageous frameups in U.S. history.
- Added: Jul 16, 2010
- Length: 06:05
Congress is only adding to our economic problems by refusing extra aid to the unemployed and to states faced with having to lay off many vital publ...
- Added: Jul 09, 2010
- Length: 04:10
Yes, this is the 21st Century, but America's agricultural industry still relies heavily on child labor.
- Added: Jun 11, 2010
- Length: 03:24
