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Taylor Jacobson, CEO of Workmates, discusses the evolution of ‘work’ culture.
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- Added: Dec 28, 2023
- Length: 57:58
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In Part 2 of our special series on 988, we explore the scramble to staff the country’s new mental health crisis line and the workforce lessons 988 ...
- Added: Jun 02, 2022
- Length: 04:00
In this episode we speak with restaurateurs and a labor activist about how the pandemic is reshaping how some think about tips and the minimum wage...
- Added: Jul 29, 2021
- Length: 02:53
The Polar Vortex has subsided, but despite warmer temperatures, it’s still the dead of winter. This week, we take you through dormant grapevines i...
- Added: Dec 16, 2019
- Length: 20:57
On this week's program, coproduced with the Democracy Collaborative, Laura reports on a transatlantic experiment in cooperative community wealth bu...
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- Added: Jun 20, 2018
- Length: 28:00
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As a follow-up to last week’s program, “The Elected Coup,” tonight we confront The Authoritarian Creep.
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- Added: Feb 07, 2017
- Length: 58:15
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5-05-15 WMMT Mountain News & World Report Feature
April 4th was the 6th anniversary of the Upper Big Branch disaster, when 29 coal miners were kil...
- Added: Apr 08, 2016
- Length: 15:54
California’s Family Leave Act is a step ahead of the U.S. as a whole, in giving all parents the right to some time off, but it’s complicated. What ...
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- Added: Nov 02, 2015
- Length: 11:05
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It’s 8:08am, the Friday before spring break, and under other circumstances Kathleen Byrnes would already be at work.
“We would be in our classroom...
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 08:26
Finding the right number to raise Portland’s minimum wage is proving to be hard.
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 05:59
Alyssa Arian has worked in San Francisco restaurants for a decade and, like most servers, she got into it for the tips.
“Some nights you leave wit...
- Added: May 04, 2015
- Length: 09:06
The way we make a living is changing. For about a third of Americans, regular hours and benefits are giving way to a patchwork of contracting, temp...
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- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 06:45
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British naturalist and jungle survivor of Borneo, Amazonia and the Congo, O’Hanlon sets off this time on a commercial fishing ship in the harsh wat...
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- Added: Dec 02, 2014
- Length: 09:56
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Sky-high rents, Google buses and gentrification are all buzzwords around the Bay Area. But that is not the case in the city of Richmond. With unemp...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 05:59
Pazhae Horace has a summer job with California Youth Energy Services, or CYES. It’s a program that hires youth aged 15-22 to do free “green house c...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 08:52
Chi-town manufacturing hasn’t disappeared, you just have to know where to look for it.
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- Added: Aug 12, 2013
- Length: 06:53
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Wisconsin Dairy farmer John Rosenow hires workers from Mexico. How one dairy farmer sees his workers as his assets.
- Added: Jun 04, 2013
- Length: 03:33
Across the country in rural America one in two new neighbors is Latino, according to a recent study. And that's an adjustment for some communities.
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- Added: Jun 04, 2013
- Length: 04:03
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2 Minute Teach-In on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, or TPP, gives facts about this massive trade and investment treaty being negotiated i...
- Added: Mar 08, 2013
- Length: 01:59
The Federal Writers Project in West Virginia, and the battle to tell the TRUE story of the state's history.
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 06:12
It’s summer in California, which means fire season is in full force – and it could be the worst one in years. The California Department of Forestry...
- Added: Jul 09, 2012
- Length: 07:17
Oakland is known for its food trucks, which serve everything from tacos and tamales to West African cuisine. But few know that this latest culinar...
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- Added: Jun 10, 2012
- Length: 07:25
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California’s budget crisis has meant huge cuts in cities across the Bay Area. Pinole, a city of 18,000 in Contra Costa County, is no exception. Sin...
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- Added: Jun 10, 2012
- Length: 06:21
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A civilian oversight board is now responsible for hearing a wide range of alleged BART police misconduct at their meetings every month. With the he...
- Added: Apr 22, 2012
- Length: 08:08
Phalana Tiller talks with author Ron Ashkenas about his HBR blog "Learn to Trust Your Gut." She also interviews neuroeconomist Paul Zak about his r...
- Added: Feb 10, 2012
- Length: 58:59
