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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
Joseph Nkandu is executive director of the National Union of Coffee Agribusinesses and Farm Enterprises, known as NUCAFE. Established in 2003, NUCA...
- Added: Feb 06, 2017
- Length: 30:20
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
Kristine Jones started a business on a whim in an obscure, cutthroat industry. Then she got serious about building a strong company.
- Added: Jan 21, 2016
- Length: 13:45
Finding the right number to raise Portland’s minimum wage is proving to be hard.
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 05:59
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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At a full-service restaurant you know the drill. You eat your food, you get your bill, and then you calculate the tip. But not at Sous Beurre Kitch...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 09:06
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
Organizing the Maine Lobstering Union
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 06:59
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San Francisco currently has the third lowest unemployment rate of all California's counties. But while that’s good news, it doesn't mean that much ...
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 06:47
Federally, marijuana production is still a major crime, one that can land you in prison for decades. Yet, in northern California, there’s a whole e...
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- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 11:26
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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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Avenal was the first town in California to actively recruit a prison. Town leaders didn't get exactly what they'd hoped.
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- Added: Jul 08, 2013
- Length: 06:56
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Forbes magazine estimates that more than $3.5 billion will move through the “sharing economy” this year, but that’s practically pennies compared wi...
- Added: Jun 22, 2013
- Length: 05:30
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
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
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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Phalana Tiller talks with noted author Charles Handy and photographer Liz Handy about their latest work. She also interviews former Trader Joe's ex...
- Added: Mar 09, 2012
- Length: 59:00
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
Host Phalana Tiller talks with author George Anders about his new book, The Rare Find. She also interviews Teresa Amabile, professor and co-author ...
- Added: Jan 13, 2012
- Length: 58:59
Host Phalana Tiller interviews Frances Hesselbein of the Leader to Leader Institute and bestselling author Marcus Buckingham about the unique stren...
- Added: Sep 09, 2011
- Length: 58:59
Congressman Levin spoke at a Nationol Press Club Lunceon on Monday April 19th. The Chairman of the House Ways and Means committee discussed severa...
- Added: Apr 30, 2010
- Length: 54:00
With around 80,000 Haitians expected to apply for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) that will allow them to legally work and live in South Florida, ...
- Added: Jan 26, 2010
- Length: 03:30
Charlotte-area small business Tyler 2 Construction is putting laid-off workers on "attached unemployment" and still paying their health insurance b...
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- Added: Nov 23, 2009
- Length: 03:24
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- Added: Nov 23, 2009
- Length: 03:44
