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Setting a New Precedent for Firefighter Health and Wellness, Riviera Beach Fire Station Chief and his Team Lead the National Transformation Initiat...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Aug 17, 2023
- Length: 27:21
- Purchases: 1
Federal judges overseeing the massive litigation hope to keep cases from dragging on for years. As many as a million people were exposed to contami...
Bought by KTEP, Texas Public Radio, WRFA-LP, KUT, and KRPS
- Added: Jun 01, 2023
- Length: 03:46
- Purchases: 5
The National Guard fell about 9,000 troops short of its goal in 2022. Some states are improving their outreach and incentive plans to try to counte...
Bought by WRFA-LP, KPBS, Texas Public Radio, and KUT
- Added: Dec 20, 2022
- Length: 03:57
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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
The Department of Veterans Affairs said its frontline health workers must get vaccinated by mid-September or they'll lose their jobs.
Bought by WRFA-LP, KCUR, KJZZ, North Country Public Radio, Texas Public Radio and more
- Added: Aug 05, 2021
- Length: 03:41
- Purchases: 6
Fran Quigley is our guest. He’s a clinical professor of law at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, and author of If We Can Win...
Bought by RADIOLEX
- Added: Feb 02, 2021
- Length: 58:40
- Purchases: 1
Our program features an in-studio interview with Paul Buhle; Debs’ words brought to life by four local writers; and ends with Buhle talking to an a...
- Added: Apr 09, 2019
- Length: 59:00
As a follow-up to last week’s program, “The Elected Coup,” tonight we confront The Authoritarian Creep.
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Feb 07, 2017
- Length: 58:15
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When the NUMMI auto factory in Fremont closed five years ago, close to 5,000 people lost their jobs. An estimated 20,000 others were also out of w...
- Added: Jul 16, 2015
- Length: 28:37
Ilan Stavans is a Mexican-American essayist, lexicographer, cultural commentator, translator, short-story author, TV personality, and teacher known...
- Added: Mar 03, 2015
- Length: 23:33
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
International Human Rights Day, Chicago Teachers, and More!
- Added: Dec 10, 2013
- Length: 02:59
- Added: Aug 26, 2013
- Length: 10:18
- Purchases: 1
California was the first state to adopt heat illness regulations for outdoor workers, but there are still violations, and there are still fatalities.
Bought by KWMR, PRX Remix, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Aug 13, 2013
- Length: 05:03
- Purchases: 3
A cemetery near the California/Mexico border is the last resting place for some immigrants who die crossing the border.
- Added: Jul 08, 2013
- Length: 02:39
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Mobile home parks -- often in terrible conditions -- have become the defacto solution for a farm worker housing shortage in the Eastern Coachella V...
- Added: Jul 08, 2013
- Length: 06:50
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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
- Added: Feb 24, 2012
- Length: 06:01
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A look back at some of the most important issues of 2011: Attacks on organized labor, the Egyptian revolution, and the struggle to address climate ...
Bought by KHNS, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KMUN
- Added: Dec 19, 2011
- Length: 29:00
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Host Phalana Tiller interviews Gail McGovern of the American Red Cross and Scott Keller of McKinsey & Co. about management challenges across divers...
- Added: Jul 08, 2011
- Length: 58:59
The American Dream is that each generation will do better than the last. But the families of auto workers no longer have that expectation. As Detro...
- Added: Jun 07, 2011
- Length: 06:15
Activists gathered in Sacramento Monday as part of a weeklong demonstration against budget cuts to schools. Sixty-five protesters were arrested for...
- Added: May 16, 2011
- Length: 06:53
In California, many of the farm workers who harvest the state’s crops are undocumented. Their lack of legal status often means they don’t have heal...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 16, 2011
- Length: 06:29
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Many U.S. workers are being badly mistreated -- cheated -- by employers.
- Added: Apr 09, 2010
- Length: 04:02
The libraries of Los Angeles might shut down in a few years, unless the people of the city rally and write letters, demanding they stay open. Plans...
- Added: Mar 22, 2010
- Length: 59:40
