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Season 1, Episode 1 - 'Healthy Work' feat Taylor Jacobson
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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Taylor Jacobson, CEO of Workmates, discusses the evolution of ‘work’ culture.

Bought by KSTK, KTRT RADIO INC, WDSE, and WOJB


  • Added: Dec 28, 2023
  • Length: 57:58
  • Purchases: 4
Setting a New Precedent for Firefighter Health and Wellness, Riviera Beach Fire Station Chief and his Team Lead the National Transformation Initiative.
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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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
'A rocket docket': Judges want a speedy process to settle thousands of Camp Lejeune water cases
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Michael Partain (left) and Jerry Ensminger, long-time activists for people harmed by Camp Lejeune water, speak outside the Raleigh, N.C. federal courthouse after a hearing. Hundreds of thousands of plaintiffs are expected to join the case., Credit: Jay Price / American Homefront
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
Know someone who wants to join the National Guard? In some states, you now can get a finder's fee.
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Recruiters and other Virginia National Guard soldiers talk with fans at a July 2022 minor league baseball game in Fredericksburg. Any Virginia resident can collect a finder's fee up to $750 for referring somebody who becomes a National Guard recruit., Credit: Virginia Guard Public Affairs
The referral bonuses are designed to boost recruiting at the National Guard, which fell thousands of troops short of its goal last year.

Bought by North Country Public Radio, WRFA-LP, KPBS, Texas Public Radio, KMXT and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 03:11
  • Purchases: 7
After a slow recruiting year, states are trying new ways to attract people to the National Guard
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: The concert band of the 42nd division of the New York Army National Guard performs holiday music at Warrior Ranch in Calverton, N.Y. Dec. 3, 2022., Credit: Desiree D'Iorio / American Homefront
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
  • Purchases: 4
Turning Long-Term Care Into a Long-Term Career
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: The career ladder at her home health agency allowed Serena Maria to go from home health aide to manager of care teams in four years., Credit: Constanza Hevia H. for Tradeoffs
There’s a severe shortage of people to care for older Americans in their homes and nursing facilities. And it’s only expected to get worse. Could ...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 21:23
Answering the Call: Struggling to Staff the Nation's New Crisis Line - Two-way
From: Tradeoffs
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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 VA is mandating vaccines for its health care employees, but enforcement may be a challenge
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Employees at the VA Medical Center in Grand Island, Nebraska take part in a December 2020 employee vaccination event. The VA now is ordering more than 100,000 of its health care workers to get vaccines by mid-September or risk losing their jobs., Credit: A Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System
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
COVID and the Revolution in Restaurants
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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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
Anxiety & Relief: Returning To Work After COVID
From: Christopher Beale
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After COVID-19 - a Palmdale couple grapple with completely different receptions upon returning to work.

  • Added: Feb 05, 2021
  • Length: 06:44
At Your Service: Organizing in the Service Economy
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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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
Rosa’s Story: Undocumented and Unemployed in the Pandemic
From: Feet in 2 Worlds
Series: A Better Life
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Undocumented hotel housekeepers are among some of the most vulnerable workers in the pandemic. In this episode, we hear one of their stories.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 15, 2020
  • Length: 22:18
  • Purchases: 1
Dead of Winter
From: Heritage Radio Network
Series: Meat + Three
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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
From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks
From: Ian Ruskin
Caption: Harry Bridges at 1971 Press Conference
A 19-year-old Australian arrives in San Francisco and changes the American labor movement. This is the story of a visionary man who fought for demo...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 19, 2019
  • Length: 59:11
  • Purchases: 1
Lee Plaza, Caregiver
From: Ruxandra Guidi
Series: Surviving California
Caption: Lee Plaza at one of her organizing meetings, Credit: Photo by Rebecca Ressler
Like many low-wage immigrant workers in Los Angeles, Aleja "Lee" Plaza spends her days taking care of the elderly — emptying bedpans, giving sponge...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2019
  • Length: 07:35
On The Trail
From: Jason Kladiva
Series: World Pieces
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Youth Conservation Corps Rover Cody Gardner talks about his background in Long Island and urban planning and how it relates to his work in the wild...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2019
  • Length: 07:47
Dog Mushing
From: Jason Kladiva
Series: World Pieces
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World Pieces host Jason Kladiva catches up with Emily Entrikin–a dog musher from Alaska.

  • Added: Jul 15, 2019
  • Length: 07:09
Moments of Betterment: The Example of Eugene V. Debs
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: “While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
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
Team Building Facilitator/Songwriter of The Song Team, Founder Jeff Jacob on Helping to Rebuild Community one Song at a Time
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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Team Building Facilitator/Songwriter of The Song Team, Founder Jeff Jacob on Helping to Rebuild Community one Song at a Time

Bought by WCNY and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Aug 06, 2018
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 2
Democratizing Wealth, Expanding Power - The Preston Model
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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On this week's program, coproduced with the Democracy Collaborative, Laura reports on a transatlantic experiment in cooperative community wealth bu...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Jun 20, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Matilda and the Wobblies
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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From the Ukrainian Pale to Bridgeport, Connecticut. “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Radicalized by d...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2017
  • Length: 58:12
The Authoritarian Creep
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator
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
  • Purchases: 1
Joseph Nkandu and NUCAFE: Re-shaping the coffee farmer’s narrative
From: Arch Street Press
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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
The Graphically Radical Paul Buhle
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Cartoon Paul Buhle, Credit: Steve Chappell
Our guest is Paul Buhle, one of the foremost historians of American Radicalism and the American Left having authored or edited over 30 books, inclu...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2016
  • Length: 59:36
Can Oakland hotels help catch sex traffickers?
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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In recent years it has become more and more common for arrangements to buy and sell sex to be made online and behind closed doors. A lot of the tim...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 06:52
  • Purchases: 1