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When you fill out a job application, you expect to answer some basic questions. Things like your employment and education history, and relevant ski...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 07:14
Lupita Espinoza can often be seen pushing a stroller up one of those steep San Francisco hills that many of us try to avoid. She can’t avoid it, th...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 09:01
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...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 11:26
- Purchases: 1
Updates on locked-out nurses, NYU grad students, and restaurant guides!
- Added: Dec 13, 2013
- Length: 02:59
International Human Rights Day, Chicago Teachers, and More!
- Added: Dec 10, 2013
- Length: 02:59
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The seed idea for [freespace] came from a 48-hour hackathon called the National Day of Civic Hacking. A hackathon is when people get together for a...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 08:36
The first thing you should know about ironworkers is that they don’t make things out of iron, like horseshoes. They’re builders. Ironworkers from L...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 07:30
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
- 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
Chi-town manufacturing hasn’t disappeared, you just have to know where to look for it.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 12, 2013
- Length: 06:53
- Purchases: 1
Julie Eaton is the captain of the Cat Sass. She spends 6 months of the year on the water, and is ready to haul in a union.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 02, 2013
- Length: 04:43
- Purchases: 2
Avenal was the first town in California to actively recruit a prison. Town leaders didn't get exactly what they'd hoped.
Bought by KWMR and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 08, 2013
- Length: 06:56
- Purchases: 2
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
- Purchases: 2
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
- Purchases: 2
Throughout the West, historic discriminatory laws have excluded people of color from settling and owning property. Because of that, many Western st...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and XRAY.fm
- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 06:18
- Purchases: 2
The older we get, the harder it is to think of ourselves as “old.” But as far as the government is concerned – specifically, the federal correction...
- Added: Jun 22, 2013
- Length: 09:45
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
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.
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Jun 04, 2013
- Length: 04:03
- Purchases: 1
The Senate’s immigration reform proposal offers a fast track to citizenship for agricultural workers so that they can “continue to do the vital wor...
- Added: May 03, 2013
- Length: 04:02
He insults me every week so I call and confront him. Then music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. From the golden age a Amer...
- Added: Mar 17, 2013
- Length: 02:54:08
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
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
