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How people are finding the strength and situations
that get them through economic hard times.
Bought by WVTF, KGNU Community Radio, KZYX, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., 90.5 WSNC and more
- Added: Dec 18, 2009
- Length: 58:29
- Purchases: 14
Charlotte-area small business Tyler 2 Construction is putting laid-off workers on "attached unemployment" and still paying their health insurance b...
Bought by Michigan Radio Economy Special and KUOW
- Added: Nov 23, 2009
- Length: 03:24
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Nov 23, 2009
- Length: 03:44
Lydia Ratcliff is a survivor. She's farmed her 90 acre plot of land in Andover Vermont for 43 years, and though she's now come down with chronic ob...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Sep 01, 2009
- Length: 09:09
- Purchases: 2
Organized labor has reached a landmark agreement promising unfettered union rights to the 600,000 employees of Catholic health care facilities acro...
- Added: Jun 26, 2009
- Length: 04:21
State Truck Driver Winners Listen To Public Radio
- Added: May 19, 2009
- Length: 03:46
Truckers Are Tuning In to PubRadio Big Time!
- Added: May 17, 2009
- Length: 17:28
A look at how an indigenous Mexican migrants adapt to city life.
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 08:58
A look at the economic forces that push the Purepecha from home and pull them toward Seattle.
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 09:02
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 08:52
- Purchases: 1
There's good news for unions in their attempts to attract the young members they must have if they are to grow.
- Added: Nov 14, 2008
- Length: 02:42
Organized labor played a major role in Barack Obama's election and expects much in return.
- Added: Nov 06, 2008
- Length: 03:40
- Added: Oct 06, 2008
- Length: :18
This story explores what life is like in the US working without papers
Bought by KUOW, KRUA, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 14, 2008
- Length: 04:40
- Purchases: 3
Meatpacking industry brings shifting demographic of foreign-born workers.
Bought by Marfa Public Radio, KOSU, WILL, and KBIA
- Added: Sep 08, 2008
- Length: 03:14
- Purchases: 4
- Added: Jul 04, 2008
- Length: 02:23
Workers at an Associated supermarket in Bushwick are pushing for the backpay they've been awarded after years of collecting illegally low wages. Th...
- Added: Jun 05, 2008
- Length: 04:45
Thousands of Bolivians migrated to Argentina in search of a liveable wage, only to find themselves sewing designer jeans in sweat shops under slave...
Bought by WBEZ
- Added: May 21, 2008
- Length: 05:44
- Purchases: 1
This discusses the attempts of Burger King to undo agreements by its major fast-food competitors to improve the shameful conditions of tomato pickers.
- Added: Dec 06, 2007
- Length: 03:52
audio postcard of the Writer's Guild East Strike
- Added: Nov 21, 2007
- Length: 01:53
Today we speak with author Chuck Collins of the Institute For Policy Studies, whose new book is titled The Moral Measure of the Economy
- Added: Sep 24, 2007
- Length: 28:01
Despite the great importance of teachers, they are by far the most poorly paid of all professionals.
- Added: Apr 11, 2007
- Length: 03:36
- Added: Apr 07, 2007
- Length: 06:39
- Added: Apr 06, 2007
- Length: 06:08
Journey deep beneath the sea, and back in time, in the Tacoma Narrows
Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX
- Added: Apr 04, 2007
- Length: 07:01
- Purchases: 1
