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It’s Women’s History month, and the feds are banning government agencies from using salary history to set the pay of new hires. Why? If you start ...
- Added: Mar 12, 2024
- Length: 03:00
Minimum wages went up in a number of states on January 1. Pizza Hut is crying foul and punishing delivery drivers for the hike by firing them all. ...
- Added: Jan 11, 2024
- Length: 03:00
Labor Day has been a national holiday since 1894, when President Grover Cleveland signed the law making the first Monday in September a day off for...
- Added: Aug 31, 2023
- Length: 03:00
Rockefeller, Astor, Carnegie, Stanford. Rich guys from the late 1900s for sure, but what else? Robber barons. Big boys at the top of U.S. business,...
- Added: Jul 21, 2023
- Length: 03:00
March 14 is date this year when U.S. working women finally reach the amount men earned by the end of last year. And that’s only when all women are...
- Added: Mar 04, 2023
- Length: 03:01
2022 was a banner year for climate – both in terms of climate-fueled disaster and historic federal investments in clean energy, electric vehicles a...
Bought by Maine Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz and more
- Added: Feb 09, 2023
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 10
2022 was a banner year for climate – both in terms of climate-fueled disaster and historic federal investments in clean energy, electric vehicles a...
- Added: Feb 09, 2023
- Length: 58:59
For years, fossil fuel companies have claimed to support climate science and policy. Many have recently pledged to hit net zero emissions by midcen...
Bought by KZYX, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz and more
- Added: Dec 29, 2022
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 10
For years, fossil fuel companies have claimed to support climate science and policy. Many have recently pledged to hit net zero emissions by midcen...
- Added: Dec 29, 2022
- Length: 58:58
Rick Ridgeway estimates he’s spent about five years of his life sleeping in tents, often in the world’s most remote places alongside fellow outdoor...
Bought by KTSW 89.9, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KGUA, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz and more
- Added: Aug 04, 2022
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 10
Rick Ridgeway estimates he’s spent about five years of his life sleeping in tents, often in the world’s most remote places alongside fellow outdoor...
- Added: Aug 04, 2022
- Length: 58:56
Has the California dream given way to a cost of living nightmare? NPR veteran and LA resident Barbara Bogaev co-hosts with Rob Pease for an in-dept...
Bought by KVMR
- Added: Jun 07, 2022
- Length: 35:03
- Purchases: 1
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and other economic pressures disrupt global energy markets, even insiders are scrambling to make sense of this mome...
- Added: Jun 02, 2022
- Length: 59:00
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and other economic pressures disrupt global energy markets, even insiders are scrambling to make sense of this mome...
Bought by KUHF, KMXT, WMUU-LP, KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz and more
- Added: Jun 02, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 11
America’s largest health insurance companies moonlight as obscure middlemen, managing billions in health care spending for many of the country’s bi...
- Added: Mar 31, 2022
- Length: 26:58
A pharmacist and co-owner of an independent pharmacy in Iowa shares what life is like nearly two years into the pandemic.
- Added: Feb 10, 2022
- Length: 17:28
Corporate pledges of reaching net zero carbon emissions have quickly become commonplace. Critics argue that such pledges are mere greenwashing, and...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more
- Added: Jan 20, 2022
- Length: 58:55
- Purchases: 9
Corporate pledges of reaching net zero carbon emissions have quickly become commonplace. Critics argue that such pledges are mere greenwashing, and...
- Added: Jan 20, 2022
- Length: 58:55
Can the Bay Area address housing affordability and control water use in perpetually drought-stricken California at the same time? SPUR's Laura Fein...
- Added: Dec 02, 2021
- Length: 29:30
Mallory Moench, City Hall reporter for San Francisco, California, discusses the alarming trend of "rampant shoplifting" in the city.
- Added: Jun 09, 2021
- Length: 11:40
The REDDIT and WALL STREET BETS crowd strikes again causing ballistic rises in two stocks and more are targeted. CNBC and Washington go nuts. Hear ...
- Added: May 30, 2021
- Length: 05:04
A small craft brewery in Florida is feeding the ocean instead of polluting it with a remarkable solution to single-use plastic packaging.
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 02:32
Jessica Schimpf’s job is part weightlifting, part meditation, part sunburn. And that’s only half of what it takes to be a successful glass artist.
- Added: Jan 02, 2021
- Length: 16:01
"A popularly-elected Republic overturned by a reactionary armed revolt: There are myriad reasons why the painful history of the Spanish civil war ...
- Added: Sep 11, 2020
- Length: 03:30
Topic 1: Can Brands Be True Advocates for Social Issues? Topic 2: How We're Saving the California Condor. Topic 3: How Bear Hibernation Might Work ...
Bought by KOWS
- Added: Jun 29, 2020
- Length: 51:46
- Purchases: 1
