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SCOTUS Weighs Medicaid Recipients Right to Sue
From: Tradeoffs
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Later this year the Supreme Court is set to decide whether to close a legal pathway that Medicaid recipients have used for more than 50 years. This...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 11:27
2023-02-24 Housing Density as a Climate Lever with Scott Wiener
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The lack of affordable housing in the U.S. has contributed to a homelessness crisis and has forced people to move farther away from urban centers. ...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
20230224: Housing Density as a Climate Lever with Scott Wiener, 2/24/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The lack of affordable housing in the U.S. has contributed to a homelessness crisis and has forced people to move farther away from urban centers. ...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
States’ Uphill Battle to Stop Runaway Health Care Costs
From: Tradeoffs
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One year of health insurance premiums for a family of four now costs as much as a car. Nine states are trying to lower those costs in an aggressive...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2023
  • Length: 17:45
Once A Braided River
From: Barbara Bernstein
Caption: Risk in the North Reach, Credit: Kandace Manning
A tale about how Portland, Oregon abused and degraded the river that runs through it, and the current campaign to reclaim this stretch of river as ...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2023
  • Length: 54:05
The End of Humira’s $200 Billion Drug Monopoly
From: Tradeoffs
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After 20 years, Humira – the best selling drug of all time – is finally facing direct competition. Typically, once generic drugs arrive on a market...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2023
  • Length: 18:07
2022-11-18 In Person at COP27: Funding the Global Energy Transition
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Climate One has been at this year's UN climate summit, COP27, where one of the issues at the forefront of the conversation has been “loss and damag...

Bought by KZYX, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
20221118: In Person at COP27: Funding the Global Energy Transition, 11/18/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Climate One has been at this year's UN climate summit, COP27, where one of the issues at the forefront of the conversation has been “loss and damag...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Medicare’s Prescription Drug Plan Makeover
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Therese Humphrey Ball has struggled to afford her multiple sclerosis medications since her diagnosis in 2003., Credit: Jamie Kelter Davis for Tradeoffs
An overhaul of Medicare’s prescription drug benefit will lower costs for seniors while changing incentives for insurers and drugmakers.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2022
  • Length: 19:19
The Push to End Cancer Screening Purgatory
From: Tradeoffs
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Initial screenings for breast, lung, cervical cancer are free, but expensive secondary tests can leave patients in screening purgatory.

  • Added: Sep 30, 2022
  • Length: 14:24
2022-09-23 The Inflation Reduction Act Passed. Now What?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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In August, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. The IRA allocates around $370 billion over ten years to invest in renewable...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KGUA, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
20220923: The Inflation Reduction Act Passed. Now What?, 9/23/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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In August, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. The IRA allocates around $370 billion over ten years to invest in renewable...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
2022-08-05 REWIND: Climbing, Conservation and Capitalism
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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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
20220805: REWIND: Climbing, Conservation and Capitalism, 8/5/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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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
2022-07-29 Patti Poppe: Reinventing Utilities During a Climate Emergency
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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As the CEO of the California utility giant PG&E, Patti Poppe is charged with navigating the company through massive wildfires, disrupted energy mar...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Aug 01, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11
20220729: Patti Poppe: Reinventing Utilities During a Climate Emergency, 7/29/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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As the CEO of the California utility giant PG&E, Patti Poppe is charged with navigating the company through massive wildfires, disrupted energy mar...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
NATO and the “Age of Disasters”: The Future of Crisis Management
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Ray sits down with Ivo Daalder, President of the Chicago Institute on Global Affairs and former US Ambassador to NATO, to discuss the alliance’s ev...

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jun 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
One Golden State, Two Democratic Parties: These Not So United States (CA Part 1)
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: One Golden State, Two Democratic Parties: These Not So United States (CA Part 1), Credit: The Purple Principle
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
Answering the Call, Part 2: Struggling to Staff the Nation's New Crisis Line
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 ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 02, 2022
  • Length: 26:45
  • Purchases: 1
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
Can More Time on Medicaid Lower Maternal Deaths?
From: Tradeoffs
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The country’s high rates of pregnancy-related deaths and complications, and the potential impact Biden’s push to expand Medicaid coverage for pregn...

  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: 17:33
Georgia On All Our Minds: These Not So United States
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Georgia On All Our Minds: These Not So United States, Credit: The Purple Principle
All political roads lead to Georgia these days. The Peach State was so pivotal in the 2020 election of Joe Biden and the 2021 runoff election of tw...

  • Added: May 24, 2022
  • Length: 32:50
Too Healthy for the Hospital, Too Sick for the Streets
From: Tradeoffs
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Why are a growing number of private insurance companies starting to invest in medical respite — a decades-old way of caring for homeless people?

  • Added: May 17, 2022
  • Length: 18:14
Can the War in Ukraine Push an Asian Economy Over the Edge?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Ray Suarez talks with The Washington Post’s Gerry Shih and Asanga Abeyagoonasekera, a Sri Lankan geopolitical analyst, to understand why-and-how Sr...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Greening a Rural Charging Desert: The Intertribal Electric Highway
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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A new EV charging network fills a big gap in the nation's charging map and brings electric vehicles, jobs, and healing to reservations.

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WFHB


  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2

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