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Americans’ pensions are gone. Housing is down and 401k are unreliable. But our Social Security system is totally funded for more than two decades.
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
For the past eight years, one weekend in late summer brings first responders from across the country and around the world -- firemen, medics, SWAT ...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Dec 28, 2014
- Length: 09:07
- Purchases: 1
Facebook is making changes to its privacy policy as of Jan. 1, so we're looking into online privacy from a legal standpoint. Prof. Jane Kirtley, di...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 10, 2014
- Length: 01:00:21
- Purchases: 1
Destination DIY teamed up with the Life of the Law podcast to examine the legal grey area occupied by the sharing economy and how different cities ...
- Added: Dec 02, 2014
- Length: 20:40
WTIP's Ann Possis & Dick Swanson chatted with Bill Hansen, owner of Sawbill Outfitters in Tofte with his wife Cindy, about their unique work credit...
- Added: Nov 20, 2014
- Length: 22:41
Livestock, especially cattle, are Public Enemy Number One. That’s been the perceived wisdom for decades. It’s thought that cattle erode soils, poll...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
After a drubbing in the elections President Obama says he wants to work with the new Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell.
- Added: Nov 08, 2014
- Length: 02:30
Carbon is shaping our future. Those little particles we can’t even see are reshaping our natural world, and transforming our economy. And, it all e...
- Added: Sep 24, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
As of the latest national elections, it costs approximately $1 billion to become president, $10 million to become a Senator, and $1 million to beco...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Aug 21, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Big corporations and their super wealthy owners have bought many American politicians through campaign contributions and lobbying, according to pol...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Aug 13, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Two and one half minute commentary on corporate awards from magazines -- not always what they seem.
- Added: Jul 15, 2014
- Length: 02:30
Today, corporations and governments are using a vast array of tools to gather information on us. What trails are people leaving and do they even know?
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Today, we hear increasing talk about Big Data, supposedly about to revolutionize everything from the way wars are fought and policies are shaped to...
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 02:00
We live in an age where everything we do online can now be tracked, recorded, and analyzed. How has our sense of our own information footprint ! ch...
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
April means two things: spring and tax time! The US tax system is really, really complicated. Every time you do your taxes, you’re answering to mul...
Bought by WABE, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 13, 2014
- Length: 04:39
- Purchases: 3
Owner of Wide Awake by Design, Heather Robertson talks to host Giovanna Rossi about helping women entrepreneurs achieve their personal and professi...
- Added: Apr 24, 2014
- Length: 22:42
Two and one half minute commentary on forced arbitration agreements.
- Added: Apr 18, 2014
- Length: 02:30
Set in the luxurious homes and clubs of New York, Hobe Sound, Dark Harbor, the Hamptons and Europe, Mike Offit’s debut novel is a story about comin...
- Added: Mar 05, 2014
- Length: 22:34
Today 4.7 million Americans have been unemployed for more than six months. In France it’s more than ten percent; Israel is above seven percent; and...
- Added: Feb 04, 2014
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 2
This book is not your dry read about markets and stocks. It’s the “Next Big Think” according to the publisher, Select Books. Cultural Economist Sai...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 05, 2013
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 1
David was looking for a slingshot. Goliath had money and power. This is the story of the fight against proposed and granted casinos in Philadelphia.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Aug 06, 2013
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 1
We’ve all heard the stories of self-driving cars and 3D printers, but it’s the folks like futurists Simon Anderson and Jack Uldrich who make a care...
- Added: Jul 16, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 2
The explosive growth of online communities for sharing, swapping, trading and lending is reinventing the way that we consume and build relationship...
- Added: Jun 12, 2013
- Length: 42:10
In her new book, author and journalist Judith D. Swartz reveals that our ability to transform many of our problems – climate change, desertificatio...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 11, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Host Brian Balogh unpacks the saga of the Contract Buyers League, a local activist group in Chicago’s Lawndale neighborhood that organized in the 1...
- Added: Jun 10, 2013
- Length: 13:27
- Purchases: 2
