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The gender pay gap reared its ugly head again this month, with a massive study released by the website PayScale. Almost one and half million worke...
- Added: Nov 16, 2015
- Length: 02:30
Victor Tan Chen, sociology professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, has studied the plight of the American worker … from successf...
- Added: Jul 09, 2015
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
According to author and attorney David Niose, American politics and public policy have been sliding in the direction of unreason. But, he says, a n...
- Added: Jun 11, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
AARP has done a feature on best places to retire for years, and Time magazine does a similar analysis on “best places to live.” But nobody has don...
- Added: Mar 21, 2015
- Length: 02:30
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
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
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 forced arbitration agreements.
- Added: Apr 18, 2014
- Length: 02:30
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
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
Two and one-half minute commentary by Equal Time host Martha Burk on how the sequester hurts kids and the elderly while corporations shirk taxes.
- Added: May 28, 2013
- Length: 02:30
In his new book, economist Gar Alperovitz speaks plainly about why the time is right to democratize the ownership of wealth as a way to strengthen ...
- Added: May 21, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 2
Author Frances Moore Lappe describes herself as a “possibilist” rather than an optimist or pessimist. In her recent book, she argues that solutions...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 15, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
From: Green Connections Radio
Getting a Job in the "New" US Auto Industry with Deputy Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank - An Interview from the 2013 DC Auto Show
- Added: Feb 16, 2013
- Length: 04:54
From: Green Connections Radio
What are the Opportunities in Government Contracts in 2013?
Listen to Government Contracting Expert Hilary Fordwich of AOC Key Solutions (aka KSI)...
- Added: Feb 16, 2013
- Length: 16:14
Food stamps help protect our nation’s neediest citizens (now one in six Americans) against hunger, or “food insecurity.” But food stamps (now calle...
- Added: Jan 06, 2013
- Length: 28:00
Average Americans are painfully aware of the challenges we face as a nation – joblessness, failing schools, declining health, intractable poverty, ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 19, 2012
- Length: 28:54
- Purchases: 1
The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Dr. Richard D. Wolff author of Occupy the Economy. Dr. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emer...
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Sep 10, 2012
- Length: 28:46
- Purchases: 1
Marijuana is legal for medical use under California law, but sale and possession are still federal crimes. Raids on growers and dispensaries – and ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 09, 2012
- Length: 07:07
- Purchases: 1
Author, columnist and economics professor Robert H. Frank's new book, The Darwin Economy, describes what Darwin can teach us about building a bette...
- Added: Dec 07, 2011
- Length: 29:00
‘We are the 99 percent’ has become a rallying cry for people uniting to change a system based on greed and exploitation. We’ll look at what it’ll t...
Bought by KHNS and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Nov 23, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Yea, Though I Walk Through the Valley of South Coast Plaza, I Fear No Evil
- Added: Oct 21, 2011
- Length: 06:20
