PRX - Pieces for Tone: Upbeat
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Low wages, precarious jobs, shuttered Main Streets and bleak futures — do towns have a way out of poverty that doesn't involve begging and bribing ...
Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, and WNYE
- Added: Jun 15, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 5
While the election results are still undecided well hear from Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union, or SEIU, abou...
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK
- Added: Nov 04, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
Low paid workers tell the story of the “Fight for 15,” the exploding nationwide movement for fair wages.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRIR
- Added: Mar 16, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Uptalk is that rising, questioning tone some people use when ending a statement. And women aren't the only ones who do it—so finds a study of conte...
Bought by WJCT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KPVL, WKCC, KRDP and more
- Added: Sep 04, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 9
When Frances Mayes moved to Tuscany, Italy she left behind her family and roots in Fitzgerald, Georgia. In her new memoir Under Magnolia, the
renow...
- Added: May 29, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 6
Janice Sage is hosting an essay contest with her Center Lovell Inn as the award.
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 07:22
Just how dumb do they think we are? Who would believe that destroying the ecosystems on which all life depends, while dis-employing more and more p...
- Added: Apr 08, 2015
- Length: 28:30
If someone is known as “the jerk” at work, it’ll show up on their performance review, right? Not likely, say two management researchers. Lilia Fuq...
Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, KPVL, and KKRN
- Added: Mar 06, 2015
- Length: 03:32
- Purchases: 4
Phil and Philip Mortillaro, a father-and-son locksmith team, talk about the family business.
- Added: Oct 22, 2014
- Length: 02:16
- Purchases: 2
Willie Sanchez sells flowers in bulk in downtown LA.
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 01:58
There are ten thousand street vendors in New York City, that magnet for the world's poor and America's hopeful; some licensed and some not. Vendors...
- Added: May 11, 2011
- Length: 48:34
A family business named Sarah's Hat Boxes is surviving the Great Recession, despite selling a product more befitting an era defined by the Great De...
- Added: Dec 06, 2009
- Length: 03:46
- Purchases: 2
A look into the world of ice cream truck drivers in southern Maine.
- Added: Jan 21, 2009
- Length: 06:28
