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Dreams can be as simple as a home and a flower garden. Jackie walked by the Habitat for Humanity application for 2 years.
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 01:33
Phil and Philip Mortillaro, a father-and-son locksmith team, talk about the family business.
- Added: Oct 22, 2014
- Length: 02:16
- Purchases: 2
Tina Vasquez tells her mother, Sonia Vasquez, about what it was like to grow up...
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 01:59
- Purchases: 4
Kris Kalberer and her teenage daughter, Erika, talk about being homeless.
Bought by WEZU, KERA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and WTJU
- Added: Sep 02, 2014
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 4
Barbara Moore (R) tells her daughter, Olivia Fite (L), about becoming a bricklayer in the...
Bought by WVBI-LP, WXPR, WEZU, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KERA and more
- Added: Aug 21, 2014
- Length: 02:14
- Purchases: 6
Eva fled to the U.S. from El Salvador’s civil war more than 20 years ago. Since then, she’s cared for 11 kids – and mastered emotional calculus of ...
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 02:59
As dawn breaks, birds serenade Eric Jones, who crosses a church parking lot in his baggy jeans, jangling an oversized key ring. The plastic wheels ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 04:18
- Purchases: 1
Willie Sanchez sells flowers in bulk in downtown LA.
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 01:58
Rich Sutton is an overnight security guard at a car impound lot in Los Angeles.
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 03:53
In this special report, twelve workers who might otherwise go unnoticed – including a stripper, deli waitress, bus driver, metal scrapper and bathr...
Bought by KQED, KFAI Minneapolis, KSFR, Spokane Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston and more
- Added: Jul 28, 2014
- Length: 51:59
- Purchases: 24
Dekalb Walcott III talks to his dad, retired Chicago Fire Chief Dekalb Walcott Jr., about...
- Added: Jul 08, 2014
- Length: 02:04
- Purchases: 3
This is the first of the series of shows for Women with Women. Lauri Rich was my first guest and she addressed the question "Can a woman have it al...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 46:22
Rent control has been a way for cities to regulate their housing prices and evictions since World War One, in the wake of a big housing shortage in...
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 05:13
Lupita Espinoza can often be seen pushing a stroller up one of those steep San Francisco hills that many of us try to avoid. She can’t avoid it, th...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 09:01
This program is all about embracing our multi-generational workforce. The focus is on the differences in the way generations of Americans -- BabyBo...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Feb 17, 2014
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 1
Thirteen year old Toby Choyt of Maine meets a retired lobsterman on Portland's historic Widgery Wharf and tells his story.
- Added: Dec 11, 2013
- Length: 06:18
Did you know that Wal-Mart is the largest private employer in the United States, and that the average Wal-Mart worker earns just $8.81 per hour, fo...
- Added: Nov 01, 2013
- Length: 28:00
We celebrate the working man by revisiting B.H. Fairchild's poetry collection, THE ART OF THE LATHE. This book gives insight into the life and wor...
- Added: Sep 05, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Don Byles talks to his daughter Mackenzie about their family's funeral home.
Bought by WEZU and Prairie Public
- Added: Aug 30, 2013
- Length: 02:09
- Purchases: 2
Robinson, Campaign and Education Coordinator of the Food Chain Worker Alliance, exposes some of the hidden faces and working conditions in the food...
- Added: Jul 19, 2013
- Length: 28:00
Joyce Sutphen is Minnesota's reigning Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites a poem about her favorite model of farm tractor. The Beat is a dai...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 02:20
- Purchases: 1
At just sixteen Victor left his home in Guadalajara and crossed the river into Texas only to be picked up by immigration agents and returned to Mex...
- Added: Mar 30, 2013
- Length: 28:06
KAXE contributor, Aaron Brown, reads a piece about trying new things. Brown's aspirations seem high initially before adding a healthy dose of reali...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 03:07
In his essay, "Winter Projects," Aaron Brown lightheartedly looks back at his past tasks for winter. He also discusses the preparations, obstacles,...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 02:41
This is a profile piece on Pacific T. Giordano who is the manager of an odd family business: selling gravestones. This is about the journey that go...
- Added: Dec 07, 2012
- Length: 05:59
