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HOUR ONE: "Deep Time: How Earth Keeps Time" - No one understands time like a geologist. And with the climate convulsing and the future breathing do...
- Added: Aug 18, 2023
- Length: 01:58:59
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Going For Broke (A Three Part Series from To the Best of Our Knowledge)
Series: Going For Broke (A Three Part Series from To the Best of Our Knowledge)
In this final part of our series, we’re talking about work — about the right to meaningful work, the search for jobs that pay enough to live, and w...
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- Added: Oct 28, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 12
End the filibuster. Abolish the Senate. Make everyone vote. Only if we do this, and a little bit more, says labor lawyer and former candidate for A...
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- Added: Sep 20, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
A myriad of issues have come to light as we deal with the COVID pandemic. We are discovering weaknesses in our health care and workforce. Neither i...
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- Added: Jul 14, 2020
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
The University of California Santa Cruz wildcat strike for a cost of living adjustment - an action that has been gaining traction across the whole ...
- Added: Mar 11, 2020
- Length: 59:01
America is set to lose tens of millions of job in the next 15 years. Some of the best research today estimates that one half of all U.S. jobs will ...
- Added: Apr 22, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
HOUR ONE: "Is This The Socialist Moment?" - It was a dirty word 25 years ago. But now, more politicians are identifying as Socialists. Has the move...
- Added: Apr 05, 2019
- Length: 01:58:57
America’s workers are experiencing another setback in workplace safety. The Trump Administration is blocking a rule that requires most employers to...
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- Added: Mar 22, 2019
- Length: 29:00
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Photographer and essayist Allan Sekula was a critic of capitalism and an influential theorist of documentary photography and photojournalism. In "S...
- Added: Jun 12, 2018
- Length: 58:19
Best known for his path-breaking work on the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins, published in 1938, Trinidadian C.L.R. James was often at the c...
- Added: May 15, 2018
- Length: 58:05
According to a 2016 report by Business Insider magazine, three of the world’s largest employers are now replacing their workers with robots.
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- Added: Apr 19, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Over 30million Americans are uninsured, and even more are sickened by the sky-high costs. While Congress seems sunk in a partisan fight over the Af...
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- Added: Mar 21, 2018
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 1
America’s workforce and the economy are rapidly changing. As is the type of work we do. Flip that coin over and you’ll see that institutions and po...
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- Added: Aug 15, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Income and wealth inequality is now a regular topic of conversation. The standard of living for most Americans’ since the Great Recession is either...
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- Added: Jul 20, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Americans may vote for polar opposite candidates … liberal or conservative. Their vote may express ideological differences.
But, on principles and ...
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- Added: Apr 19, 2017
- Length: 29:00
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The “right to work.” The phrase sounds fair and equitable. After all, who shouldn’t have a right to work if they wish to? Twenty-six states now hav...
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- Added: Dec 06, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The Scandinavian countries … Sweden, Norway and Denmark … boasts the world’s happiest, most productive people. They have equality, low unemployment...
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- Added: Nov 29, 2016
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
I have heard that inequality in America is at its highest point since the age of the Robber Barons. If true, many suspect it may get worse before i...
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- Added: Oct 03, 2016
- Length: 29:00
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Did you know that Benjamin Franklin was a “whistleblower?”
Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her inter...
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- Added: Mar 03, 2016
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jan 27, 2016
- Length: 29:00
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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
Interview: Part 3 of a 6 part series called ‘War on the Workers’ starts off with Rich being interviewed about how working class Americans are getti...
- Added: Apr 16, 2015
- Length: 28:21
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
A Vietnamese proverb says: “when eating a fruit, think of who planted the tree.” Taking that sentiment a step further, how often do we consider the...
- Added: May 23, 2014
- Length: 28:00
News from Detroit, Connecticut, and DC.
- Added: Dec 09, 2013
- Length: 02:59
