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How our cities are designed has a direct impact on our humanity towards
one another.
Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB
- Added: Feb 26, 2024
- Length: 57:44
- Purchases: 2
We visit southern Europe with our partners at The Response podcast to see how communities are tackling the problem of energy poverty.
Bought by WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Aug 29, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
More people died from drug overdoses during the first year of the pandemic — over 100,000 — than in any previous year. In response, the Biden admin...
- Added: Jan 27, 2022
- Length: 23:30
All across the country, life is inching towards a pre-pandemic normal, but the mental health impact of the pandemic will cast a long shadow. This s...
- Added: Jul 23, 2021
- Length: 04:26
Coronavirus concerns forced many universities to close their campuses this fall. The mix of fewer students on campus, canceled athletics, and onlin...
- Added: Jul 16, 2021
- Length: 04:12
The pandemic has upended caregiving and what it means to be a working mom. More than 2 million women have left the workforce because of the cost an...
- Added: Jun 17, 2021
- Length: 04:27
President Joe Biden said the United States would be the world’s “arsenal of vaccines” but critics say current plans to donate 80 million doses arou...
- Added: Jun 03, 2021
- Length: 03:40
There are at least 7,000 homeless people in San Francisco each night, and only enough shelter space to house a small fraction of them. This is one ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 04, 2015
- Length: 06:37
- Purchases: 1
One in four homeless people are veterans. There are approximately 800 homeless veterans on San Francisco’s streets.Experts in the field believe the...
- Added: Mar 23, 2015
- Length: 09:07
More than 2.7 million minors in America live with a parent in prison. Studies show that the majority of incarcerated parents reside over 100 miles ...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 06:18
At the age of 51, William Bennett was one of the oldest people in California who could claim that. But in June 2013, eight months after leaving pri...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 07:25
Bennett and Porter do their cooking in a shared kitchen that’s part of a transitional house in West Oakland. But they met many years ago.
“Well, w...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 10:42
At the Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center, two dozen residents of North Beach come on a recent Tuesday night to hear from neighbors who have experi...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 08:11
Tenants are facing a tough time in San Francisco. The city has some of the nation’s highest rents and laws like the Ellis Act have made evictions f...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 22, 2014
- Length: 08:29
- Purchases: 1
If you live in the neighborhood, Huntington Park in San Francisco’s Nob Hill, it's a great place to relax, read a book, or, as Haris Butt says, bri...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 21, 2014
- Length: 05:48
- Purchases: 1
Protests against the tech industry’s impact on housing have grown in number and variety. They’ve been personal, with individual tech executives bei...
- Added: May 21, 2014
- Length: 05:23
It’s a Tuesday evening in Oakland’s City Hall. A group of people ranging in age from their 20s to 50s are sitting, many in front of their laptops. ...
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 04:54
The United States imprisons more people than any other country. In California a new policy called ‘realignment’ aims to reduce the number of peopl...
- Added: Jun 22, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Senator Joe Carraro as The Average Joe showing how the government wasting Stimulus money that was supposed to improve the economy and create jobs b...
- Added: Apr 07, 2011
- Length: 06:59
