PRX - Pieces for Topic: Politics
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Fines and fees have become the default way we punish people; deterrence is the ultimate goal, but do fines actually deter bad behavior?
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KOWS, and KMXT
- Added: Nov 30, 2023
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 4
Unions may be on the verge of a resurgence. After decades of declines, workers are organizing across household-name companies, like Starbucks, Amaz...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, KUOW, WGBH Radio Boston, Prairie Public and more
- Added: Aug 28, 2023
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 10
The great American housing crunch and what organizing can do about it. This week on The Laura Flanders Show, we discuss some of the challenges and ...
Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, and WRIR
- Added: Jul 25, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
“Just remember that what you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not happening,” said the President of the United States this week to a group of v...
- Added: Jul 24, 2018
- Length: 28:30
Food stamps, Social Security, and Medicaid are not the only, or even the largest, social welfare programs in America. Professor Suzanne Mettler rev...
- Added: May 10, 2017
- Length: 23:45
Development efforts in American cities often push out long-term residents and communities of color. Zeroing in on Baltimore, Professor Brandi Bless...
Bought by CI Dolphin Radio
- Added: Mar 31, 2017
- Length: 22:05
- Purchases: 1
Today, 47-million Americans live in poverty. That places this country at the bottom among industrial nations for the divide between the haves and h...
- Added: Mar 25, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Achieving full employment has been at the center of the progressive project for more than a century. If work is available at decent wages for ever...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 30, 2012
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Mar 11, 2009
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
