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Ever Wonder The Reason It Took So Long for the IRS to Offer an Online Tax Preparation App? Big Money Lobbying.

From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute

Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report

Ever Wonder The Reason It Took So Long for the IRS to Offer an Online Tax Preparation App? Big Money Lobbying.

Bought by Angelica Community Radio, WUTC, and KICI Iowa City

Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 75

From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour

Two Reflections on the Importance of Stories.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)

The Feminist Birth of the Home Pregnancy Test

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Margaret Crane, inventor of America's first home pregnancy test, in 1965. , Credit: Anna Kaufman

In 1965 Margaret Crane was a young graphic designer with an idea: Why couldn't women do their own pregnancy tests at home? This is the story of how...

Bought by WUWM, KISU, KETR-FM, RadioStPete Florida, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more

Bastard Nation Finds Its Voice

From: Jenna Spinelle
Series: When the People Decide

An online community of adoptees fight for their birth records in 1990s Oregon - framing the issue around civil rights instead of parent/child relat...

World in Progress 07/07/2022

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW

This week on the show: Worse than Covid - Families facing food crisis in Guatemala - Since the pandemic, hunger and poverty are even worse for mo...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)

World in Progress 06/02/2022

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW

This week on the show: Latin America's struggle with abortion - Argentina made history by becoming the largest Latin American country to legali...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)

Fixing the Obamacare 'Glitch' That Pushed One Couple to Divorce

From: Tradeoffs

Caption: Liana Wolk (L) and Owen Marshall at their wedding in May 2019. Owen is one of 5 million Americans stuck in the “family glitch.” , Credit: Molly Haley

The Biden administration is trying to close a gap in the Affordable Care Act that blocks 5 million people from getting affordable health care.

Fixing the Obamacare 'Glitch' That Pushed One Couple to Divorce - Two-Way

From: Tradeoffs

The Biden administration is trying to close a gap in the Affordable Care Act that blocks 5 million people from getting affordable health care.

World in Progress 05/05/2022

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW

This week on the show: Despite reaching retirement age, work never stops for civil servants in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Many civil servan...

Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Elizabeth Hernandez and other tenants protest rent hike , Credit: Alliance for Californians for Community Empowerment Action

While wages have flatlined for most working class people, rents have reached new highs, leaving most people struggling. But it’s not just in the US...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioStPete Florida, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]

World in Progress 03/03/2022

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW

This week on the show: Making Cape Town's Hanover Park a better place - Unemployment in Cape Town's neighborhood Hanover Park is high, gun shots ...

Celebration & Polarization, Holiday Survival Kit (Part 1): Deflating Political Football

From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast

Our featured guest, social psychologist Tania Israel, thinks not and should know. Dr. Israel has been holding workshops over the past two decades t...

In Junction

From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor

Today we're headed to the Junction neighborhood in Toledo, Ohio to talk to Alicia Smith. She's the executive director of The Junction Coalition, a ...

IE: Inside Europe, 12/18/2020

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW

This week on the show: What will a Biden presidency mean for NATO? Hungary passes a law banning same-sex couples from adopting children. We visit...

Episode 6: In one lifetime

From: Margaret Poethig
Series: Keeping Dad Alive

Richard reflects on the connection between his life’s work and that of his daughter Erika, who is leading the Biden/Harris transition team for the ...

Megan Lott Interview

From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio

Did you know that 40 million fellow Americans, or at least one in nine households experience food insecurity? (These numbers are before the impact ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer

Get Counted

From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library

The census doesn’t just distribute representatives in congress and billions of dollars in federal funds—it determines city bus routes, how many gar...

120: How to Fight Like A Mother-Shannon Watts, Moms Demand Action

From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller

There have been over 200 mass shootings in this country since 2009. Shannon Watts, the author of a new book, "Fight Like a Mother" is the founder o...

Bought by KKRN, KKRN, Louisville Public Media, WNIN, KWIT and more

118: Paid Leave For All - Katie Bethell says “we can win this.”

From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller

America is one of only two countries in the world where you can be fired for taking a day off in order to give birth (let that sink in for a moment...

Bought by KWIT, KWMR, KKRN, KUT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more

RDD: Dialogue to Change Toledo

From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor

This week we're at the YWCA, talking to President and CEO Lisa McDuffie about Dialogue to Change a program that focuses on organizing, dialogue and...

¿QPM? S2 EP 8: Latinos and the challenges of Health Care

From: WNIN
Series: ¿Qué Pasa, Midwest?

In this episodio we talk to an expert about why is hard for Latinos to obtain health care and the challenges that this represents.

Bought by PRX Remix

Cindy Garcia assesses GDPUD

From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler

Welcome back to some more small town politics, this time it's the Georgetown Divide water district, and Cindy Garcia gets right to the heart of cur...