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Caption: Host Martha Burk
Taxes are necessary for a civilized society, and most ordinary people pay their fair share.  But there's one group that pays nothing at all, while ...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: Rinku Sen
What we do to each other, we do to the Earth. To protect our common home, we’re being called upon to bridge our differences to create beloved commu...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: American Compassion, Credit: Bonnie Siegler
Explore the complicated and rich history behind the compromises made in order to get the New Deal through, and what lasting consequences they have ...

Bought by KUT and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 08, 2022
  • Length: 58:38
  • Purchases: 2
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As the World Economic Forum takes place in Davos, Switzerland, we talk about the way central banks steer world development and for whom. Former Gol...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Jan 24, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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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...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Mar 21, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Runaway Inequity , Credit: Labor Institute Press
It’s become a critical fact of life in America: Runaway inequality.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 27, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rich Austin, ILWU
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
Caption: Eric Kingson
Americans’ pensions are gone. Housing is down and 401k are unreliable. But our Social Security system is totally funded for more than two decades.

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Host Martha Burk
The recent budget deal had plenty for war contractors, but jobless Americans were left in the cold. For them, it's going to be a very Unhappy New ...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Bill Fletcher Jr.
Unions are getting weaker, and even more threatening, says labor leader and author Bill Fletcher Jr., the general public no longer understands or s...

Bought by WMMT and WCSU-FM


  • Added: Jul 24, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Chelsea Green jacket cover
In his new book, economist Gar Alperovitz speaks plainly about why the time is right to democratize the ownership of wealth as a way to strengthen ...

Bought by KCBX and KCBX


  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Deputy Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank, Ph.D.  touring the 2013 DC Auto Show, Joan Michelson of Green Connections  holding mic, Credit: Austin Lee
Getting a Job in the "New" US Auto Industry with Deputy Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank - An Interview from the 2013 DC Auto Show

  • Added: Feb 16, 2013
  • Length: 04:54
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Similar to prison guards, police unions advocacy for their members has helped perpetuate cycles of criminalization and incarceration that plague Am...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2012
  • Length: 09:17
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Support, or opposition from a prison guard union can make or break a campaign for office. The most powerful of them all is the California Correcti...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2012
  • Length: 11:30
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Police officers and prison guards hold tremendous political sway. Their advocacy for better pay, more power, and more jobs has been a major factor ...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Caption: Haymarket riot
When you think of the first of May, consider how many hours you typically work in a day. That would be 8. But what seems so commonplace as to hard...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
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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