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In this episode on community wealth building, we look at how communities are working to transform their local economies by harnessing the assets th...
- Added: Apr 23, 2024
- Length: 28:30
Labor organizer and Founder of One Fair Wage, Saru Jayaraman, takes us inside one of the fiercest labor struggles to challenge a mighty oligarchy: ...
- Added: Jun 02, 2023
- Length: 28:30
Today we’re stalking the middle class – from Marx to Middletown (Muncie, IN) to Macomb County, Michigan – to reveal what it’s hiding. David Roedige...
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- Added: Nov 17, 2020
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
13 of us die on the job every day in the US and that’s a number based on less than reliable employer data. These are often called "accidents," but ...
- Added: Apr 30, 2019
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 2
While citizens are encouraged to fear and blame so called outside agitators the real menace lies within: a business community committed to the ranc...
- Added: Aug 13, 2018
- Length: 58:12
Host Bob Kustra interviews Lisa Servon about her book "The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives"
- Added: Jun 05, 2018
- Length: 30:00
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
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
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Mar 15, 2017
- Length: 04:51
- Purchases: 1
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
- Added: Jan 27, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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
Journalist and author Beth Macy recounts the Shakespearean rise and fall of Bassett Furniture during a time of rapid globalization, and how John Ba...
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 30:30
Finding the right number to raise Portland’s minimum wage is proving to be hard.
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 05:59
Over one million North Carolinians make the minimum wage at their job: Seven-twenty-five an hour. While many states and cities have recently raised...
- Added: Apr 12, 2015
- Length: 04:57
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
Interview: Gillian explains the current trade agreements being secretly negotiated and how they are hurting Americans and democracy. The effects o...
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 28:04
Chris Reykdal, Boeing Extortion with 22nd LD Representative from WA State
Interview: Chris explains why Washington State was extorted by the Boei...
- Added: Oct 31, 2014
- Length: 27:58
OURWalmart members, Betty Shove and Patty Mannion with
OURWalmart Community Organizer, Jeremy Blomberg
Interview: Betty and Patty tell personal ...
- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 28:12
Author of "We Meant Well" - Iraq 'Reconstruction') now Tackles the Tom Joad Economy and the sad fate of the 99#
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 38:03
Philly Congressman Chaka Fattah, lead sponsor of the Coop Jobs Act, KALW takes us inside the bike coop ColectíVelo in Oakland, and the Coop Job of ...
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- Added: Mar 06, 2014
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
Federally, marijuana production is still a major crime, one that can land you in prison for decades. Yet, in northern California, there’s a whole e...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 11:26
- Purchases: 1
On December 5, 2013, fast food workers across the country walked out on a one-day strike, demanding fairer wages. But what's really at stake? The G...
- Added: Dec 06, 2013
- Length: 06:08
David was looking for a slingshot. Goliath had money and power. This is the story of the fight against proposed and granted casinos in Philadelphia.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Aug 06, 2013
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 1
Avenal was the first town in California to actively recruit a prison. Town leaders didn't get exactly what they'd hoped.
Bought by KWMR and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 08, 2013
- Length: 06:56
- Purchases: 2
