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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...
Bought by RADIOLEX
- 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
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
An argument in favor of increasing the minimum wage to a living wage
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- Added: Mar 15, 2017
- Length: 04:51
- Purchases: 1
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
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
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
This documentary examines the volatile issues that are tearing at social fabric of the state of Wisconsin.
Its Republican governor is determined...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Apr 20, 2011
- Length: 31:58
- Purchases: 1
Joe Carraro discusses the failures of how just funding more unemployment insurance doesn't fix our unemployment problem, and the government needs t...
- Added: Apr 14, 2011
- Length: 05:40
Congressman Levin spoke at a Nationol Press Club Lunceon on Monday April 19th. The Chairman of the House Ways and Means committee discussed severa...
- Added: Apr 30, 2010
- Length: 54:00
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
People disagree on the reason for having a government.
- Added: Mar 22, 2008
- Length: 02:02
Today we speak with author Chuck Collins of the Institute For Policy Studies, whose new book is titled The Moral Measure of the Economy
- Added: Sep 24, 2007
- Length: 28:01