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Dr. Steve Koonin, a former U.S. Secretary of Science, and Dr. Michael Greenstone, Director of the Energy Policy Institute at University of Chicago,...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: May 13, 2024
- Length: 26:02
- Purchases: 1
A small Canadian lake records humanity’s impact on Planet Earth. On the floor of Canada’s House of Commons, an old Nazi veteran gets a standing ova...
- Added: Oct 08, 2023
- Length: 58:14
The climate crisis can be difficult to cover in a way that most people can relate to. The mechanism of harm goes from a person's gas car or stove t...
Bought by Maine Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more
- Added: Sep 21, 2023
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 11
Billions of dollars from the Inflation Reduction Act have started flowing into renewable energy projects and manufacturing. That’s bringing jobs an...
Bought by Maine Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, RadioFreePalmer and more
- Added: Jul 13, 2023
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 15
Billions of dollars from the Inflation Reduction Act have started flowing into renewable energy projects and manufacturing. That’s bringing jobs an...
- Added: Jul 13, 2023
- Length: 58:57
Each US resident creates an average of 4.5 - 4.9 pounds of trash per day. For many, once it’s in the garbage can, it’s out of sight, out of mind. H...
- Added: May 30, 2022
- Length: 58:00
Our guest is Davarian Baldwin, professor of American Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and author of In the Shadow of the Ivory ...
- Added: Aug 31, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
What do football, tobacco and oil have in common? A common narrative of deceit. When tobacco companies faced public scrutiny about the link between...
Bought by WORT, KWIT, KCPW Salt Lake City, and NPR Now
- Added: Dec 07, 2017
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 4
Capitalocene – maybe it doesn’t roll off the tongue, but a group of thinkers argue the term is preferable to Anthropocene because it's more diagnos...
- Added: Jul 05, 2017
- Length: 33:19
Commentary: More than 850,000 minimum wage workers in 10 states will be getting raises in the new year.
- Added: Dec 27, 2012
- Length: 04:03
It's time for President Obama to help the country's home care workers.
- Added: Dec 20, 2012
- Length: 02:21
Commentary: Student athletes get very little of the millions generated by college football's bowl games.
- Added: Dec 06, 2012
- Length: 04:01
Commentary: It's time to enact a proposed law that would give workers the absolute right to unionization.
- Added: Nov 29, 2012
- Length: 04:13
- Added: Nov 15, 2012
- Length: 02:45
Raising the minimum wage should be a key post-election priority.
- Added: Nov 08, 2012
- Length: 04:33
Commentary: Labor faces its greatest election challenge in California.
- Added: Oct 25, 2012
- Length: 02:41
Repealing the union-crippling Taft-Hartley Act should have been a prime issue throughout the election campaign.
- Added: Oct 18, 2012
- Length: 03:13
Commentary: John Steinbeck was a great champion of farm labor.
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 02:56
Commentary: Although we're recovering from the Great Recession, most of the new jobs are low-paying, non-union jobs.
- Added: Oct 05, 2012
- Length: 03:01
Urgently needed "green retrofitting" of the nation's infrastructure can benefit everyone
- Added: Aug 23, 2012
- Length: 04:18
Anti-labor forces have launched a major drive to stifle the political voice of workers and unions.
- Added: Aug 16, 2012
- Length: 05:51
Labor is planning an extensive campaign for President Obama's re-election.
- Added: Aug 09, 2012
- Length: 03:23
- Added: Jul 19, 2012
- Length: 03:07
The Internet has had a profound impact on media labor coverage.
- Added: Jul 12, 2012
- Length: 07:03
It's been a hundred years since women textile workers waged one of the most important strikes in US labor history.
- Added: Jul 05, 2012
- Length: 05:16