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Caption: Host Martha Burk
In 2009 Lilly Ledbetter learned she had been paid 40% less than men in the same Goodyear Tire & Rubber job. It was a long slog, but she won, and wo...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 03:00

  • Added: May 20, 2023
  • Length: 05:16
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Ryan caught up with the former treasury secretary — and thorn in the side of Biden White House economists — Larry Summers on the sidelines of the A...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2022
  • Length: 40:25
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Worries that real estate investors are buying multi-unit housing properties in San Francisco, then evicting tenants to turn a quick buck. has promp...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
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Santhosh Christudas interviews book marketing guru Brian Feinblum for the Toronto Business Journal.

  • Added: Jun 02, 2021
  • Length: 01:05:27
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
The REDDIT and WALL STREET BETS crowd strikes again causing ballistic rises in two stocks and more are targeted. CNBC and Washington go nuts. Hear ...

  • Added: May 30, 2021
  • Length: 05:04
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Public banks serving public interests. Find out more about BLEXIT at NextCity.org and learn about the Banking for Justice campaign at NewEconomynyc...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: Insurers like the Morgan White Group (whose advertisement is pictured above) offer 'gap insurance' plans to help cover the financial risk of high-deductible health insurance.
In the coming year, people insured under the Affordable Care Act may be facing, on average, about a 10 percent rise in the price of their health in...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2016
  • Length: 03:34
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Eliminate cash? Track all payments? Debit taxes and anything else they want? The implications are frightening! Hear the implications and the progress!

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jun 13, 2016
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: San Francisco's housing is becoming increasingly unaffordable. Micah Weinberg, of the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, says that over the past seven years, "we have built less than half of the housing in this region that the state estimates we need., Credit: flickr user Jeremy Brooks
In one of America's most expensive cities, there's a fringe political party whose name sums up their concerns: The Rent is Too Damn High. That city...

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  • Added: May 04, 2015
  • Length: 06:27
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Comedian W. Kamau Bell performing his stand up act, Credit: flickr user Florida International University
In the auditorium of Willard Middle School, about 300 people have gathered, many of them sitting on those rickety school bucket chairs, the ones th...

Bought by WJCT and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 09:31
  • Purchases: 2
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Financing a business plan or personal project usually means taking out a bank loan, but for many immigrants, there's another alternative. KFAI's Al...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 04:39
Caption: Facade of a short term rental unit in servants quarters behind an owner occupied home
Unlicensed, short-term rentals are illegal in New Orleans, but there aren’t a lot of people getting busted for renting out their house on websites ...

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  • Added: Sep 03, 2014
  • Length: 04:52
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Previously owned toys being sorted at Salvation Army., Credit: Jeremy Dalmas
It can be hard to donate your old things to a thrift store, but the idea is that your stuff will get a second life. Once it is donated, it will mak...

  • Added: May 20, 2014
  • Length: 05:08
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Participants at the 2013 Conscious Capitalism conference discuss finding alternatives to the “maximizing shareholder value” model and how business ...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 58:58
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OLYMPIA, Wash. - Scores of Peninsula business owners are joining local farmers, clergy and elected officials in applauding a measure introduced Thu...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: 02:01
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BALTIMORE - Working overtime off the clock, answering employee questions during off-hours, and being classified as a lower-level employee even when...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2012
  • Length: 01:24
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DENVER - Immigrant-owned small businesses are an important part of the Colorado and national economy, according to a new report from the Colorado F...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2012
  • Length: 01:21
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O-M-G! Host Rich Fish will have you L-O-L over text messaging scams, on Bloomington Beware, our weekly consumer watch dog segment.

  • Added: May 30, 2012
  • Length: 04:59
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LIVINGSTON, Mont. - Adjacent public lands, and how they're managed, provide insight into the economic health and well-being of rural counties in Mo...

  • Added: May 29, 2012
  • Length: 01:51
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A look at the recent buzz around the growing number of medical marijuana dispensaries in Denver Colorado

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 12, 2011
  • Length: 04:49
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Tom Malvetis, owner Unicorn Tavern. , Credit: Kyle Leppek
The number of older Americans working full time has been rising steadily for years. Many work because they have to. Some work because they want to ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 07, 2011
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Big business is as much of a threat to our livelihoods as out of control government, when they can do what they want and steal from us, and get awa...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 04:02
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Large international and US banks are financing the drug killings in Mexico by laundering billions of dollars in illicit drug money. Some banks a...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
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We hear about hip-hop and change in Cuban society, and what people on the ground are saying about new phases in the Cuban revolution.

  • Added: Sep 21, 2010
  • Length: 30:00