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Ben Weisz investigates how child labour is rife among Montevideo's rubbish-cart drivers, and what is being done to help.
- Added: Sep 17, 2013
- Length: 09:27
New Bedford Harbor ranks among the worst harbors in the country for surface oil spills. Harbor officials and environmental groups can’t even agree ...
- Added: Jun 03, 2013
- Length: 06:50
The WORLD features news reports from around the world, centered on humanitarian issues or stories that have an individual or mass impact on communi...
- Added: Nov 13, 2012
- Length: 27:30
In another story KALW brought you the story of the so-called Chess Cinderella, Dyhemia Young. The foster child won a college scholarship at a prest...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 11, 2011
- Length: 06:41
- Purchases: 1
If you’re convicted of committing a felony in California, you can end up in many kinds of prisons. Steal a lot of money in a Ponzi scheme – you mig...
Bought by KUOW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Aug 29, 2011
- Length: 05:13
- Purchases: 2
Think of a place you’d never go, unless you really had to. Think of Oakland’s Parking Citation Assistance Center.
It’s a non-descript room in a ty...
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 04:49
Some nonprofits in the region that rely on government funding are in trouble. As a result, many are now looking at how they can get other sources o...
- Added: Jun 24, 2011
- Length: 03:14
Non-profits are a vibrant part of the regional economy. They employ many people and the need for their services has grown. But charities that contr...
- Added: Jun 24, 2011
- Length: 03:56
The Midwest is used to thinking of China as the source of many of our problems: it’s where many jobs and factories went. But in Toledo, China is no...
- Added: Jun 24, 2011
- Length: 05:15
Recent census reports show Midwestern cities are shrinking and people are moving out. But one group is actually growing - the Hispanic population. ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and Vocalo.org
- Added: Jun 17, 2011
- Length: 06:33
- Purchases: 2
Austin, Texas markets itself as the live music capital of the world. Nashville calls itself the music city and it’s become more than just country.
...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 17, 2011
- Length: 03:44
- Purchases: 1
The country is facing a nursing shortage. But schools in our region can’t keep up with the demand for nursing education. Changing Gears is a projec...
- Added: Jun 17, 2011
- Length: 03:42
When you talk about a digital divide, you’re probably thinking of inner city kids who don’t have ready access to the Internet. But there’s another ...
- Added: Jun 17, 2011
- Length: 04:24
Cities across the Midwest are full of immigrant stories. Previous generations filled the factories, building cars, furniture and steel. Now that th...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 16, 2011
- Length: 04:01
- Purchases: 1
By now, you’ve probably heard of the Chevrolet Volt. That plug-in hybrid has been promoted for years as a sign that General Motors can still innova...
- Added: Jun 07, 2011
- Length: 03:56
Long-abandoned factories have scarred the Midwest landscape for generations. Tens of thousands sit vacant across the region, the tally growing by ...
- Added: Jun 07, 2011
- Length: 06:27
The American Dream is that each generation will do better than the last. But the families of auto workers no longer have that expectation. As Detro...
- Added: Jun 07, 2011
- Length: 06:15
Imagine trying to prove that thousands of people exist, when you have no idea who they are.
That’s the dilemma facing officials who think their co...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 03, 2011
- Length: 03:55
- Purchases: 1
What happens when your local library shuts its doors? That’s a question Midwestern towns from Evanston, Ill., to Troy, Mich., are asking as local l...
- Added: Jun 03, 2011
- Length: 04:06
Sears & Roebuck has been a dominant retailer in the Midwest since it was founded in Chicago almost a 120 years ago. It’s hung on while other brands...
- Added: Jun 03, 2011
- Length: 04:02
Yesterday morning, May 23, the Supreme Court ruled that California must reduce its prison population by tens of thousands of inmates to correct the...
- Added: May 24, 2011
- Length: 08:32
Recently, Oakland’s Housing Authority opened the waitlist for a special type of Section 8 vouchers for the first time in five years. These coveted ...
- Added: Mar 06, 2011
- Length: 05:59
Today we continue our conversation and lecture on Race Manners with Bruce A. Jacobs. In our interview we ask about what cities in the US are have t...
- Added: Oct 23, 2010
- Length: 31:29
The economic crisis has made it difficult for everyone to find employment, but ex-convicts have been hit harder than the rest.
- Added: Aug 11, 2009
- Length: 05:48
Georgia's Press Secretary Bert Brantley Talks with Stephen Lloyd about the Tri-State Water Rights Issues
- Added: Aug 05, 2009
- Length: 41:58
