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Women’s History Month: Let's Ditch This Bit of Unfair History
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
It’s Women’s History month, and the feds are banning government agencies from using salary history to set the pay of new hires. Why? If you start ...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
267: Community Wealth Building: Democratizing the Economy, 2/21/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Laura Flanders
In this special episode of the Bioneers, guest host Laura Flanders explores “Community Wealth Building,” a model that democratizes the economy, cre...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
Salt Lake City Library Workers Unionize
From: KRCL
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Amazon and Starbucks employees are inspiring other workers in the region to unionize. Such as, the librarians and workers of the nine-branch city ...

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 04:29
Community Wealth Building: An Economic Reset
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Low wages, precarious jobs, shuttered Main Streets and bleak futures — do towns have a way out of poverty that doesn't involve begging and bribing ...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Covid Couldn’t Stop Worker Owned Co-ops
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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When homecare workers at Cooperative Homecare Associates in the Bronx ran short of masks in the early days of the Covid pandemic, the worker-owners...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK


  • Added: Sep 29, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Do Black Lives Matter to Big Banks?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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A national uprising in the wake of the murder of George Floyd pressured corporations and big banks to acknowledge their own roles in systemic racis...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK


  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Big Pharma vs The People: The Fight to Save America’s Largest Generic Drug Manufacturer
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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This July, America’s largest remaining generic drug manufacturing plant is set to close its doors forever in Morgantown, West Virginia. Its parent ...

Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, and KWMR


  • Added: Jul 22, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Labor Looks Up After Amazon Union Vote
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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“The opportunities for labor right now are virtually limitless,” says Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, the country’s largest labor federat...

Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: May 12, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Pandemic Economy (release date December 30, 2020)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The economic collapse unfolding before our eyes is much bigger than it appears and the solution isn’t simply to “build back better.” COVID-19 didn’...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK


  • Added: Dec 22, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Nobody Left out, Creating the New Normal: SEIU President Mary Kay Henry
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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While the election results are still undecided well hear from Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union, or SEIU, abou...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK


  • Added: Nov 04, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Reporting on Covid in the Country
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Equipped with a facemask and a selfie stick, Laura Flanders reports in this episode (from a responsible distance) on the impact of Covid-19 on one ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 30, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Addressing Economic Class Conflict
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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While some organizations and individuals believe there is multidimensional inequality in the U.S., this PEACE TALKS RADIO program is only about eco...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, WRIR, and KUNM


  • Added: Sep 25, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
What Does "Affordable Housing" Really Mean?
From: KUER
Series: More To Say
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It’s no secret that rent around Salt Lake City is really high. And if you drive around downtown, you’ll see tons of new apartment complexes under c...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: May 21, 2018
  • Length: 17:26
  • Purchases: 1
Wealth Inequity and Universal Basic Income
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Chuck Collins, Credit: Author
President Donald Trump’s tax plan may exacerbate wealth inequity in the US. Chuck Collins, Director of the Program on Inequality at the Institute f...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WRIR


  • Added: Jan 16, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Job Talk Episode 22
From: Paul Russell
Series: Job Talk
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Listen to a story of a man with service in his blood: George Morstatt, teacher, Marine, volunteer firefighter and dispatcher. We learn his take on ...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2017
  • Length: 17:05
Veterans Day interview with John Savona, Director of Manufacturing, Ford Motor Company, and a U.S. Army Veteran.
From: WGZS
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The following is Veterans Day interview with John Savona, Director of Manufacturing, Ford Motor Company, and a U.S. Army Veteran. Mr. Savona discu...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2015
  • Length: 13:35
Full-Time Struggle, Part-Time Work
From: Making Contact
Caption: Panelists, Credit: New America NYC
On this edition of Making Contact we’ll hear from a panel of labor reporters, professors, and policy analysts as they discuss post-recession labor ...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
The Jerk at Work
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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If someone is known as “the jerk” at work, it’ll show up on their performance review, right? Not likely, say two management researchers. Lilia Fuq...

Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, KPVL, and KKRN


  • Added: Mar 06, 2015
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 4
Unemployment in SF? Numbers are down, but so are spirits
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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San Francisco currently has the third lowest unemployment rate of all California's counties. But while that’s good news, it doesn't mean that much ...

  • Added: May 17, 2014
  • Length: 06:47
Good to Great for Nonprofits (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Bestselling business writer Jim Collins on what makes a successful nonprofit.

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Dec 02, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Behind the Kitchen Door: Restaurant Workers' Fight for Justice
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Saru Jayaraman
Americans eat out more than any other people. But the workers who put food on our restaurant tables are struggling to feed themselves and their fam...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Co-ops that Work Together, Survive Together: Arizmendi Bakery
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Ariizmendi Fourth Street, Credit: Andrew Stelzer
In some parts of the United States, there are virtually no co-ops. So many of those co-ops that do exist feel a special responsibility to support ...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 08:02
Moral Leadership: Segment B
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Just Business
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Consulting firms have long helped corporations make their operations more efficient and profitable, but now moral leadership is being added to the ...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Sep 04, 2012
  • Length: 14:32
  • Purchases: 1
Moral Leadership: Segment A
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Just Business
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Consulting firms have long helped corporations make their operations more efficient and profitable, but now moral leadership is being added to the ...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Sep 04, 2012
  • Length: 20:40
  • Purchases: 1
Changes in the American Middle Class: Segment B
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Just Business
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Both left and right agree that the U.S. income gap is widening. It's harder to agree on how to solve it. Fred Setterberg yearns for the solidarity ...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Aug 16, 2012
  • Length: 12:43
  • Purchases: 1