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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Changes in the American Middle Class: Segment A
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: 14:29
  • Purchases: 1
Competitive Ethics: Segment B
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Just Business
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The field of competitive intelligence illustrates the distinction we draw in our professional lives between ethics and law. Attorney Richard Horowi...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jul 10, 2012
  • Length: 14:46
  • Purchases: 1
Competitive Ethics: Segment A
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Just Business
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The field of competitive intelligence illustrates the distinction we draw in our professional lives between ethics and law. Attorney Richard Horowi...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jul 10, 2012
  • Length: 17:09
  • Purchases: 1
LABOR'S SMALL BUSINESS FRIENDS
From: Dick Meister
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A new survey disputes the claim that small business owners are as anti-union as their big business counterparts.

  • Added: May 28, 2010
  • Length: 03:51
Building Green
From: Bill Baue
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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
It's Difficult To Change
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: Downtown Millinocket in October 2008., Credit: Craig Jarvie
A profile of Millinocket, Maine, after the mill shut down.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2009
  • Length: 06:50
Job Corps Anniversary-St. Louis
From: Next Generation Radio
Series: NPR's Next Generation Radio
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Look at Job Corps, 40 plus years later.

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Nov 20, 2006
  • Length: 04:50
  • Purchases: 1
Want More Money? Join a Union
From: Dick Meister
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Although well in the minority, unionized workers do much better financially and otherwise than their non-union counterparts

  • Added: Mar 15, 2006
  • Length: 02:25
Ethics: The Foundation Of Corporate Governance.
From: WQLN
Series: Chautauqua Lectures
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A successful CEO looks at business ethics.

  • Added: Jun 15, 2005
  • Length: 01:00:00
Night Shift Headlines
From: WFUV
Series: On the Night Shift
Caption: PRX default Piece image
On this Labor Day, WFUV catches up with New York City night shift workers. In this segment, we hit a local newspaper as they put together the morn...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2004
  • Length: 04:24