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Does Economic Growth Cost Too Much?
From: Open to Debate
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Economic growth is a central goal of many economies, but there are questions about how sustainable relentless growth is. Those arguing “yes” say t...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KCPW Salt Lake City


  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 4
Beating Poverty by Investing in Teachers: A Labor Story for May Day
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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McDowell County, West Virginia, in the heart of what used to be coal country, is one of the most impoverished counties in the US — a place that emb...

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


  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
EE 22-11: Emily Broad Leib has an expansive view of food safety, 3/11/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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Emily Broad Leib of the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic argues that narrowly focused food safety regulations in the US are failing to address th...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
EE 21-41: ‘Food Safety’ Could Include Long-term Health and Environmental Concerns , 10/8/2021
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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Emily Broad Leib of the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic argues that narrowly focused food safety regulations in the US are failing to address th...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
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
Throwing It Out
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
We're talking trash at the library today. Specifically, the story of a 3,000-ton garbage barge that made a scene in Brooklyn in the 1980s… and, we ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 21:06
  • Purchases: 1
Addressing Economic Class Conflict
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long 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 KCSB-FM


  • Added: Sep 26, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Outlaw Ocean, Part Two
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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The outlaw ocean, a space apart, hidden from view, a place of rampant criminality and exploitation. This week on World Ocean Radio we offer part on...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2019
  • Length: 05:32
The Outlaw Ocean
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week on World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill highlights the dark side of what happens at sea in the context of a forthcoming book by Pulitzer Pr...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 05:34
Karl Marx
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Why read Marx today?

Bought by KMUN, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KSKQ, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Aug 11, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Blaire Briody, author of "The New Wild West"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Blaire Briody about her book "The New Wild West: Black Gold, Fracking, and Life in a North Dakota Boomtown"

  • Added: Jun 15, 2018
  • Length: 30:10
Demystifying Unions with Bill Fletcher Jr.
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Bill Fletcher Jr.
Unions are getting weaker, and even more threatening, says labor leader and author Bill Fletcher Jr., the general public no longer understands or s...

Bought by WMMT and WCSU-FM


  • Added: Jul 24, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
Ban the Box! The Campaign for Post-Prison Employment
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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It’s not even the crime that counts sometimes. It’s that little box on an application that asks you to reveal if you have a criminal history. Chec...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Transformations in Medical Professions
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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Dr. William Hanson, author of Smart Medicine: How the Changing Role of Doctors Will Revolutionize Health Care.

Bought by KWIS 88.3 FM


  • Added: Aug 17, 2011
  • Length: 25:03
  • Purchases: 1
FAR FROM HOME, BUT FAR FROM FORGOTTEN
From: Voices of Our World
Caption: PRX default Piece image
THE INITIATIVE OF A PRIEST TO HELP MIGRANT WORKERS FIND A WAY TO SUCCEEED IN THEIR NEW SOCIETY.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2010
  • Length: 27:59
Ethics and Experts
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Corner
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How should we reward experts and how much? When the experts fail, should populist outrage be directed at those individuals or the system?

  • Added: Sep 11, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
Immigrants and Jobs
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Corner
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A Colombian immigrant was recently denied her investor's visa, forcing her to shut down her U.S. company and fire her six employees. Does immigrati...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
Active Voice Radio - Steve Early: Embedded With Organized Labor
From: Chris Goldstein
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Longtime journalist and union specialist Steve Early looks to the present and future of American unions

Bought by KSFR and KVSC


  • Added: Jul 08, 2009
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 2
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
A Critical Economic Stimulus
From: Dick Meister
Caption: PRX default Piece image
More than one million Americans are facing loss of their badly needed Unemployment Insurance benefits.

  • Added: Sep 17, 2008
  • Length: 02:33
How We See the Homeless
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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Blunt reporter Zoe High takes to the streets to unravel some of the prevailing perceptions of the homeless, and spotlights one organization in Port...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMPG, and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Dec 06, 2007
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 3
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
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