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Taxes are necessary for a civilized society, and most ordinary people pay their fair share. But there's one group that pays nothing at all, while ...
- Added: Apr 10, 2024
- Length: 03:00
What we do to each other, we do to the Earth. To protect our common home, we’re being called upon to bridge our differences to create beloved commu...
- Added: Jun 12, 2023
- Length: 28:30
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Going For Broke (A Three Part Series from To the Best of Our Knowledge)
Series: Going For Broke (A Three Part Series from To the Best of Our Knowledge)
In this final part of our series, we’re talking about work — about the right to meaningful work, the search for jobs that pay enough to live, and w...
Bought by WNED Buffalo, KZYX, WGBH Radio Boston, WKSU, WGUC/ WVXU and more
- Added: Oct 28, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 12
As the World Economic Forum takes place in Davos, Switzerland, we talk about the way central banks steer world development and for whom. Former Gol...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: Jan 24, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Over 30million Americans are uninsured, and even more are sickened by the sky-high costs. While Congress seems sunk in a partisan fight over the Af...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: Mar 21, 2018
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 1
Two and one half minute commentary on paying for restoring unemployment benefits to the long-term unemployed by cutting corporate welfare.
- Added: Apr 25, 2014
- Length: 02:30
The recent budget deal had plenty for war contractors, but jobless Americans were left in the cold. For them, it's going to be a very Unhappy New ...
- Added: Dec 26, 2013
- Length: 02:30
Labor Day was created in the 19th century by the unions, to celebrate the economic achievements of American workers. But if we look at the 21st ce...
Bought by KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Aug 28, 2013
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 3
Unions are getting weaker, and even more threatening, says labor leader and author Bill Fletcher Jr., the general public no longer understands or s...
- Added: Jul 24, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Two and one-half minute commentary by Equal Time host Martha Burk on who won, who lost on Tax Day.
- Added: Apr 18, 2013
- Length: 02:30
Similar to prison guards, police unions advocacy for their members has helped perpetuate cycles of criminalization and incarceration that plague Am...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 09:17
Support, or opposition from a prison guard union can make or break a campaign for office. The most powerful of them all is the California Correcti...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 11:30
Police officers and prison guards hold tremendous political sway. Their advocacy for better pay, more power, and more jobs has been a major factor ...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 29:01
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 should be obvious by now, with election day nearing, that Barack Obama should be the overwhelming choice of working people.
- Added: Oct 16, 2008
- Length: 05:14
