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A review of the Linda Cardellini-starring film about a soldier's difficult return home.

  • Added: Feb 28, 2012
  • Length: 00:02:00
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What's next for Millinocket, Maine

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Feb 27, 2012
  • Length: 00:09:13
  • Purchases: 1
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On this episode of Blues Unlimited, join us as we examine the working life in story and song. From hard times trying to find work in the Great Depr...

Bought by KHNS


  • Added: Feb 10, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:59
  • Purchases: 1
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New research says that obesity might not all be to blame for ailments such as hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease.

  • Added: Dec 05, 2011
  • Length: 00:28:58
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Volatility on Wall Street, talk of a double dip recession---bad news for the markets. But good news for music? During times like these, we witness...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2011
  • Length: 00:57:46
Caption: Richard Wolff, Credit: http://www.rdwolff.com/
An exclusive interview with economist Richard Wolff, who explains how failed ‘trickle down economics’ theories are being recycled under a different...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 00:29:00
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A look into how struggling communities around the U.S. are meeting each others needs, without charity, or even exchanging a dollar.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Dec 15, 2010
  • Length: 00:29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Rents have always been high in New York; but since 1994, so called ‘Quality of Life’ policing, and business friendly development strategies have de...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2010
  • Length: 00:17:01
Caption: San Francisco Houseless Woman, Credit: Franco Folini
So-called ‘quality of life’ policing may temporarily decrease crime, but it has harsh consequences for innocent people caught up in the frenzy of a...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2010
  • Length: 00:29:00
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When the City of Oakland cut their after school homework help program, High school senior Nora Rose started volunteering at her library to help fil...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2010
  • Length: 00:02:18
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Reporter Rina Palta takes a hard look at how the toughest job market in decades will shape this recession generation.

Bought by WXVU 89.1 FM Villanova


  • Added: Nov 16, 2010
  • Length: 00:12:48
  • Purchases: 1
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If you’re a young person looking for a job, it looks pretty dismal out there, and it may not brighten up anytime soon. On this edition of How We Su...

Bought by WXVU 89.1 FM Villanova and KZYX


  • Added: Nov 16, 2010
  • Length: 00:29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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During the housing boom, low-income families were drawn to the suburbs by construction and service jobs, as well as the opportunity to have their o...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2010
  • Length: 00:15:04
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Eastern Tennessee to Tucson, Arizona. Two Wheels to Nowhere is a seven-part series that weaves together the story of one man's motorcycle journey a...

Bought by KUT, KFOK-LP, KUT, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Oct 03, 2010
  • Length: 00:24:22
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu addressed The National Press Club on Thursday, August 19th at a Luncheon featuring Gulf Coast shrimp, Credit: Terry Hill
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu spoke at a National Press Club Luncheon on Thursday August 19th in Washington, D.C. Noting the 5 year anniversary...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2010
  • Length: 00:54:00
Caption: Iris and her dad, Robert
When Blunt member Iris SanGiovanni was eight years old, her dad became homeless for six months after her parents divorced. A few years later, she h...

Bought by WMPG, Public Radio Remix, WMNF, KUOW, WMPG and more


  • Added: Aug 19, 2010
  • Length: 00:04:17
  • Purchases: 6
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When there aren’t enough hours of work to go around, why not share them? That’s the premise of “shared-work” programs in seventeen states around th...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2010
  • Length: 00:07:10
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Despite Obama’s words of support of small business, experts say some aren’t relying on government, but more and more on community groups and micro-...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Aug 12, 2010
  • Length: 00:09:00
  • Purchases: 1
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We look at how the unemployed are getting creative about making ends meet, from starting their own businesses to work-sharing.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 03, 2010
  • Length: 00:29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Students protest against budget cuts, Credit: San Diego News Network, www.sdnn.com
On this edition, we look at the crisis in K through 12 education. While the Obama administration pushes states to “Race to the Top,” teachers, pare...

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  • Length: 00:29:00
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Want to learn French, or maybe how to compost, but don’t have the cash to take classes? A group of artists in New York is working to create a syst...

Bought by KAXE, KUT, and WILL


  • Added: Apr 25, 2010
  • Length: 00:05:03
  • Purchases: 3
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We take a look at a tax revolt movement you might not have heard about, including upper income folks asking for tax increases on themselves. And w...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 00:29:00
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They say comedy is serious business. But in this economy, it can be downright depressing.

Bought by EconomyBeat Podcast, Remix Radio, and WILL


  • Added: Mar 14, 2010
  • Length: 00:18:10
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Sig, Kay and Yvonne at Providence House
Fewer than 1 in every 50 Americans is old enough to remember the Great Depression. In this short audio collage, three residents of Providence House...

Bought by Public Radio Remix, KUT, EconomyBeat Podcast, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Mar 08, 2010
  • Length: 00:02:38
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Dmitri Orlov
It's the new hot meme: we are going down. Interview with Dmitry Orlov, author of "Reinventing Collapse", and John Michael Greer, "The Long Descent"...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2010
  • Length: 00:53:00