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Caption: Rosenow has two barns this size. Each houses about 300 cows. Two decades ago dairymen in Wisconsin discovered they had to grow in order to survive shrinking profit margins. , Credit: Laurel Morales
The Senate’s immigration reform proposal offers a fast track to citizenship for agricultural workers so that they can “continue to do the vital wor...

  • Added: May 03, 2013
  • Length: 04:02
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He insults me every week so I call and confront him. Then music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. From the golden age a Amer...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:54:08
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A look back at some of the most important issues of 2011: Attacks on organized labor, the Egyptian revolution, and the struggle to address climate ...

Bought by KHNS, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KMUN


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Thousands gathered in downtown Oakland to occupy the ports and shut them down. Exploring a night with the Occupy Oakland movement, partly a party...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2011
  • Length: 06:15
Caption: Brothers Justin and Derick Jewell, 22 and 24 years old. Justin is a two-tier worker and makes $16 an hour. As a traditional worker, Derick makes $28 an hour.
The American Dream is that each generation will do better than the last. But the families of auto workers no longer have that expectation. As Detro...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2011
  • Length: 06:15
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How people are finding the strength and situations that get them through economic hard times.

Bought by KGNU, KZYX, WCAI / WNAN, 90.5 WSNC, EconomyBeat Podcast and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2009
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 13
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Charlotte-area small business Tyler 2 Construction is putting laid-off workers on "attached unemployment" and still paying their health insurance b...

Bought by Michigan Radio Economy Special and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 23, 2009
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Truck Drivers Are Listening A Lot to ATC and ME!, Credit: SLG
State Truck Driver Winners Listen To Public Radio

  • Added: May 19, 2009
  • Length: 03:46
Caption: Champion Truck Association Drivers Listen to Lots of Public Radio - Do You Know Why?, Credit: SLG
Truckers Are Tuning In to PubRadio Big Time!

  • Added: May 17, 2009
  • Length: 17:28
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Workers at an Associated supermarket in Bushwick are pushing for the backpay they've been awarded after years of collecting illegally low wages. Th...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2008
  • Length: 04:45
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audio postcard of the Writer's Guild East Strike

  • Added: Nov 21, 2007
  • Length: 01:53
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Tyson Foods is accused of surpressing wages by hiring illegal immigants. The lawsuit points out problems in the government's handling of workplace ...

Bought by WAMC and KRFC


  • Added: Feb 12, 2007
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 2
From: Marty Goldensohn
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News and features on the War in Iraq

Bought by KUOW, KWCW, Raven Radio, and BSR Radio


  • Added: Jun 02, 2006
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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This is the Feb. 20th 2005 episode of Labor Express in full.

  • Added: Feb 26, 2005
  • Length: 58:21