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How We Survive: Getting Creative About Jobs

post thumbnail Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

We look at how the unemployed are getting creative about making ends meet, from starting their own businesses to work-sharing.

How We Survive: The Crisis in K-12 Education

post thumbnail Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

State budgets are strapped and deep cuts to public programs continue. 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, parents and students are resisting budget cuts from the bottom up.

How We Survive: The ‘Crisis’ in Public Education

post thumbnail Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

We continue our series, ‘How We Survive’. This week? It’s a time of crisis in higher education. And as administrators cast an eye toward privatization, students are mobilizing for change, and a voice in the system.

How We Survive: The Currency of Giving

post thumbnail Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

A look into how struggling communities around the U.S. are meeting each others’ needs, without charity, or even exchanging a dollar.

Looking Back, Moving Forward: Making Contact’s 2009 Year in Review

post thumbnail Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

Two wars continued, the economy remained in freefall, and as hardship ensued, people crafted creative solutions. We look back at some of the most compelling stories we brought you during 2009, and find out where things are headed for 2010.

How We Survive in these Economic Times

post thumbnail Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

On this edition, we continue our series “How We Survive.” We meet a New York City street canner who’s changed his life and community one can at a time; A San Francisco couple paying the bills … with pickles? And we talk to author John Curl who says an unemployment movement may be on the rise.

How We Survive: Sprouting Up in Empty Breadbaskets

post thumbnail Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

The irony of food poverty in California’s agriculturally rich Central Valley and a look at community gardens popping up in food deserts. We also explore a project bringing healthy food to low income neighborhoods in Oakland, California.

How We Survive: Predatory ‘Mending’

post thumbnail Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Activists have been setting up community-run check-cashing and community loan funds as an alternative to predatory lending practices which led to our current foreclosure crisis.l

How We Survive: Renters, Rights, and Resistance

post thumbnail Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

On this edition, we continue our series “How We Survive” and hear from renters and renters’ advocates about the invisible victims of the mortgage meltdown.

How We Survive: The Deepening Homeless Crisis (encore)

post thumbnail Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

We visit with a family who lost their home and now lives inside their cramped trailer in a city parking lot. And we’ll hear how two different communities are dealing with the economic crisis by taking matters into their own hands.

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