How We Survive
A monthly series on Making Contact about how communities across the United States are responding to the economic crisis.
| Programs from this desk are listed below. Click through for audio, full description, and guest contact information. |
How We Survive: Getting Creative About Jobs(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(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(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(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(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(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(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'(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(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)(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. |
How We Survive: Resisting Foreclosures(August 5th, 2009) A look into how communities and everyday people around the U.S. are resisting foreclosure of their homes. We take a stab at the question: are rescue programs actually working? |
How We Survive: The Deepening Homeless Crisis(February 18th, 2009) We visit with a family who lost their home and now lives inside their cramped trailer in a city parking lot. And, how two different communities are dealing with the economic crisis by taking matters into their own hands. |
Who Would Jesus Tax? (encore edition) (April 9th, 2008) We talk with a single mom and a tax fairness advocate to debunk some myths about how wealth is created and what people can do to change tax policy and at how an under-reported union between political conservatives and the Christian right preserves the gap between the haves and have-nots. |
