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Working People: A podcast by, for, and about the working class today (now in partnership with In These Times magazine and The Real News Network).Working People is a podcast about working-class lives in 21st-century America.
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Why the stories working people tell ourselves about ourselves matter (Wheeling, WV Labor Symposium Speech) (opens the original)
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Over the 2026 Labor Day weekend, Working People host and TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez spoke at the Reuther-Pollack Labor History Symposium in Wheeling, West Virginia, organized by the Wheeling Academy of Law & Science (WALS) Foundation . The theme of this year's Symposium was "The Art of Labor," and other speakers included: Tabitha Arnold , textile artist and tapestry maker; Erik Ruin , printmaker and shadow puppeteer; and Shaun Slifer , a multidisciplinary artist and the Creative Di
Can anyone "make it" in today's music industry? (opens the original)
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The 20th-century days of vinyl records, tape decks, CDs, Tower Records, and MTV have given way to our 21st-century age of MP3s and music streaming, Spotify, Amazon, YouTube, TikTok, and Ticketmaster. While certain people and certain companies in the music industry are making more money than ever, working musicians are finding it increasingly impossible to pay the bills and make a living from their art. In this episode of Working People , we speak with all four members of veteran Chicago rock ban
"Katrina 2.0": Residents of Gary, Indiana fight to survive without power for 12 days (and counting) (opens the original)
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After a deadly "derecho" storm and flash floods slammed the midwest in early August, downing trees and power lines, tens of thousands of residents in and around Gary, Indiana have been surviving without power for 12 days and counting. According to the Associated Press, "Northern Indiana Public Service Co. said 68,000 customers were still without power as of Thursday morning, the majority of them in Lake County beside the Illinois border. The utility said it has restored power to 306,500 others s
No such thing as 'unskilled work': Barbara Ehrenreich's 'Nickel and Dimed' 25 years later (opens the original)
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In her 2001 masterwork Nickel and Dimed , the late Barbara Ehrenreich went undercover to report on the daily realities working people in America face trying to get by on minimum-wage. After working as a housekeeper, a nursing aide, a home cleaner, a server, and more, Ehrenreich wrote that "The first thing I discovered is that no job, no matter how lowly, is truly 'unskilled.'" It is difficult to overstate the impact that Ehrenreich's book and body of work have had on US culture and working-class
Layoffs, long waits, obscene prices: Vermont healthcare workers and patients face historic crisis (opens the original)
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Frontline healthcare workers and the patients they serve are facing a major crisis at the University of Vermont Health network—the state's leading healthcare provider. "In June, UVM Health eliminated over 140 positions across its network, a third of which were union positions," Matt More reports at The Rake Vermont . "The cuts, which the hospital estimated will save $9.5 million, comes as the network faces a $300 million budget shortfall… Later that month, UVM Health handed down a speed-up order
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