A Poor System: Welfare Punishing Women
On this program, from the Women’s Desk of the National Radio Project, we look at the history and attitudes behind welfare policy in the United States, where we will hear from recipients who have experienced first-hand how the welfare system treats women like criminals for being poor.
A Set-up for Failure: Racial Inequality in Education
A series of subsequent Supreme Court decisions in the 1990s and shifts in education policy at the federal, state, and local levels, have led to a trend that some observers are describing as “resegregation.”
Let’s Go to Mazar: A Chronicle of Life in Afghanistan after War
Investigative journalist Pratap Chatterjee, traveled to Mazar-i-Sharif, the first city to fall to the Northern Alliance and the United States bombing raids in 2001. This week we present a special documentary that chronicles life after the end of the war.
Concrete Cages and Cash: The U.S. Prison Industry
On this program, the National Radio Project’s Prison Desk takes a look at the economics of U.S. prisons, and at how politicians and corporations are making choices that may severely impact the future.
