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Hunger in America – NewsHour Reports
Posted by Rob Paterson in Context, Journalism, Network, Partners on November 18th, 2009
This is going to be a huge issue
Good News on the Benefits Front
Posted by Rob Paterson in Journalism, National, Network, Partners on November 5th, 2009
The $24 billion economic package, which would also broaden tax breaks for businesses, cleared the House Thursday afternoon in a 403-12 vote and heads to President Barack Obama to sign into law. It passed 98-0 late Wednesday in the Senate.
Under the measure, the $8,000 tax credit for first-time homebuyers would be lengthened by seven months and expanded with a $6,500 credit for some prospective homebuyers who already own homes.
The nearly 2 million people who have lost or are in danger of running through their unemployment benefits before the end of 2009 would receive up to 20 weeks in additional benefits.
For those in states with unemployment rates above 8.5 percent, it would grant an additional six weeks on top of that. The extension is the fourth since last June, and could give some people up to 99 weeks of unemployment benefits, above the previous record of 65 weeks set in the 1970s, according to the Associated Press.
More after the jump – Source The NewsHour
History may not repeat but it does rhyme
Posted by Rob Paterson in Context, National, Network, Partners, Personal Story, The Collective Story on November 2nd, 2009
Monday on The American Experience: The 1930s:
Civilian Conservation CorpsIn March 1933, within weeks of his inauguration, President Franklin Roosevelt sent legislation to Congress aimed at providing relief for the one out of every four American workers who were unemployed.
He proposed a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) to provide jobs in natural resource conservation. Over the next decade, the CCC put more than three million young men to work in the nation’s forests and parks, planting trees, building flood barriers, fighting fires and maintaining roads and trails.
Corps workers lived in camps under quasi-military discipline and received a wage of $30 per month, $25 of which they were required to send home to their families. This program interweaves rich archival imagery with the personal accounts of CCC veterans to tell the story of one of the boldest and most popular New Deal experiments, positioning it as a pivotal moment in the emergence of modern environmentalism and federal unemployment relief.
The five-part series, “The 1930s,” draws parallels between our current age and the Great Depression era, examining the political and cultural life of America during one of history’s most tumultuous decades.
Learn more about the series and watch films online here.
Lots more work to do – Jobs & Regulation -Moyers/Galbraith
Posted by Rob Paterson in Advice, Context, Engagement, Experts, National, Partners, Reinvention on November 1st, 2009
Food Banks – An Opportunity for Reinvention?
Posted by Rob Paterson in Collaboration, Context, Engagement, Local, Partners, Personal Story, Reinvention on October 28th, 2009
Here is a snip and link to a great post by KERA on the North Texas Food Bank – As more people are stretched why not start to think of the Food Bank as the possible centre of a local food system where the system expands from a donation model to a local supply model where people learn also how to grow and make food for each other?
The North Texas Food Bank is working to expand its reach to meet the growing demand and is in its second year of a campaign to narrow the gap between available services and demand by expanding annual access to 50 million meals.
Last year, it provided access to 37 million meals.
The nonprofit agency was created in 1982 to pull together efforts to feed hungry residents of 13 counties, securing donations of surplus unmarketable, but wholesome, food and grocery products to distribute throughout its network. Last year, the agency distributed more than 39 million pounds of food through partner agencies in Dallas, Denton, Collin, Fannin, Rockwall, Hunt, Grayson, Kaufman, Ellis, Navarro, Lamar, Delta and Hopkins counties.
Food collected by the North Texas Food Bank is distributed through 291 agencies, supporting 1,146 feeding and education programs.
Is this an idea that is ripe for Public Stations to add to their work on FTMC? Would it not be the same kind of work – helping glue the community together – telling the stories etc?
Pub Camp – The Virus Spreads – What will you do?
Posted by Rob Paterson in Advice, Collaboration, Context, Engagement, Impact, Journalism, Local, Network, Partners, Personal Story, Technical on October 27th, 2009
Nearly 250 people attended Pub Camp in Washington recently to talk about how best to use social media in Pub Media
Here is a great summary by Andy Carvin with film footage by John Proffitt
PubCamp Sampler from John Proffitt on Vimeo.
Many stations will be having their own local Pub Camp soon
PubCamp 101 from John Proffitt on Vimeo.
What will you be doing?
Frontline – The Warning
Posted by Rob Paterson in Context, Engagement, Journalism, National, Partners on October 27th, 2009
Frontline have just put on a very important show, The Warning, that gets behind the regulatory screen. The informed citizen needs to be more skeptical.
More than Content – Connection and Impact – What we are doing FTMC
Posted by Rob Paterson in Branding, Collaboration, Context, Engagement, Impact, Local, National, Network, Partners, The Collective Story on October 13th, 2009
CPB have put our project on the front page of their site – Here is the link to the letter that Jack Galmiche sent on your behalf to Pat Harrison. In a quiet way, I think that we are making history. Proving to others and to ourselves how we can become a powerful agency for good in our communities.
Ohio – No quick recovery here – Reinvention Needed I think
Posted by Rob Paterson in Context, Impact, Journalism, Local, Network, Partners, Personal Story, Reinvention, The Collective Story on September 17th, 2009
Here is an excellent overview of how tough it is in Ohio right now from Laura Hertzfeld who is curating on Economystory.org at PRX. If ant state is to find the way home to a new kind of economy where regular people can make a legitimate living I think it will be Ohio – Why? Because reinvention is the only option. The old jobs are not coming back.
Ohio has one of the highest unemployment rates in the country – 11.2% in July. Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke said this morning that the recession is “technically” over, but it will be a long road to recovery in Ohio and other places in the country where the manufacturing sector has been hit particularly hard.
Help Wanted is a new series from WCPN in Cleveland, reporting on how people are coping with job loss and the economic climate overall. Today’s piece talks about the “ripple effect” — how one person’s layoff can affect dozens of businesses in a community.
John Kraizel was laid off from his engineering job in January.
“Kraizel cut expenses down to the essentials. No dinners out. Fewer haircuts. Definitely no lawn service. And the house cleaners? He pushes his own vacuum now.All told, Kraizel estimates he’s cut about $1000 from his monthly budget. That’s $1000 out of the local economy.”
Listen to the full story here.
The series has also reported on people looking for jobs when they are over 50 and out of work, and areas where the job market is more promising, like teaching.
Why Ohio? This week I’m (Laura) in Cleveland for the Public Radio Program Directors Conference, and will be sharing some of the ideas I’m hearing from public radio folks from across the country.
PRX have sites where you can share both Video, Text and Audio Stories on the Economy
Posted by Rob Paterson in Advice, Collaboration, Engagement, Local, National, Network, Partners, Personal Story, The Collective Story on September 15th, 2009
Here is the video sharing site – you can both use and add video here
Here is the main site with text and video.
This is much more than a simple repository – PRX use editors to search the universe and they add the best stories.
This project is a sister project funded by CPB
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Partner / Stations
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- PRX Economy Story
- Parting thoughtsOver the past 10 months, EconomyStory.org has featured some of the most poignant, informative and visual stories about communities coping in the ongoing crisis. These stories are what make public media stand out – the voices featured from around the country and the innovative ideas that have inspired news stories. It’s been so exciting to […]
- A matter of trustThe banking industry looked pretty ugly in the hearing on Capitol Hill yesterday as Senate leaders on the left and the right slammed Goldman Sachs for allegedly defrauding investors. In case you missed it, PBS NewsHour analyzed the proceedings and this short video from The Huffington Post mashes up the hearing into five minutes of […]
- Six words across AmericaJobs, health care, finances, credit, mortgages, recession. These are just six of the many topics EconomyStory has covered on the economic crisis. As our project is coming to an end soon, we’ve been asking for your six-word memoirs about how to cope in the current climate. This week, Smith Magazine, the originators of the six-word […]
- Cut it outIt’s always taken a bit of persistence and planning to save money on the things you buy, whether it’s religiously cutting coupons from the newspaper or saving up frequent flier miles. Last year, NPR reported on avid e-coupon collector April Englebert, who told Weekend Edition that she saves up to 80% using online coupons. But […]
- All about the BenjaminsThe new $100 bill design was unveiled today, and will go into circulation next February. The new $100s are aimed at preventing counterfeiting. NPR’s Planet Money reports: The $100 is a favorite of counterfeiters, for obvious reasons, and the government’s rolling out new bills to try and make life harder for them. It seems like […]
- Parting thoughts
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