It’s 1979 and containerization is sweeping through the San Francisco waterfront, leaving the old docks in ruins. As global trade explodes, a group of longshoremen band together to try to preserve the culture of work that they knew. They take pictures, create a slide show, and make sound recordings. Those recordings languished in a basement for 40 years. In this episode, we hear those archival tapes as a way of exploring the human effects of automation.
If the Federal Reserve hikes interest rates again this year, Bankrate chief financial analyst Greg McBride says investors should look beyond just rising-rate CDs. He talks with John Wordock about other options.
6 Min
May 12, 2016
In some places, hard-working kids are taught to measure success by how fast and far they can flee from their community. But one Bronx native has returned to her old stomping grounds to show how “self-gentrification” can remake marginalized neighborhoods.
28 Min
Aug 22, 2016
20 Min
Feb 24, 2016
