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1500 Stories

Jul 22, 2021

1500 Stories take a break from the gloom and doom of class and economic inequality in the U.S. to share the stories of people who are twins, in this sweet and entertaining bonus episode written and edited entirely by interns for the project.


Jun 10, 2021

 

This episode is the second of a two-parter about the housing crisis in the Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay Area.  It focuses on stories at both end of the housing crisis--home owners and the unhoused.

 


May 27, 2021

This episode is the first of a two-parter about the housing crisis in the Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay Area.  It explores stories of how expensive it is to live here, how overcrowded housing gets a result, and how the high cost of living makes it difficult to get ahead.


May 13, 2021

Agrarian realities today look a lot more like industrial realities, thanks to the rise and dominance of commercial agriculture. And like all industrial realities, farmwork is shaped by the indignities of racism and poverty in the U.S.


Apr 22, 2021

Those first two episodes in this mini-series about farm work and the agrarian myth asked us to move beyond our images of red barns and silos to understand with more nuance the challenging realities of contemporary farm work, even for Wisconsinites who grew up on family farms.  These next two episodes explore what it...