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Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Deadly traffic accidents involving large trucks have surged over the past decade. FRONTLINE and ProPublica examine one gruesome kind of truck accident — underride crashes — and why they keep happening. Trucking industry representatives and the government’s lead agency on traffic safety have said that their top priority is safety. Drawing on more than a year of reporting — including leaked documents and interviews with former government insiders,...
2) Less Than
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
An in-depth look at poverty in America and beyond explores what its causes are, what its effects are, and if there’s hope to improve the situation.
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Since 1990, nonprofit Washington Parks & People has tried to reduce poverty and violence in Washington, D.C. neighborhoods by improving parks. At the height of the recession, the organization received a stimulus grant to create a "green" job-training program in communities hardest hit. They had two years to help unemployed people find jobs and care for parks in their neighborhoods.What sounds like a simple goal — putting people back to work by planting...
4) It's Basic
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When the Coronavirus Pandemic threw livelihoods into uncertainty and consequently spurred the creation of multiple direct government assistance programs, every American was given first-hand experience with the concept of Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI), an idea that has been proposed in the US for nearly as long as it's been in existence. By this point, several US cities had already begun GBI pilot programs in which they provided {dollar}500 to {dollar}1000...
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Fashion designer Amy Powney of cult label Mother of Pearl is a rising star in the London fashion scene. Raised off-the-grid in rural England by activist parents, Amy has always felt uneasy about the devastating environmental impact of her industry. When she wins the coveted Vogue award for the Best Young Designer of the Year, which comes with a big cash prize, Amy decides to use the money to create a sustainable collection from field to finished garment,...
6) InHospitable
Publisher
Premiere Digital
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Follows the story of patients and activists as they band together in an effort to fight UPMC, a multi-billion dollar nonprofit hospital behemoth in western Pennsylvania. In its quest for market domination, UPMC was planning to make vital care unaffordable for hundreds of thousands of vulnerable patients. These patients were taxpayers who had been subsidizing this supposedly nonprofit institution whose main mission as a charity was to serve the community....
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From ‘Darfur Now’ writer/director Ted Braun comes a riveting docu-thriller following controversial hedge fund titan Bill Ackman as he puts a billion dollars on the line in his crusade to expose Herbalife as the largest pyramid scheme in history. Herbalife claims Ackman is simply a market manipulator out to make a fortune from short-selling their stock, but Ackman insists Herbalife deliberately targets low-income and immigrant communities and robs...
8) Exit
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
A journey out of the heart of human trafficking. Three women who were looking for a way out of their extreme poverty found themselves at the heart of human trafficking networks. EXIT is not a straight road and many don't make it to the end.
Publisher
Espresso Media International
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The iconic statues and sensationalised mysteries of Easter Island have drawn the interest of the world for centuries, attracting curious visitors to its shores. Today, this tiny, barren island is experiencing an economic boom as tourism skyrockets. Yet the indigenous culture and the island?s fragile environment are suffering. This character-lead film follows the way the islanders are managing the results of globalisation and managing...
Author
Language
Deutsch
Description
Dieses Buch zeigt auf, welche Pfade Entwicklungsländer verfolgen können, um ihren Handlungsspielraum zurückzugewinnen und die Lebensbedingungen der Menschen langfristig zu verbessern. Gemäss der dominanten Wirtschaftslehre sind Märkte die zentralen Motoren für Wachstum und Armutsreduktion in Entwicklungsländern. Die bisherige Erfolgsbilanz ist allerdings enttäuschend. Andererseits haben arme Länder, die den Dynamiken des globalen Kapitalismus...
Author
Language
English
Description
He's a fourteen-year-old boy, taken to fight in war. She's his twin sister, desperate to save him.
Patish and Leeta enjoy an idyllic life in their ancient Indian village - until a battle over diminishing water supply threatens their world. While Patish trains as the warrior he'd never planned to be, duty falls on Leeta to make a perilous journey for the wisdom of the mysterious Purple Sage.
When the final command is given and the armies are...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Book contains foundations of new economic theory that is suitable for a world that has become multi polar again due to China emerging as New Global Economic Hub, while India is following pursuit and United States is experimenting between Neo Classical Economics and Heterodox Economics. The book provides a detailed discussion on ways and methods that can consolidate world politics, economics in tandem with future AI technologies to best serve the...
Publisher
Syndicado
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A powerful man and anonymous man has developed an unusual hobby. He buys century-old trees, some as tall as 15-story buildings, from communities along the Georgian coast and has them excavated to collect them for his private garden. In order to transplant trees of such dimensions, the landscape surrounding them is ripped apart and the people living around them are forced to adapt to the disruption. As the film follows this process, it portrays the...
14) Esther & The Law
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
For decades, Esther Kiobel has fought for justice for her husband, who was one of the nine men executed in 1995 after revolting against Shell's pollution of Ogoniland, Nigeria. Almost 25 years later Esther takes Shell to court in the Netherlands.
Publisher
EPF Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In 2005, a machine tools factory in Croatia was occupied by its workers. Since then, they have been operating collectively, making it the sole successful case of a worker occupation in post-socialist Europe. Today, as they strive to establish a new model of collective ownership, they face the challenges of contending with the globalized market economy. A decade later, the question arises: can the slogan "Factory to the Workers" be sustained, or is...
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Focuses on the sacred sites in and around Mparntwe (Alice Springs) in central Australia, and the struggle of the Arrernte people to identify, document and preserve these sites in the face of rapid urban expansion and property development. Max Stuart, Thomas Stevens, Doris Stuart and other Elders talk about the importance of the sites in and around the city in terms of traditional Dreaming. They reflect on their sense of loss as sites are desecrated...
Author
Language
English
Description
This book has been structured in three sections, in order to reveal the complex relation between economic growth, well-being and happiness, and answer certain questions:Is economic growth the basis of human progress and development?Why is capitalism successful, while communism has failed?What is the relation between economic growth, well-being and happiness, considering the Easterlin paradox?In the first one (The Economic Growth), these themes are...
Author
Language
Español
Description
Aspirando revelar la compleja relación entre la economía, el bienestar y la felicidad, y contestar ciertas preguntas (¿El crecimiento económico es la base del progreso y desarrollo humano?, ¿Por qué el capitalismo es exitoso, mientras que el comunismo ha fracasado estrepitosamente? y ¿Cuál es el vínculo entre el auge económico, el bienestar y la felicidad, considerando la paradoja de Easterlin?), se ha estructurado este libro en tres secciones.En...
Author
Language
English
Description
Globalization in economics sciences means the movement of goods and services and financial flows along international borders. The book presents a rich literature review to establish the efficacy of globalization in raising income levels across nation states as well as it is foundational to economic development of a nation state. However, with a recent trade war between US and China, it is now understood that globalization that started with reduction...
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