• Months after historic floods, St. Louis picks up the pieces

    Months after historic floods, St. Louis picks up the pieces

    Oct 20, 2022 11:27 PM EDT

    ... cancer diagnosis. After surviving breast cancer, another biopsy showed she now had lung cancer that had also metastasized into brain cancer. When the call came in early that morning, he thought it was her job asking her to come in to work one last shift. Instead it was his neighbor.

  • A Brief But Spectacular take on women with incarcerated loved ones

    A Brief But Spectacular take on women with incarcerated loved ones

    Jul 28, 2022 10:20 PM EDT

    ... fell into my lap, because she explained she had sisters, blood sisters, who lived around the neighborhood. When she needed to pick up an extra shift at work and someone to take care of the kids, she had sisters who could fill in for her. She had sisters who understood ...

  • 1 year after Beirut explosion, Lebanon still in crisis

    1 year after Beirut explosion, Lebanon still in crisis

    Aug 04, 2021 10:35 PM EDT

    ... And for those lucky enough to still have a job, the minimum wage is now worth less than $35 a month. After another fearful, draining shift at work, it's time for Raeda to fight more fires at home. On the way, she has to tackle the grocery store. As ...

  • A look into Amazon's employee conditions as the company pushes back against unionization

    A look into Amazon's employee conditions as the company pushes back against unionization

    Mar 29, 2021 10:35 PM EDT

    ... only thing you want to do is lay down and go to sleep. Jennifer Bates: Ten hours, I think, is too much to have anybody work for a shift at Amazon. People have fainted, fallen out. I have seen people come out of there in wheelchairs. Paul Solman: It's ...

  • Can we fix the inequities exacerbated by remote learning?

    Can we fix the inequities exacerbated by remote learning?

    Aug 29, 2020 09:05 PM EDT

    ... my daughter has with, with two parents such as me and my wife, even though there are challenges associated with it, we can make it work. When you shift to a completely remote learning situation for kids that come from low-income backgrounds, for kids that may have one, or ...

  • Americans adjust to new life, hunker down amid virus

    Americans adjust to new life, hunker down amid virus

    Mar 13, 2020 12:42 AM EDT

    ... were taking dramatic new measures each day to keep the virus from spreading deeper into the country. And with each shuttered school, canceled outing, lost shift and work-from-home directive, people's lives were being transformed in profound ways. Mom Natasja Billiau came up with a quick homeschooling plan ...

  • This artist's red shoes stand in for all the women lost to violence

    This artist's red shoes stand in for all the women lost to violence

    Mar 10, 2020 10:35 PM EDT

    ... for her daughter’s killing in Juarez in 2001. Alejandra was 17 when she went missing after she walked toward a bus stop after her shift at work. Seven days later, authorities found her body in an unlit lot in between her work place and the bus stop, a pathway ...

  • White Dallas officer to be sentenced for murdering black neighbor

    White Dallas officer to be sentenced for murdering black neighbor

    Oct 02, 2019 12:44 PM EDT

    ... and everyone but y'all." The basic facts of the unusual shooting were not in dispute throughout the trial. Guyger said that after a long shift at work and still in uniform, she walked up to Jean's apartment — which was on the fourth floor, directly above hers on the ...

  • What Stonewall means to the people who were there

    What Stonewall means to the people who were there

    Jun 26, 2019 04:04 PM EDT

    ... out? Bowen was working at a dance club not far from the Stonewall Inn. She was coming home in the early morning hours after her shift at work ended. "I knew that I could not go down there because of the police. I had a lot of hair, and if ...

  • 'A world-class doer': John Dingell remembered as great legislator

    'A world-class doer': John Dingell remembered as great legislator

    Feb 14, 2019 11:59 PM EDT

    ... in Dearborn, Michigan, where Dingell lived. Biden said Dingell treated everyone with respect and "knew public service wasn't a title you wear, but a shift you work." Dingell succeeded his father in Congress in 1955, and carried on John Dingell Sr.'s wishes by introducing a universal health care ...