Now Playing

Loading streams...

All Things Considered

Monday through Friday, 3pm - 7pm; Saturday and Sunday, 4pm - 5pm
Melissa Block, Robert Siegel, Audie Cornish

Since its debut in 1971, All Things Considered has delivered in-depth reporting and transformed the way listeners understand current events and view the world.  Every weekday afternoon, hosts Robert Siegel, Melissa Block, and Audie Cornish bring listeners breaking news mixed with compelling analysis, insightful commentaries, interviews, and special - sometimes quirky - features.  WNIJ airs a one-hour edition of the program at 4pm on Saturday and Sunday.

Local Host(s): 
Guy Stephens
Genre: 
News/Talk
Composer ID: 
5187f5a3e1c80ade92b5bd89|5187f57fe1c80ade92b5bceb

Pages

Mom And Dad's Record Collection
3:58 pm
Thu July 12, 2012

Glen Hansard: Musical Comfort In A Troubled Home

Credit Conor Masterson
Glen Hansard's latest album is Rhythm and Repose.
Share
E-mail
Comments
By editor

Originally published on Thu July 12, 2012 5:10 pm

All summer long, All Things Considered has been talking to politicians, musicians and others about one song they remember their parents listening to, and how it influenced them.

Read more
Poverty In America: The Struggle To Get Ahead
3:26 pm
Thu July 12, 2012

Turning Trash Into Cash To Help Nation's Poor

Next imagePrevious image
Credit Pam Fessler / NPR
A worker dismantles a mattress at a recycling facility in Oakland, Calif. The material will be used to make carpet products and proceeds will help support the St. Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County, a nonprofit that helps low-income families in Eugene, Ore.
Credit Pam Fessler / NPR
Terry McDonald, executive director of the St. Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County, is known to some as "the junkyard king" because he spends so much time trying to turn waste into cash.
Share
E-mail
Comments
By

Originally published on Thu July 12, 2012 5:10 pm

The bad economy has hurt many nonprofits around the country, even as demands for their services have grown. That's certainly the case in Reading, Pa., which has been labeled the poorest city in America, with a poverty rate of more than 41 percent.

Now, one local nonprofit, Opportunity House, hopes to salvage some of its services by salvaging junk.

Looking For Help

Read more
Asia
3:21 pm
Thu July 12, 2012

Pimp My Rickshaw: India's Drivers Pump Up The Glam

Next imagePrevious image
Credit Elliot Hannon for NPR
You know you want one: rickshaw seat covers emblazoned with Bollywood stars. It's just one way New Delhi rickshaw drivers are trying to outdo each other in the battle for passengers.
Credit Elliot Hannon for NPR
The three-wheeled buggies — a kind of shared taxi — are the most convenient and cheapest way to get around in India. Here, rickshaws are fixed up in New Delhi, India's capital.
Credit Elliot Hannon for NPR
Mohammed Arif makes custom rickshaw seat covers at a market in Delhi that serves as a one-stop shop for the city's rickshaw drivers.
Share
E-mail
Comments
By editor

Originally published on Thu July 12, 2012 5:10 pm

Dashboard statues of glow-in-the-dark Hindu gods, hubcaps painted like soccer balls and seat covers adorned with Bollywood stars — all this and more rickshaw bling is all the rage in India.

The motorized three-wheeled buggies are a fixture on India's crowded city streets, scooting in and out of traffic, picking up and dropping off passengers.

In New Delhi alone, there are some 50,000 of these vehicles. And that number is set to double as the city recently lifted a decades-long cap on the number of rickshaws allowed on the road.

Read more
Politics
4:33 pm
Wed July 11, 2012

Arizona Immigration Activists Mobilize Latino Vote

Credit Andrea Hsu / NPR
Maxima Guerrero and Daniel Rodriguez canvass for votes in Phoenix. Rodriguez moved to the U.S. with his mother when he was a child, and is undocumented. "The best thing I can do now," he says, "is organize those that can [vote], and make them vote for me."
Share
E-mail
Comments
By

Originally published on Wed July 11, 2012 5:21 pm

For years, Maricopa County, Ariz., has been ground zero in the debate over immigration.

On one hand, the massive county, which includes the state capital of Phoenix, has a growing Latino population. On the other, it's home to publicity savvy Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who has made his name by strictly enforcing, some say overstepping, immigration laws.

Read more
Poverty In America: The Struggle To Get Ahead
4:15 pm
Wed July 11, 2012

To Beat Odds, Poor Single Moms Need Wide Safety Net

Next imagePrevious image
Credit Kainaz Amaria / NPR
Shyanne (left) holds 1-year-old Makai, as Stepp checks to see if all of Shyanne's homework has been completed.
Credit Kainaz Amaria / NPR
Along with raising three kids, Stepp works full time and takes evening classes at a local community college to earn an associate degree in early childhood education. Opportunity House also helps pay the rent on her family's apartment.
Credit Kainaz Amaria / NPR
Stepp hugs her daughter, Shyanne, at the Second Street Learning Center, where she is a head assistant teacher earning less than $9 an hour. The center provides 24-hour day care for Reading's working poor and is run by a nonprofit called the Opportunity House.
Credit Kainaz Amaria / NPR
Opportunity House also supports Stepp's education and sometimes will subsidize her schooling expenses if she is running short on cash. "Being a head assistant, I can't go any further without some kind of degree," she says.
Credit Kainaz Amaria / NPR
Stepp sports a tattoo of her younger son's name, Makai, on her wrist. I-LEAD, the nonprofit that runs her evening classes, provides dinner for its students.
Credit Kainaz Amaria / NPR
Stepp says her goal is to obtain an associate degree and then a bachelor's degree. She hopes to open a day care center of her own someday.
Credit Kainaz Amaria / NPR
Stepp picks up her three children, (from left) Shyanne, 8; Isaiah, 10; and Makai, 1, at the 24-hour day care center after her classes are over around 9 p.m.
Credit Kainaz Amaria / NPR
Sometimes Stepp has to remind her children why their lives are so hectic. "I explain to them that I'm doing it for them, not for me," she says.
Credit Kainaz Amaria / NPR
Shyanne (left) holds 1-year-old Makai, as Stepp checks to see if all of Shyanne's homework has been completed.
Credit Kainaz Amaria / NPR
Stepp speaks to Isaiah before bedtime. "Sometimes I think I have done something wrong for them to turn their backs to me," she says of her failed relationships with her children's fathers. "But then there are other times that I'm in a good mood and think, 'Oh, well. Let them go. If they don't want to do it, I can do it. I can be the mother and father at the same time.' "
Credit Kainaz Amaria / NPR
"I think a lot of single mothers have a bad name," Stepp says. "[People] think they just go out and have babies and be on welfare. I'm the opposite, and I know [there are] other single mothers out there that are also the opposite. They try hard, and sometimes it's just not hard enough. You need that help."
Credit Kainaz Amaria / NPR
Jennifer Stepp, 29, lives in Reading, Pa., and is raising three children by herself. Like 14 million other single mothers in America, she lives below the poverty line.
Credit Kainaz Amaria / NPR
Once a thriving railroad hub and factory town in southeast Pennsylvania, Reading has a poverty rate of 41.3 percent and is labeled America's poorest city with a population of 65,000 or more.
Share
E-mail
Comments
By

Originally published on Fri July 13, 2012 5:51 pm

Single mothers have an especially hard time getting out of poverty. Households headed by single mothers are four times as likely to be poor as are families headed by married couples.

Still, many of these women are trying to get ahead. Some know instinctively what the studies show: Children who grow up in poor families are far more likely to become poor adults.

Read more

Pages