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SSDI Recipients Now Encouraged to Apply for Unemployment Benefits By U...

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Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) recipients whose ability to work was impacted by COVID-19 are now being encouraged to apply for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA). Thanks to a 2013 state law passed in Governor Walker’s administration, people in Wisconsin who receive disability benefits are ineligible for state unemployment benefits—which maxes out at $370 a week. […]

WISPIRG New Voters Project Aims to Boost Youth Turnout in Elections

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Olivia Panthofer and Christina Zordani, WISPIRG coordinators and UW Madison students, discuss the New Voters Project with Jonathan Zarov on the Friday, July 24, 8 O’Clock Buzz. The New Voters Project aims to use young people’s digital skills to help register tens of thousands of young voters. Image credit: unsplash.com/@morningbrew

Staying Alive: How Small Businesses are Coping During COVID

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Jen Rubin, the author of We Are Staying: Eighty Years in the Life of a Family, a Store, and a Neighborhood joins Jonathan Zarov on the Friday 8 O’Clock Buzz to discuss her new three-part series in The Isthmus, Staying Alive, profiling three small Madison businesses—Genna’s Lounge, Mystery to Me and Oddly Arranged Media—and their […]

The History and Current State of Music in the Black Lives Matter Prote...

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Tyina Steptoe, author of the article “Hip Hop is the Soundtrack to Black Lives Matter” discusses the relationship between music and protest with Friday Buzz host Jonathan Zarov. Tyina is a former WORT mainstay, a long time volunteer and co-host of “In Our Backyard” back in the aughts. She’s currently an associate professor of history […]

Rebroadcasts: Black Lives Matter / Doing Antiracism Work On Social Med...

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For the first part of today’s show, we re-air a broadcast from 2018, when former host Lilada Gee spoke with Patrisse Cullors, a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement and a prison abolition advocate based out of Los Angeles. Her memoir, now essential on antiracism reading lists, is titled When They Call You a […]

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