Strikes have been erupting across the United States, from the Kaiser health worker demonstrations in California to the Kellog’s factory strikes in Michigan, laborers are asking to be repaid for the struggles they endured while working through the pandemic. 

In this week's episode of "Connect the Dots," we'll go to the picket line in Battle Creek, Michigan, where Kellogg's employees say it's been a long time coming for fairer pay and better hours.  

We'll also hear from a labor expert who sees a seismic shift across the country.

And we'll travel to New York City, where Yellow cab drivers have just ended a hunger strike against the city, which they say has left them in a desperate situation.

Read the article here: https://www.audacy.com/kcbsradio/news/national/american-workers-strike-back

While Hurricane Ida has slowly faded from public attention two months later, its impact is still a devastating reality for many low-income residents, who tend to live in flood-prone areas. With climate change threatening to make these natural disasters even worse, the likelihood of surviving these horrific events comes down to where you can afford to live.

This week on “Connect the Dots,” we heard from two Audacy producers: a Bronx native who lost everything during Ida, as well as a Louisiana local who’s lived through his fair share of hurricanes, including Katrina.

We also spoke with insurance and housing experts in the non-profit sector who can shed light on what the road to recovery from these storms should look like. 

The daily lives of street vendors, their passion for feeding customers, and the adversity they face in their unrelenting fight for belonging offer a unique window into the present-day immigrant experience in the U.S.

In this week's episode of "Connect the Dots," we’ll close out Hispanic Heritage Month as we hear from Fazila Bhimji, senior lecturer at University of Central Lanashire and longtime researcher on immigrants from Latin America; Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez, the director of New York City’s Street Vendor Project; and Maggie Morales, owner of locally-loved food truck Mike's Coffee Express in Queens, who says she’s still waiting for a vending permit after applying seven years ago.

Read the article here: https://www.audacy.com/kcbsradio/news/national/how-street-vending-in-us-is-radical-act-for-immigrants

This week on Audacy's weekly news podcast "Connect the Dots"--hosted Lynda Lopez--we’ll hear from policy analyst Harris Mojadedi and Hayward mayor pro tempore Aisha Wahab, both members of the Afghan Coalition of the Bay Area and children of refugees, about how the Afghan community has been able to maintain its culture in the region following a long trek and decades of war at home, and about the barriers facing Afghan immigrants, especially women, to this day.

This week on Audacy's weekly news podcast Connect the Dots--hosted by Lynda Lopez--attorney and enrolled member of the Pawnee Nation, Brett Chapman, explained how coverage of Native Americans in traditional media could have an impact on finding missing Indigenous people across the country. Nicole Wagon, Northern Arapaho Indigenous persons advocate in Riverton, Wyoming and the mother of two girls who were found murdered in Wyoming, also shared the work she's doing with her community to solve the problem, with her thoughts on what law enforcement should do to make the future safer for Indigenous people.

This week on Audacy's weekly news podcast "Connect the Dots"--hosted Lynda Lopez--we’ll hear from Dr. P.S. Sriraj, director of the Urban Transportation Center in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs at University of Illinois Chicago and director of the Metropolitan Transportation Support Initiative, as well as Juan Matute, the Deputy Director of the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies, about the state of mass transit in America pre, mid and post-pandemic, how commuters have been impacted in the past year, and how we can address transit funding in the future. We’ll also hear about how different cities are transforming their transportation systems for the better. 

This is “Connect the Dots” from Audacy, a weekly news podcast that dives into one of the biggest topics of the week with host Lynda Lopez from WCBS News Radio 880.

This week, we take a look at the billionaire space race, what's changed in space exploration since our venture to the moon in 1969 and the many concerns facing the future of space tourism.

This is “Connect the Dots” from Audacy, a weekly news podcast that dives into one of the biggest topics of the week with host Lynda Lopez from WCBS News Radio 880.

This week, we take a look at how infrastructure in New York, the Pacific NorthWest and Texas have buckled in the face of climate change, and what’s being done to quell the consequences of extreme weather events. 

Read the article here: https://www.audacy.com/kcbsradio/news/local/how-natural-infrastructure-can-ease-worst-of-climate-change

This is “Connect the Dots” from Audacy, a weekly news podcast that dives into one of the biggest topics of the week with host Lynda Lopez from WCBS News Radio 880.

For our first episode, we take a look at some of the major industries impacted by the COVID-19 kinks in the supply chain and how -- though it feels like we’re getting back to pre-pandemic times -- we’re still feeling the effects of a global shutdown today.

Read the article here: https://www.audacy.com/kcbsradio/news/national/connect-the-dots-how-the-pandemic-broke-supply-chains