It’s time to stop believing the lie that gentrification is inevitable.
Economy
Eco-friendly tiny houses offer safety, stability, and savings.
Guatemalan and Salvadoran immigrants helped organize far-reaching workers’ rights campaigns in industries that mainstream unions had thought to be untouchable.
Black and other farmers of color are seeing a restoration of land that was stolen or cheated from them as a key step to strengthening their economic power.
Experts on banking, public spending, and education policy look at the impact of Biden’s plan.
New York City’s Liberty Cleaners co-created an innovative training program that’s providing the skills to bring about their vision of the gig economy.
“When I think of the many ways we—laborers, neighbors, people in community with one another—are failing each other, I think first and foremost of the institution of work as we know it.”
The Dutch art of niksen—intentionally doing nothing, letting the mind wander—is much needed in our over-scheduled lives.
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Our work environment is deeply dysfunctional. But making systemic change requires understanding how we got here.
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Long-underpaid undergrad students who work on campus are increasingly seeing the value of their labor and organizing unions.
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Young workers, women, and people of color are combining digital innovation with old-school face-to-face organizing to build a new labor movement.
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Cafe Euphoria isn’t just another co-op. Its trans and gender-nonconforming owners are pursuing a vision of radical equality.
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And it’s not over.
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Direct payments to home-based child care providers can sustain them and the essential work they do to care for the children of working Americans.
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Activists have long suggested that oppressive institutions should be abolished rather than reformed. The same could be said about labor.
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Degrowth invites us to envision a much deeper societal transition than simply swapping energy sources to maintain the status quo.
Frugality isn’t just a virtue practiced by bygone generations. It can also be a break with an all-consuming capitalist system.
Climate action, racial justice, and economic reform ultimately all have the same end goal. Our movements should unite behind it.
Solving the Mountain State’s endemic issues means a return to old-fashioned virtues of neighborliness and diligence.
Wildfires and the destruction they cause have become a societal problem. Addressing this issue comprehensively should include both short-term and long-term solutions.
From Amazon to Starbucks, employees are demanding better pay and working conditions from companies that have long had a free hand to maximize profits at any cost.
More than 40 million people provide unpaid care for adults. My mother was one of them.
Rubynell Walker-Barbee shares her story of service workers organizing in Georgia.
Instead of kings, plutocrats, and generals, a new kind of historical walking tour focuses on the people they repressed, and tells a more complete story.
The history of American communes is one of imperfect people trying to make a perfect place.
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