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While the number of Black-owned banks is down to only 22, there are 318 Black credit unions uniquely positioned to invest in their communities.
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Female Migrant Farmworkers Push Back Against Machismo and Abuse in California’s Wine Country
In Sonoma County, women are coming together to support one another and advocate for the safety of undocumented fieldworkers who often work in isolation.
Why Economists Are Coming Out in Favor of Unconditional Basic Income
Economist Guy Standing says the policy can reverse inequality. It also has an invigorating effect on volunteerism, home ownership, and community strength.
As Boomers Retire, Mom-and-Pop Businesses Convert to Co-ops to Save Jobs
Baby boomers are the largest percentage of business owners, and they’re headed toward retirement. Worker cooperatives could keep the jobs they’ve created from disappearing.
Why Give Breaks to Huge Corporations When We Could Invest Public Money Down the Street?
Cities and states fork over an estimated $70 billion each year to large companies that don’t need public assistance to thrive. We could spend that money on our own neighborhoods.
Austin’s Unique Policy Shift to Create Jobs for Everyone, Not Just Techies
How the city is promoting local economic growth that goes beyond deals for big companies.
Half of America’s Workforce Has No Retirement Plan—But Illinois Has a Fix
Economists see the Illinois Secure Choice Savings Program, designed for private-sector workers, as an innovative complement to Social Security.
Income Inequality Is a Health Hazard—Even for the Rich
A public health researcher explains why life expectancy in the United States is falling, and it has to do with income inequality rising.
How to End 30 Years of Wage Stagnation
Rebuilding workers’ rights is possible—if we are willing to face the tough issues.
10 Reasons to Leave Your Company to Your Workers When You Retire
It’s a once-in-a-generation opportunity: Selling to employees can yield a better price, preserve a legacy, keep jobs and profits local—and maybe even eradicate inequality.
Why Slower Money Is the Key to a Real Economic Recovery
An exciting crop of organizations are financing businesses in a way that creates real wealth. Here are a few ways to scale them up so that they can truly challenge Wall Street.
Dangerous History: What the Story of Black Economic Cooperation Means for Us Today
African Americans have been pioneering co-ops as an economic strategy since the days of slavery. Author Jessica Gordon Nembhard on how centuries-old models can guide our economy today.
A Techy Management Fad Gives Workers More Power—Up to a Point
Holacracy aims to liberate workers from micromanagement by replacing bosses with code-like rules modeled on computer programming.
Own a Home in Just Four Years? This Co-Op Program Keeps Workers in the Neighborhood
Nearly half of Evergreen’s worker-owners have purchased homes through the program.
Why We Did an Issue on Debt
Good debts? We know it sounds crazy. But there’s a quiet revolution brewing in how we move money around, and we want our readers to know about it.
“Don’t Owe. Won’t Pay.” Everything You’ve Been Told About Debt Is Wrong
With the nation’s household debt burden at $11.85 trillion, even the most modest challenges to its legitimacy have revolutionary implications.
Infographic: The Real Reason You Have So Much Debt (It’s Not Crazy Spending)
$11.85 trillion in household debt has more to do with stagnant wages (and predatory banks) than shopping sprees.
The Crunch: Why Washington D.C. Hired a Herd of Goats (And Other News to Chew On)
This week we’re talking about the future of work, a "masculine studies" program... and goats.
A North Carolina Textile Co-Op Gives Immigrant Workers a Stake in the Business
In a state that lost 88 percent of its textile industry jobs in just 10 years, small worker-owned cooperatives are islands of rights and resilience.
How Buying the Local Post Office Will Help My Family Farm and Small Town Survive
I never thought farming would mean owning a post office. But looking at my community and our need to define ourselves as a place, that seems to be our family farm's next job.
These Friends from High School Bought an Abandoned Factory. Now They’re Distilling Artisanal Whiskeys
Much as blight can be contagious, so can renewal. How grassroots community groups are saving neighborhoods and building new businesses.
How to Become a Citizen Eater: A Trip Behind the Labels of Your Ethical Cup of Coffee
Labels like "fair trade" and "direct trade" indicate food is ethically sourced—but how do you know what they really mean, and whether they're effective?
A March Madness Makeover: 5 Ways to Bring Fairness Into College Basketball
March Madness is now a bigger cash cow than the Super Bowl, but in college sports the only people not getting a piece of the billion-dollar pie are the players.
7 Myths About Housewives, Debunked
Are housewives less ambitious than career women? Are they bad feminists? Read on to go beyond the stereotypes.
What a Real-Life Rosie the Riveter Taught This Feminist Geek
Before meeting Geraldine, I’d assumed that most of the women from the 1940s were unaware of how capable they were. I was wrong.
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