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How Cities Can Be Designed to Help or Hinder Sharing City-dwellers are more likely than others to share housing, transit, and knowledge. Creating a new urban economy depends on valuing this interaction over individual consumption. |
5 Habits of Highly Compassionate Men Having compassion leads to increased happiness, freedom from gender stereotypes, and better relationships with others. |
Fight the Corporate Takeover With a Pint at the Pub The British government is reversing damage done to local economies by the Great Recession by protecting local pubs. |
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The “Twilight” Manifesto: What Pop Culture Gets Wrong—and Right—About Masculinity Blockbuster series like Twilight have left their mark on a generation of girls, but what message are they sending boys? Here are a few to look out for. |
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Immigrant Detainees' Hunger Strike Targets Legal "Grey Area" A hunger strike in a Washington state detention facility draws attention to a facility where most U.S. laws don't apply. |
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How a Library with No Books Could Change the Way We Read (And Bring Us Closer Together) The Empathy Library is a new digital archive where people can point to the books, movies, and other media that help us learn to understand one another. |
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How a Chicago Mom Liberated a Foreclosure and Got a Home for Her Four Kids Displaced by foreclosure, this family took direct action—and got a place to live. |
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Veggies at the Liquor Store—and 5 Other Ways to Bring Food to Your Community Out-of-the-box ideas for putting healthier food on our neighborhood plates—and make friends doing it. |
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There Are Still More Libraries Than McDonald’s Locations in the United States (and 24 other facts you should probably know). |
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Video: Can We Create Living-Wage Jobs for Everyone? We have plenty of low-income jobs, but fewer in the middle where we really need investment. How can we make sure public money is spent for the greater good? After Death of Radical Mayor, Mississippi's Capital Wrestles With His Economic Vision Mayor Chokwe Lumumba implemented only the first steps of his plan to address Jackson's extreme income inequality, which most seriously affected black residents. Now the city faces a choice between vastly different approaches to economic development. Video: Can Co-Ops Curb Poverty In New York City? Of the many businesses in New York, only 23 are worker co-ops. But those that exist have a strong record of raising wages and reducing poverty, especially in low-income communities like city councilmember Maria del Carmen Arroyo's South Bronx district. A Parliament of Mayors: Can We End Inequality By Giving Cities More Power? In our increasingly interdependent world, mayors may be more motivated to collaborate and possibly more capable than our national governments of effectively working across borders. |
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Money and Life: The Bright Side of the Money Crisis Is this “the most exciting time to be alive in human history”? The economists and scientists interviewed in this film think so, and the reasons are all about the chance to create a more fair and sustainable global economy. |
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James Baldwin’s Turkish Decade Sedat Pakay’s disarming photos of James Baldwin during his time in Turkey show a side of the great writer most of us have never seen. |
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... and other inspiration while putting together the Spring 2013 issue of YES! |
