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    <description>The mine-ravaged communities of Eastern Kentucky have been increasingly abandoned by the coal economy. Could growing biofuels jump-start a new local jobs market—and renew the land in the process?</description>        
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    <description>How residents who can’t afford to buy in still get the benefits of co-op work and housing.</description>        
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    <description>From now on, the global mantra for filling market gaps is going to be, “There’s a co-op for that.”  But co-ops need customers, money, and training. How do we shift from business as usual to the work of cooperation? </description>        
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    <description>What if your bank’s first priority was to do good? Vancouver’s Vancity leads the way in putting dollars back into the community.</description>        
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    <description>Why support the co-ops in your community? The benefits might be further-reaching than you think.</description>        
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    <description>Can we build sustainable housing that's affordable, too? The city of Buffalo did, and created a community jobs pipeline in the process. Here's what can happen when neighborhoods take the lead.</description>        
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    <description>A new $1 billion plan to turn a vacant base into a shipping and logistics center will create thousands of jobs for the Oakland residents who need them most.</description>        
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    <description>A popular new film claims that a secret elite create our most troubling problems to advance a “global domination agenda.” Why Amy Goodman, Vandana Shiva, and other progressives are calling it “dangerously misguided.”</description>        
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    <description>Why go back to the way things were when we can create housing that embraces the best of tradition and the best of new thinking?</description>        
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    <description>Here’s what they don’t teach: When the blind-deaf visionary learned that poor people were more likely to be blind than others, she set off down a pacifist, socialist path that broke the boundaries of her time—and continues to challenge ours today.</description>        
    
    
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    <description>All over the country, people—like the workers of Chicago’s New Era Windows—are building worker-owned cooperatives that root jobs in the communities that need them.</description>        
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