Meet the young 1 percenters who decided to invest their wealth in places that long experienced exploitation.

When large institutions like universities and hospitals agree to hire and spend locally, they can transform neighborhoods hardest hit by poverty and unemployment.

This is the first election year with the same number of millennial voters as baby boomers. Here’s how lobbyists for young people could change our politics on prisons, climate, and student debt.

Time-banking is a model for trading skills, goods, and labor instead of money. There are close to 500 such banks across the country.

With no major labels in Minneapolis, this hip-hop group started their own label.

The Northern California Fibershed aims to skirt the rampant waste of resources in the apparel industry.

In the heat zone of Louisville, Kentucky, 170 residents have been trained as “citizen foresters.”

In Oregon, incarcerated women stay connected with their children through special visitations and virtual parent-teacher conferences.

From conversations that heal to land trusts that fight gentrification.

And five other creative ways Americans are stepping up to build strong local economies.

In Nashville, Tennessee, and Chicago, city planners are responding to demands for better neighborhood mobility and bicycling infrastructure.

Three years ago, they started a program to keep salvageable goods from landfills by harnessing the community’s collective skills to fix them.