A community in Colombia is ditching traditional capitalist models in order to build a collective future.
Economy
Businesses owned by people of color are particularly vulnerable to the economic impacts of COVID-19. So this year, consider ditching the big corporations and opt for patronizing these small businesses instead.
Instead of conspicuous consumption, try the conspicuous sharing of “Buy Nothing.”
There’s an easy way for Biden to help restart the U.S. economy, invest in infrastructure, and repair environmental damage: Revive the Civilian Conservation Corps.
A post-pandemic world will call for a more activist, community-centered approach to global development.
The pandemic has exacerbated housing instability and made tenant activism more critical.
Gig workers like flexibility, but get no benefits. Employees get the reverse (usually). There’s a better way with platform cooperatives.
The president has free access to the best medical care in the world. There’s no reason why the rest of America shouldn’t get what their taxes pay for.
Trump has a number of risk factors that increase the chance of mortality with the disease. But the president’s wealth may be the best medicine he has.
If signed into law, California's AB-1993 would extend unemployment eligibility to more than 119,000 family caregivers, most of whom are low-income women of color.
A new initiative from LA’s Office of Immigrant Affairs aims to help immigrant business owners and essential workers gain access to economic relief.
Prioritizing short-term profits over everything else has created a system that is consuming itself to extinction. Here’s what an economy that valued human life and the planet would look like.
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