A unique initiative in Oregon helps incarcerated mothers stay connected with their children through special visitations and virtual parent-teacher conferences.
Two-thirds of low-wage workers are women, often mothers. These programs are giving them better access to high-wage careers.
Apple and Facebook offer egg freezing in their employee health benefits. But what about the rest of us?
Sanctuary city policies can only go so far. The real job of creating welcome and safety falls to ordinary people.
How to contact the 16 banks funding tar sands pipelines.
Nearly 60 percent of Americans want Medicare for All. Democrats must support it, too.
Efforts to defund Keystone XL target same banks that supported DAPL. “If you stop the flow of dollars, you stop the flow of oil.”
Try less fighting and speaking and doing to get “our” way—and a lot more sitting and listening and questioning and being still.
The Trump administration wants to know how you feel about your national monument lands. A public comment period opens May 12.
With Netflix’s ascendancy and the way it’s changing viewing habits, “Bill Nye Saves the World” may be a huge opportunity for science education.
Formula One racing on frozen lakes comes to grips with the reality of rising temperatures and melting ice.
It tricks you into thinking social problems can be resolved if only people tolerate oppression just a little while longer.
The ACA remains the law of the land. There are many more steps left in the legislative process before this bill ever reaches Trump’s desk.
To avoid doing business with socially irresponsible corporations, the city is willing to lose investment income—about $4.5 million a year.
The relatively new equity crowdfunding seeks investors expecting a return, not donors supporting a project. But the project must improve a community.
When famous midwife Ina May Gaskin suggested that Black mothers should make better lifestyle choices to have healthier babies, the Black birth world decided they’d had enough.
This is the real-world economy for a living Earth that we must learn to structure and manage to provide a safe space for humanity.
Are chimps legally entitled to the same rights as humans? This radio story highlights a recent story involving personhood for chimps. YES! Magazine’s Susan Gleason speaks with Senior Editor James Trimarco.
Economic relief agencies as well as support for arts and culture got nearly a five-month reprieve from the more radical cuts proposed in Trump’s budget.
Increase access to generics, end “evergreening” drug patents, and other ways to put people before profits.
This 86-year-old civil rights leader believes reconciliation is the only way forward.
Undocumented immigrants in detention are four times more likely to win a custody hearing if they have a lawyer.
Residents of Iowa’s first Hispanic-majority town don’t need sanctuary city policies to support their immigrant neighbors.
A unique alliance among tribes, ranchers, and other landowners in Nebraska regroups to resist fossil fuel development like the Keystone XL.
Public money and public universities boost Big Pharma’s profits, so shouldn’t the public be able to afford the drugs?
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