Neighbors are helping crowdfund the dreams of local entrepreneurs, giving community businesses the chance to expand with interest-free loans.
Up to a quarter of the nation’s workers have spent 10 years working in public service on a promise of student loan forgiveness.
If we are to create a society that values black life, we cannot ignore the role of food and land.
A complex, for-profit system is behind these three-digit scores that affect your ability to borrow, rent, and work. Here's how regulators are putting credit score companies on notice.
Meet the ranchers, grandmothers, professors, and tribes who are bringing back grizzlies, blocking oil equipment deliveries, getting arrested—and having a great time doing it.
Though the model is new and small, it holds outsize potential for the many neighborhoods whose downtowns are controlled by faraway landlords or retail chains.
From funeral cooperatives to green burials, there's a kinder, gentler, less expensive way to die.
There are hundreds of LGBT-friendly churches around the country—and many are in conservative cities where you'd least expect them.
For one man, the class-action settlement means being around other people for the first time in 25 years.
New Orleans sees a wave of grassroots activism after Katrina, D.C. stops a major utility merger, and a food writer lays out the superpowers of breast milk.
I interviewed the filmmakers of "No Escape" to see if they think their movie is racist. Spoiler alert: They don't.
The film inspired by Klein's book features the stories of everyday people standing up to climate change.
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As long as there has been lending, there have been times when the people’s debt becomes a crisis. Here’s a look at the policy solutions governments have been using, starting in ancient Sumer.
University of Montana professor George Price on permaculture, race, and how he’s standing up to tar sands extraction.
History has shown that when Latinos feel threatened, they fight back—with their voices and voting power.
Let’s remove the shame from the conversation and help the next generation avoid the debilitating amounts of debt that keep us from buying houses or taking vacations.
Despite a deck stacked against women and people of color, the voters rewarded both.
Glass is a pain in Montana’s, uh, recycling program. But the craft brew industry is on the case.
The Fear Project uses art to visually interpret the parts of life that scare us the most, normalizing fear as a part of ourselves.
A Mexican artist turns guns into a force for good, Banksy turns Disneyland into something dismal, and GynePunks bring open-source gynecology to the masses.
Since nearly a third of the city's walkable spaces are filled with cars, these residents decided to take back the alleys.
Bree Newsome’s removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina Statehouse reminds us that real change comes from people power.
With more than a quarter of the Tenderloin’s housing stock owned by nonprofits or the government, longtime residents have staying power.
Nearly half of Evergreen’s worker-owners have purchased homes through the program.
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