Coronavirus | Wealth and inequality Lessons From MLK for a Better Post-Coronavirus Economy The civil rights icon fiercely advocated for redistributive wealth and social democracy. Deborah Douglas | Apr 8, 2020
Health care | Coronavirus | Local economies | Consumerism | Local power The Coronavirus Outbreak Has Shown That Capitalism Is Failing Our social safety net and the government’s response so far have been woefully inadequate for addressing a national emergency. Chris Winters | Mar 26, 2020
Local power | Coronavirus Why Coronavirus Relief Needs to be Permanent Sustainable examples of a new system are emerging. Megan Wildhood | Mar 20, 2020
How to Reduce Infection Rates Flu infection rates dropped in cities that implemented mandatory paid sick leave. Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz | Mar 9, 2020
Gender justice | Cooperatives This Trans-Owned Co-op Builds Community and Economic Stability The trans and undocumented Latinas who started the Mirror Beauty Cooperative want it to be a model for equal pay and worker-ownership. Megan Wildhood | Jan 29, 2020
Activism How to Start a Union When You Don’t Have the Right The growers have the money but . . . the farmworkers have the time. —Cesar Chavez From 1962 to 1993, more than 2,200 people—all ages, all walks of life, and LeRoy Chatfield | Dec 26, 2019
Wealth and inequality | Local power | Citizens United The Lies We’re Told About Appalachia The old exploitative images are indelible: out of work, White, needy. They obscure the region’s diversity and long tradition of activism. Ivy Brashear | Nov 12, 2019
Local economies The Phantom Promise: How Appalachia Was Sold on Prisons as an Economic Lifeline As the coal industry declines, rural communities are seeking new economic stability—but prisons may not be the answer. Alison Stine | Nov 8, 2019
Gender justice While Supreme Court Waffles, Cities Stand Up for LGBT Workers’ Rights No ruling, even from the highest court in the land, will invalidate state and city-level protections. Carl S. Charles | Oct 18, 2019
What Low-Wage Work Does to Us A huge share of U.S. employment is in low-wage jobs where workers are pushed to their limits to maximize profits for massive corporations. Alex Gallo-Brown, Emily Guendelsberger, Heike Geissler, Rob Hart | Sep 3, 2019
Cooperatives | Local economies A New Food Court Offers a Leg Up for Local Eateries A Bay Area market and cafe aims to build wealth for local food entrepreneurs and local community. Deonna Anderson | Apr 19, 2019
Consumerism | Local economies | Wealth and inequality We Can Do Better Than Capitalism Entrepreneurs in all walks of life are showing that it’s possible to create companies with business models driven by social purpose. Frances Moore Lappé | Mar 5, 2019
Consumerism “Lean In” and 8 Other Bad Business Buzzwords A radical pessimist’s glossary of exploitative economics. Peter Fleming | Jan 16, 2019
Wealth and inequality Universal Basic Income Is Easier Than It Looks And we wouldn’t even have to tax the rich to pay for it. Ellen Brown | Jan 3, 2019
Local economies | Wealth and inequality | Racial Justice | Cooperatives Why Co-ops and Community Farms Can’t Close the Racial Wealth Gap Circulating local dollars can’t create wealth when there’s not enough to begin with. Zenobia Jeffries Warfield | Nov 9, 2018
Wealth and inequality | Mental health | Gender justice The First Guaranteed Basic Income Program Designed for Single Black Moms The Magnolia Mother’s Trust asks participants what they need to not only pay the bills but also to fight generational poverty. J. Gabriel Ware | Nov 6, 2018
Wealth and inequality This Shelter Gives Homeless People What They Really Need—Long-Term Jobs A Fort Worth, Texas, program sees steady employment as an important step in helping guests rebuild their lives. Sydney Worth | Oct 29, 2018
Consumerism A Turning Point for the Global Economy The USMCA deal, also known as NAFTA 2.0, is a lot of things. But it is not free trade. Stan Sorscher | Oct 22, 2018
Local economies | Renewable energy | Pollution How Coal Country Is Cleaning Up Its Act A program in eastern Kentucky is retraining miners in industries that help mitigate the environmental impacts of mining on communities. Mason Adams | Oct 5, 2018
Wealth and inequality | Consumerism The Big U.S. City Trying to Break with Wall Street In a push to divest public funds from corporate giants, Los Angeles is asking voters to approve a city-owned bank. Ellen Brown | Oct 3, 2018
Cooperatives | Local economies | Local power A Boost for the Worker-Owned Economy A new measure will make it easier for retiring owners to sell their businesses to employees—and save jobs into the bargain. Fran Korten | Sep 25, 2018
Wealth and inequality | Consumerism | Mental health How the Economy Affects Our Mental Health We evolved to be connected to nature and to one another, but our exploitative global economy is severing those relations. David Korten | Sep 18, 2018
Wealth and inequality | Local power | Citizens United | Activism | Cooperatives | Local economies What History Books Left Out About Depression Era Co-ops It would seem that a movement that provided livelihood for more than 300,000 people in California alone would merit discussion in the history books. Jonathan Rowe | Sep 14, 2018
Gender justice | Affordable housing | Women For Women, by Women: A Sisterhood of Carpenters Builds Tiny Houses for the Homeless A mostly female crew constructs a village of emergency shelters in north Seattle, and finds camaraderie along the way. Lornet Turnbull | Aug 17, 2018
Gender justice | Activism To Build These Homes, We Chose an All-Women Crew The Mudgirls collective redefines expectations about what a construction site is supposed to look like—child care, breastfeeding breaks, and all. The Mudgirls | Jul 26, 2018