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The Interest-Free Lending Circles That Help Friends and Families Do DIY Loans

Who needs banks when you have communities? And organizations like Mission Asset Fund have even figured out how to use the system to raise credit scores.

Liz Pleasant | Oct 21, 2015

The Crunch illustration by Jennifer Luxton.

Do We Even Need International Borders? (and Other News to Chew On)

Opening borders can have unexpected benefits; studies show alarming links between air pollution and dementia; and Native Americans talk about illegal immigration.

Oct 21, 2015

Holacracy illustration by Jennifer Luxton.

Cooperatives | Jobs

A Techy Management Fad Gives Workers More Power鈥擴p to a Point

Holacracy aims to liberate workers from micromanagement by replacing bosses with code-like rules modeled on computer programming.

Nathan Schneider | Oct 1, 2015

Local economies | Wealth and inequality | Citizens United

1.5 Million American Families Live on $2 a Day鈥擳hese Authors Spent Years Finding Out Why

For their new book, H. Luke Shaefer and Kathryn J. Edin followed the lives of America鈥檚 poorest families to find out what they need to break out of poverty, and how to make it happen.

Marcus Harrison Green | Sep 24, 2015

The Feds Raided This Gay Sex Website鈥擜nd Pushed Sex Worker Rights Into the Mainstream

After the seizure of Rentboy.com, many in the sex worker and LGBTQ movements are finding common ground where they were once divided.

Joe Scott | Sep 16, 2015

Wealth and inequality

Hero or Coward: Could Skipping My Student Loan Payments Start a Revolution?

A college professor is calling for a massive student-debt strike next year with only one necessity: that as many debtors as possible refuse to pay.

Yessenia Funes | Sep 14, 2015

Cooperatives

5 Steps to Turn Your Business Into a Worker-owned Co-op

Learn how to turn any business into a worker-owned cooperative with this checklist.

Cat Johnson | Sep 9, 2015

Wealth and inequality

Will Government Make Good on Its Promise to Forgive Student Debt?

Up to a quarter of the nation鈥檚 workers have spent 10 years working in public service on a promise of student loan forgiveness.

Ava Kofman | Sep 7, 2015

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Citizens United | Cooperatives

What鈥檚 a Death Midwife? Inside the Alternative Death Care Movement

From funeral cooperatives to green burials, there's a kinder, gentler, less expensive way to die.

Jennifer Luxton | Sep 3, 2015

Native rights | Activism | Wealth and inequality | Citizens United | Renewable energy

鈥淵ou Fly to the Edge of the Tar Sands, and … No Life鈥�: A Montana Professor on the Issue of Our Time

University of Montana professor George Price on permaculture, race, and how he鈥檚 standing up to tar sands extraction.

Sarah van Gelder | Aug 28, 2015

Wealth and inequality

Drugs, Sex, and Debt: It鈥檚 Time to Revamp 鈥淭he Talk鈥�

Let鈥檚 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.

Dina Gachman | Aug 28, 2015

Tenderloin Peoples鈥� Garden. Photo by Sergio Ruiz.

Local power

How One San Francisco Neighborhood Became 鈥淚mmune鈥� to Gentrification

With more than a quarter of the Tenderloin鈥檚 housing stock owned by nonprofits or the government, longtime residents have staying power.

Rick Jacobus | Aug 25, 2015

Wealth and inequality | Jobs

Why We Did an Issue on Debt

Good debts? We know it sounds crazy. But there鈥檚 a quiet revolution brewing in how we move money around, and we want our readers to know about it.

Christa Hillstrom, James Trimarco | Aug 22, 2015

Wealth and inequality | Citizens United

I Learned More by Leading a Student-Debt Strike Than I Did at College

After graduating from Everest College with a bad education and no job prospects in sight, I refused to pay my student loans. Now I鈥檓 helping lead the first student-debt strike in America.

Nathan Hornes | Aug 21, 2015

Clean elections

Pardon the Interruption, Bernie: Why Black Lives Matter Is in Politics to Stay

The criticism aimed at Marissa Johnson and Mara Willaford has ranged from the deeply piercing to the explicitly racist. But what they did was necessary, a welcome harbinger of more direct disruption.

Marcus Harrison Green | Aug 15, 2015

After 20 Years Reporting on Solutions, I鈥檓 Going on a Journey to Find Where Hope Lies Now

精东影业 co-founder Sarah van Gelder sets out on a road trip to find the edge of change.

Sarah van Gelder | Aug 13, 2015

Wealth and inequality | Jobs

Infographic: The Real Reason You Have So Much Debt (It鈥檚 Not Crazy Spending)

$11.85 trillion in household debt has more to do with stagnant wages (and predatory banks) than shopping sprees.

Heidi Bruce, Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz | Aug 13, 2015

This New Rule Will Bring Secretive Corporate Tax Breaks to Light

Every year, governments spend tens of billions of dollars on tax breaks for private companies. Now, state and city governments will have to start reporting it as lost income.

Puck Lo | Aug 7, 2015

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