Detroit Bankrupt? Six Ways the Motor City Is Thriving
National media accounts of Detroit's bankruptcy miss the growing industries, strong communities, and policy changes laying the foundation's for the city's recovery.
Economy
The TPP Is Another Job Killing Trade Deal鈥擲o Why Are Both Parties Supporting It?
Factory owners in the United States say that the Trans-Pacific Partnership鈥攚hich is being negotiated this week in Brunei鈥攚ill force them to lay off workers. Yet opponents in Washington are few and far between.
Mountain Grown: Appalachia’s New Local Food Economy
Hungry for okra, collards, and trout? In Appalachia, you can now get all your soul food cravings from local farmers.
Putting Workers on TV: MSNBC鈥檚 Chris Hayes on Bringing Labor to Prime Time
While the days when every city paper had a labor beat may be gone, Hayes is finding new ways to get the issues facing workers into the national conversation.
Co-Op Academy Teaches Workers to Build Green and Cooperative Businesses
GRITtv's Laura Flanders speaks with the founder of the program and takes you inside one of its classes.
No Time for Volunteering? 4 Policies that Can Help
To truly encourage widespread volunteerism, we鈥檇 need to make sure that everyone (not just the well-to-do) have the time to do it.
Striking Fast Food Workers: 鈥淲e Can鈥檛 Survive on $7.25鈥�
A movement to improve pay and work conditions in America鈥檚 fast food restaurants appears to be gathering steam.
Infographic: Your Stuff鈥檚 Not As Cheap As You Think It Is
What do we really trade for all of the cheap stuff we buy?
What the US Can Learn From Africa鈥檚 Booming Economy
Seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies are in Africa. Behind that is a surge in healthy young people and an emphasis on local markets.
It鈥檚 a 鈥淪tory Problem鈥�: What鈥檚 Behind Our Messed-Up Economy
The peoples of earlier times prospered from the guidance of simple stories that offered answers to their deepest questions. We need those now more than ever.
Like Shopping at Local Businesses? Now You Can Invest in Them, Too
A newly formed company based in Seattle makes it easy to put your money to work in the local economy.
Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young: A New Economy for Present Times
Laura Flanders interviews the directors of Shift Change, a film about the cooperative business movement.
What the Boston Tea Party Can Teach Us About Countering Corporate Power
Before there was Citizens United, a modern Tea Party movement, or national momentum to ban corporate personhood, this 2003 article from the YES! archives showed that resistance to corporate power is just as patriotic as Boston鈥檚 original Tea Party.
A Caring Economy Requires Building Bridges鈥擭ot Burning Them
Traditional organizing makes opponents into 鈥渆nemies,鈥� but a new crop of activists is using love and empathy to create new alliances and possibilities.
Should There Be a Maximum Wage?
Countries like Egypt and Switzerland have placed regulations on how much executives can earn. Here鈥檚 why the U.S. should consider doing the same.
Better than Cyber Utopia: How the Internet Helped Us Create the Sharing Economy
Back in the 鈥�90s, people thought the Internet was going to open up a zone of perfect cyber-freedom. It didn鈥檛 work out that way. But the Internet鈥檚 real significance may be found elsewhere: in a growing sector of the economy based around peer-to-peer sharing networks.
A New Deal for Appalachia鈥檚 Forests: Growing Biofuels?
The mine-ravaged communities of Eastern Kentucky have been increasingly abandoned by the coal economy. Could growing biofuels jump-start a new local jobs market鈥攁nd renew the land in the process?
Worker-Owned Window Factory Opens for Business
When the company known as Republic Windows and Doors closed its Chicago factory, the workers raised the money to buy back the company themselves. The worker-owned cooperative they formed opens today.
Why the TransPacific Partnership is a Scary Big (Trade) Deal
A super-sized NAFTA, the TPP gives foreign corporations privileges that can override domestic laws on environmental health and citizens鈥� rights. Here鈥檚 why we shouldn鈥檛 let it pass without a fight.
The Bright Side of the Money Crisis
Is this 鈥渢he most exciting time to be alive in human history鈥�? The economists and scientists interviewed in this film think so, and the reasons are all about the chance to create a more fair and sustainable global economy.
Not Your Father鈥檚 Union Movement: NYC鈥檚 Young Workers Committee
The Young Workers Committee of New York鈥檚 transit union was out on the streets in a vibrant march. This video shows the group rallying, taking over an official鈥檚 office, and using the Occupy-style 鈥減eople鈥檚 mic.鈥�
From Housing to Health Care, 7 Co-ops That Are Changing Our Economy
How manufacturers, retailers, restaurants, and others are doing business the cooperative way.
Offshore Tax Havens Democratized on 鈥淎rt Hack鈥� Website
Today is April 15, and that means that taxes are due ... at least for most of us. Artist and hacker Paolo Cirio tracked down authors and activists who study tax havens and asked them about the details.
Labor Dept. Deputy: It鈥檚 Time to Raise the Minimum Wage
Before joining the Department of Labor, Mary Beth Maxwell was a top organizer for the workers鈥� rights organization Jobs With Justice. Here, she speaks with Amy Dean about the lives of workers who make minimum wage and why the time has come to raise it.
Occupy Sandy Funds Growth of Worker-Owned Co-Ops
Could the seaside neighborhoods struck by Hurricane Sandy be the next big incubator for worker-owned companies?
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