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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.

Natalie Pompilio | Aug 29, 2013

Local economies | Sustainable food and farming

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.

Erin L. McCoy | Aug 22, 2013

Jobs

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.

Amy B. Dean | Aug 17, 2013

Green Worker Co-Op Academy photo by Stephen O'Byrne

Cooperatives

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.

| Aug 15, 2013

Student volunteers with Habitat for Humanity.

Jobs

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.

Jay Walljasper | Aug 10, 2013

Jobs | Citizens United

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.

Lauren Feeney | Aug 3, 2013

Local economies | Jobs

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.

Imara Jones | Jul 25, 2013

Wealth and inequality

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.

David Korten | Jul 19, 2013

Local economies

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.

David Rutherford | Jul 18, 2013

Cooperatives

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.

| Jul 6, 2013

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.

Thom Hartmann | Jul 5, 2013

Jobs

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.

Mark Engler | Jun 27, 2013

Tree Planting photo courtesy of Green Forests Work

Local economies | Jobs

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?

Mark Andrew Boyer | Jun 1, 2013

Cooperatives

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.

| May 10, 2013

Handshake photo courtesy of Think Panama

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.

Kristen Beifus | May 9, 2013

Local economies | Wealth and inequality

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.

| May 7, 2013

Cooperatives | Jobs

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.

Claudia Rowe | Apr 24, 2013

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.

| Apr 16, 2013