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Solutions Movement: How Worker-Owned Co-ops Can Change the Way We Work
New York City is home to the country’s largest worker-owned co-op, Co-operative Home Care Associates, which employs some 2,300 workers, mainly immigrant and minority women in the South Bronx.
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Broad Coalition of Nurses, Students, Labor, Environmentalists Support Robin Hood Tax
There is widespread support for Sen. Bernie Sanders's proposals, introduced Tuesday in Congress, to use a Robin Hood tax on stock transactions to fund tuition at four-year public colleges and universities.
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As San Francisco Wages Rise, Questions Emerge About Enforcement
Getting the minimum wage raised was the easy part. The bigger challenge is ensuring the legislation has teeth.
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Elizabeth Warren Issues Scathing Report On America's – and Obama's – Broken Trade Promises
Warren's report detailed decades of failed trade enforcement by American presidents, including the current one.
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Targeting Solutions Rather Than Crises, A San Francisco Gathering Asks "What's Possible?"
A gathering of people from around the world at the first ever event known as PossibL, happening later this month in San Francisco, seeks to shed light less on the crises we face and more on the solutions to those crises.
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Bernie Sanders's "Political Revolution" Can Only Come About if He Abandons the Democrats
Bernie's message of taking on the billionaire class, making four-year college free and breaking up the big banks is resonating with everyday folks – and if he breaks with the Democrats to run as an Independent, his support will surge.
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London School of Tropical Medicine Divests From Coal
The institution became the first health research organization in the world to sell off investments in coal companies from its £16 million endowment.
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Homelessness in Los Angeles Rises 12%
A sluggish economic recovery has left the poorest residents of the second-largest U.S. metropolitan area falling farther behind.
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California Leads New Community Energy Model Speeding U.S. Move To Renewables
Sewage and solar power may be odd bedfellows in the race to save the climate. But in Sonoma County, Calif., an experiment is underway to install the nation’s largest floating solar array on wastewater treatment ponds.
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We're Building a Moral Commons, and We're All in This Together
The scars of our fear smolder in Baltimore and other cities, but as we turn towards one another we need to feed another part of ourselves – collective justice, economic justice, materialized empathy.