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You might think it criminal that in the world's richest countries, some people are reduced to living out of their cars in a desperate bid to remain off the streets. But I'm fairly certain you ...

On a bright Saturday morning earlier this month, about thirty people gathered inside a large, dimly lit warehouse in Chelsea, hunched over smartphones, hand-drawn maps, and computer-networking ...

TRANSCRIPT JUDY WOODRUFF: Republicans and Democrats are likely to spend much of this midterm election year debating the virtues of the federal government, particularly when it comes to addressing ...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations group that issues reports on the latest climate science, has put out its latest dire warning for humanity in the Working Group

More and more people have come to distrust our economic system. Low wages, job insecurity, underemployment and loss of pensions stress the social fabric. Compounding the effects on our communities ...

Gar Alperovitz and Michael Albert have been at the forefront of efforts to design and build an economy beyond capitalism for decades - efforts that have become even more relevant in our age of ...

"I am a hacker within the system," Birgitta Jónsdóttir tells me. "I am analyzing it, trying to see how it works, in order to make an informed assessment if it is possible to change it from within."

It seems barely a week goes by without the release of some statistic that sparks an unwieldy volume of conflicting interpretations. Last week, it was the projection by the Congressional Budget O ...

We all know there's a housing problem in Baltimore City -- it's becoming increasingly difficult for middle-income renters to find housing that's both safe and affordable, and nobody should have to ...

The Basic Income Guarantee is an unconditional, government-insured guarantee that all citizens will have enough income to meet their basic needs Call for Papers 15th International Congress of the ...