Squeezed: Affording Kids in this Economy
In May, unemployment shrank to a mere 3.8%, but that doesn’t mean affording kids is getting any easier.
Dawn Allen
Dawn Allen is a freelance writer and editor who is passionate about sustainability, political economy, gardening, traditional craftwork, and simple living. She and her husband are currently renovating a rural homestead in southeastern Michigan.
People of the Book: Libraries Doing More
Think libraries aren’t relevant in the Amazon age? There are libraries doing more than ever before, from being a teen commons to lending seeds and tools.
Community Investment from the Ground Up
Experiments in community investment in real estate, worker cooperatives, decentralized energy generation, and more, are bearing profitable, equitable fruit.
The Topsy-Turvy News of Bizarro-Now
Is it getting weirder by the day? Astroturfing, nonsense, deception, counterintuitive facts and topsy-turvy news make us feel stuck in Bizarro World lately.
Some Danger is Good for Us – Here’s Why
Penn State’s student-led Outing Group can no longer go outside because they might get hurt, but some danger is good for us as prep for life’s challenges.
Stop the Collapse
Ours is a world with diminishing resources, inequality, a debt-fueled economy, climate chaos, mass migration, addiction, violence. Can we stop the collapse?
Curing Patients and Other Bad Moves
We live in a perverse world when curing patients is bad for the medical business and killing suspects is better for police than merely wounding them.
Water News, from Local to Global
Whether you’re thirsty in Capetown or Flint, living near the Mississippi, or simply depend upon a habitable climate on Earth, this water news affects you.
After Cambridge Analytica, is Social Media a Social Disease?
Social media was already dividing us and making us meaner before Cambridge Analytica came along. It’s time to relate to each other in healthier ways again.
Hate Mondays? Your Job Might Be To Blame
Stanford’s Jeffrey Pfeffer claims that job stress and bad management raise health costs and kills 120,000 annually. There’s a good reason to hate Mondays.