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    Collective Real Estate: Land Without Landlords?

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    Decades of discrimination have left millions of African Americans shut out of the housing market and at risk of being targeted by predatory lenders and exploitative loans. But capital collectives pool resources...
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    Your Neighborhood in Your Hands: A Model from the South Bronx

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    Real estate development conjures up images of gentrification with sleek buildings and polished store fronts often built under the guise of urban revitalization. Far too often, these projects displace long-standing residents and...
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    This New Cooperative Business Model Could Change Everything

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    Many of the world’s most successful businesses began as someone’s good idea. But the path from startup to conventional financial success typically involves going public, prioritizing shareholders’ interests, and ultimately selling to...
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    Heather McGhee: Racism Costs Everyone

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    Color of Change board chair Heather McGhee talks with Laura about her New York Times best-selling book, The Sum of Us, What Racism Costs Everyone and How we can Prosper Together. She...
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    Stimulus Checks Every Month?

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    The Compton Pledge is paying 800 families up to $600 per month to give them a leg up. So far, unemployment is down 50% and life is looking up for recipients and...
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    You Can’t Deal with Capitalism Unless You Deal With Patriarchy

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    Achieving social justice is going to take much more than reforming our criminal justice system. Valuing all lives equally is going to require...
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    Inauguration 2021: Democracy Demands a Democratic Economy

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    About A new administration is taking office in the midst of an unprecedented public health catastrophe and an economic crisis, and in the immediate wake the heels of one...
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    The Pandemic Economy

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    The economic collapse unfolding before our eyes is much bigger than it appears and the solution isn’t simply to “build back better.” COVID-19 didn’t create the challenges we face. It laid bare...
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    The Economics of Abolition

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    About “Defund the police” became a rallying cry in the summer of 2020 as demonstrators flooded streets across the United States to demand an end to police brutality in...
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    Whose Economy is it?

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    About What is a city’s economy for? New York City’s economy has been very good at piling up private wealth and building tall buildings but it’s done less well,...
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