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The Economy & Innovation

Cotton farmer in India (Andrew Flachs)

Technology isn't making us happier

Andrew Flachs
Donald Trump; Nancy Peolsi (AP/Getty/Salon)

The great American shakedown

Chris Hedges - Truthdig
(Getty/Spencer Platt)

Is Uber safe for riders?

Liberty Vittert - The Conversation
A homeless individual sleeps in a subway station in New York (Richard Levine/Corbis via Getty Images)

How Bloomberg immiserated New York

Bob Hennelly
(Alastair Pike/AFP/Getty Images)

Are facebook ads still discriminating?

Ava Kofman, Ariana Tobin - ProPublica
(Getty Images/eyeem)

U.S.-China trade deal: Unresolved issues

Penelope B. Prime - The Conversation
(Getty Images/istockphoto)

The unproven promise of Babylon Health

Jeremy Hsu - Undark
An indigenous leader from Brazil takes part in a protest outside REPSOL Headquarters on December 08, 2019 in Madrid, Spain. Indigenous leaders and activists are protesting in Madrid against oil contamination and the fossil fuel industry in Brazil because of the damage it provokes to the poorest communities, sea life, food supplies and the climate. (Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

The “new great divergence”

Mike Ludwig - Truthout
(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

How to avoid Amazon this holiday season

Brian Van Slyke - Truthout
(John Greim/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Dollar Tree: workers boxed in

Amy Martyn - FairWarning
AT&T Headquarters and Servers (Getty Images/Salon)

AT&T in cahoots with FCC: report

Nicole Karlis
Workers protest against Google's handling of sexual misconduct allegations at the company's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters. Google is promising to be more forceful and open about its handling of sexual misconduct cases, a week after high-paid engineers and others walked out in protest over its male-dominated culture. CEO Sundar Pichai spelled out the concessions in an email sent Thursday, Nov. 8, to Google employees. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

How employers thwart unions

Nicole Karlis
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Billion-dollar charter school disaster

Jeff Bryant - Independent Media Institute
Mark Zuckerberg (AP/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Is it time to regulate Facebook?

Thom Hartmann - Independent Media Institute
Jeff Bezos (AP/Susan Walsh)

"The triumph of the rich"

Julia Conley - Common Dreams
FILE - This Tuesday, July 31, 2007, file photo shows the entrance to an Advance America payday lending office in Harrisburg, Pa. The lenders who advance people money on their paychecks charge exorbitant interest rates that often snare the most vulnerable customers in a cycle of debt, the industry’s critics have long said. Yet even consumer advocates who loathe the industry admit it fulfills a need: Providing small amounts of cash quickly to people who can’t qualify for credit cards or a bank loan. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) (AP)

Payday lenders embrace installment loans

Paige Marta Skiba, Caroline Malone - The Conversation
Harvard grad students out on strike held a rally outside University Hall and then marched around Harvard Yard. (David L Ryan/Globe Staff ) SECTION: METRO TOPIC 04harvard (David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Opinion: Let graduate students unionize

Marissa Knoll - Undark
Clockwise from left: Some tools for open-source farming, including a double-rolling dibbler, a tilther, and a zipper. (Photos courtesy of Johnny’s Selected Seeds)

Farming for the future

Aaron Orlowski - Civil Eats
Plate with just crumbs (Getty Images)

The piecemeal welfare state

Keith A. Spencer
(AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

Purdue Pharma may become a public trust

David Herzberg - The Conversation
Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg (Getty Images/Salon)

Bloomberg is rich because we are poor

Robert Hennelly
(Gabriel Sotelo/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Trump's currency war

Farok J. Contractor - The Conversation
A sign alerting customers about SNAP food stamps benefits is displayed at a Brooklyn grocery store on December 5, 2019 in New York City, United States. (Photo by Scott Heins/Getty Images)

New SNAP rule will punish the hungry

Jim Pugh - In These Times
(Courtesy of Mason Jacques courtesy of Helsing Junction Farms.)

Challenges facing beginning farmers

Lisa Held - Civil Eats
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