Michael LaxerOct 2820 minPOOR Magazine Started With a Mother and Daughter Experiencing Homelessness and Grew Into a MovementA mother and daughter in and out of homelessness founded a grassroots magazine in 1996, by and for people experiencing poverty. It grew...
Michael LaxerOct 135 minHow California’s Fast-Food Workers Won $20 an HourThe fast-food industry threatened to undo a major labor law in California. But even a compromise bill appeasing the industry is a huge...
Michael LaxerSep 165 minWhy Is Kaiser Permanente Engaging in Corporate Kabuki?Ahead of a potentially historic strike, a major nonprofit health care provider seems to be choosing corporate values over worker...
Michael LaxerSep 147 minAncient Roots: A Promising New Project to Organize Humanity’s Universal HeritageAn international group of researchers and data scientists are creating a comprehensive database of the world’s archaeological...
Michael LaxerSep 55 minBillionaires Envision a New Utopian City -- to Replace What They RuinedSilicon Valley’s wealthy elites have been secretly buying up land in one of California’s poorest counties to build a new city from the...