Tag: Recession

Bright Pink Lipstick

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Somewhere along the line I realized this is not going away, and that struggling to pay the utilities is a monthly reality with no end in sight. Read more »

My Big Toe Hurts and I Need a Job

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Corbyn is overcoming life's struggles with the help of her friends and her bike. But she still needs money. And her toe still hurts. Read more »

Holding Pattern at Low Altitude

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It’s hot today. Close to a hundred degrees outside, and a blistering eighty-eight in the upstairs bedrooms. Read more »

Animal Husbandry in Suburbia

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Last night, I lovingly held a rooster, thanked him for his short stay, and efficiently made the cut that ended his life. I’ve never done that. I’ve never killed an animal. Read more »

Controlled Burn

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I’m at a café right now that’s across the street from a vacant office building. The low-slung seventies-contemporary structure used to house our family dentist’s business. Read more »

Hacking As A Civic Duty

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Building the peer-to-peer cities of tomorrow will require more than apps and data visualizations. We must apply the hacker ethos to how we organize, collaborate, and tell the stories of our cities. Read more »

New Communities Support Families Headed by Grandparents

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A community apartment building in the Bronx offers parenting workshops, after-school programs, counseling, job training, summer camp and more. The catch? You have to be a grandparent raising a grandchild to live here. Read more »

Just in Time

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Timebanks are catching fire as a tool to circumvent the scarcity and misdirection of conventional money. Read more »

Building a New American Theater of the Commons

Two leading voices in new American theater on how to build a crowdsourced theater of the commons in precarious economic times. Read more »

Megan Stielstra Shares Stories of the Resilience of the 99%

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An interview with Chicago author Megan Stielstra about Times Are Tough All Over, her story and website that documents how people are coping and making ends meet during the recession. Read more »
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