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About 13m US children are living below the poverty line, rights group reveals By Chris McGreal (The Guardian)
Alternate Unemployment Charts
Are You Rich? Where Does Your Net Worth Rank in America? (The New York Times)
Basic Income Earth Network
B Corporation
BerkShares: Local Currency for Berkshire County
Better Birth Control Could Exist, But It Wouldn’t Pay for Big Pharma By Naomi Kresge and Cynthia Koons (Bloomberg Business)
B the Change
Democracy at Work: A social movement for economic democracy
15 Companies That Paid Zero Income Tax Last Year (Despite $23 Billion In Profits) By Ben Schiller (Co.Exist)
Finland Is a Capitalist Paradise By Anu Partanen and Trevor Corson (The New York Times)
He was a Yale graduate, Wall Street banker and entrepreneur. Today he's homeless in Los Angeles By Dan Simon (CNN)
How America’s food giants swallowed the family farms By Chris McGreal (The Guardian)
How shorter workweeks could save Earth By Tim Smedley (BBC)
How the Recession Reshaped the Economy By Jeremy Ashkenas and Alicia Parlapiano (The New York Times)
How this women-run startup is revolutionizing the fashion industry (Fast Company)
Jean Tirole Wins Nobel in Economics for Work on Regulation By Binyamin Appelbaum (The New York Times)
Laid off and owed pay: the Kentucky miners blocking coal trains By Michael Sainato (The Guardian)
Life And Debt: Searching For A Million-Dollar Miracle By Jeffrey Young (HuffPost)
Mistress of all trades By Valerie R. Sanders (Aeon)
One-third of all slavery is visible from space By Matt Davis (Big Think)
Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt
Planet Money: The Economy Explained (NPR)
Profitable Giants Like Amazon Pay $0 in Corporate Taxes. Some Voters Are Sick of It. By Stephanie Saul and Patricia Cohen (The New York Times)
Schumacher Center for New Economics
Real-World Economics Review
Remember That CEO Pay Cap? It’s Even Less Effective Than We Knew By Allan Sloan (ProPublica)
Researchers say there’s a simple way to reduce suicides: Increase the minimum wage By Andrew Van Dam (The Washington Post)
Robots 'to replace up to 20 million factory jobs' by 2030 By Rory Cellan-Jones (BBC)
The Creeping Capitalist Takeover of Higher Education By Kevin Carey (HuffPost)
The end of the line. Photo essay By Latoya Ruby Frazier Text By Dan Kaufman (The New York Times)
The everything town in the middle of nowhere By Josh Dzieza (The Verge)
The Executive Pay Cap That Backfired By Allan Sloan (ProPublica)
The Middle-Class Crunch: A Look at 4 Family Budgets By Tara Siegel Bernard and Karl Russell (The New York Times)
There were nearly a million black farmers in 1920. Why have they disappeared? By Summer Sewell (The Guardian)
What is an Economy?: An exploration of the fundamental concepts of modern life (A series from The Atlantic)
Why an Heiress Spent Her Fortune Trying to Keep Immigrants Out By Nicholas Kulish and Mike McIntire (The New York Times)
Why the Middle Class Isn’t Buying Talk About Economic Good Times By Neil Irwin (The New York Times)
Working, but Needing Public Assistance Anyway By Patricia Cohen (The New York Times)