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In Manitoba, a tax-cut shell game is obscuring regressive policies while deepening poverty. As Marianne Cerilli details, activists are working to challenge the provincial government’s focus on tax breaks over vital social investments, urging new Premier Wab Kinew to adopt an intersectional, participatory approach to budgeting to work towards true social justice.

A growing group of activists and socially responsible companies are rethinking business as usual.

At the heart of the story is ‘Labour Together, a think-tank which maintains a low profile in Westminster but is believed to be quietly guiding Starmers path to power.

Helping their communities is one way for colleges and universities to counteract crashing public confidence in higher education, advocates say — a problem that has been worsened by political attacks and self-destructive missteps by even the most elite universities.

Our economy must center human outcomes rather than rising share prices, says social theorist and author Marjorie Kelly.

“How can we change the system?”There are different ways one can answer this question. One way that, at least to me, is increasingly becoming the silver bullet for large-scale transformation is Community-Based Wealth Building.

Two groups backed by left-wing megadonors published a study on Monday that concludes that the U.S. military owes more than $100 billion in "climate reparations."

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In a new book, Marjorie Kelly offers a critique of our biased system that perpetuates wealth accumulation for the privileged few and a path to a new economic paradigm.