March/April 2015

How to Fund a Fairer Economy—and Reduce Inequality

How can we fund universal childcare, Medicare for All, and a green economy while reducing inequality? A new plan shows how taxing wealth and corporate profits more fairly—and cutting wasteful spending—could pay for a fairer, more prosperous economy.

These Things Can Change

Text by David Bacon and Rosario Ventura
photos by David Bacon

Migrant farmworkers stand up in Washington State | Read more »
Maine Farmers and Climate Change

Stephanie Welcomer, Mark Haggerty,
and John Jemison

Reactive, or Proactive? | Read more »
Seeds of Change

Elizabeth Fraser and Anuradha Mittal

Corporate Power, Grassroots Resistance, and the Battle Over the Food System | Read more »
The Great Land Giveaway in Mozambique

Timothy A. Wise

It turns out to be easier to get a government to give away a farmer’s land than it is to actually farm it. | Read more »
The Failure of Industrial Agriculture

John Ikerd

Agricultural industrialization has had a devastating effect on the quality of rural life, and has failed in its most fundamental purpose: providing food security. | Read more »