It Costs More to be Poor

A row of identical signs arranged like landing lights at an airport repeat the appealing offer: "Borrow $200, Repay $203." This modern spider-to-fly invitation displayed in front of the office of payday lenders appeals to hard-strapped workers who just need… Read More

The Bottleneck Behind Bottled Water

Nothing quenches a thirst like cool water, whether it's Pepsi Co.'s Aquafina (13 percent of the bottled water market), or Coca-Cola's Dasani (11 percent of the market), or a specialty water from Nestlé. Every day, millions of Americans grab a… Read More

Darfur: Don’t Look Away

Falling refrigerators dropped from planes plus old car chassis and kegs of nails raining down on innocent civilians during aerial bombardments are cited as some of the Sudanese government's weird war tactics in the "Unity Statement" of Save Darfur, a… Read More

Neighbors and Partners

Last Labor Day agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) swooped down on a poultry plant in Stillmore, Ga., arresting 120 people with false papers and scattering another 300 in all directions. ICE agents also raided several homes in town,… Read More

To Their Credit

The Grameen Bank, literally in Bangla "Bank of the Villages," began by extending small unsecured loans to the poor in Bangladesh. Its founder, Dr. Muhammad Yunus, who earned his doctorate in economics at Vanderbilt University, discovered the power of credit… Read More

The Power of Forgiveness

The story about the assault on ten Amish girls at the West Nickel Mines School in Pennsylvania started with horror at the assailant, but continued with wonderment at the response of the Amish community. Five children died, five were severely… Read More

Economics When People Matter

Every hour of every working day news commentators announce the NASDAQ and the Dow Jones averages. To the average listener the number fluctuations have little relevance. Few investors rush to their brokers unless the news indicates a clear, long-term trend.… Read More

The Alien among You

Before Miguel began working Georgia’s onion fields, he earned a modest living in Mexico where he raised nine children. He cultivated seven acres of orange and coffee trees until global forces dramatically depressed produce prices. Unable to earn enough money… Read More

Waste Electricity, Destroy a Mountain

Erik Reece explains that the liverwort, with no obvious use to humanity, combines with other modest flora throughout the Appalachian mountains to help hold the rich soil in place, purify water downstream and provide habitat for small animals such as… Read More

Stockpiling a Hurricane

The United States had never experienced destruction in recent times so wide and intense within its borders. But a hurricane does not equal a nuclear bomb. With a hurricane, no radiation lingers for decades at ground zero and not every… Read More

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