On a plot of land in western Connecticut resides a small group of tenants who are doing housing a little differently. “ We’re all involved and invested in the same thing, which is safe housing for ourselves and our family,” says Wandy Luna, 48, president of one of the six Brookside Housing Cooperatives, the oldest cooperative housing project in Connecticut.
An ageing population and spiralling health and social care costs pose a formidable challenge for countries like the UK – which, say campaigners, is being exacerbated by privatised system which leads to capital extraction by outsourced providers.
People joined Common Share Food Co-op thinking they were signing on to get a grocery store. From start to finish, the idea was indeed to build a supermarket. But as the project trundled along, it became clear that the co-op had another role to fill. Felicia Sevene brought a new way of looking at the challenges facing any group intending to bring a food co-op to Amherst. From her own life experience, Felicia understood better than many others that Amherst is not a single, homogenous community.
2025 is wrapping up and as many of you know, not only is it the UN’s “International Year of the Co-op” but it’s also Wraith’s 20th anniversary! 20 years. Wow. Twenty… Years.
You know, any time an anniversary of any kind happens, it’s easy to get wrapped up in the nostalgia of it all. The successes, the failures, the friends you’ve made, and those you’ve lost along the way. There is so much I want to tell you all here. So much I want to lay out on the page. It’s actually kind of hard to write.
20. Years.
Credit unions in the US have welcomed the news that lawmakers are planning to appropriate $324m for the federal Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) Fund for the coming financial year.
But the nation will need about 740,000 additional home care workers over the next decade, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and recruiting them won’t be easy.
From 15-Year-Old Pearl of the Orient Server to Worker-Owned Co-Op Leader: Grace Corbin's Journey at 40-Year-Old Casa Nueva.
Gourmet is a food magazine. And famously was a food magazine, but a certain media empire failed to maintain the trademark, and so it is our food magazine now—yours, too, if you want. We deliver newsletters to our treasured paid subscribers at least twice weekly via electronic mail. One will feature a recipe from our brilliant squad culinaire, the other will be an assortment of investigations, scoops, vibe reports, diatribes, and all manner of gossip from the front lines of the human appetite.
Together, the panellists identified three measures to strengthen cooperative economic activity:
A Washington state bill that would allow licensed marijuana producers to form agricultural cooperatives is scheduled for a committee vote tomorrow, January 20, in the House Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources.
The proposal, House Bill 1941, was filed in February 2025 by six Democratic lawmakers and is led by State Representative Melanie Morgan. The bill was referred to the Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee shortly after its introduction and now faces its first scheduled vote.
