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What's wrong w/ financial systems in America 🏠💰🏦
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items Because nothing about money exists in isolation! Learn more about the context of the American financial system, and what we can do to start rethinking and changing it.
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What can we do now?
Children's Picture Books
History
Those who don't know the past are doomed to repeat it.
Here's to defending the public interest! From water and trash collection to the justice system and the military- privatization has affected every aspect of our lives and we might not even realize it.
The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back
Did you grandparents own their house? Where was it allowed to exist? The American government systematically imposed residential segregation, and this book explains exactly how it all went down. “This is an exacting and damning indictment of the Ameri...
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Can't talk about the current economic system without thinking about the system the U.S. was built on.
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
What can we do now?
Because times are hard, but we have the power to shape our futures.
No more “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” or work harder and you'll solve your own oppression- Dr. Devon Price helps us confront the societal shame we’ve absorbed and directed at ourselves. This book is full of resources and action steps to comba...
Unlearning Shame: How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power
This book shows that creating a world without poverty begins with understanding the daily decisions facing the poor. It's based on years of field research from around the world by two people who won a Nobel Prize in Economics.
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Immigration and inequality, globalization and technological disruption, slowing growth and accelerating climate change- How does economics play into all of these? And what can we do about it?
Good Economics for Hard Times
Can we solve poverty, climate change, insufficient healthcare - all the big global challenges that threaten our way of life? This book is a practical guide to creating a more sustainable future for all of us. (eBook)
How to Thrive in the Next Economy: Designing Tomorrow's World Today
Children's Picture Books
For the parents in the chat! Get the kids in on the learning fun, too.
I'd never seen a picture book about this topic until I came across this one. In it, a little learns how the history of redlining has affected her neighborhood through conversation with an older neighbor.
Main Street: A Community Story About Redlining
For ages 5-9, this family discussion tool helps kids understand what systemic racism is and how it's built into laws, schools, stories, and other institutions in a way that collectively makes life much harder for people of color.
A Kids Book About Systemic Racism