Workplace conditions in the US have improved drastically in the last five years — a trend that’s likely to continue.

In Moldova, where word spreads quickly, it seems everyone has gotten the memo: Here, women are welcome in tech.

Thanks to a hospitality school just steps from the luxe Shinta Mani Angkor, Cambodia’s next generation of hotel managers might just be Khmer.

What if you could create housing without starting from scratch? Facing a housing shortage, Scotland is bringing new life to abandoned homes.

When a workplace provides child care, it’s easier for caregivers to juggle family and career — and they’re more likely to keep working there, too.

Most menstrual products contain plastic, and more ecological options are pricey. But the “sustainable menstruation” movement is finally gaining traction.

In a region known for violent conflict, the practice of traditional crafts is helping to restore normalcy and rebuild lives.

From new socially just policies to “Happy Money Stories,” more and more companies are doing pay differently.

By making manufacturing technology available and affordable, maker spaces like BLOQS are knocking down barriers.

With interest in vocational training on the rise in the US and elsewhere, a German program promising “no graduation without connection” could provide a model.

A trend that started with fresh produce is now giving new life to toys, homewares, beauty products and beyond.

Recreation makes rural communities more resilient. And it’s not just about tourists — it makes life better for locals, too.

In several Indian states, this simple move is empowering women to join the workforce and granting them independence.

For working moms and dads seeking better work-life balance, splitting a full-time job is one way to stay in the game.

Incarcerated folks are fighting fires, fixing cars and working in hospitals — all in virtual reality — so they’ll walk out of prison ready to hire.

A childcare cooperative in Ahmedabad has become a lifeline for women working in the informal sector.

For those who lack access to formal financial institutions, peer-to-peer lending can be a ticket out of years of debt.

Through one-on-one, non-judgmental sessions, Tulsa residents achieve financial goals, sending positive ripples across the community.

Higher pay is on the horizon for the app-based workers who zip around the city.

Fund A Mom’s direct cash payments are helping mothers in Jaipur feed their kids and change their lives.

Paskho’s new manufacturing model disperses good-paying jobs among marginalized communities.

What started as a restaurant has become a path to entrepreneurship, turning formerly incarcerated folks into lawyers and soul food impresarios.

Only 2% of electricians are women, leaving plenty of room for growth in a field that is finding creative new ways to recruit them.

By intervening early, often with small rent payments, a Portland shelter kept nearly 100 families out of homelessness last year, saving thousands of dollars in future rehousing costs.

Three years ago, The Body Shop adopted “open hiring,” in which the most basic skills automatically get you the job. A new analysis suggests it’s working.

While federal laws require people to sleep on the street before they can get housing assistance, Washington State is more realistic about what homelessness looks like today.

A rise in the number of people purchasing real estate with someone they know is helping legions of buyers quit renting and start building equity.

As the US races toward climate resilience, a hiring bonanza is taking hold in communities that rarely see one.

At Seattle’s Refugee Artisan Initiative, immigrant and refugee women find good-paying jobs and start their own businesses.

A highly successful model for getting green infrastructure projects off the ground is about to go national thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act.

With interest-free loans, a supermarket chain is shifting the anti-hunger paradigm from donated canned goods to fresh produce for all.

In May, India’s Supreme Court ruled that sex work is a legitimate profession. Now, its older practitioners are finding ways to start their life anew.

Businesses are rewarding employees for leaving their cars at home, handing cities a powerful new tool in their quest to reduce car use.

The $92 million park will span a former bridge — and send real estate prices soaring. A home buyers club is helping residents cash in rather than get displaced.

The platform iWorker connects workers in countries like Venezuela with businesses abroad, offering benefits to both.

A state that has long relied on a single ocean species for economic prosperity is turning to sustainable kelp as a new cash crop.

After decades of war, an artisanal product that sustained a region for generations is bringing new life to a nearly forgotten town.

“Skills-based hiring” is catching on as fewer employers require college diplomas, a major step toward shrinking the racial wealth gap.

As the pandemic pummeled the industry, some restaurateurs bucked trends by paying their employees even more. Now it’s paying off.

Covid put a multi-year gap in millions of resumés. Now some companies are offering a supportive path back.

The Grubhub model is here to stay. But community-based delivery services could be lifelines for small restaurants battling huge commission fees.

“Once you have the skills to build one beehive, you can make 100.”

How a country known for labor abuses under apartheid became a place where groundbreaking worker protections are forged.

How one Chicago cooperative is reverse-engineering apparel’s colonialist business model.

Political, economic and technological stars are aligning to make a stubbornly carbon-intensive industry sustainable.

Repairable, upgradable computers are here, and could make your next laptop something you own for a very long time.

As the world reels through uncharted economic territory, the co-op model has become more popular than ever.

As remote employment becomes the norm, some refugees are discovering new opportunities and autonomy.

An app that helps employers pay for babysitting — even when those babysitters are friends and family — is changing child care economics.

For nearly a decade, a German contest has given hundreds of people 12 months of no-strings cash to see how it might change their lives.

As waste collection gets professionalized, the people who keep Bogotá clean and green are making sure they’re not left behind.

Corporations are embracing Juneteenth. Are they living up to the day’s true meaning?

It’s a system modeled on the loyalty clubs used by many retailers — but for an entire city.

Residents of Stockton, California who received $500 a month disproved the notion that handouts make people lazy.

Camini was down to 300 residents when it transformed itself into a magnet for refugees. Now it’s thriving.

Most experiments with four-day weeks have been motivated by corporate self-interest. That could be changing.

The U.S. stimulus bill includes guaranteed monthly payments to families with children. Will it work? It already has.

When sales at a Bay Area bread company took off, its owner struck an unusual deal to make sure its employees would always benefit.

As the lockdowns began one year ago, Lenore Estrada discovered a customer base that would save dozens of businesses like hers.

Founded at a time when the government offered little, the Merchants Fund continues to keep tiny businesses afloat.

As fees for overdue items are forgiven, bookworms are flocking back.

A single infusion of cash helped recipients pay their rent, get to work — and put their lives back on track.

How a single infusion of cash can help folks turn their lives around.

The pandemic has finally busted the outdated myth that so-called developing countries are less resilient than their wealthier peers.

A stone’s throw from the blackjack tables, bison are grazing, beehives are buzzing, crops are growing — and nature is winning.

Buying used goods is trendier than ever, and the capital’s retailers are responding.

By going back to the land, Black farmers are resuming a journey toward “food sovereignty” that began centuries ago.

The U.S. government spends more on higher education than many countries where students graduate with far less debt. Is there a better way?

A food hub known as the Redd solves the business and logistical challenges of local food — and helps small farmers become a big deal.

Money from friends and family is what helps many startups survive during tough times. One organization is playing that role for black entrepreneurs.

As Europe’s biggest economy reboots, it — and many others — are planning to transition away from fossil fuels.

What happens when you hire the first qualified job applicant who walks through the door?

How a chance encounter on the high seas between scientists and an IMF economist led to a trillion-dollar epiphany about earth’s largest creature.

A chain of German supermarkets is selling expired yogurt, mislabled jam and chocolate Santas in July. Is this the grocery store of the future?

A landmark deal to let China build Boston’s new subway cars shows how a little creative collaboration could rescue America’s infrastructure.

As it bans holding defendants on bail for nonviolent crimes, New York is the latest state to challenge America’s bizarre system of money for freedom.

Economic risk prevents poor Cambodian farmers from switching to crops that are more valuable and better for the land. What if they had guaranteed income?

While other European countries cut their budgets to the bone, Portugal lent its citizens a helping hand. Guess who came out on top.

Millions of Americans live at risk of flooding, but slow federal flood buyouts drain precious time and resources. How one community is rising above the storm, taking matters into their own hands, and returning the floodplain to nature.

The biochar process is ingenious, turning green waste into heat before returning it to the soil as an agricultural nutrient. No wonder it’s turning a profit.

Inside the laundry-and-lettuce co-op empire that’s reviving local industry in Cleveland—this time, on the employees’ terms.

All those pictures of smog-cloaked Chinese cities mask the fact that China’s cheap solar panels have fueled the world’s green-energy revolution.

These days, fossil fuels look like a shakier investment than ever. As more investors decide the smart money is on clean energy, a tipping point appears near.

While other countries let corporate interests plunder their oil, Norway strong-armed the CEOs into giving its citizens a windfall.