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Guess what was dropped off at the office today? It’s pretty easy to guess, since there is a photo. Spoiler alert! The latest issue of our quarterly magazine, GOOD 026: Beg, Borrow, or Steal will be hitting newsstands at the end of the month, but here is the cover, designed by our senior editorial designer Dylan C. Lathrop.
The next issue focuses on the economy (we know, if it doesn’t make dollars, it doesn’t make cents). Inside are pieces from GOOD staffers Nona Willis Aronowitz, Amanda Hess, Cord Jefferson and Tim Fernholz, with contributions from other esteemed individuals. Pick up a subscription here, or look for it out in the wild come February 27.
Introducing GOOD Issue 026: Beg, Borrow, or Steal
GOOD 026: Beg, Borrow, or Steal is now live! Our spring issue is a snapshot of our collective finances, a glimpse at how people in places across the world—from sandwich shops in Minneapolisto casinos in Laos to workshops in Ecuador to weed farms in Humboldt County—are piecing together a living (or trying to make a fortune) in the immediate aftermath of the recession. It’s about how we get by.
Check out the table of contents and dive in!
Meet the Minimum Ragers.
We are the kids who went to college and now work for $8 an hour at coffee shops and clothing stores. Or the kids without a degree, who are just happy to get a paycheck. We’re the kids and grandkids of unionized factory workers and teachers and nurses. We work at fancy bistros or dirt-cheap sandwich chains. We work at Target, Walmart, Starbucks, Best Buy. We have few benefits, no job security, no paid sick days, no money to pay student loans. We’re the low-wage service workers who make up half of the twentysomething workforce. And we’re pissed enough to Tumbl about it.
Why “minimum rage”? Read Nona Willis Aronowitz’s feature in GOOD’s Spring issue.
Submit here.
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After the Gold Rush: What Happens When California’s Weed Bubble Bursts?
Senior editor Cord Jefferson writes about California’s crumbling weed economy and the young people that have gotten swept up in it. Some are trying to make marijuana their profession, while others are rapidly trying to get out. He even visits a marijuana testing facility where some workers wear tie dye lab coats.
Last year, when we began contemplating our Beg, Borrow or Steal issue, we thought our survey of the lived economy deserved an ambitious graphical exploration. After brainstorming meetings (“Can we do, like, the whole thing?”) long hours logged on FRED, and a few all-nighters, we came up with a package of data visualization and explanation that we hope will give you an idea of the big picture. The economy is complicated. Let us walk you through it.
Pencil Pushers: How School Budget Cuts Have Turned Students (and Parents) Into Fundraisers
When I sent my eldest son, Olinga, off to his first day of prekindergarten in 2005, I imagined I’d spend the next 14 years reviewing his homework, helping with science fair projects, and celebrating stellar report cards.
Minimum Rage: Will Gen Y’s Career Waiters Occupy the Service Industry?
Will a generation of accidental career waiters hold out for “real” jobs—or fight for the ones they have now?
Some depressing facts: Nearly half of people ages 16 to 29 do not have a job. A quarter of those who do work in hospitality—travel, leisure, and, of course, food service…The restaurant industry in particular is booming; one in 10 employed Americans now work in food service—9.6 million of us. Those numbers are growing each year.
Read the story from GOOD’s spring issue here.
The “Street Tweeter” is the work of anti-poverty nonprofit ONE. A “hydraulic robot” towed by a pickup truck, the machine culls Twitter for messages that mention the handle @ONEStreetTweet, and uses 80 jets full of nontoxic paint to take the text to the streets. ONE is asking its supporters to send along 40-character notes encouraging the G8 to take a stand on poverty in Africa and throughout the developing world.
Welcome to the Global Citizenship Project
- Mary Slosson wrote in Technology, Living and Poverty
Welcome to the brand-new GOOD Global Citizenship project, a space where people who give a damn connect around issues of global health, poverty, and development.
Whether we live in Los Angeles or Lagos, Seattle or São Paulo, we are all part of the movement to creatively engage with each other and our surroundings to improve and strengthen our communities and our world.
Our mission is to uproot the idea that knowledge flows from global North to South, and that poor equals helpless and needy. We are more alike than the way we talk about power and poverty implies.
That’s where you come in.
We are looking for a truly global community of contributors from all walks of life. We encourage anyone to contribute to this conversation by posting relevant things you’re discovering online and simply tagging them with “global citizenship.” But we’re also looking for a select group of experts to contribute original thoughts, reporting, and help us identify key stories going on in your area. If you want to get involved with this growing Global Citizen Network let us know by applying here.
We hope you can join us in the celebration, and we’ll be in touch soon with exciting new ways of working together and bringing more GOOD to life.
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