GOODWatch an interview with Roy Sosa of Mango Money, an Austin, Texas-based bank that is changing how people interact with their money. It's just one of the interviews from the Edge of Progress Tour.
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GOOD Pictures: Go Outside
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From Tweet to Street: Anti-Poverty Campaign Takes Supporters' Messages to Camp David
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Pet Diaries: The Joint-Custody Dog Who Taught Me to Move On
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GOOD Maker Challenge: How Would You Use Storytelling to Improve your Community?
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How Cherokee Is Real Cherokee? Mixed-Race People Discuss Elizabeth Warren
The government of Bangladesh appears to be mounting a concerted campaign oust Muhammad Yunus and take over the Grameen Bank.
People are getting fed up with the big banks, and credit unions are having the last laugh.
The bailout money for homeowners just isn't being spent — in part because of political fears.
The father of microfinance has been "removed" by his government. But he's not leaving his Nobel Prize-winning Grameen Bank just yet.
Richard Branson, not receiving enough attention from his aviation, music sales, commercial space flight, and global warming initiatives, is going...
In honor of Fête Nationale (or Bastille Day in l'anglais), here's some news on the art of the Third Estate.First there's the Moleskine artists and...
Yesterday, the government got Wall Street banks to pay $26 billion in penalties for screwing people over. Is it enough?
Recently garnering an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film, "West Bank Story" tells the story of an Isreali soldier who falls...
Founded in 1983 by Muhammad Yunus, the Grameen Bank (Grameen is Bangledeshi for "village") provides small loans to rural borrowers in...
From Stacy Mitchell at the fantastic New Rules Project: Bigger banks were supposed to lower costs for consumers. That was the promise made...
Over the past fifteen years or so, the nation's five largest banks have grown to a point where they now hold nearly 40 percent of the country's...
This is Piggy, a piggy bank that "introduces the notion of charity and directs attention toward others less fortunate." The larger bank is for a...
Timothy Geithner has announced his bank rescue plan, which seems to amount to the government buying horrible assets from banks at grossly inflated...
The New York Times has a nice graphic showing which parts of the country favor small banks and which favor large banks. Any bank with more...
For most of us, choosing a bank usually comes down to two things: who has the most ATMs and how close is the nearest branch. We might consider...
A look at what countries put money into the World Bank, and where that money goes.
Last night, Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus appears on The Simpsons. Watch the clips.
For at least the last two years, New York Daily News publisher Mort Zuckerman has offered the following solution to saving the ailing newspaper...
One Florida couple publicly shamed Bank of America in order to get what was owed to them. Is this what everyday folks need to do nowadays?
According to a report from Forrester Research, we don't trust our banks-especially big banks. The New York Times has the low-down on America's...
