Posted by Bette Brand, Administrator, USDA Rural Business-Cooperative Service in Rural | Oct. 2, 2019 --Happy National Co-Op Month! It’s reason to celebrate because in America there are more than 40,000 cooperatives of all types, supporting jobs that provide more than $25 billion in wages.

Aaron Fernando | Sept. 30, 2019 --As housing crises heat up across American cities, the San Francisco Bay Area is experiencing an extreme disparity: in 2017, it added three times as many jobs as it did new housing units for those workers.