Josh C. Kline Apr 4 Marketplace: Even pre-pandemic, 1 in 3 U.S. families who needed diapers could not afford them. By Erica Beras https://t.co/160E68SiH5
Josh C. Kline Mar 20 Outside: How the Galápagos Adapted to the Pandemic By Jamie Lafferty Oranges for dental work, milk for English lessons—when COVID-19’s initial lockdown dried up tourism dollars and supply...
Josh C. Kline Mar 9 SF Weekly: Barter Bread Doesn’t Want Your Money By Veronica Irwin Instead of selling their homemade baked goods, this couple barters their loaves to build community in isolating times....
Josh C. Kline Feb 24 EATER: New Yorkers Are Bartering With This Harlem Pizza Maker for His Roman-Style Pies By Luke Fortney At Unregular Pizza, a new way to order Italian-style pies... https://ny.eater.com/2021/2/24/22297003/unregular-pizza-pop-...
Josh C. Kline Jan 22 Money: Old-Fashioned Bartering Is Back. Here's a Guide to Smart Swapping By Sheryl Nance-Nash The pandemic has put many households’ finances in jeopardy. While tough times call for creativity, that doesn’t...
Josh C. Kline Jan 8 Marketplace: “It’s turned from one need to another” by Maria Hollenhorst “My Economy” tells the story of the new economic normal through the eyes of people trying to make it, because we...
Josh C. Kline Dec 24, 2020 Jerusalem Post: Learning to barter in the COVID-19 financial crisis by Dudi Fatimer The pandemic has had a great host of economic repercussions, which have led to the blossoming of a number of online...
Josh C. Kline Dec 18, 2020 WaPo: Remote Pacific islands escaped the coronavirus this year. It devastated their economies anyway by Adam Taylor https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/12/18/coronavirus-pacific-islands-pandemic-economies/ "Some Pacific island...
Josh C. Kline Nov 12, 2020 Haaretz: Hard Coronavirus Times in Israel Spur a Rise in Bartering – and the Black Market by Adi Dovrat-Meseritz More Israelis are swapping goods and services through Facebook groups or under the counter and their resentment of...
Josh C. Kline Nov 3, 2020 The Guardian: A barter way of life: Covid crisis fuels swapping of goods and skills By Suzanne Bearner Empty shop shelves drove many people to exchange items such as toilet rolls and yeast, but some have carried on...
