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economics More Startups Should Use Credit Unions Update: Lol, we ended up switching from a Credit Union to Mercury. I just finished signing up for a bank account for my nonprofit, Roote [https://www.roote.co/], and wanted to share
housing Abundant Housing Slogans The slogan "America is a melting pot" is a great slogan for ensuring that America accepts its changing demographics (through immigration). (It's not perfect, of course. We discriminate new immigrants—Irish in the
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abundance Non-Duplicative One of the Roote values is to be network-driven. This means that we're constantly aware of our role in a larger network of human progress. We stand on the shoulders of giants. It
