In a year of challenges, journalists sought out solutions to some of our most pressing problems; is a universal basic income the answer to an automated future?; a one-percenter is recruiting billionaires to fight inequality; for China climate change is no hoax - it's a business and political opportunity, and how can U.S. and other companies keep from missing out?; who grows up to make less than their parents, and what will it take to reverse the trend?; is Portland's new CEO surtax a sign of things to come?; and can technology give some environmental nightmares a fairytale ending?