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Another World Emerging? Well, Maybe
Signs of deep economic changes are slowly taking place across the United States, focusing on cooperative/solidarity economics.
Fighting Inequality and Climate Change Through Localizing Economies
We currently face two equally urgent and significant crises: rising inequality and climate change. Rising inequality is not only morally unacceptable; it hinders economic growth. Climate change is occurring at a faster rate than other time in history and is already impacting every part of the country with low-income communities and communities of color getting hit first and most hard.
Reclaiming Our Commons: Egleston Community Orchard
Reclaiming our Commons requires coming together as a community.
Embracing A Long Term Agenda For a New Economy
By working together, we can build the next great progressive movement to take back our government and create the kind of just and sustainable economy in which we want to live and work.
Looking Back To Our Future
Climate change, shifting demographics, and sobering economic realities for a growing number of Americans have sparked increased awareness of the need to re-examine how working class people and communities of color will successfully participate in tomorrow’s economy, the one they will inherit when our nation becomes an ethnic plurality.
Shorter Work-Time Can Help In the Transition
In the not-too distant future we can expect to see a rapid increase in structural unemployment as a result of increasing substitution of technology—including sophisticated robots—for human labor. A massive shift to new energy technologies can, in the short run, substitute for many jobs lost in the dirty fuel industries we must, and will, phase out.