Tag: Cleveland
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Evolutionary Reconstruction of the American Economy
I remember commenting to a co-worker, a few years back, that our company’s projected growth of 15% year over year was an inflated and impossible target. The “growth” the firm was touting wasn’t coming from increased sales but from cuts. In order to show profitability, service staff was reduced, billing was centralized in states with…
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Cleveland’s Evergreen Cooperative focuses on economic inclusion and building a local economy from the ground up
The Evergreen Cooperative Initiative has been designed to cause an economic breakthrough in Cleveland. Rather than a trickle down strategy, it focuses on economic inclusion and building a local economy from the ground up; rather than offering public subsidy to induce corporations to bring what are often low-wage jobs into the city, the Evergreen strategy…