Tag: Labor
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A Large Corporate Low Wage Service Sector Makes For a Town Without a Soul
The Emeryville Tattler blog post, A Large Corporate Low Wage Service Sector Makes For a Town Without a Soul, delves into the debate about how to best develop the town. The Tattler calls for a new paradigm – one that moves away from the “flawed auto-centric model” with “lots of shopping malls and drive-in drive-out lofts (formally condos,…
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GritTV Cooperative Series: Beyond Care Childcare Cooperative
http://blip.tv/grittv/a-co-op-seriesl-beyond-care-childcare-cooperative-6618562 Domestic workers, such as housekeepers, home care aides, and nannies help with the day-to-day upkeep of family life. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, 90% of home care health aides are women, 56% percent are women of color and 28% are foreign born having migrated from Latin America and the Caribbean. In…
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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…
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