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An Economy Turned Upside Down
Shareable | September 5, 2011
While mainstream America is hoping for federal economic reform, some social justice organizations have a radically different idea, and are organizing low-income communities to build a new econo
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Study Finds Local Businesses Key to Income Growth
Stacy Mitchell | August 29, 2011
The results of a new study suggest that the key to reversing the long-term trend of stagnating incomes in the U.S.
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Creating Jobs by Revitalizing Local Manufacturing
Shareable | August 24, 2011
"This is a very important time for America to look for homegrown solutions for the jobs crisis."- Bill Clinton, recognizing the Urban Manufacturing Alliance on behalf of the Clinton Global
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How to Start a Worker Co-op
Shareable | August 10, 2011
In the age of unemployment, downsizing, and outsourcing, where can a poor soul find a job? Well, maybe it’s time we create our own.
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Zia QueenBee Co: Sustainable Beekeeping in New Mexico
OrganicNation.tv | August 8, 2011
We don't know if it's possible, but each stop on the Southwest Tour seems better than the last.
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Shared Financing of Community-Based Businesses
Shareable | July 20, 2011
Why would someone buy $1000 worth of lattes from a coffee shop that doesn’t exist? Either they care a lot about caffeine or they care a lot about community.
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Localism Index 2011
Stacy Mitchell | June 24, 2011
Number of new independent bookstores that have opened since 2005:  437 Increase since 2002 in the number of small specialty food stores:  1,414
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Profounder Delivers for Entrepreneurs, and the Communities That Believe In Them
Tiffany Swift | March 30, 2011
There are a lot of exciting and rewarding parts to starting a business: the rush of having that Big Idea, the freedom of being your own boss, the satisfaction of creating something from nothing. But there’s one part of building a business that is not a lot of fun for anyone: raising the money to get it off the ground. If you don’t come from a finance background, the loan and investment options are extremely confusing. And once you do sort out the options, it turns out most are not particularly well suited for a small, local business.
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NeighborGoods Helps You Stop Buying, and Start Borrowing
Tiffany Swift | February 21, 2011
We've all been there: holding some item in the checkout lane, irritated to be buying it because we really only need it this once. But we inevitably whip out the credit card, use said item a handful of times at most, and then push it under the bed or into the garage to be forgotten. Waste of space. Waste of money.
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Local is the New Black Friday
Contributing Writer | November 23, 2010
“Buy Independent / Buy Local” is the theme coming from dozens of organizations this year that say doing business with local entrepreneurs is the key for communities to create jobs and buck the recession.