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How Resident-Owned Communities Can Create Mass Affordable Homeownership

NonProfit Quarterly

An underappreciated tool for closing this gap—potentially benefitting millions of US households—involves resident-owned manufactured housing communities. A Freddie Mac Multifamily survey conducted in 2019 estimated 45,000 manufactured housing communities operating across the United States. There is another option—a cooperative option.

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New Report Finds America’s Top Polluters

NonProfit Quarterly

Community Impact The industrial sector in the United States—the part of the economy made up of manufacturing and the production of goods—is to blame for almost a quarter of all domestic greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Sierra Club. For some people, like Etienne, the work is generational. This resulted in the loss of 1.6

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Turning Toward EV Frontline Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

In 2014, in an effort to attract investment in the country’s nickel-refining infrastructure—enabling Indonesia to sell more profitable high-grade nickel to manufacturers—the government banned unrefined- nickel exports. After receiving pushback from the European Union and manufacturers, the government softened the ban.

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Employee Ownership Policy Makes Major Gains—Next Up, Implementation

NonProfit Quarterly

Representative Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) The shape of government relations for worker co-ops has experienced a massive shift in the past five years. It may not be immediately clear the connection between semiconductors and cooperatives; manufacturing makes up just a little over five percent of the worker co-op field. How does this work?

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Excessive Wealth Has Run Amok—This Must Stop

NonProfit Quarterly

Conceptually, the threshold for excessive wealth would be the point at which an individual can take the government hostage or otherwise damage democratic institutions. Since the birth of the United States, the federal government has seized over 1.5 What level would that be? Pentagon contracting functions similarly.

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Youth Unemployment in the Developing World Is a Jobs Problem

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Singapore’s government under Lee Kuan Yew, for example, set out to build a modern economy by attracting labor-intensive foreign manufacturing that would create low-skilled jobs first, then shifting to more skill-intensive manufacturing and finally playing a leading role in the global knowledge economy.

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Child Care Is a National Emergency

NonProfit Quarterly

But child care is more expensive than ever, and the federal government hasn’t done enough to support families, especially working mothers. The federal government must act quickly to preserve and increase funding for child care. Now more than ever, families bear the brunt of the economic burden.