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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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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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Segregation Helped Build Fortunes. What Does Philanthropy Owe Now?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By prohibiting any future sale of the property to Black or other non-white owners, restrictive covenants gave white buyers confidence that their homes and neighborhoods would remain white enclaves and therefore retain the “ enduring value ” that Cafritz promised for his “lifetime homes.” And it worked. It was profitable to do so.

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Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

To combat this crisis, governments and international bodies have turned to diverse policy frameworks for biodiversity preservation at national, regional, and global levels. manufacturing and service organizations), reducing their land footprint entails optimizing the utilization of existing built spaces, infrastructure, and parking areas.

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Innovate and Integrate: The Dynamic Impact of MSP Software on Operations

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Global Market Value: The global managed services market was valued at USD 267.3 Reasons for MSP Adoption: The primary reasons businesses choose MSP services include cost savings (51% of respondents) and increased security (46%), showcasing the value of MSPs in optimizing IT operations and generating cost savings.

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Choosing AI’s Impact on the Future of Work

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It was these earlier forms of automation that contributed to the decline of American manufacturing employment and the huge increase in inequality over the last four decades. The negative impact on people along the “just automate” path is easy to predict from prior waves of digital technologies and robotics.

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Of Myths and Markets: Moving Beyond the Capitalist God That Failed Us

NonProfit Quarterly

Conway of Caltech, titled The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market , examines the role of corporate propaganda. Musgrave offers a more satisfying answer, writing, “I understand neoliberalism as a governing rationality that directs state action in favor of the market” (177).