New Economy

Developing Cooperatives Is Important Social Change Work

October 3, 2019 Tim Huet, Geo.coop Create! Cooperatives, New Economy

When my colleagues, the editors of this publication, asked me to write a brief piece explaining why I got into cooperative development, I responded that this posed a perhaps insurmountable difficulty: briefly explaining how I arrived at the life-changing conclusion that (trumpets, please) There Is No More Important Social Change Work You Can Do Than Cooperative Development. I mentioned that I'd been thinking of writing an essay arguing that— while chaining oneself to a tree might be sexier; while blockading WTO meetings might seem more “front-line”...

Making Corporations Pay For Big Pay Gaps

October 2, 2019 Sarah Anderson and Sam Pizzigati, Ips-dc.org Educate! Corporations, Exploitation, Inequality, New Economy

For two full years now, publicly held corporations in the United States have had to comply with a federal mandate to report the gap between their CEO and median worker compensation. The resulting disclosures, this report makes clear, have produced truly staggering statistical results. Americans across the political spectrum have been decrying the yawning gaps between CEO and worker compensation for several decades now. Yet Americans still, the research shows, vastly underestimate how wide these gaps have become.

Community Gardens Seek To Transform Urban Society

September 29, 2019 Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader. Create! Black Politics, Community Garden, Education, New Economy

Chicago - Near the border of North Lawndale and West Garfield Park a mountain range of wood chips piled more than five feet high stretches over 1,800 square feet of a once vacant lot. In a few weeks, a Bobcat will come through to level the chips as the lot continues its transformation into a community garden. Across the street another smaller lot is undergoing a similar metamorphosis, although it is in a more advanced state: Tree stumps mark the perimeter, some painted with red, black, and green designs; tires to be turned into flower beds are stacked neatly nearby; a dune of brown, turfy coconut husks waits to be spread across the land to improve the quality of the soil. This gardening initiative is led by W.D. Floyd, founder of 360 Nation, a community organization that runs an after-school program in partnership with nearby Sumner Elementary School to teach kids self-reliance, black political history, and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) skills.

A Boom In Renewables Education As Scotland Upskills

September 29, 2019 David Leask, Herald Scotland. Create! Higher Education, New Economy, Renewable Energy, Scotland

A new study has revealed the sheer volume of training underway as the country upskills for climate emergency, new statistics reveal. The research, the first of its kind, showed an “enormous range of courses” on offer from Borders to Highlands. And more than a third of the students taking up the opportunity to work in the green industrial revolution are women. The new figures were calculated by industry lobby Scottish Renewables using a series of Freedom of Information requests. Thirty one higher education institutions are offering courses, ranging from Energy Finance and Policy at the University of Edinburgh) and Countryside Management at Scotland’s Rural College to Tourism Sustainability and Climate Change at the University of Glasgow and Engineering Systems at Dundee and Angus College.

More Cities Pass Laws To Block Dollar Store Chains

September 28, 2019 Charlie Thaxton, Ilsr.org Resist! Inequality, New Economy, Reform

Many residents end up shopping at dollar stores for food instead, the mayor reported. Although most dollar stores sell no fresh foods and offer only a narrow selection of processed items, they’re a ready option in nearly every corner of the city. Over the last decade, the two dominant chains, Dollar General and Dollar Tree, which owns Family Dollar, have multiplied to nearly 40 outlets within Birmingham and more just beyond the city lines. These chains aren’t just taking advantage of food deserts, the mayor had concluded; they’re creating and perpetuating them.

Tax The Rich Before The Rest

September 27, 2019 Chuck Collins, Postcarbon.org Create! New Economy, Ruling Class, Taxes

Presidential candidates should take a pledge: The middle class should not pay one dollar more in new taxes until the super-rich pay their fair share. Already candidates are outlining ambitious programs to improve health care, combat climate change, and address the opioid crisis — and trying to explain how they’ll pay for it. President Trump, on the other hand, wants to give corporations and the richest 1 percent more tax breaks to keep goosing a lopsided economic boom — even as deficit hawks moan about the exploding national debt and annual deficits topping $1 trillion.

No One Should Have To Bargain For Health Care

September 26, 2019 By Negin Owliaei, Otherwords.org Create! Class Struggle, Health Care, New Economy, Reform, Strikes

Nearly 50,000 members of the United Auto Workers began striking earlier this month, demanding that General Motors pay them their fair share of the billions in profits the company raked in last year. The response from General Motors was shocking. The automaker, which accepted billions in government bailouts during the last recession, cut off its payment of insurance premiums for the striking workers. As the news broke, former Vice President Joe Biden was at an AFL-CIO event, campaigning against a single-payer Medicare for All plan that would replace employer-provided insurance.

China And The Prospects For A Global Ecological Civilization

September 20, 2019 David Schwartzman, Climateandcapitalism.com Create! China, Climate Change, Ecology, New Economy

We now hear daily the news about the tariff conflict with the U.S. and the ongoing protests in Hong Kong. But there is a critically important question regarding China’s current and future global impact, that of its potential leadership towards a post capitalist future while confronting the climate crisis. In December 2016, President Xi Jinping called for the “building of socialist ecological civilization” for China, and “policies [that] contribute more to a greener China and global ecological security” (Xinhua, 2016).

Wealth that Concentrates Kills

September 16, 2019 By Sam Pizzigati, Inequality.org Educate! Income, New Economy, wealth inequality

The weight of the wealth that sits at the top of America’s economic order isn’t just squeezing dollars out of the wallets of average Americans. That concentrated wealth is shearing years off of American lives. The latest evidence for that squeeze on American wallets comes from the Census Bureau. Researchers there have just released results from their latest annual sampling of U.S. incomes. In 2018, the new Census stats show, incomes for typical American households saw a “marked slowdown.” In effect, average Americans have spent this entire century on a treadmill getting nowhere fast.

As We Transition Away From Fossil Fuels, We Must Also Tackle Inequality

September 16, 2019 By J. Mijin Cha, Truthout.org Create! Fossil Fuels, Inequality, New Economy

Two truths lie at the heart of efforts to transition away from fossil fuels. The first is that to stave off the worst impacts of climate change, we must rapidly and dramatically reduce our carbon dioxide emissions. The second is that the resulting decrease in fossil fuel use and extraction will cause displacement of workers and the loss of tax revenue for many communities, and in some cases, it will eliminate entire tax bases. The second truth does not change the first, and the costs of inaction will far outweigh the cost of decarbonization.

Austin Groups 3-D Print Tiny Homes To Help End Homelessness

September 15, 2019 Cindy Widner, Curbed Austin. Create! 3D Printing, Affordable Housing, Homelessness, New Economy

Community First Village, run by Mobile Loaves and Fishes to provide permanent, personal housing and services for homeless people in Austin, had quite the breakthrough day Monday. Partnering with Austin-based Icon and Cielo property group, it opened the second phase of its development with a 3D-printed prototype house that will serve as a welcome center for the community. The 500-square-foot building took a total of 27 hours to print. That was only the beginning, according to said Alan Graham, founder and CEO of Mobile Loaves & Fishes: “ICON is pushing the envelope and is technologically laying out a new way of looking at how we build homes,” he said. “One of our desires is that this partnership with ICON will grow so deep that we’re able to leverage this technology to someday build all of our microhomes in future phases of the village.”

Medicare For All Would Cut Poverty By Over 20 Percent

September 14, 2019 Matt Bruenig, People's Policy Project. Educate! Health Care, Medicare for all, New Economy, Poverty, Single-Payer

The Census released its annual income, poverty, and health insurance statistics earlier this week. The summary report shows that 8 million of the nation’s 42.5 million poor people would not be poor if they did not have to pay medical out-of-pocket (MOOP) expenses like deductibles, copays, coinsurance, and self-payments. Medicare for All (M4A) virtually eliminates these kinds of payments, meaning that these 8 million people (18.8 percent of all poor people) would find themselves lifted over the poverty threshold if M4A were enacted. This headcount poverty measure actually understates how significant MOOP expenses are to poverty in this country. According to this same data, in 2018, the total poverty gap stood at $175.8 billion.

How Domestic Workers Built America’s First Co-Op Franchise

September 13, 2019 By Aaron Fernando, Shareable.net Create! Cooperatives, Domestic Workers, New Economy

The United States currently has an infinitesimally small sector of worker-owned cooperative businesses, accounting for only 6,800 workers out of a labor force of over 160 million. Although US data on worker-owned co-ops is scarce, evidence from other countries indicates that worker-owned co-ops are more resilient than other businesses and lead to far smaller wage disparities in the same organization. Recently, an organization in New York, working with domestic workers who face poor working conditions...

Prospects For Gas Pipelines In The Era Of Clean Energy

September 12, 2019 By Mark Dyson, Grant Glazer, and Charles Teplin, Rmi.org Educate! Clean Energy, New Economy, Pipelines

Over the past 20 years, the United States has expanded natural gas use dramatically for electricity generation. With persistent low gas prices, the industry continues to plan new gas infrastructure, including both new power plants and new pipelines. But even as gas use has expanded, wind, solar, and energy storage technologies have improved and dropped precipitously in price. RMI research shows that “clean energy portfolios” (CEPs) comprised of these technologies are now cost-competitive with new natural gas power plants, while providing the same grid reliability services.

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