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Shift Change: Putting Democracy to Work, a Film on Mondragon
Breaking Down An $80 Billion Surge In Place-Based Industrial Policy
Breaking Down An $80 Billion Surge In Place-Based Industrial Policy
- A film by Melissa Young and Mark Dworkin
- SHIFT CHANGE: PUTTING DEMOCRACY TO WORK tells the little known stories of employee-owned businesses that compete successfully in today’s economy while providing secure, dignified jobs in democratic workplaces.
- With the long decline in US manufacturing and today’s economic crisis, millions have been thrown out of work, and many are losing their homes. The usual economic solutions are not working, so some citizens and public officials are ready to think outside of the box, to reinvent our failing economy in order to restore long term community stability and a more egalitarian way of life.
- There is growing interest in firms that are owned and managed by their workers. Such firms tend to be more profitable and innovative, and more committed to the communities where they are based. Yet the public has little knowledge of their success, and the promise they offer for a better life.e. ...Read More
Breaking Down An $80 Billion Surge In Place-Based Industrial Policy
Breaking Down An $80 Billion Surge In Place-Based Industrial Policy
Breaking Down An $80 Billion Surge In Place-Based Industrial Policy
- By Mark Muro, Robert Maxim, Joseph Parilla, and Xavier de Souza Briggs
- Brookings.edu
- Dec 15, 2022 - The 117th Congress may be coming to an end, but its major legislation continues to reverberate.
- Those laws—the American Rescue Plan Act (ARP), Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), CHIPS and Science Act, and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)—stand out for their sheer number of sizable programs, with some $3.8 trillion in total spending. But beyond this historic scale, three of the bills—ARP, IIJA, and the CHIPS and Science Act—merit special attention for another reason: the significant dollar investment they’re making into place-based industrial policy.
- This moment is important. After years of growing regional divides and uneven economic progress across places, the federal government is finally experimenting with large-scale, direct investments in underdeveloped places and regions. --Read More
Reclaiming U.S. Industry
Breaking Down An $80 Billion Surge In Place-Based Industrial Policy
Reclaiming U.S. Industry
- Biden’s industrial policies represent a stunning ideological reversal. The harder part will be making them work.
- BY ROBERT KUTTNER
- JANUARY 24, 2023
- BY ROBERT KUTTNER
- The American Prospect
- Since the late 1970s, as the U.S. lost productive capacity in industry after industry, progressives have been calling for an industrial policy. This was mostly disdained by orthodox economists and rejected by the presidential wing of both parties in favor of global outsourcing.
- The economy has paid dearly for this, with the loss of good jobs and industries that anchored entire regional economies. Democrats in turn have paid with the loss of working-class voters.
- Now, under Joe Biden, we have a potentially transformational shift of ideology and policy. Stimulated by the COVID recession, the supply chain crisis, and the urgent need for renewable energy, Biden’s administration has sponsored an industrial policy, actually several industrial policies, intended to reclaim technological leadership and domestic manufacturing. ...Read More
Clean Energy Projects Surge After Climate Bill Passage
How One Indiana High School Is Helping to Develop High School Manufacturing Talent, Creatively
How One Indiana High School Is Helping to Develop High School Manufacturing Talent, Creatively
Battery plant in Georgia
By Jack Ewing and Ivan Penn
New York Times, Sept 9, 2022
- Investments in battery factories, solar panel manufacturing and mining will help the Biden administration meet targets for reducing greenhouse gases.
- Other companies have announced investments in similar factories in recent weeks
- In the weeks since President Biden signed a comprehensive climate bill devised to spur investment in electric cars and clean energy, corporations have announced a series of big-ticket projects to produce the kind of technology the legislation aims to promote.
- Toyota said it would invest an additional $2.5 billion in a factory in North Carolina to produce batteries for electric cars and hybrids. ...Read More
How One Indiana High School Is Helping to Develop High School Manufacturing Talent, Creatively
How One Indiana High School Is Helping to Develop High School Manufacturing Talent, Creatively
How One Indiana High School Is Helping to Develop High School Manufacturing Talent, Creatively
- June 8, 2022Looking for ideas about how to help build the next generation of skilled manufacturers? Here’s a good one
- Welcome to Falcon Industries, located in Winchester, Indiana—or, more accurately, located in Winchester Community High School.
- Falcon Industries is a fully realized manufacturing organization, replete with access to a range of machinery, tools, and equipment to produce a wide variety of product, from metal signs and wheeled racks to benches and consumables. To a whole lot more.
- Most impressively, it’s run by students. These students work with customers to understand their needs. They issue invoices for completed projects. They market the organization. They manufacture product. In short, they run the organization, sharpening their manufacturing, leadership and business skills in the process. --Read More
Manufacturing in America, post-globalisation | FT Film
How One Indiana High School Is Helping to Develop High School Manufacturing Talent, Creatively
Manufacturing in America, post-globalisation | FT Film
The FT's global business columnist Rana Foroohar looks at why the US ...Click should bring manufacturing jobs back home. In the second of three films based on her new book, 'Homecoming: the path to prosperity in a post-global world', she follows the all-American supply chain of clothing company American Giant to see how it impacts jobs, businesses and communities
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- Michael Bennett ( African-American Leadership and Policy Institute, DePaul University, Economic Development), Michelle Burris (The Century Foundation, Fellow), Teresa Cordova (Great Cities Institute, Director), Robert Creamer (Democracy Partners, Consultant), Carl Davidson (SolidarityEconomy.net, Editor). Doug Gamble (UNITE and ACTWU. retired), Leticia Mederos (Clark Hill Law, Senior Managing Director), Alan Minsky (Progressive Democrats of America, Executive Director), David Robinson (Manufacturing Renaissance, External Affairs), Erica Staley (Manufacturing Renaissance, Executive Director), Andy Stettner (Century Foundation, Senior Fellow), Dan Swinney (Manufacturing Renaissance, Founder), Tim Wright (McCormick Theological Seminary).
Chicago Teachers Union Backs HR 5124 and Our Campaign
- Whereas Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a CTU supporter, has filed HR 5124, a bill to expand and fund manufacturing training programs, including Manufacturing Connect, in the US House of Representatives, and the language of that bill has been included in other pieces of legislation that are moving through the Congressional legislative process. Therefore,
- Be it resolved that the Chicago Teachers Union supports HR 5124 and the use of the bill’s language in other legislative measures, and
- Be it further resolved that CTU representatives will actively advocate that other affiliated organizations including but not limited to the American Federation of Teachers, the Illinois Federation of Teachers, the Chicago Federation of Labor, and the Illinois AFL-CIO also become supporters of the aforementioned legislative measures.
- Read Full Resolution Here.
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- Photo: Toni Preckwinkle, President of the Cook County Board of Commisioners, is now among our enthusiastic backers. Read her endorsement letter here
Endorsing Letter from 100 Black Men of Chicago
- It's with great excitement that we, 100 Black Men of Chicago, Inc. (100BMC) endorse HR 5124 also known as the Manufacturing Renaissance Corporation Act. We will be encouraging our network of churches, corporate and legislative leaders to join us in supporting this much needed bill to improve the Illinois economic landscape. When passed, we see this bill as a game changer for the middle class building jobs and increasing the tax base for the state.
- Read full letter here