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  • Bringing Neighborhoods Wealth — Not Gentrification

    Bringing Neighborhoods Wealth — Not Gentrification

    By Marjorie Kelly and Sarah McKinley  This article was originally featured at Yes! Magazine and adapted from Cities Building Community Wealth, a project of The Democracy Collaborative, for New Economy Week. In cities across the nation, a few enjoy rising affluence while many struggle to get by. An August 2015 study by The Century Foundation reported that—after…

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  • Coop Event at Murphy Draws Large Crowd

    Coop Event at Murphy Draws Large Crowd

    On March 30th, the Murphy Institute hosted “Building a Worker Coop Ecosystem: Mondragon Meets the Five Boroughs,” a public conversation featuring Frederick Freundlich of Mondragon University and moderated by Stephanie Guico. The conversation began with an explanation by Freudlich of the Mondragon network of worker coops in the Basque region of Spain. The network includes approximately 120…

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