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How Investors Can Shape AI for the Benefit of Workers

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The care economy employs 17 percent of the US workforce, an area currently experiencing one of the greatest employment shortages, including home healthcare aides and nurses. Nearly one in five home healthcare aides lives in poverty.

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Reconnecting Economics Education with Today’s Global Realities

NonProfit Quarterly

He said, [Our] failure to facilitate a pluralism of approaches in teaching economics is a deprivation of basic students’ rights, indeed citizen rights leading…to a narrow, blinkered, and distorted education. The resources for creating this revised curriculum already exist.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

Are poverty wages less miserable because your boss is Black? In the Bronx, co-op organizers have partnered with public school teachers to develop a curriculum where high school students “learn by doing.” 28 Yet an approach that prioritizes “Black faces in high places,” Pérez insists, is insufficient.