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

NonProfit Quarterly

The National Association of Manufacturers, for example, saw its membership fall from over 5,000 businesses to fewer than 1,500. A sign of increasing labor power, these rising union numbers felt just as scary to the real-life business tycoons as the dialogue in the movie Citizen Kane suggests.

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Excessive Wealth Has Run Amokā€”This Must Stop

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Slavery became the economic engine of the United States, fueling wars and building industries, including agriculture, banking, small business, and manufacturing. Comprising consultants, attorneys, accountants, wealth managers, and others, this wealth defense industry employs various tools to hide wealth and avoid taxation.

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Building a Solidarity Economy in the South (and Beyond)ā€”Cooperation Jackson

NonProfit Quarterly

Community Production Purpose: End our dependence on monopoly manufacturers, energy producers, big tech, and Big Pharma, and autonomously manufacture the appropriate technological instruments required to meet our basic material and social needs within the ecological capacities of our communities and environments.

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The Social Contract: Whatā€™s Missing in the ā€œHistoricā€ Biden Legislation?

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Research/development, manufacturing, workforce. Taxation is mildly deflationary, since, by definition, taxes reduce the money available for consumer purchases. Basics (water, broadband, electric grid, resiliency). Transportation (airports, electric cars, rail, roads, transit). Long-term care. percent increase from the $4.9

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Corporate Captureā€”Can We Find a Way Out?

NonProfit Quarterly

The aircraft manufacturer Boeing, granted the authority by the Federal Aviation Administration in 2009 to self-certify compliance, uses that authority to cut regulatory cornersā€”with tragic results.

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The Break with Corporate Neoliberalism That Wasnā€™tā€”The Biden Years

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Most notably, these included the initial 2021 American Rescue Plan COVID relief bill, the infrastructure bill , the climate bill ( Inflation Reduction Act ), and the CHIPS and Science Act (which subsidizes US-based semiconductor manufacturing). Taxation also did not significantly change.