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Economic Justice Links


Americans for a Fair Estate Tax - a broad-based non-partisan coalition that advocates reform instead of repeal of the estate tax.

Center for Economic and Policy Research - CEPR was established to promote democratic debate on the most important economic and social issues that affect people?s lives. We work to ensure that the citizenry has the information and analysis that allows it to act effectively in the public interest.

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities - CBPP is a nonpartisan research organization and policy institute that conducts research and analysis on a range of government policies and programs, with an emphasis on those affecting low- and moderate-income people.

The Center for Heirs’ Property Preservation (CHPP) - CHPP’s goal is to ensure that heirs' receive and exercise the full rights associated with property ownership.

Children's Defense Fund - The mission of the Children's Defense Fund is to Leave No Child Behind® and to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.

Citizens for Tax Justice - A nonpartisan, nonprofit research and advocacy organization dedicated to fair taxation at the federal, state, and local levels.

Economic Policy Institute - The Economic Policy Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that seeks to broaden the public debate about strategies to achieve a prosperous and fair economy.

Global Exchange

Industrial Workers of the World - A union for all people.

The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy - The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) is a non-profit, non-partisan research and education organization that works on government taxation and spending policy issues.

Left Business Observer - Left Business Observer is an 8-page more-or-less monthly newsletter on economics and politics in the U.S. and the world at large.

National Bureau Of Economic Research
- a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works.

National Center on Poverty Law - A legal and policy research, communications, and advocacy organization that provides national leadership in identifying, developing, and supporting creative and collaborative approaches to achieve social and economic justice for low-income people.

National Coalition for the Homeless - Our mission is to end homelessness. We focus our work in the following 4 areas: housing justice, economic justice, health care justice, and civil rights.

National Committee on Pay Equity - A national membership coalition of over 80 organizations working to eliminate sex- and race-based wage discrimination and to achieve pay equity.

National Economic Development and Law Center - A multi-disciplinary legal and planning resource center whose mission is to contribute to the abilities of low-income persons and communities to realize their full potential.

National Low Income Housing Coalition LIHIS - NLIHC provides up-to-date information, formulates policy, and educates the public on housing needs and the strategies for solutions.

National People's Action - NPA is the tool for neighborhood people to take on corporate America and fat cat Washington Politicians.

National Urban League - The mission of the Urban League movement is to enable African Americans to secure economic self-reliance, parity and power and civil rights.

OMB Watch - OMB Watch was formed in 1983 to lift the veil of secrecy shrouding the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

Palmetto Legal Services - Providing free legal services in civil matters to qualified low income residents of South Carolina Midlands.

Responsible Wealth - Responsible Wealth is a national network of businesspeople, investors and affluent Americans who are concerned about deepening economic inequality and are working for widespread prosperity.

United for a Fair Economy - United for a Fair Economy was founded as a "movement support" organization to provide media capacity, face-to-face economic literacy education, and training resources to organizations and individuals who work to address the widening income and asset gap in our country.

 



Economic Justice
News And Commentary


Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

 

 

 

 

 



All Those Damn Kids Have Cell Phones Though, Don’t They?


Josie Raymond: From Bad to Worse: A History of the U.S. Poverty Rate

"The new poverty statistics released this week by the Census Bureau are bad — 43.6 million Americans are officially in poverty and tens of millions more are on the cusp — but not worse than what was expected. However, that's still the largest number of poor people in the United States in the 51 years that records have been kept. So there are more of us worse off, but as a nation, are we worse off than ever? Let's look at the ups and downs of the poverty rate since it debuted in 1959 to this week's results."
 
 

Matt Amaral: All Those Damn Kids Have Cell Phones Though, Don’t They?

"Contrary to popular opinion, all these damn kids don’t have cell phones, computers, printers, or anything. But yes, most of them have refrigerators—those poor bastards."
 
 
Dan Morgan: Remembering Poverty Before the Safety Net
 
Business on HuffingtonPost.com



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Bank Locally



Stacy Mitchell: How State Banks Bring the Money Home
 
OurFuture.org

Featured * :: an economy for all

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The Whole F**king Thing Is Coming Down

 
Beat The Press
by Dean Baker



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Ry Cooder No Banker Left Behind

 
The Hometown Advantage - Reviving Locally Owned Business


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Marginal Tax Rates

If higher marginal tax rates lead to slower economic growth,  then why do higher marginal tax rates correlate to faster economic growth?

 

Are they just ignorant, or are they lying to us? 

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC):  “We also need to just cut the top marginal rate for individuals and corporations so that we’re more competitive and companies can look way out in the future and know they’ll have a competitive tax rate.”

Speaker of the House John Boehner:  “We’ve seen over the last 30 years that lower marginal tax rates have led to a growing economy, more employment and more people paying taxes.”

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI):  “The economics profession has been really clear about this – higher marginal tax rates create a drag on economic growth”

Pat Garofalo:  CHART: Since 1950, Lower Top Tax Rates Have Coincided With Weaker Economic Growth

 

 
CEPR.net



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June Unemployment

Dean Baker:  Weak Job Growth Leads to Another Rise in Unemployment
"The employment-to-population (EPOP) ratio fell to 58.2 percent, the low hit in December of 2009 and again in November in 2010. This means that the job growth thus far in the recovery has been just sufficient to keep pace with the growth of the labor force."

 CBPP Statement: Chad Stone, Chief Economist, on the June Employment Report
"Today’s very disappointing employment report shows that two years after the technical end of the recession and after 16 straight months of private-sector job creation, the jobs deficit remains huge (see chart)."

Heidi Shierholz:  Labor market in full retreat
"[The July 8] release of the June 2011 Employment Situation report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed a labor market in retreat.  Virtually every single measure was weak..."
 
Reason Magazine Economics



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Upcoming Events

In solidarity with the Madison protesters:

 

Rally to Save the American Dream
SC State Capitol – Gervais and Main Streets,
1801 Main Street (Map)
Columbia, SC 29201
This Saturday, February 26th, 12:00 PM


Rally for a Moral Budget

Saturday, March 12 at 1:00 PM
State House
Columbia, SC
803.808.3384
http://www.scpronet.com/
Some music to get you in the mood:

Tom Morello – World Wide Rebel Songs Live in Madison Wisconsin

Bruce Springsteen & Tom Morello – The ghost of Tom Joad

Billy Bragg -There Is Power In A Union

Dropkick Murphys The Workers Song
 
Economic Policy Institute



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2011 Indie City Index

Stacy Mitchell:  New Study Ranks Metro Areas on the Vitality of Their Independent Retail

The Indie City Index 2011
Charleston does well (77 out of 363).

The Hometown Advantage Bulletin:  Survey Finds "Buy Local" Message Benefiting Independent Businesses

Lowcountry Local First advocates the benefits of a local living economy by strengthening community support for independent locally owned businesses and farmers.

Stacy Mitchell:  Five Ideas from Detroit
 
Real-World Economics Review Blog



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Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education

solar panelsWhat is SARE?
Since 1988, the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program has helped advance farming systems that are profitable, environmentally sound and good for communities through a nationwide research and education grants program.

To advance such knowledge nationwide, SARE administers a competitive grants program first funded by Congress in 1988. Grants are offered through four regions -- North Central, Northeast, South and West -- under the direction of councils that include farmers and ranchers along with representatives from universities, government, agribusiness and nonprofit organizations. The diversity in membership of the regional administrative councils reflects SARE's commitment to serve the whole spectrum of the agricultural community. SARE's broad representation remains largely unique in federal grant funding for agriculture.

SARE's national outreach office is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture. It operates under cooperative agreements with the University of Maryland and the University of Vermont (Award Nos. 2007-38640-03953 and 2007-47001-03782) to develop and disseminate information about sustainable agriculture. Guided by a Steering Committee, SARE Outreach maintains the website and publishes a variety of print and electronic resources for farmers, agricultural educators, and consumers. It also hosts SANET-MG, a sustainable agriculture listserv with over 700 subscribers from around the globe.

Visit their web page.

And check out their publications .  Most are available for free (PDF or html).

 
Economy In Crisis



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The 2010 "Are You Serious?" Awards


Mostly things that governments waste money on like:

”The Panjandrum Award to the U.S. military in Afghanistan. For those unfamiliar with the “Great Panjandrum,” it was an enormous rocket-propelled explosive wheel developed by Great Britain for breaching the Atlantic Wall that Nazi Germany had built on the French coast to defend against amphibious invasions. Tested on a Devon beach, it roared ashore, turned smartly to port, and thundered into a bevy of admirals and generals, scattering them hither and yon. Thus “Panjandrum” became a metaphor for really silly military ideas.

And there is not a whole lot sillier idea than the one to deploy M1-Abrams tanks in southern Afghanistan. The M1 is a 68-ton behemoth, powered by a jet engine (miles per gallon is not its strong point). Since Afghanistan has virtually no roads and a good deal of the terrain is vertical—at least the part where the insurgents are ensconced—how the M1 is going to get around is not obvious.”

Read Conn Hallinan' s article at Truthout. It also includes:
The Harry Potter Award
The Golden Lemon Award
The George Orwell Award

and more

 
Global Labor Strategies


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Our Commons

Jay Walljasper:  Vision: Reviving the Commons -- A Recipe for Political Optimism

From:




Kevin Karner:  An Economy that Works for Everyone

On The Commons:  The Great Lakes Are a Commons

Alexa Bradley & Julie Ristau:  Why The Commons Matters Right Now

Maude Barlow:  Our Commons Future is Already Here

Jay Walljasper:  A Small Change Could Boost Everyone's Access to Information

David Bollier:  Imagining a New Politics of the Commons

Read more at OnTheCommons.org

 
Alta Gracia Apparel

Sarah Seltzer:  Vision: How One Tiny Factory Is Challenging the Sweatshop Norm
Instead of boycotting companies that make goods in sweatshops, student labor activists are boosting Alta Gracia, a factory that pays a living wage--and lets workers unionize.

I don't want to encourage consumption, but if you're going to buy this type of item anyway:

Alta Gracia Apparel

Where to shop in South Carolina

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College of Charleston
 
Prosperity

Gary Gardner:  Consumption: A Prerequisite for Prosperity?

 Shannon Hayes:  Homemade Prosperity

Shannon Hayes:  How To Transform Your Household
 
Truthout - labor


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