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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 3107361" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p><a href="http://billmoyers.com/story/black-monday-77-mill-shutdown-youngstown-gave-birth-rust-belt/#.WdDqvqSTbb8.twitter" target="_blank">Black Monday, '77, The Birth of the Rust Belt in Youngstown</a></p><p></p><p>Also in 2004, the <a href="https://usworker.coop/home/" target="_blank">US Federation of Worker Cooperatives</a> (USFWC) was established. Starting with just $7,000 in the bank, the USFWC has grown to represent and support more than 160 democratic workplaces and organizations representing more than 4,000 workers, and has been instrumental in pushing state and local governments to support worker cooperatives as part of their economic development strategies.</p><p></p><p>In New York City, a coalition of grass-roots community organizers and cooperative advocates — including the <a href="https://nycworker.coop/home/" target="_blank">New York City Network of Worker Cooperatives</a>, an affiliate of the USFWC, and The Working World (an organization founded by a young New Yorker who was motivated by <em>The Take</em>) — recently secured $1.2 million from the city’s budget to support worker-owned businesses in low-income communities. One of the driving forces behind the New York City legislation is <a href="http://www.chcany.org/" target="_blank">Cooperative Home Care Associates</a>, the largest worker cooperative in the United States with more than 2,000 workers, most of whom are women of color, who enjoy above-average pay and benefits.</p><p></p><p>In Madison, Wisconsin, a measure has passed the city council earmarking $5 million over five years to support cooperative development. In Jackson, Mississippi, before his tragic death, Mayor Chokwe Lumumba was preparing an ambitious strategy to combat economic inequality in the heart of the Black Belt by building a “solidarity economy” — one that connected community and cooperative enterprises to municipal procurement and remains underway.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://billmoyers.com/topics/the-economy/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>RELATED: Economy & Work</strong></span></a></p><p><a href="http://billmoyers.com/story/placing-blame-youngstown-white-working-class/" target="_blank"><img src="http://dy00k1db5oznd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-617812124-400x225.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </a></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong><a href="http://billmoyers.com/story/placing-blame-youngstown-white-working-class/" target="_blank">Don’t Blame Youngstown</a></strong></span></p><p><strong>BY John Russo and Sherry Linkon</strong> | November 15, 2016</p><p></p><p>In 2008, the <a href="https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-07-21/evergreen-cooperative-is-a-cleveland-jobs-success-story" target="_blank">Evergreen Cooperative Initiative</a> was launched in Cleveland, Ohio — where the population has fallen from more than 900,000 in 1950 to below 400,000 today. Here, a number of cooperatives are linked together with a community-building nonprofit corporation and a revolving fund designed to create more such connected, community-building businesses. The Evergreen Cooperative Laundry operates out of a LEED [Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design] Gold-certified building, uses around one-fifth the amount of water that conventional laundries use, and has an advanced water heating system that saves energy. Evergreen Energy Solutions recently installed one of the larger urban solar fields in the country. And Green City Growers Cooperative — a 3.25-acre hydroponic greenhouse — can produce roughly 3 million heads of lettuce and 300,000 pounds of herbs per year. An important new strategy in Cleveland uses anchor institutions — hospitals and universities in the area that purchase more than $3 billion a year in goods and services — to provide a long-term market for the worker-owned cooperatives.</p><p></p><p>The United Steelworkers, whose national leadership once opposed the Youngstown effort, has also evolved. The union has adopted a major strategy to help build “union co-op” worker-owned companies around the nation. Efforts are underway, in particular, in Pittsburgh and Cincinnati.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 3107361, member: 56035"] [URL="http://billmoyers.com/story/black-monday-77-mill-shutdown-youngstown-gave-birth-rust-belt/#.WdDqvqSTbb8.twitter"]Black Monday, '77, The Birth of the Rust Belt in Youngstown[/URL] Also in 2004, the [URL='https://usworker.coop/home/']US Federation of Worker Cooperatives[/URL] (USFWC) was established. Starting with just $7,000 in the bank, the USFWC has grown to represent and support more than 160 democratic workplaces and organizations representing more than 4,000 workers, and has been instrumental in pushing state and local governments to support worker cooperatives as part of their economic development strategies. In New York City, a coalition of grass-roots community organizers and cooperative advocates — including the [URL='https://nycworker.coop/home/']New York City Network of Worker Cooperatives[/URL], an affiliate of the USFWC, and The Working World (an organization founded by a young New Yorker who was motivated by [I]The Take[/I]) — recently secured $1.2 million from the city’s budget to support worker-owned businesses in low-income communities. One of the driving forces behind the New York City legislation is [URL='http://www.chcany.org/']Cooperative Home Care Associates[/URL], the largest worker cooperative in the United States with more than 2,000 workers, most of whom are women of color, who enjoy above-average pay and benefits. In Madison, Wisconsin, a measure has passed the city council earmarking $5 million over five years to support cooperative development. In Jackson, Mississippi, before his tragic death, Mayor Chokwe Lumumba was preparing an ambitious strategy to combat economic inequality in the heart of the Black Belt by building a “solidarity economy” — one that connected community and cooperative enterprises to municipal procurement and remains underway. [URL='http://billmoyers.com/topics/the-economy/'][SIZE=4][B]RELATED: Economy & Work[/B][/SIZE][/URL] [URL='http://billmoyers.com/story/placing-blame-youngstown-white-working-class/'][IMG]http://dy00k1db5oznd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-617812124-400x225.jpg[/IMG] [/URL] [SIZE=5][B][URL='http://billmoyers.com/story/placing-blame-youngstown-white-working-class/']Don’t Blame Youngstown[/URL][/B][/SIZE] [B]BY John Russo and Sherry Linkon[/B] | November 15, 2016 In 2008, the [URL='https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-07-21/evergreen-cooperative-is-a-cleveland-jobs-success-story']Evergreen Cooperative Initiative[/URL] was launched in Cleveland, Ohio — where the population has fallen from more than 900,000 in 1950 to below 400,000 today. Here, a number of cooperatives are linked together with a community-building nonprofit corporation and a revolving fund designed to create more such connected, community-building businesses. The Evergreen Cooperative Laundry operates out of a LEED [Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design] Gold-certified building, uses around one-fifth the amount of water that conventional laundries use, and has an advanced water heating system that saves energy. Evergreen Energy Solutions recently installed one of the larger urban solar fields in the country. And Green City Growers Cooperative — a 3.25-acre hydroponic greenhouse — can produce roughly 3 million heads of lettuce and 300,000 pounds of herbs per year. An important new strategy in Cleveland uses anchor institutions — hospitals and universities in the area that purchase more than $3 billion a year in goods and services — to provide a long-term market for the worker-owned cooperatives. The United Steelworkers, whose national leadership once opposed the Youngstown effort, has also evolved. The union has adopted a major strategy to help build “union co-op” worker-owned companies around the nation. Efforts are underway, in particular, in Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. [/QUOTE]
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