Edinburgh Ok, I’ll admit it. Having stumbled on this term “precariat” recently in conversations in London, referring to an emerging class of workers and families, vital to the neo-liberal business model but unmoored from the current economy and lacking any income or job security, I’m noticing it everywhere. Most recently I read a piece in …
Category: Citizen Wealth
Study Establishes that People-User-Based Public Service Strategy Could Save Billions
Edinburgh Riding on the train from Stafford to Edinburgh, I started reading a pamphlet produced by Locality, the big UK nonprofit. The title, “Saving Money by Doing the Right Thing,” had caught my eye sitting on a literature table at the training conference. The upshot was a contrarian, but in our experience accurate and corrective …
Finding a Way out of the Maze: Citizen Wealth Centers
Staffordshire In organizing low-and-moderate income people both in the workplace and the community, one of the most vexing organizing problems has always been the Sisyphean dilemma, that no matter how many issues the organization might address, and even resolve, there were always scores of others, both personal and collective and often both, that were not being …