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He would teach them how to build chimney stacks for the smoke to distract. In turn, these leaders would educate others in the village, on this task. Also he would build more suitable toilets for improved sanitary. “I walked for miles every week, putting these projects into action,” Richie explained. A brilliant idea to send young people to developi

Free trade, and capitalism in general, are constantly creating new wealth and on the whole drive the economy forward. But “on the whole” excludes those who lose their jobs as the economic revolution takes place and never find a new job.

In the 1980s, Milwaukee was the epicenter of deindustrialization. In the 1990s, it would become “the epicenter of the antiwelfare crusade.” As President Clinton was fine-tuning his plan to “end welfare as we know it,” a conservative reformer by the name of Jason Turner was transforming Milwaukee into a policy experiment that captivated lawmakers ar

Without social progress at home, the pro-free trade stand is no longer associated with prosperity and economic security. Rather, it is perceived as exposing workers to instability, lowered purchasing power and accelerating unemployment in sectors of the economy that are no longer competitive on the global stage.

Hence, the attempt to achieve social justice through the redistribution of capital wealth is inherently contradictory. The more welfare policies and state regulations that prevent the exploitation of living labor, the more restricted are the possibilities of extracting surplus value, and the less “wealth” is available to distribute in the economy.

Au point de l’histoire humaine où nous en sommes, le mouvement qui décrit le mieux le progrès dont nous avons besoin est l’entrée dans un équilibre dynamique, en avançant dans l’espace juste et sûr du Donut, en éliminant à la fois les insuffisances et les dépassements. Cela requiert une véritable transformation de nos métaphores : non plus « le bie

The key to unlocking the implications of megapolitical change is understanding the factors that precipitate revolutions in the use of violence. These variables can be somewhat arbitrarily grouped into four categories: topography, climate, microbes, and technology.

Obviously Reich’s influence went way beyond just me. Alongside other authors such as Anthony Giddens[411] and Jeremy Rifkin[412], he was instrumental in crafting the message of a new generation of progressive leaders that the era of the steady, lifelong job was over. In a more global and unstable world, lifelong education was the new key to providi