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Employee Ownership Expansion Network Announces Hiring of First Director of State Center Operations Share Article ARLINGTON, Va. (PRWEB) February 19, 2021 The Employee Ownership Expansion Network (EOX) is pleased to announce the hiring of Roy Messing as the Director of State Center Operations. In this role, Roy will play a key part in continuing EOX’s mission of expanding employee ownership across the United States by establishing and supporting a network of State Centers for Employee Ownership. Initially Roy will focus his a...

Black History Month February is Black History Month, and DEC joins the rest of the nation in paying tribute to African American men and women whose significant contributions are woven into the fabric of America's culture. Below DEC is bringing attention to some of the most prolific environmental game changers of yesterday and today. Paying Tribute to a Legacy Members of the Civilian Conservation Corps Unit 1251 C II in the 1930s. In 1933, to combat the turmoil from the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and enlisted thousands o...

It’s a certainty that we’ll be entering both the new year and a new Democratic administration with the American economy on its knees. We’ll return to something resembling normalcy with time, but communities across the country and the lives of millions have already been irrevocably altered. The lesson of the last financial crisis—that precarity endures for working Americans long after the markets and headline figures rebound—will have to be learned again. And the central truth of our economic system will have to be confronted afresh: Ours is an economy where profits and power accrue ...

To set out a long-term vision, our benchmarks and to say this is where we want to go as a nation. and we have to establish an advanced society here in the united states of america. what that means is that we have to push the bounds, we have to start treating housing as a right, we need to start protecting renters and updating the federal poverty line. our calculation for the federal poverty line is based on 1955 spending habits that assumes one income earner, a stay-at-home mom. we need to update our poverty line, address the housing crisis in this country. we need to stop treating people who ...

The rest of their lives. we need to become a modern society. we need to honor workers' rights, the right to unionize, the right to establish worker cooperatives, and we also need to join the international community by signing and ratifying the u.n. convent on economic, social, and cultural rights. i mean we need to catch up to the rest of the world, and then we need to lead the rest of the world not just on climate change, but on social issues and on economic issues so that we can actually act like a humanity that is existing in the 21st century. >> give me a quick take on the obvious pushback...