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Last week Minister Tom Arthur told the Scottish Parliament about the irrefutable advantages of Community Wealth Building

TDC’s CWB Global Lead @neilmcinroy.bsky.social continues to promote, develop and advise on the model across Scotland

Scottish CWB legislation is due later this year
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February 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Our Index of Systemic Trends, via Aditya Chakrabortty’s analysis, in The Nation magazine’s U.S. presidential election postmortem: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The 2024 Index of Systemic Trends: index.democracycollaborative.org
Quotation from Aditya Chakrabortty: Above a truly stunning graph showing average hourly wages for blue-collar workers in the United States, Chakrabortty notes that for the vast majority of US employees—whether middle class or working class, teacher or shop assistant—wages have flatlined. Not for four or even 20 years—but for most of the past half century. Strip out inflation, and average hourly earnings for seven out of 10 employees have barely risen since Richard Nixon was in the White House. As he explains, if you start from an oligarchy where, while the rich get steadily richer, “most workers only get by because of low gas and food prices,” and then add a hefty measure of post-Covid inflation, the recipe for conflagration is complete.
November 26, 2024 at 5:05 PM