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libdems.org.uk
Merry Christmas!

From all of us at the Liberal Democrats, wishing you and your loved ones good health and happiness for the holidays. 🎁🎄🎅🏻
December 25, 2024 at 9:09 AM
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coopparty.party.coop
We wish you a Merry Christmas, filled with peace, love, and co-operation.
December 25, 2024 at 8:15 AM
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cooperatives.bsky.social
A study covering all Italian regions finds strong associations between the employment of cooperative firms and the resilience of overall regional employment. Employment is often valued more highly than profit in cooperatives due to their democratic structure. 👩‍🔧📊👷

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The Italian Geography of Regional Resilience: The Role of Cooperative Firms. Michele Costa, Flavio Delbono. Table 6 represents the measures of resilience: The study obtains Resistance as the sum of a1 and a2 for GDP, while e1 indicates the regional elasticity of employment during descent. Similarly, Recovery for GDP is computed (A1 and A2), while E1 measures the regional resilience of employment during ascent. Total resilience results by adding the values of Resistance (Descent) and Recovery (Ascent) for GDP (Employment). Lazio, Trentino-Aldo Adige and Emilia-Romagna present the best performance for employment. As for Lazio, this outcome seems driven by its striking resistance: a value of -0,32 means that its employment fell by less than one third wrt the national fall. The top three regions for GDP per capita are now Abruzzo, which ranks second in recovery (just behind Piedmont), Trentino-Alto Adige and Lombardy. The study focuses on the size of the cooperative movement, as summarized by two variables: (i) the ratio between the added value of cooperative firms and the regional GDP, and (ii) the ratio between the workforce employed in cooperatives and the overall regional employment. Table 7 reports the descriptive statistics of both (i) and (ii). The cooperative movement is distributed unevenly across Italian regions and it is mostly concentrated in the Centre-North, with Emilia-Romagna ranking first in terms of employment as well as added value.
December 23, 2024 at 8:02 PM
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makevotesmatter.bsky.social
Just over five years ago, the Conservatives won a huge landslide with 43.6% of the vote.

Last summer, Labour won another historic landslide with just 33.7% of the vote.

When will we stop giving governments with minority support 100% of the power?
December 18, 2024 at 4:31 PM
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socialistsanddemocrats.eu
We welcome 🇬🇪 President Salome Zourabichvili to the 🇪🇺 Parliament today. Alongside the Georgian people who have taken to the streets for weeks now, she stands for Georgia's democracy, freedom and European choice. We support the people of Georgia and their wish for fair elections and a European future.
December 18, 2024 at 7:33 AM
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cooperatives.bsky.social
Polling shows U.S. voters support worker cooperatives.

● Voters support creating a bank to help businesses become worker co-ops.

● Voters support creating grant programs to expand worker co-ops.

● Voters support small businesses becoming worker co-ops.

www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2021/8/...
Voters Support Creating a U.S. Employee Ownership Bank to Help Companies Transition to Become Worker Owned Cooperatives. Some lawmakers are proposing creating a U.S. Employee Ownership Bank under the Department of the Treasury. This bank would provide funds to help businesses transition to being worker cooperatives, where employees would own their company. The bill would also stipulate that if an employer closes a plant or facility, they would have to offer their employees an opportunity to purchase the plant or facility through an employee stock-ownership plan or an eligible worker cooperative. Do you support or oppose this proposal? All likely voters: 64% support, 21% oppose. Democrat: 77% support, 12% oppose. Independent: 59% support, 20% oppose. Republican: 53% support, 31% oppose. Voters Support Creating Grant Programs to Expand Worker Owned Cooperatives. Some lawmakers are proposing creating a $45 million grant program to support states in establishing or expanding worker cooperatives. This program would provide funds and support to foster employee ownership and decision-making in businesses. Do you support or oppose this proposal? All likely voters: 66% support, 20% oppose. Democrat: 78% support, 12% oppose. Independent: 64% support, 22% oppose. Republican: 54% support, 30% oppose. Voters Support Small Business Becoming Worker Owned Cooperatives. Some small businesses are transitioning to worker cooperatives, which are companies that are owned by their workers instead of by shareholders. In a worker cooperative, workers make managerial decisions together instead of a board of directors, and share the company's profits. Worker cooperatives have been shown to result in higher productivity levels from employees, lower employee turnover, and lower business closure. Do you support or oppose this transition where small businesses become worker cooperatives? All likely voters: 73% support, 13% oppose. Democrat: 79% support, 8% oppose. Independent: 71% support, 11% oppose. Republican: 66% support, 19% oppose.
December 16, 2024 at 11:10 PM