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ARTICLES

Jenn Abelson , “Merchants seek local control of Faneuil Hall, $20m raised so far to buy out lease,” Boston, MA: The Boston Globe, June 24, 2009
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Gar Alperovitz, “The New Ownership Society,” The Nation, June 27, 2005.
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Gar Alperovitz, “The Progressive Tax Revolt–and the Possibility of a Progressive Ownership Society,” commondreams.org. May 10, 2005.
article-alperovitz.pdf (68KB)

Benjamin S. Beach, “Strategies and Lessons from the Los Angeles Community Benefits Experience,” Journal of Affordable Housing, Vol. 17:1-2, Fall 2007/Winter 2008.
article-beach.pdf (190KB)

Joshua Bloom, "Community-owned Businesses: How Communities Become Entrepreneurs," Washington, DC: Main Street Now, National Trust For Historic Preservation, Mar/Apr 2010.
article-bloom.pdf (875KB)

Judith Davidoff, “City law on wages upheld: Judge Sumi issues ruling,” The Capitol Times (Madison, Wisconsin), April 21, 2005.
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Nancy Folbre, “Demanding Quality: Worker/Consumer Coalitions and “High Road” Strategies in the Care Sector, “ Politics & Society, Vol. 34 , No. 1, March 2006, pp. 1-21.
article-folbre.pdf (102KB)

Tracey Giang, Allison Karpyn, Hannah Burton Laurison, Amy Hillier, and R. Duane Perry, "Closing the Grocery Gap in Underserved Communities: The Creation of the Pennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative," Journal of Public Health Management Practice, vol. 14, no. 3, 2008, pp. 272-279.
article-glang-et-al.pdf (1.2MB)

Robert Greene, Thinking Outside the Big Box; L.A.'s New Law to Rein in Wal-Mart Isn't Sweeping, But It May Be Smart, LA Weekly, August 13-19, 2004.
article-greene.pdf (68KB)

Josh Harkinson, "How the Nation's Only State-Owned Bank Became the Envy of Wall Street", Mother Jones, Political Mojo Blog, March 27, 2009.
article-harkinson.pdf (130KB)

Tim Holt, “An urgent call to 'buy local': Job developer Michael Shuman seeks to rebuild struggling communities with home-grown businesses,” Boston, MA: The Christian Science Monitor, February 9, 2009.
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Hans Johnson, “Measuring Ballot Measures: Despite focus on anti-gay referendums, progressive ballot initiatives may have been the real story, In These Times, November 16, 2004.
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Valdis Krebs and June Holley, Building Smart Communities through Network Weaving, Athens, OH: Appalachian Center for Economic Networks, 2006.
article-krebs-holley.pdf (340KB)

Greg LeRoy, “TIF, Greenfields, and Sprawl: How an Incentive Created to Alleviate Slums Has Come to Subsidize Upscale Malls and New Urbanist Developments,” Planning & Environmental Law, Vol. 60, No. 2, February 2008, pp. 3-11.
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Greg LeRoy and Philip Mattera, Uncle Sam's Rusty Toolkit: How Proven State and Local Reforms Can Make Federal Economic Development Programs Better for Taxpayers, Workers and the Environment, Washington, DC: Good Jobs First, November 2008.
paper-leroy-mattera.pdf (620KB)

Neil Mayer and Langley Keyes, City Government’s Role in the Community Development System, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, June 2005.
report-mayer-keyes.pdf (456KB)

Joel Millman, "Stock Exchanges for Local Businesses," New York, NY: Wall Street Journal, June 2011
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Stacy Mitchell, "Community Owned Stores: New Anchors for Older Main Streets," Forum News, Washington DC: National Trust for Historic Preservation, May/June 2008, pp. 1-2, 6.
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Stacy Mitchell, “Pennsylvania Seeds a New Crop of Local Grocery Stores,” Minneapolis, MN: The Hometown Advantage, New Rules Project, September 12, 2008.
article-mitchell08.pdf (500KB)

Stacy Mitchell, “Protecting Locally Owned Retail,” Main Street News,
February 2004.
article-mitchell.pdf (363KB)

Stacy Mitchell (Senior Researcher, Institute for Local Self-Reliance), Reviving Locally Owned Retail, presentation to CLIC Trade Show: Connecting and Linking Independents with Commercial Development, Austin, TX: Austin Independent Business Alliance, May 16, 2006.
article-mitchell.pdf (80KB)

Stacy Mitchell, A New Deal for Local Economies, New Rules Project, Bristol Schumacher Conference in Bristol, England, October 17, 2009.
article-mitchell09.pdf (170KB)

Stacy Mitchell, "Putting Wal-Mart's Green Moves in Context," Seattle, WA: Grist, Mar 5, 2010.
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David Moberg, “Climate Change Needed: The notion of what makes a "good business climate" needs to be radically rethought,” In These Times, October 19, 2005.
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John Nichols, “Democrats Score in the Rockies,” The Nation, December 6, 2004.
article-nichols.pdf (117KB)

Patricia E. Salkin, Understanding Community Benefit Agreements: Opportunities and Traps for Developers, Municipalities and Community Organizations, Albany, NY: Albany Law School, October 29, 2007.
article-salkin.pdf (200KB)

Michael Shuman, An Open Letter to Bellingham, Washington, DC: Michael Shuman, May 2006.
article-shuman.pdf (240KB)

Judy Wicks, "Judy Wicks: In Business for Life" Bainbridge, WA: Yes! Magazine, Winter 2007.
article-wicks.pdf (370KB)

BOOKS

Grassroots Policy Project, the Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice, and Sustainable America, Public Subsidies, Public Accountability: Holding Corporations to Labor & Community Standards. Washington, D.C.: Grassroots Policy Project, 1998.

Greg Leroy, The Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation. San Francisco: Berret-Kohler, 2005. Chapters and additional information is available on line at www.greatamericanjobsscam.com/pages/preview-book.html.

Stacy Mitchell, The Hometown Advantage: Building Locally Owned Businesses. Minneapolis: Institute for Local Self-Reliance, 2000.

Holly Sklar and Rev. Dr. Paul H. Sherry, A Just Minimum Wage: Good for Workers, Business, and Our Future, Philadelphia, PA and New York, NY: American Friends Service Committee and the National Council of Churches USA, October 2005.
book-sklar-sherry.pdf (2.5MB)

PAPERS

Gar Alperovitz and Steve Dubb, "City, County, and State Policies and Actions that Build Community Wealth," The Democracy Collaborative, April, 2005.
paper-alperovitz.pdf (154KB)

Paul C. Brophy and Jennifer S. Vey, Seizing City Assets: Ten Steps to Urban Land Reform, Washington, DC and Boston, MA: Center on Urban & Metropolitan Policy, The Brookings Institution and CEOs for Cities, October 2002.
paper-brophy-vey.pdf (760KB)

Civic Economics, The San Francisco Retail Diversity Study, report prepared for the San Francisco Locally Owned Merchants Alliance, Chicago, IL and Austin, TX: Civic Economics, May 2007.
paper-civic.pdf (920KB)

Maureen Conway with Amy Kays Blair, Steven L. Dawson, and Linda Dworak-Muñoz, Strategies in Brief, Workforce Strategies Institute, Washington, DC: The Aspen Institute, November 2007.
paper-conway-et-al.pdf (735KB)

Abbey Frank, Mark Greenberg, and Robert Zdenek, Getting Connected: Employer Engagement in Work Supports, Workforce Development Series, Policy Paper No. 1, Washington, DC: Center for Law and Social Policy, May 2006.
paper-frank2.pdf (480KB)

Larry Frank and Kent Wong. Intense Political Mobilization: The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University, Center for Labor Studies. Accessed at www.laborstudies.wayne.edu/power.html
paper-frank.pdf (72KB)

Governor Jennifer M. Granholm, Jobs Today Initiative, Lansing, Michigan: State of Michigan, 2005.
paper-granholm.pdf (149KB)

June Holley, Entrepreneurship with a regional flavor, Athens, OH: Appalachian Center for Economic Networks, 2009.
paper-holley.pdf (840KB)

Daphne Lamson Hunt and Sandra Venner, Minimum Wage: Creating an Asset Foundation, Waltham, MA: Institute on Assets and Social Policy, Brandeis University, December 2005.
paper-hunt-venner.pdf (220KB)

Jason Judd and Heather McGhee, "Banking on America: How Main Street Partnership Banks Can Improve Local Economies," New York, NY: Demos, April 2011
paper-judd.pdf (540KB)

Laurie Kaye and Jerilyn Lopez Mendoza, Everybody Wins: Lessons From Negotiating Community Benefits Agreements in Los Angeles, New York, NY: Environmental Defense, 2008.
paper-kaye-mendoza.pdf (900KB)

LAX (Los Angeles International Airport) Master Plan Program, Community Benefits Agreement.
paper-lax.pdf (141KB)

Stephanie Luce and Mark Nelson, Starting Down the Road to Power: the Denver Area Labor Federation. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University, Center for Labor Studies. Accessed at www.laborstudies.wayne.edu/power.html
paper-luce.pdf (60KB)

Michael Mazerov, State Corporate Tax Disclosure: The Next Step in Corporate Tax Reform, Washington, DC: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, February 2007.
paper-mazerov.pdf (424KB)

David Morris, Ownership Matters: Three Steps to Ensure a Biofuels Industry that Truly Benefits Rural America, Minneapolis, MN: Institute for Local Self-Reliance, February 2006.
paper-morris.pdf (1.4MB)

Satish Nambisan, Transforming Government Through Collaborative Innovation, Washington, DC: IBM Center for The Business of Government, 2008.
paper-nambisan.pdf (770KB)

*NEW*
Kathleen Mulligan-Hansel, Making Development Work for Local Residents: Local Hire Programs and Implementation Strategies that Serve Low-Income Communities, Washington, DC: The Partnership for Working Families, Jul 2008.
report-mulligan-hansel.pdf (1.2MB)

Jonathan Njus and Michael Evangelist, Making the Case for Community VITA Funding, prepared for the National Community Tax Coalition, Chicago, IL: Center for Economic Progress, November 2007.
paper-njus-evangelist.pdf (552KB)

*NEW*
Sebrina Owens-Wilson, Constructing Buildings Building Careers: How Local Governments in Los Angeles are Creating Real Career Pathways for Residents, Washington, DC: The Partnership for Working Families, Aug 2010.
paper-owens-wilson.pdf (1.3MB)

Evans Paull, State Programs and Policies to Encourage Local Government Actions to Address Brownfields, Washington, DC: Northeast-Midwest Institute, April 2008.
paper-paull.pdf (306KB)

Michael H. Shuman & Doug Hoffer, Leakage Analysis of the Martha’s Vineyard Economy: Increasing Prosperity through Greater Self-Reliance, Bucksport, ME: Training & Development Corporation, August 2007.
paper-shuman-hoffer.pdf (215KB)

Joel Slemrod, The Economics of Corporate Tax Selfishness. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Business School, September 2004.
paper-slemrod.pdf (243KB)

Sarah Stecker and Dan Steinberg, Pay, Or We (Might) Go: How Citicorp Games the States and Cities, Trenton, NJ and New York, NY: New Jersey Policy Perspective and Good Jobs New York, June 2007.
paper-stecker-steinberg.pdf (540KB)

Vicki Weiner, Saving Independent Retail: Policy Measures to Keep Neighborhoods Thriving, Brooklyn, NY: Pratt Center for Community Development, August 2009.
paper-weiner.pdf (100KB)

Edward N. Wolff, Changes in Household Wealth in the 1980s and 1990s. Working Paper #407. Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: The Levy Economics Institute, May 2004.
paper-wolff.pdf (447KB)

REPORTS

Annie E. Casey Foundation, Community Benefits Agreements: The Power, Practice, and Promise of a Responsible Redevelopment Tool, Baltimore, MD: 2007.
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Sabine Awad, Charlene Crowell, James Espinas, Alan Hipolito, Jesus “Jesse” Leon, and Dwayne Marsh (ed. by Sabine Awad, Maureen Lawless, Jesus “Jesse” Leon, and Ben Starrett), Signs of Promise: Stories of Philanthropic Leadership in Advancing Regional and Neighborhood Equity, Coral Gables, FL: Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities, 2005.
report-awad-et-al.pdf (5.4MB)

John H. Bowman, et al, Property Tax Circuit Breakers: Fair and Cost-Effective Relief for Taxpayers, Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2009.
report-bowman-et-al.pdf (4.5MB)

Noel Bravo and Minh Ta with Thabiti Anyabwile, Policy Matters: Twenty State Policies to Enhance States’ Prosperity and Create Bright Futures for America’s Children, Families and Communities, Washington, D.C.: Center for the Study of Social Policy, January 2006.
report-bravo-ta.pdf (668KB)

Civic Economics, The Andersonville Study of Retail Economics, Chicago: Civic Economics, October 2004.
report-civic-economics.pdf (813KB)

The Democracy Collaborative, Your Community's Economic Future: A Guide to Innovative State and Local Policies. College Park, MD, 2001.
report-dc.pdf (784KB)

Reid Ewing and John Kostyack, with Don Chen, Bruce Stein, and Michell Ernst, Endangered by Sprawl: How Runaway Development Threatens America’s Wildlife. Washington, D.C.; Natural Wildlife Federation, Smart Growth America, and Nature Serve, January 2005.
report-ewing.pdf (1.44MB)

Julian Gross, with Greg LeRoy and Madeline Janis-Aparicio, Community Benefits Agreements: Making Development Projects Accountable. Los Angeles, CA: Good Jobs First and the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, 2002.
report-gross.pdf (267KB)

Bernie Horn, editor, Progressive Agenda for the States 2006: State Policy Leading America. Washington, DC: Center for Policy Alternatives, 2006.
report-horn2.pdf (2.6MB)

Anupama Joshi, Marion Kalb and Moira Beery, Going Local: Paths to Success For Farm to School Programs, Los Angeles, CA: National Farm to School Program, Center for Food & Justice, Occidental Community Food Security Coalition, December 2006.
report-joshi-kalb-beery.pdf (5.6MB)

Iris J. Lav, Elizabeth McNichol, and Robert Zahradnik, Faulty Foundations: State Structural Budget Problems and How to Fix Them. Washington, D.C.: Center for Budget & Policy Priorities, May 2005.
report-lav-et-al.pdf (376KB)

Greg LeRoy and Karla Walter, The Thin Cities: How Subsidized Job Piracy Deepens Inequality n the Twin Cities Metro Area, Washington, DC: Good Jobs First, December 2006.
report-leroy-walter.pdf (5.7MB)

Robert G. Lynch, Rethinking Growth Strategies, Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute, 2004.
report-lynch.pdf (260KB)

Philip Mattera with Greg LeRoy. The Jobs are Back in Town: Urban Smart Growth and Construction Employment. Washington, D.C.: Good Jobs First, November 2003.
report-mattera.pdf (2.68MB)

Philip Mattera, Karla Walter, Julie Farb Blain and Colleen Ruddick, Rolling Back Property Tax Payments: How Wal-Mart Short-Changes Schools and other Public Services by Challenging Its Property Tax Assessments, Washington, DC: Good Jobs First, October 2007.
report-mattera-et-al.pdf (556KB)

Stacy Mitchell, 10 Reasons Why Maine's Homegrown Economy Matters and 50 Proven Ways to Revive It, Belfast, ME: Maine Businesses for Social Responsibility, May 2006.
report-mitchell.pdf (637KB)

Nathan Newman, J. Mijin Cha, and Adam Thompson, Taking The Lead: An Interim Report on State Legislative Successes in Enacting Progressive Policy, New York, NY: Progressive States Network, June 2007.
report-newman-et-al.pdf (1MB)

Anne Nolan with Greg LeRoy. Get Something Back! How Civic Engagement is Raising Economic Development Expectations in Minnesota. Washington, D.C.: Good Jobs First, October 2003.
report-nolan.pdf (1.15MB)

John Petro, No More Delay: Proven Policy Solutions for New York City, Brooklyn, NY: Drum Major Institute, 2009.
report-petro.pdf (450KB)

Anne Purinton with Nasreen Jilani, Kristen Arant, and Kate Davis. The Policy Shift to Good Jobs: Cities, States, and Counties Attaching Job Quality Standards to Development Subsidies. Washington, D.C.: Good Jobs First, November 2003.
report-purinton.pdf (2.26MB)

John Talberth, Aaron G. Lehmer, David Room, Brian Holland, Kirsten Schwind, Jennifer Bresee, and Connie Galambos, Building a Resilient and Equitable Bay Area: Toward a Coordinated Strategy for Economic Localization, San Francisco, CA; Oakland, CA; and Albuquerque, NM: Redefining Progress, Bay Localize, Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, International Forum on Globalization, and Center for Sustainable Economy, November 2006.
report-talbreth-et-al.pdf (508KB)

Kenneth Temkin, Brett Theodos, and David Price, Shared Equity Homeownership Evaluation: Case Study of a Regional Coalition for Housing (ARCH), Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, Oct 2010.
report-temkin-et-al5.pdf (220KB)

Kenneth Temkin, Brett Theodos, and David Price, Shared Equity Homeownership Evaluation: Case Study of the San Francisco Citywide Inclusionary Affordable Housing Program, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, Oct 2010.
report-temkin-et-al6.pdf (235KB)

Sandra H. Venner with Janet Boguslaw and Daphne Lamson Hunt, Innovative State Policies to Reduce Poverty and Expand the Middle Class: Building Asset Security Among Low-Income Households, Waltham, MA: Institute on Assets and Social Policy, The Heller School of Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, December 2005.
report-venner.pdf (536KB)