Responding to the Economic Crisis
It is time for all of us to learn more and organize for fundamental changes in the U.S. economy. The IPS “Sensible Plan For Recovery” calls for a “Green Stimulus” package, a halt to foreclosures, limits on excessive CEO and profiteering from the bailouts, a closing of the “casino economy,” and a series of proposals to make Wall Street pay to clean up its mess.
AGENDA: “Second Chance: A Sensible Plan for Getting the Recovery Right,” from the Institute for Policy Studies.
Download a 4-page PDF overview of a comprehensive plan to stabilize both Main Street and the banking system. http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/#752
AGENDA: Towards Shared Recovery. Coalition on Human Needs and the Emergency Campaign for Americas Priorities. September 9, 2008. http://www.chn.org/pdf/2008/stimulus9908.pdf
ARTICLE: David Korten, “Beyond the Bailout: Agenda for a New Economy,” YES! Magazine Winter 2009. Available at: http://www.yesmagazine.org/beyondbailouts.
ARTICLE: “Ten Ways to Bailout Wall Street (and Main Street) without Soaking the Taxpayer” by Chuck Collins and Dedrick Muhammad. Where to find $900 billion without adding more to the National Debt. http://www.alternet.org/workplace/100223/
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