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At the heart of America's growth and prosperity are small businesses. Small and mighty, these businesses are vital not only to our communities, but at a broader economic level. See Our List: 100...
Local economic development (LED) is an approach to economic development, of note in the developing world that, as its name implies, places importance on activities in and by cities, districts and regions. Local economic development combines economic development activities, urban planning, infrastructure development and social development ...
"Local-economy theory" introduces insights into new economic development that honours ecological realities and finds efficiencies in small-scale, shared knowledge at the community level. [3] Community-based economies have been seen to focus on the idea that the “local community should be the focal point of development”.
To strengthen local economy: Studies have shown that buying from an independent, locally owned business, significantly raises the number of times your money is used to make purchases from other local businesses, service providers and farms—continuing to strengthen the economic base of the community.
January’s blockbuster jobs report shocked Wall Street — but the headline number doesn’t paint the entire picture of the US economy. Retail employees are working fewer hours. Here's why that ...
The notion of community business is linked to the notion of community ownership, and more widely co-operative models of ownership.. In his History of Community Asset Ownership, [1] Steve Wyler argues that community ownership represents a strain of English socio-political thoughts and activism that can be traced back to the progressive removal of common land from the Norman Conquest and ...
The local multiplier effect (sometimes called the local premium) is the additional economic benefit accrued to an area from money being spent in the local economy. The concept has been taken up by advocates for "spend local" campaigns in addition to more formal treatments in the area of regional economic development .
In 2013, the Democratic staff of the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce released a report called Wal-Mart's The Low‐Wage Drag on Our Economy: Wal‐Mart's low wages and their effect on taxpayers and economic growth, which analyzed Walmart's effect on U.S. government finances and concluded that each Wal-Mart store with at ...