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...Cleveland have turned to the Mondragon model for a consortium of businesses that will provide needed services and bolster an impoverished community. Evergreen Cooperative Laundry, a state-of-the-art commercial launderer designed to be LEED silver-certified, opened for business this fall in Cleveland's University Circle, an area where the average annual household income is $18,500. Rather than just bringing home wages, its eight employees will gain equity through "patronage accounts," a portion of earnings put aside to both build personal assets and reinvest in the company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Cleveland, Worker Co-Ops Look to a Spanish Model | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

...Cleveland model," as Evergreen has already been dubbed, creates "a way to stabilize jobs in an area as well as democratize ownership," says Gar Alperovitz, professor of political economy at the University of Maryland and a founding principal of the Democracy Collaborative, a nonprofit organization that has advised Evergreen. He says part of the strategy has been to address growing sectors of the economy, such as health care and energy. To have a major impact on the regional economy, manufacturing has to be brought in, says Alperovitz. "We're thinking about similar approaches with bullet trains and mass-transit vehicles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Cleveland, Worker Co-Ops Look to a Spanish Model | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

...visual journalism. The unique form in which he operates--reportage translated into comic-book panels--is perfect for conflating time: then, now, it's all the same. Especially in the Gaza Strip, a land haunted by decades of bloodshed and oppression. Sacco, whose previous works include Palestine and Safe Area Gorazde, investigates a pair of events, from November 1956, in which Israeli soldiers massacred hundreds of residents of the towns of Rafah and Khan Younis during the Suez Canal crisis. His reporting on those deaths leads to a meditation on the situation in Gaza in the early 21st century. Sacco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Skimmer | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

...guilty, allegedly surveilled potential targets for the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba. Meanwhile, on Dec. 9, five U.S. citizens of Pakistani and Middle Eastern descent were arrested on terrorism charges in a raid in Sargodha, Pakistan. U.S. officials tell TIME the men are from the Washington area and that one of them left a farewell video stating that Muslims "must be defended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

ADDITIONAL AREA OF PATROL STARTING IN JANUARY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

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