New State &
Local Policies
ARTICLES
Gar Alperovitz, “The Progressive Tax Revolt–and the
Possibility of a Progressive Ownership Society,” commondreams.org.
May 10, 2005.
article-alperovitz.pdf
(68KB)
Gar Alperovitz, “The New Ownership Society,” The Nation,
June 27, 2005.
article-alperovitz_nos.pdf
(26KB)
Judith Davidoff, “City law on wages upheld: Judge Sumi issues ruling,”
The Capitol Times (Madison, Wisconsin), April 21, 2005.
article-davidoff.pdf
(72KB)
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)
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)
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.
article-johnson.pdf
(100KB)
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.
article-leroy.pdf (125KB)
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)
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.
article-mitchell-08.pdf (500KB)
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, “Protecting Locally Owned Retail,” Main Street
News,
February 2004.
article-mitchell.pdf
(363KB)
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.
article-moberg.pdf
(88KB)
John Nichols, “Democrats Score in the Rockies,” The Nation, December
6, 2004.
article-nichols.pdf
(117KB)
Michael Shuman, An Open Letter to Bellingham, Washington, DC: Michael Shuman,
May 2006.
article-shuman.pdf
(240KB)
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)
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)
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)
Governor Jennifer M. Granholm, Jobs Today Initiative, Lansing, Michigan: State
of Michigan, 2005.
paper-granholm.pdf
(149KB)
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)
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)
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*
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)
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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)
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)
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