Hey, a magazine - The Nation - with an article on Cleveland that’s positive and hopeful – about the Evergreen Cooperative Laundry and its promising help for our city. Headlined “The Cleveland Model,” it suggests a possibility for other hard-pressed cities, too. With Cleveland as the model.
The article notes, “Something important is happening in Cleveland: a new model of large scale worker - and community - benefitting enterprises is beginning to build serious momentum in one of the city’s most dramatically impacted by the nation’s decaying economy.”
Take note Forbes magazine editors!
The enterprise has received some notice here but The Nation article puts it in a broader economic picture.
The laundry is worker-owned, of industrial size and environmentally motivated. The Cleveland Foundation and other foundations have put money into the venture along with the city and banks.
The aim is to give distressed neighborhoods an opportunity to have a workplace jobs along with ownership and provide a needed service by serving the health care industry with something it requires.
It’s a start with possibilities of other ventures mentioned by the authors. You can read the piece here:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100301/alperowitz_et_al [1]
Links:
[1] http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100301/alperowitz_et_al
[2] http://66.228.45.157/content/city-tax-should-be-progressive-it-isnt
[3] http://66.228.45.157/content/roldo-bartimole-0
[4] http://66.228.45.157/content/cleveland-watch-out-theft-historic-building