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News: New Report Examines Racial Wealth Gap

March 7, 2013 – 3:38 pm

From Philanthropy News Digest: Over nearly thirty years, American policies and institutional practices have created different opportunities for African Americans and whites, contributing to dramatic racial disparities in household wealth, a report from the Institute on Assets and Social Policy at Brandeis University finds. Based on an analysis of the same 1,700 working households from [...]

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Video: A Look at Wealth Inequality & Happiness

March 7, 2013 – 12:48 pm

Tom Barefoot, one of our close partners and leader of Gross National Happiness USA (GNHUSA) passed on these videos as examples of data visualization and a light-hearted look at well-being. How to Do Happiness – This video presents twelve principles that can help you to increase your level of HAPPINESS. Those principles were extracted from [...]

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Video: New Economy Conference Promotes Resilient Communities 12/7/12

February 1, 2013 – 4:47 pm

The Vermont New Economy Conference was held in Montpelier, Vermont in December 2012. Sponsored by Global Community Initiatives, which seeks to promote resilient local economies. The day-long  conference considering financial models that make prosperous local economies, including public banking, local stock markets and mutual funds, crowd funding and other local investment tools, and time banks. [...]

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Editorial: More Vermont Payroll, Less Economic Security

January 19, 2013 – 11:02 am

Public Assets Institute share’s their editorials about Vermont’s economy on a regular basis. Despite some signs that the economy is improving, the number of Vermonters needing help to buy food continues to grow. In November, participants in 3SquaresVT—Vermont’s name for the food stamp program—exceeded 100,000 for the first time. It’s an indication, cited in Public [...]

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Donations to Largest Charities Expected to Remain Flat in 2012

October 16, 2012 – 7:57 pm

Reported in Chronicle of Philanthropy. While many of the nation’s largest charitable organizations saw healthy gains in their fundraising results in 2011, the sluggish economic recovery is affecting many organizations as well as the outlook for 2012, theChronicle of Philanthropy reports. According to the Chronicle‘s annual Philanthropy 400 rankings(subscription required), the largest U.S. nonprofits achieved a median 7.5 percent [...]

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News: USDA Seeks Applications for Rural Job/Economic Growth Projects

March 27, 2012 – 1:49 pm

Thanks to Marie Ferris,   Rural Vermont U.S. Department of Agriculture for sharing this information with Common Good Vermont. Have something you’d like to share with Vermont’s nonprofit community? Get in touch Coordinator@CommonGoodVT.org, 802.862.1645 x21 USDA Seeks Applications to Spur Job Creation, Economic Growth in Rural Areas Funding Available For Regional Economic Development Strategies Deadline: May [...]

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News: Tactics to Help Nonprofits Endure the Economy

January 18, 2012 – 10:11 am

This article, posted on massnonprofit.org, a news and information site for the nonprofit sector in Massachusetts, recently posted this article on the findings from a new study completed by the Bridgespan Group on how nonprofit leaders plan to handle reductions in government funding and the need for increased collaboration.  Findings apply to Massachusetts as much [...]

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Senator Sander’s Poll Shows Jobs & Economy Concerns

January 15, 2012 – 11:15 am

More than 2,700 people shared their priorities for the year with Senator Bernie Sanders in the last Vt. Bernie Buzz poll. The most significant economic downturn since the Great Depression continues to dominate the issues. More than one in three people, or 36 percent, said jobs and the economy were their top concerns. And more [...]

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New report on working Vermont: Reverse priorities to put people first

January 2, 2012 – 9:17 am

Three years after the start of the Great Recession, the gap between Vermont’s wealthiest and everyone else had widened, and thousands of Vermonters had sunk into poverty, according to a new report released by Public Assets Institute today. The governor’s goal of rebuilding the middle class is an important start, but Montpelier must begin to create a state that works for everybody, the report says.

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News: Vermont Unemployment Rate Down to 5.8 percent

October 21, 2011 – 6:41 pm

Reposted from Vermont Businesses Magazine The Vermont Department of Labor announced today the seasonally-adjusted statewide unemployment rate for September 2011 was 5.8 percent, a decrease of one-tenth of a percent from the August rate. Compared to a year ago, the rate is lower by one-tenth of a percentage point. The Vermont unemployment rate continues to [...]

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