Job developer Michael Shuman seeks to rebuild struggling communities with home-grown businesses.
For the past five years, Shuman has been barnstorming across the United States, preaching the gospel of economic "localism." It's an appeal to community values as well as economic self-interest, a call to support locally owned businesses that don't outsource, don't pack up their businesses and leave on a moment's notice, and who recycle their customers' dollars back into the community.
"In the current economic downturn, Americans are beginning to understand that their future prosperity lies in the community businesses down the street that employ their neighbors, pay the taxes, and promote local relationships and trust."
~what's best for the economic health of a community: Locally owned businesses or large, multinational chain stores? READ ALL...
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