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New York City’s economy has been very good at piling up private wealth and building tall buildings but it’s done less well, especially recently, when it comes to maintaining public services and public trust. In April 2019, Laura attended an historic gathering at the School for Labor and Urban Studies at the City University of New York (CUNY) and talked with the city’s then Deputy Mayor, J. Phillip Thompson among others, about the way a city like New York might change its economic model going forward, so as to share wealth — and power — more democratically, while simultaneously fending off climate change and a public health crisis. This episode also features a report on Cooperative Home Care Associates, the largest worker-owned cooperative in the U.S., based in the Bronx.

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