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In This Edition of New Vision
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S NOTE
Redefining a Healthy Business Climate
By Madeline Janis
FEATURES
Red Carpet for TESCO?
Local Groups Asks British Grocery Giant to Put
Promises in Writing
Latest Research From LAANE
New Reports on Poverty, Port Trucking and Service and Job Quality at LAX
Dialogue
Economist Manuel Pastor on Development, Democratic Conversations and the New L.A.
DEPARTMENTS
Justice on the March
News From the Los Angeles Area
Getting Personal
LAANE Honorary Board Member Beth Leder-Pack Fights for Fair Housing and Living Wages
Hot Off the Press
The Latest Articles on Economic Inequality in America
Research Roundup
A Quarterly Selection of New Research on Jobs, Workplace Standards and the Economy
Up Close
In the Shadows of Luxury, LAX Hilton Housekeeper
Isabel Brentner Takes a Stand
Comic Relief
Cartoon
Support the Work of LAANE
Please Help Us Continue Our Work
Executive Director’s Note
Redefining a Healthy Business Climate |
LAANE Executive Director Madeline Janis |
The prevailing wisdom defines a healthy business climate as one with low taxes and little to no regulation. A promoter of such thinking is the Kosmont-Rose Institute, which released its annual cost of doing business survey in July. More |
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Red Carpet for TESCO?
Local Groups Asks British Grocery Giant to
Put Promises in Writing |
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On September 6, a citywide coalition of more than 25 organizations literally rolled out the red carpet for Tesco, the world’s third largest food retailer, which is opening dozens of stores in Southern California. But along with its welcome came an invitation to negotiate a Community Benefits Agreement. More |
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Latest Research from LAANE
New Reports on Poverty, Port Trucking and
Service and Job Quality at LAX |
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In the last three months, LAANE has released three reports addressing the issues of poverty in the Los Angeles region, passenger safety at LAX and the public benefits of a plan to clean up the Ports of L.A and Long Beach. More |
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Dialogue
Economist Manuel Pastor on Development, Democratic Conversations and the New L.A. |
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LAANE’s newest board member,
Manuel Pastor, is also one of the organization’s founders. In the early 1990s, Pastor worked with LAANE’s Executive Director Madeline Janis and Board President Maria Elena Durazo to launch the organization that would become LAANE. More |
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Support the Work of LAANE
LAANE is committed to building a city of justice, and we need your help. Contributions from supporters make it possible for us to transform our economy into one that creates better jobs and stronger communities. Please help us continue this work. (LAANE is a nonprofit organization and contributions to LAANE are tax deductible.) Donate |
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Recommended Reading
A selection of books on labor history, democracy and the progressive movement in America. |
Oracle Bones
 A journalist's encounters with a wide variety of Chinese citizens capture life in a rapidly changing country where an ancient culture still bubbles to the surface. |
Cheap Motels and a
Hot Plate
 A leftist economist and his wife travel around the U.S., stopping to work along the way. The book is an interesting combination of travel guide and reporting on the state of
the country. |
Ludlow
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the prose. |
Latina Activists
Across Borders
 This new release profiles women’s non-
governmental organizations in El Paso/Ciudad Juarez and in
Michoacan, Mexico. |
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