Economic Develop
The Need for Economic Development
Many members of economically depressed communities:
- Go hungry every day.
- Cannot afford a healthy diet.
- Live in a chemically contaminated environment.
- Cannot obtain employment at a living wage.
- Are homeless, do not have affordable housing, and cannot obtain employment.
- Do not have access to affordable healthcare.
- Do not live in a physically safe environment.
Many members of economically depressed communities:
- Do not know that they can be involved in the planning of their students’ educational programs.
- Do not know that they can demand that their students’ schools have competitive academic and vocational-technical programs.
- Are not able to ensure that their students' education will assist them in obtaining employment.
- Cannot ensure that their students are not hungry most of the time.
- Cannot ensure that their students live in and are educated in a physically safe environment.
- Students' are homeless.
Principles Of Socially Responsible Businesses
Underlying principles for socially responsible businesses are:
- Community assets which are provided to assist in the establishment of businesses will be converted to their financial equivalent for the purpose of considering their worth as a financial investment.
- The value of community assets which are provided to assist in the establishment of businesses will be considered on par with liquid financial investments.
- Communities will be valid stockholders of any businesses to which they provide assets.
- The community’s ownership of businesses will be proportional to the value of assets that the community provided to the businesses.
- Community assets should be used to minimize the liquid financial investment required to establish businesses.
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