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Agenda for Shared Prosperity
The American people need an economic agenda that will spur growth, reduce insecurity, and provide broadly shared prosperity. Drawing upon some of the best informed and most innovative experts, the Agenda for Shared Prosperity will advance an economic program that is comprehensive, understandable, and workable.

American Legislative Issue Campaign Exchange
The American Legislative Issue Campaign Exchange (ALICE) defines High Road as high-wage, low-waste, worker-friendly, publicly-accountable economic development. Alice's website hopes to serve as a collaborative clearinghouse and legislative hub for local activists, organizations, experts and elected officials who want a map and vehicle to take the High Road. ALICE is a collaborative project of the Economic Analysis and Research Network, the Center on Wisconsin Strategy and other progressive organizations.

Apollo Alliance for Good Jobs & Clean Energy
The Apollo Alliance is about rejuvenating our nation’s economy by creating the next generation of American industrial jobs and treating clean energy as an economic and security mandate to rebuild America…focusing public investment, research, science and technology education, worker training, and America’s industrial might on a common purpose. We face an economy hemorrhaging its highest paying and most productive jobs, cities falling apart with over a trillion dollars in unmet public investment in crumbling schools, transportation, and infrastructure.

Economic Policy Institute
The Economic Policy Institute provides high-quality research and education in order to promote a prosperous, fair, and sustainable economy. The Institute stresses real world analysis and a concern for the living standards of working people. EPI works to strengthen democracy by providing people with the tools to participate in the public discussion on the economy, resulting in policies that better reflect the public interest.

Equal Time Radio
Equal Time Radio is where Vermonters talk about issues ignored by the corporate media—mothers opposing toxic pollution, workers fighting for decent jobs, nurses working for health care reform, students speaking out about their education, farmers struggling against corporate agribusiness, and more.

Good Jobs First
Good Jobs First is a policy resource center for grassroots groups and public officials, promoting corporate and government accountability in economic development and smart growth for working families. We provide information on best practices in state and local job subsidies, and on the ties between smart growth and good jobs.

High Road Blog
Regularly updated source for articles on Vermont's economy and issues facing working Vermonters.

Interfaith Worker Justice
Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ) calls upon our religious values in order to educate, organize, and mobilize the religious community in the U.S. on issues and campaigns that will improve wages, benefits, and working conditions for workers, especially low-wage workers.

Public Assets Institute
The Public Assets Institute believes that a fundamental purpose of government is to help improve the wellbeing of all citizens, especially the most vulnerable.
PAI conducts research, performs fiscal analysis, and develops policies that mobilize the power and financial resources of government to advance the public good.

Vermont Livable Wage Campaign
The Vermont Livable Wage Campaign believes that all Vermonters have the right to a livable wage job that meets their basic needs, to organize themselves into a union, and to work in a respectful work environment.

We are building a statewide movement of working people and their allies who are fighting to win livable wages through community-based organizing and union solidarity efforts. We believe that our hard-earned tax dollars should be invested in our communities to promote livable wage job creation rather than corporate subsidies which threaten the economy and culture of our state.

The Vermont Livable Wage Campaign is a coalition of local living wage groups, non-profit advocacy groups, unions, and religious communities dedicated to ensuring that every Vermonter receives a livable wage or income.

Vermont Workers' Center
The Vermont Workers' Center is a democratic, member-run organization dedicated to organizing for workers' rights and living wages for all Vermonters.

We seek an economically just and democratic Vermont in which all residents have living wages, decent health care, childcare, housing and transportation.

We work to build a democratic, diverse movement of working Vermonters that is locally focused and coordinated on a statewide basis. We work with organized labor in moving towards economic justice and in strengthening the right to organize. We are committed to taking action on the full range of issues of concern to working people, and to building alliances nationally and internationally.

Working for America Institute
The AFL-CIO Working for America Institute (WAI) is dedicated to creating good jobs and building strong communities. WAI articulates a vision of a high road economy—an economy that competes in today’s global marketplace on the basis of innovation, quality and skill rather than on low wages and benefits. The “high road” is the path the Institute believes America must take to ensure that economic growth benefits workers, employers and their communities—not just the bottom line.

Truth of health care is very inconvenient, Cornelius Hogan, Dr. Deborah Richter and Terry Doran
Several weeks ago an important report commissioned by the Vermont Health Care Commission was quietly posted on the Legislative Council Web site. No fanfare, no press conferences, no attention given. Media ignored it. The committee that ordered it ignored it. The Legislature ignored it. The administration ignored it. The report's findings tumbled into the political abyss.

And yet the report contains a message that affects every one of us. What it says ought to be engraved in the thinking of every legislator and every administration member. We can hope the powers that be take it to heart. They ought to. They paid for it.

The subject of the report is health care reform. More precisely, financing health care. It says that unless we find a way to control the overall costs of health care there is no way we can keep paying for it at the current rate of increase.
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Critique: Business Roundtable on Trade & Jobs, Doug Hoffer July 31, 2007 (Microsoft Word file)

International Trade & VT Jobs, Doug Hoffer July 15, 2007 (Microsoft Word file)

VT Companies certified for Trade Adjustment Assistance, Doug Hoffer July 15, 2007 (Microsoft Word file)

Occupational Employment & Wages for Exporting Industries, Doug Hoffer July 15, 2007 (Microsoft Word file)

Comments on the Forbes business climate rankings, Doug Hoffer July 15, 2007 (Microsoft Word file)

Comments on JFO Livable Wage Calculations for UVM, Doug Hoffer April 30, 2007 (Microsoft Word file)

Truth of health care is very inconvenient, Cornelius Hogan, Dr. Deborah Richter and Terry Doran April 29, 2007 (Microsoft Word file)

Commission on Future of Economic Development, Doug Hoffer March 12, 2007 (Microsoft Word file)

Jobs & Economic Development in VT, Doug Hoffer October 6, 2006 (Acrobat PDF file)

Business Climate -- Interstate Business Relocation, Myths vs. Re, Doug Hoffer, Peace & Justice Center March 12, 2006 (external link)

The Growing Cost of the Wal-Mart Health Care Crisis, WakeUpWalMart.com February 23, 2006 (Acrobat PDF file)

Hidden Subsidies for Low Road Employers, Doug Hoffer February 17, 2006 (Microsoft Word file)

Costs to State of Large Retail’s Low Road, Traen Leyshonv February 17, 2006 (Microsoft Word file)

Economic Development VT: Funding, Priorities, Performance, Doug Hoffer, Peace & Justice Center February 12, 2006 (external link)

Income Inequality Has Increased In Vermont, Economic Policy Institute/Center on Budget & Policy Prioriti February 10, 2006 (Acrobat PDF file)

Lost manufacturing jobs: The real cost of US trade policies, Doug Hoffer February 10, 2006 (Microsoft Word file)

Economic Development in VT: Performance, Doug Hoffer/Peace & Justice Center February 9, 2006 (Acrobat PDF file)

Wal-Mart and County-Wide Poverty, Stephan J. Goetz & Hema Swaminathan February 9, 2006 (Acrobat PDF file)

Comments on tax expenditure report, Doug Hoffer January 23, 2006 (Microsoft Word file)

Fair Share for Health Care, Traven Leyshon January 11, 2006 (Acrobat PDF file)

Comment re. WCAX & Free Press reports on income, Doug Hoffer January 1, 2006 (Microsoft Word file)

Comment re. Free Press article on the economy, Doug Hoffer November 4, 2005 (Microsoft Word file)

Response to Sec. Dorn re. VEPC, Doug Hoffer September 22, 2005 (Microsoft Word file)

Secretary Dorn's response to VEPC editorial, Kevin Dorn September 21, 2005 (Microsoft Word file)

Brattleboro Reformer editorial on VEPC & Husky, Brattleboro Reformer September 20, 2005 (Microsoft Word file)

Response to Commissioner Quinn re. workforce training, Doug Hoffer September 6, 2005 (Microsoft Word file)

Paying for Dairy Promotion, Doug Hoffer August 26, 2005 (Microsoft Word file)

Letter to Free Press re. article on business costs, Doug Hoffer August 20, 2005 (Microsoft Word file)

Letter to Free Press re. unemployment figures, Doug Hoffer August 19, 2005 (Microsoft Word file)

Health care taxes again, Doug Hoffer July 13, 2005 (Microsoft Word file)

Health care and taxes, Doug Hoffer June 9, 2005 (Microsoft Word file)

Reducing toxics: measuring success, Doug Hoffer May 24, 2005 (Microsoft Word file)

Economic Literacy 101, Doug Hoffer April 27, 2005 (Microsoft Word file)

Hidden Subsidies, Doug Hoffer April 20, 2005 (Microsoft Word file)

Comments on Free Press health care article, Doug Hoffer April 19, 2005 (Microsoft Word file)

Another exchange with Brian Joyce, Doug Hoffer April 14, 2005 (Microsoft Word file)

An exchange with reporter Brian Joyce, Doug Hoffer April 12, 2005 (Microsoft Word file)

Comment on Free Press health care editorial, Doug Hoffer April 4, 2005 (Microsoft Word file)

Low hanging fruit: the Financial Services Tax Credit program, Doug Hoffer March 21, 2005 (Microsoft Word file)

An exchange with reporter Shawn Turner, Doug Hoffer March 21, 2005 (Microsoft Word file)

Recommendation for economic development, Doug Hoffer February 18, 2005 (Microsoft Word file)

"Buy local" should be more than talk, Doug Hoffer January 31, 2005 (Microsoft Word file)

Everyday Low Wages, Doug Hoffer January 31, 2005 (Microsoft Word file)

Electric Costs: A Different Perspective, Doug Hoffer January 31, 2005 (Microsoft Word file)

Targeted State purchasing as a tool for economic development, Doug Hoffer January 31, 2005 (Microsoft Word file)

"Consumer-Driven" Healthcare, Traven Leyshon January 11, 2005

ETIs: Opportunities for Public Pension Funds, Doug Hoffer October 1, 2004 (Acrobat PDF file)

Response to the GOP's Spin on Jobs, Doug Hoffer September 23, 2004

Vermont Labor on Failed Job Policies, Sue Lucas September 21, 2004

2009 Unified Economic Development Budget Report, Doug Hoffer February 11, 2004 (Microsoft Word file)

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