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Economics Education for Organizing – An Introduction – An introduction to the use of popular education on economics issues in organizing campaigns. Introduces Just Economics collection of curricula, listed below. » view curriculum 
Land Games – Economic Development – An hour and fifteen minute workshop exploring the process and the players in land development, including the role, motivations, and tools of the Redevelopment Agency in the land development process; winners and losers in land development decisions; and how people can organize to influence development in their neighborhoods. Produced by Just Economics. » view curriculum
A Living Wage Ordinance – A one-hour workshop designed to illustrate the inadequacies of the minimum wage and the federal poverty line and to connect taxpayers to an economic development strategy of raising wages. Produced by Just Economics. » view curriculum
Privatization – An hour and thirty five minute workshop, in two parts, that teaches the vocabulary of privatization; explores the values that underlie decisions to have goods
and services provided through private, regulated, or public markets; and gives participants an opportunity to analyze a range of public and private market structures based on economic development criteria. Produced by Just Economics. » view curriculum
Three Families – Tax Policy – An hour and a half workshop, in two parts, that teaches the vocabulary of tax policy and explores the values that underlie what different people think is fair in tax policy.
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Lifting the Lid on Child Care Workers Wages – A training for child care workers and advocates that examines the fundamental inequalities produced by current economic structures and provides a framework for analyzing the policy solutions of tax credits, raising the minimum wage, increasing reimbursement rates, salary supplements and unionization. Produced by Just Economics.
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Saliagua – Global Debt – A workshop exploring the origins third world debt and the consequences of the International Monetary Fund’s Structural Adjustment Program. Produced by Just Economics.
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In March, 2003, the AFL-CIO’s American Center for International Labor Solidarity (Solidarity Center) launched a program to identify and disseminate best practices in organizing as a strategy for addressing exploitation of workers in export-oriented industries. The Solidarity Center contracted with the UC Berkeley Labor Center to document organizing successes in EPZs around the world, and use those practices to produce these training materials for rank-and-file union activists, organizers and NGO workers.
Low wages, erratic schedules, no health care, work-school conflicts. This film looks beyond the stereotypes of carefree and undeserving youth to uncover a reality that millions of young working people know all too well: no matter how hard you work and how well you do in school, it can be difficult to stay afloat when you're coming of age in a "McJob" economy. But there are ways to improve things — and young people are taking the lead.
A one-hour workshop for unionists and the general public
on the impact of “free trade” on workers in the public and private sectors. The
interactive training and accompanying original video, Trade Secrets: The Hidden Costs of the
FTAA, focuses on the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas. Includes video.