Erika Beras is a reporter for Marketplace, covering health, education, and how the pandemic has changed the way we live and work.
Prior to joining Marketplace, Beras was a regular contributor to several top public radio shows such as NPR’s “Morning Edition,” PRI’s “The World,” and the Scientific American podcast. She has written for National Geographic, The New Yorker, and other publications.
She has been recognized for her work, receiving grants and fellowships from the Radio Television Digital News Association, the National Association of Science Writers, International Center for Journalists, the International Women’s Media Foundation, the Center for Health Reporting, Third Coast International Audio Festival, and others. She was previously a reporter at WESA in Pittsburgh and a staff writer at the Miami Herald.
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Recently, I connected with Optimax CEO Rick Plympton to discuss his design of an innovative employee ownership trust transition plan for his company. Optimax ownership created a new nonprofit perpetual trust that owns the company. The trust’s purposes include ensuring the business will not be sold to another entity, will continue monthly profit sharing with employees, and will position the company for ongoing growth. This approach will provide for the eventual retirement of the owners while also buttressing the resiliency of the company and ensuring it continues to contribute to the region’s economic and social needs.
Rick is a leading business voice in Rochester, New York. Based on his efforts, he was selected as an Aspen Institute Job Quality Fellow. He has been a wonderful thought partner on strategies to build better jobs for America’s workers. This conversation is part of our Job Quality in Practice series, and we’re grateful to Prudential Financial for their support of
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Within the first days of the new administration, President Biden signed a new “Made in America” executive order, which aims to generate manufacturing jobs through government demand for $400 billion in American products, materials, and services. As a candidate, Biden also committed to infrastructure investments as a keystone to job creation. As the $1.9 trillion stimulus plan was enacted March 11, an infrastructure proposal to spend $1 trillion or more is expected imminently within the next two weeks.
That’s a great step forward. Job creation is essential to our recovery from the entwined pandemic and economic traumas.
But at this crisis point, we must apply all tools to strengthen the anemic recovery, especially for lower-wage, women, and BIPOC workers. The country cannot again accept, as in the aftermath of the Great Recession, that
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California’s Plans for the Future of Work, Workers, and a Renewed Social Compact
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California, it’s often been quipped, is where the future happens first. From technology and entertainment to policy and social reform, California is often at the leading edge of our latest trends and work is no exception. While California boasts a strong economy by many measures of growth, too many Californians have not enjoyed the benefits of the state’s broader economic success and the extraordinary wealth generated. As the nation grapples with demographic and geographic economic inequities that have been growing over the first two decades of the 21st century, and that have been exacerbated in this time of national crisis, what does the Golden State plan to do so that workers of every race, ethnicity, geography and gender have what they need to support themselves and their families, and thrive now and in the future?
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