The document discusses challenges related to unemployment and economic growth in Chicago. It notes that Chicago's population has declined for three consecutive years and that the city is the slowest recovering of major US cities. Unemployment disproportionately affects people of color and costs society through lost tax revenue and increased social program spending. The document proposes several solutions to address these issues, including skills assessments, outplacement programs to help unemployed workers find new jobs, repurposing vacant buildings for skills training programs, and supporting local community organizations already achieving success in job creation. It emphasizes that solutions must be community-based and sustainable to have lasting impact.
Fair Trade and Sustainable Business Practicestchykita
I gave this presentation at the 2nd Annual Good Mule conference which was organized by a group of students (including myself). It is a modified version of the presentation I gave to defend my Senior Honors Thesis entitled "Free Trade Problems, Fair Trade Solutions."
Nowadays a large companies, corporations are becoming very significant in everyday life, increasingly taking on roles typically associated with nation-states, shaping governance, and managing daily life.
What does our economy look like in the age of automation? What plans do the world's largest companies have - think Amazon, Alibaba and Alphabet - for our collective future? How will we fit into the world that they're building?
In this webinar we take a close look at Amazon's granted and/or filed patents, and assess what they're building as a leading indicator for what the economy of the future will look like.
Fair Trade and Sustainable Business Practicestchykita
I gave this presentation at the 2nd Annual Good Mule conference which was organized by a group of students (including myself). It is a modified version of the presentation I gave to defend my Senior Honors Thesis entitled "Free Trade Problems, Fair Trade Solutions."
Nowadays a large companies, corporations are becoming very significant in everyday life, increasingly taking on roles typically associated with nation-states, shaping governance, and managing daily life.
What does our economy look like in the age of automation? What plans do the world's largest companies have - think Amazon, Alibaba and Alphabet - for our collective future? How will we fit into the world that they're building?
In this webinar we take a close look at Amazon's granted and/or filed patents, and assess what they're building as a leading indicator for what the economy of the future will look like.
Union of Humans: The Future of the Millennial Generation in the Age of Automa...Ogilvy
It’s not always fun or easy to understand an automating, fissuring, hyper-globalizing economy. It’s not always comfortable to consider that decades-old safe and sage advice (“Go to college!”) might become totally obsolete—if we don’t move quickly to curtail the privatization of our primary schools, and/or colleges fail to modernize their offerings.
However with great crisis comes great opportunity, and Millennials are well-equipped to handle the mammoth issues before them. They are, after all, the most educated, most connected generation in American history.
So why the emphasis on…unions? Well, we really need them, and Millennials happen to love them. But the automation era will require its own union, of sorts—what we’re calling a “union of humans.”
How to hasten india's economic recovery nclt and covid19?JAYARAMAN IYER
How to hasten India’s economic recovery - Caught between NCLT and COVID-19 ?
Firstly, I present the four-issue areas selected from my Book, Return on Intangible, Measuring Fiscal and Ethical Assets, due for release in June 2020 from the US:
1. DIY kit for Corporate and government,
2. What does Society Teach?
3. A spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction, and
4. the attrition of ethical values.
Then my proposal for India Corporate, under the headings:
1. EPP - efforts per person,
2. Creative Process and Action Process,
3. Strategy Plan 2024,
4. Ratings facilitates consolidation,
5. Prepare a consolidated CREAM Report 2024, and
6. Fix it, fix it comprehensively the WuhanLab Syndrome.
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber - Virtual Book Club DiscussionBoundless
This presentation was developed to facilitate a virtual discussion of the book "Bullshit Jobs" by David Graeber. Feel free to use liberally to run a discussion. Discusses ten issues:
#1 Bullshit jobs definition
#2 Five types of BS jobs
#3 “Shit” Jobs & Equal Pay Argument
#4 From fried locusts to the “time famine”
#5 Three types of unpaid labor
#6 Public Sector vs. Private Sector
#7 Service Economy? Or Not?
#8 Politics: Obsessed with Jobs?
#9 Brief History of Labor & Economics
#10 The Answer: Oprah gives everyone UBI?
The Great Divide: Challenges of our Future Workforce, According to Joseph Kop...Joseph Kopser
To fully understand and plan for the return to work after the impact of COVID, it's important to understand the trends already impacting the future work force. Kopser outlines 11 challenges from the shrinking middle class, wage disparities, and AI and robotics replacing jobs.
Joseph Kopser is a lifelong problem solver committed to building the teams needed to take on our toughest challenges. He is President of Grayline where he works with people and companies to bring together experts, data, and solutions to help companies and public institutions manage disruptive change. In addition, he is a technology entrepreneur and expert in transportation, smart cities, urban mobility, energy, national security issues as well as an Army combat veteran. Currently he serves as an Executive-in-Residence at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas.
To connect with Kopser, visit JosephKopser.com.
Grayline Group knows that technology is changing faster than business models, and globalization has magnified the threat surface for companies, investors, and governments. Change creates opportunity and risk. It requires the skills of new leadership and strategy in the workplace.
Grayline Group brings together experts, data, and solutions to help business and government leaders manage transformation resulting from technological and socioeconomic catalysts.
Capitalism bases its strategy on provoking consumption at whatever cost, or executing a service at whatever price, such as the re-education of minors locked up for months by pure trifles. And it is precisely this consumption that fuels the energy. The film does not come to raise the environmental consequences that can be seen all over the planet caused by a system based on the plundering of natural assets to enrich a few.
Crisis, Cuts and Citizenship: The case for a Universal Minimum Income Guarant...Oxfam GB
Professor Ailsa McKay, from the Glasgow Caledonian University, talks about the recent financial crisis and the subsequent cuts.
Stephen Boyd, Assistant Secretary of the Scottish Trade Unions Congress, talks about how the Scottish economy works.
The Whose Economy? seminars, organised by Oxfam Scotland and the University of the West of Scotland, brought together experts to look at recent changes in the Scottish economy and their impact on Scotland's most vulnerable communities.
Held over winter and spring 2010-11 in Edinburgh, Inverness, Glasgow and Stirling, the series posed the question of what economy is being created in Scotland and, specifically, for whom?
To find out more and view other Whose Economy? papers, presentations and videos visit:
http://www.oxfamblogs.org/ukpovertypost/whose-economy-seminar-series-winter-2010-spring-2011/
Union of Humans: The Future of the Millennial Generation in the Age of Automa...Ogilvy
It’s not always fun or easy to understand an automating, fissuring, hyper-globalizing economy. It’s not always comfortable to consider that decades-old safe and sage advice (“Go to college!”) might become totally obsolete—if we don’t move quickly to curtail the privatization of our primary schools, and/or colleges fail to modernize their offerings.
However with great crisis comes great opportunity, and Millennials are well-equipped to handle the mammoth issues before them. They are, after all, the most educated, most connected generation in American history.
So why the emphasis on…unions? Well, we really need them, and Millennials happen to love them. But the automation era will require its own union, of sorts—what we’re calling a “union of humans.”
How to hasten india's economic recovery nclt and covid19?JAYARAMAN IYER
How to hasten India’s economic recovery - Caught between NCLT and COVID-19 ?
Firstly, I present the four-issue areas selected from my Book, Return on Intangible, Measuring Fiscal and Ethical Assets, due for release in June 2020 from the US:
1. DIY kit for Corporate and government,
2. What does Society Teach?
3. A spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction, and
4. the attrition of ethical values.
Then my proposal for India Corporate, under the headings:
1. EPP - efforts per person,
2. Creative Process and Action Process,
3. Strategy Plan 2024,
4. Ratings facilitates consolidation,
5. Prepare a consolidated CREAM Report 2024, and
6. Fix it, fix it comprehensively the WuhanLab Syndrome.
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber - Virtual Book Club DiscussionBoundless
This presentation was developed to facilitate a virtual discussion of the book "Bullshit Jobs" by David Graeber. Feel free to use liberally to run a discussion. Discusses ten issues:
#1 Bullshit jobs definition
#2 Five types of BS jobs
#3 “Shit” Jobs & Equal Pay Argument
#4 From fried locusts to the “time famine”
#5 Three types of unpaid labor
#6 Public Sector vs. Private Sector
#7 Service Economy? Or Not?
#8 Politics: Obsessed with Jobs?
#9 Brief History of Labor & Economics
#10 The Answer: Oprah gives everyone UBI?
The Great Divide: Challenges of our Future Workforce, According to Joseph Kop...Joseph Kopser
To fully understand and plan for the return to work after the impact of COVID, it's important to understand the trends already impacting the future work force. Kopser outlines 11 challenges from the shrinking middle class, wage disparities, and AI and robotics replacing jobs.
Joseph Kopser is a lifelong problem solver committed to building the teams needed to take on our toughest challenges. He is President of Grayline where he works with people and companies to bring together experts, data, and solutions to help companies and public institutions manage disruptive change. In addition, he is a technology entrepreneur and expert in transportation, smart cities, urban mobility, energy, national security issues as well as an Army combat veteran. Currently he serves as an Executive-in-Residence at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas.
To connect with Kopser, visit JosephKopser.com.
Grayline Group knows that technology is changing faster than business models, and globalization has magnified the threat surface for companies, investors, and governments. Change creates opportunity and risk. It requires the skills of new leadership and strategy in the workplace.
Grayline Group brings together experts, data, and solutions to help business and government leaders manage transformation resulting from technological and socioeconomic catalysts.
Capitalism bases its strategy on provoking consumption at whatever cost, or executing a service at whatever price, such as the re-education of minors locked up for months by pure trifles. And it is precisely this consumption that fuels the energy. The film does not come to raise the environmental consequences that can be seen all over the planet caused by a system based on the plundering of natural assets to enrich a few.
Crisis, Cuts and Citizenship: The case for a Universal Minimum Income Guarant...Oxfam GB
Professor Ailsa McKay, from the Glasgow Caledonian University, talks about the recent financial crisis and the subsequent cuts.
Stephen Boyd, Assistant Secretary of the Scottish Trade Unions Congress, talks about how the Scottish economy works.
The Whose Economy? seminars, organised by Oxfam Scotland and the University of the West of Scotland, brought together experts to look at recent changes in the Scottish economy and their impact on Scotland's most vulnerable communities.
Held over winter and spring 2010-11 in Edinburgh, Inverness, Glasgow and Stirling, the series posed the question of what economy is being created in Scotland and, specifically, for whom?
To find out more and view other Whose Economy? papers, presentations and videos visit:
http://www.oxfamblogs.org/ukpovertypost/whose-economy-seminar-series-winter-2010-spring-2011/
Destination Economy addresses short-term solutions to our pressing problems while providing a long-term plan for future economic growth. This proposal would impose responsible budgeting, and lay out an environment for job creation and business growth that embraces our numerous resources.
Illinois should no longer be the laughingstock of late night comedians; we should stand out as a national leader. We should stop squandering our precious intellectual and financial capital and embrace programs and initiatives that bring out the best of every region of Illinois and on Main Street. We need to create job opportunities for our children so they stay in Illinois. We want our kids to live 10 minutes away, not 10 hours.
We need to declare Illinois OPEN FOR BUSINESS and Make Illinois Work Again!
Using Behavioral Economics to Unlock Workforce Engagement James Sillery
In an interview, an executive said the following, "Today, the greatest challenge that a company can face is a lack of engagement… and not to be aware of the situation". But on average, the majority of employees in any given company are, to some degree, disengaged. This presentation, given at the TCHRA Spring Conference, looks at the underlying causes and presents practical solutions.
As we step into 2024, it’s crucial to stay ahead of the curve and anticipate the trends shaping the future. For those wanting to equip themselves for the year ahead, our Trends of 2024 infographic has 8 research-backed trends that will impact businesses and organisations in 2024.
Employee ownership: A business succession strategy in challenging timesproject-equity
Small businesses are facing tremendous challenges today and uncertain what tomorrow may bring. Project Equity invites business owners to a webinar to discuss challenges with business succession in today’s environment.
In this webinar you will learn about employee buyouts as a succession or exit strategy, as well as future benefits:
Receive market value price
Obtain tax advantages
Sustain your legacy in the community
Keep the local economy strong
4. AMYGDAL
A
It controls the way we react to certain stimuli, or an event
that causes an emotion, that we see as potentially
threatening or dangerous.
Amygdala often
works directly
with sensory
input, bypassing
thought.
Images of 0.1
seconds reach
the Amygdala
…but never reach
the conscious
mind.
7. HUMANITY IS COOL, BUT
SOME PEOPLE…C’MON!
Work as a village
Complexity…
Trust….
Fairness…
Revenge…
Change…
8. THE BARRIER TO PROGRESS STARTS
BETWEEN OUR EARS.
REFLEX
Our default bias &
comfort zones
operate W/O
thought
FRONTAL CORTEX
Change requires
conscious thought &
repetition with
reinforcing feedback
FAIRNESS
We innately expect
equity
TRUST
We are coded to
cooperate via
affiliation
REVENGE
We are irrational
when our
subsystems are
threatened
11. “the biggest issue…by 2030, there will be a
global human talent shortage of more than
85 million people.”
Korn Ferry Newsletter - May 9, 2018
GLOBAL DATA
14. US DATA
Unemployment Rate: 3.7%
Jobs Added: 492,000 in Q3
Job Openings: 6,900,000
Persons Who Want A Job, But Are Currently Not in Labor
Force Or Are Underemployed: 5,070,000
16. WORKERS AGED 55+
Currently, there are roughly 34 million workers 55 and older in
the American workforce. That represents about 22 percent of all
workers over 16.
Workers in this age group expected to be 25% of US labor force
by 2020, compared to 12% in 1991
Skills will need to be continually updated to compete in current
market.
18. TRICKLE DOWN
OR TRICKLE DOESN’T?
The truth about job
creation, spending
patterns and the cost of
the unemployed
WE ARE IN A PERIOD OF WEALTH CONSOLIDATION UNRIVALED IN OUR
HISTORY
WE HAVE A RADICAL SEPARATION OF CLASSES BY GEOGRAPHY, EDUCATION
AND RACE
THE CURRENT MOVEMENT OF LABOR TO THE CHEAPEST HOURLY RATE WILL
BE REPLACED BY ONE OF SEEKING THE BEST TALENT FOR THE NEW
ECONOMIES.
WE ARE NOT “RESKILING” OUR PEOPLE AND IT IS UNLIKELY THIS WILL BE
DONE FEDERALLY
20. Rewrite the Rules:
Building an Inclusive
American Economy
Historically, monopolies in the US were
checked by antitrust enforcement. Current
economic policies and lobbying now mean
monopolies are seldom prevented barring
extremely rare conditions.
21. EDITOR'S PICK5 Feb 8, 2017, 12:12pm
Job Creation In The New Political
Economy: Small Companies, Not
Big Companies, …Create Jobs.
ENABLE AND SUPPORT SMALL & MIDSIZE
COMPANIES
22. THE ROLE OF SMALL
BUSINESS IN
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Small Businesses account
for 65.9 % of net new job
creation during the period
of 2000-2017
Small Businesses make up
99.7% of US employer
firms.
25. CHICAGO IS THE SLOWEST
RECOVERING OF THE MAJOR
US CITIES
2017 showed only 4
percent of small
businesses in Chicago plan
to move out of state
during 2018
26. OKUN'S LAW :
1% POINT OF UNEMPLOYMENT
EQUALS 2% OF GDP
Metropolitan area 2012 2017 Improvement
%
Difference
Greater NY $1,439,233 $1,717,712 $278,479 19%
Greater Los Angeles $820,863 $1,043,735 $222,872 27%
Greater Chicago $578,016$679,699 $101,683 18%
29. COSTS OF UNEMPLOYMENT
Personal
• Lost savings, wages
• Loss of consumer
contributions
• Erosion of skills
Societal
• Calls to restrict
immigration
• Restricts GDP growth
• Increased government
payments for health care
• Higher crime rates
18- to 24-year-old will cost
federal and state governments
over $4,100 annually in
foregone tax revenue and
safety net benefits.
One unemployed 25- to 34-
year-old represents nearly
$9,900 a year in foregone tax
revenue and benefits paid
We don’t have data for
workers over 55
$53
X3
$15
9
31. CURRENT EXAMPLES OF
SUCCESS…WORLDWIDE
CSR360 Global
Partner
Network is a
global network
of not-for-
profit
organisations
working with
businesses to
improve their
positive impact
on society.
Over 133
independent
organisations
from over 67
different
countries
Reaching over
6000
companies
around the
world
Presence on
every major
continent
A wealth of
resources
including
toolkits and
handbooks
Expertise
across the
Corporate
Responsibility
(CSR) spectrum
including
community,
environment,
workplace and
marketplace.
33. SOLUTIONS
Skills Assessments
There are compelling and
insightful tools which capture
experience, skills, aptitude and
psychological orientation to all
forms of work. Why not start
with this?
34. CURRENT EXAMPLES OF
SUCCESS…USA
Earned Income Tax Credit – New York City’s
Experiment
Extending the Credit to Qualified Workers W/O Children
reduced severe poverty
Increased child support
payments among noncustodial
parentsincreased in participants’
employment rates
35. CURRENT EXAMPLES OF
SUCCESS…USA
OPEN HIRE – the self fulfilling prophesy…TRUST &
EMPOWERMENT.
For more than 35 years Greyston has
been changing lives and communities
through radical inclusion.
36. At Greyston Bakery,
if you want a job, we give
you a job. No questions
asked.
Business should be a powerful force for
I can’t explain all
that Greyston has
done for me.
Without Greyston,
I’d still be on the
streets — likely
dead or in jail.
The Journey from “Unhirable”,
Former Inmate to Greyston
Bakery Supervisor
37.
38.
39.
40. SUCCESS IS LOCAL AND
SCALABLE
One year from
inception…
95% success
42. SOLUTIONS
Currently Cook County has an estimated 24,000-
55,000 vacant buildings
Create a Skills program that teaches unemployed
the basics of a skill: Carpentry, Auto Repair,
Plumbing, Cooking, Maintenance, Security, Short
and Long haul Trucking.
43. SOLUTIONS -
GROWING POWER
“A CAUTIONARY TALE”
Success in feeding people an teaching life
skills
2017 Debt Burden
“Founders Syndrome”
LESSON: IT CAN BE DONE
IT MUST BE ABOUT THE MISSION…NOT THE
LEADER
Will Allen
McArthur
Foundation
Genius
Award
44. BELIEF WINS OVER
MONEY& SIZE
Detroit, 5 Years After
Bankruptcy
A partnership between city
and state government,
business leaders and the
city's philanthropic
community led an innovative
effort to restructure the city's
debt, estimated at $19
“Detroit isn't growing because
…creating thousands of jobs.
It isn't pulling large companies from
around the country.
It's rebounding because people
are feeling better about the
city.”
45. THE SIMPLE CASE…
FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH IN
CHICAGO
TOTAL POPULATION IS SHRINKING
AGING WORKFORCE IS NOT BEING REPLACED
METROPOLITAN CHICAGO IS THE SINGLE BRIGHT SPOT FOR STEM TALENT
GENTRIFICATION IS COMPRESSING & PUSHING THE ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED OUT
EVERY UNEMPLOYED PERSON IS A FINANCIAL BURDEN ON EVERY TAXPAYER
SOLUTIONS AT MACRO LEVEL DON’T WORK – THEY MUST BE COMMUNITY BASED & SUSTAINABLE
PSYCHOLOGY OF THOSE IN NEED AND THOSE WHO HAVE MUST BE CHANGED THROUGH EXPERIENCE
Our societal drives are generally positive and have governance elements. Individuals are highjacked by their subconscious and subsystems. Delayed gratification is being short circuited by capitalism.
This are the barriers to change for the individual, for the community, for the business community and for the governments of the geographies in which they serve.
Job growth is at the 500 and under
I’ve seen data that suggests we’ll have more jobs than people. Is this accurate? Worldwide, USA, Chicago
How can we get at the realities of Labor force shortfalls? What happened to those who were in the manufacturing middleclass? Where can they go to become relevant, again?
Ref: us small business administration – office of advocacy
The Wild 100’s, Harvey, Blue Island, etc. Rule of broken windows