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The Occupy movement brings renewed attention to Heartland's second book, Up from Wall Street
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A new movement, “Occupy Wall Street,” has brought home the unfinished business that millions of Americans and people from around the world can’t find decent livable-wage jobs, can’t afford good housing and can’t achieve real prosperity as long as 1% of the population (in U.S.) controls 40% of the wealth. OWS has changed the policy paradigm in the U.S., as average Americans are now more concerned about economic instability and the need for a strong recovery.
In 2008, we watched as trillions of dollars vanished before our eyes, enveloped in the crash and burn of Wall Street's bottom line. As working families, students and retirees awake from the aftermath, we're still searching for answers and alternatives to the reckless loans and dicey short-term bets that ravaged our savings and retirement assets.
Up From Wall Street: The Responsible Investment Alternative makes the case that there are strategic and socially responsible investment paths that have the capacity to rebuild our economy and infrastructure, reinvigorate our cities, and create the highly-anticipated green jobs of the future. Through real-life stories and case studies, the author, Thomas Croft, illustrates how the responsible investment of savings assets, pensions, insurance funds, and other trusts can generate positive social, economic, and environmental benefits - along with financial returns.
Welcome to the new Heartland Website and Blog
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Welcome to the new Heartland Web Site and Blog, which will feature news and stories demonstrating, teaching and advocating responsible investments (RI). This “capital strategies” website will serve as a clearinghouse for a responsible investor network, while monitoring the economy and tracking RI projects.
Heartland will highlight the renewed sense of urgency that, as a country, we need to spur new capital investments in the real economy and seize opportunities to invest in the coming clean economy. We need to invest in good jobs in order to expedite a real economic recovery.
Inspired by the United Nations Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI), Heartland Web will showcase investors whose purpose is to provide competitive returns for their beneficiary institutional investors, which include pension funds, while adhering to environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria. The site will also expose unscrupulous irresponsible investors who damage the economy and destroy value (including companies and workers' pension funds in the process).