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SMALL-MART REVOLUTION CHECKLISTThirty Items for Policymakers

DAILY MANTRA

Remove all public support, including anything that requires city staff time and energy, from nonlocal business and refocus it instead, laser-like, on local business.

LOCAL STUDIES

  1. Indicators. Prepare quantifiable measures of the community’s quality of life (economic, environmental, social, and political) that hold economic development policies accountable. Conduct public hearings in which residents decide which indicators are most relevant, then put together an annual report on the best ones, distribute it widely, and place it on a website.
  2. Assets Analysis. Gather data on assets in the region, especially unused or underused economic inputs like unemployed labor, abandoned ...

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