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Bold policies could have saved America’s largest generic drug plant, but it’s never too late to start putting communities first.

For decades, we have been sold a myth of private health. It is a myth that our health is largely a product of individual choices and personal responsibilities. It is a myth that our healthcare is a service that private corporations can provide, and for which we must pay to survive. But the COVID-19

The former CEO of a leading UK economic think tank will be central in helping build capacity to offer powerful new technical assistance to cities and local authorities pursuing community wealth building strategies.

TDC and union members have agreed to a package of protections that goes well beyond the baseline severance provisions for layoffs agreed to in TDC’s union contract.

The Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) convened the “Anchoring Resilience: Aligning Supply Chains and Impact Purchasing for Community Health” summit to spark collaboration in the healthcare sector around onshoring and localizing production of PPE and other supplies, with an emphasis on equity, sustainability, and supply chain resilience.

The Democracy Collaborative prepared a report, created for the Healthcare Anchor Network, which details the current status of the supply chain of PPE, the market shifts caused by COVID-19, and the potential solutions to ensure capacity within US health systems for the future.

As a new organization, HAN looks forward to deepening its impact in the healthcare sector and reaching a critical mass of health systems adopting as an institutional priority improving community health and well-being.

Collaboration supports the city’s Accelerating Reinvestment in our Communities program FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contacts press@democracycollaborative.org or Isaiah J. Poole, 202-559-1473, Ext. 3012 media@somervillema.gov or Denise Taylor, 857-523-9905 Friday, Dec. 9, 2021 – The City of Somerville

Democracy Collaborative board member Charles McNeill was in Glasgow at COP26—the 26th “Conference of the Parties” of the United Nations Climate Change Conference—in November 2021 as senior advisor for the UN Environment Programme. Longtime Democracy Collaborative senior fellow and environmental