The Democracy Collaborative, a nonprofit whose site says they are “a research and development lab for the democratic economy,” had Michael H. Shuman examine the economic impact of the plant’s closure. Shuman is an economist credited with being one of the architects of the 2012 JOBS Act, which was signed into law by President Barack Obama.

The Democracy Collaborative’s mission, according to their site, is to “demonstrate in theory and in practice the principles of a democratic economy, offering a vision of what that economy can be, designing models that demonstrate how it operates, and building in coalition with others the pathways to a new reality.”