Safeguarding Our Local Economies: Cooperative businesses on display at RI State House

Fuerza Laboral and the P.O.W.E.R. Network hosted a fair at the Rhode Island State House on Tuesday featuring many of the business cooperatives, from a host of different industries, offering their products and services in Rhode Island. Fuerza Laboral is a non-profit organization fighting labor discrimination and wage theft. The P.O.W.E.R. Network (People Owning Wider Economic Resources) is a cooperative business incubator. The event commemorated the fourth anniversary of the passage of the bill that enabled cooperatives in Rhode Island.

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