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What is Community Economic Development?
When we center the empowerment…
What is Community Economic Development?
When we center the empowerment and capacity-building capabilities of poor working-class people of color, at its best, CED enables these communities to work within their neighborhoods to develop strategies that encourage economic, social, and political power, but at its worst CED is a social, political, and economic tool whereby corporations and politicians benefit more than the people themselves. Many times CED does both at the same time. As it is today, CED is not a a strategy that dismantles the racist and capitalistic society that perpetuates systemic poverty in poor communities of color, but it has the possibility to