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Sara Horowitz

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Sara Horowitz is an innovator for tomorrow’s workforce.

As Freelancers Union’s Founder and Executive Director, Sara Horowitz has been helping the new workforce build solutions together for nearly two decades.

A MacArthur Foundation “Genius” fellow and Deputy Chair of the Federal Reserve of New York, Sara has long been a leading voice for the emerging economy. Today, 53 million Americans are independent workers – more than one-third of the entire workforce.

Relying on her experience as a union o…

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Opinion: New York needs food co-ops, not government groceries

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By Sara Horowitz
| City & State NY
When Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani recently proposed that New York City spend $60 million to open government-run grocery stores to address food deserts, he put his finger on a very real problem: too many New Yorkers lack access to affordable, nutritious food. But too often, the left favors strategies that focus on large, centralized government solutions, while the right seeks solutions only in the private sector.
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Economic Development | Most Popular Articles

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By Thaisa Tylinski Sant’Ana, Fatima Formuli, Sara Horowitz, Kyle Coward
| Stanford Social Innovation Review
The Next Generation of Mutualism By An ecosystem approach to investing in and supporting mutualist enterprises—from the ground up. Should Heartland Cities Become Tech Hubs? Reviewed By Urbanist Nicholas Lalla offers a playbook for tech-led economic development in midsize cities, avowing that inclusive growth can offset the worsening wealth inequities that the tech sector has helped generate.
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How Investors Can Support Cooperatives and Other Mutualist Social Enterprises

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By Sara Horowitz
| Stanford Social Innovation Review
You can feel it when you walk into a mutualist space for the first time—whether it’s a worker cooperative in North Carolina, a community garden, a labor-housing cooperative, a cohousing group in New York City, a nonprofit building in Portland, Oregon, or a social cooperative in the Italian Alps. In these places, you just feel human in a way that you don’t when you’re one-click ordering on Amazon or strolling through Target.
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