If you become unemployed in Italy, you need not become anxiety-ridden, lose your self-esteem, have worsening psychological problems, or drink too much. Instead, in Italy, unemployed workers can collect their unemployment insurance funds as a lump sum and together with other unemployed doing the same thing, use those funds to start and build a worker co-op enterprise. Imagine such a law that gives unemployed Americans stimulus money to start worker co-ops. Not only would it offer important, creative opportunities for the unemployed. It will also build a worker co-op sector in the US like the
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