Can the community create enough wealth to truly make a difference?
The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the United States, equal to the total value of US goods and services produced and sold each year, is approximately 12.45 trillion dollars ($12,450,000,000,000). Of that amount, over 9 trillion dollars is generated by the purchases of goods and services by individuals. This amount could sustain 9 million businesses, each with one million dollars ($1,000,000) a year in sales. Currently, many of those purchase dollars support corporations whose primary goal is to produce maximum profits and growth for relatively few stockholders. If even a fraction of 9 million businesses were E2M certified, they would create enormous community wealth that could make a huge difference in our society. In Summary: Economic: E2M is an economic network that allows communities to use the commercial sector to ensure the health of the social sector. In an E2M Economic Community, money flows from the community to E2M Certified businesses in the form of consumer purchases. The p
