The Real Wealth Public Policy Project
CPS's Real Wealth Public Policy Project is designed to shift public funding priorities in healthier and more realistic directions.
Riane Eisler and Kimberly Otis (RWPPI project director) are working with a group of prominent advisors -- including former Senator Carol Moseley Braun, economist Randy Albelda, Carol Jenkins, and other leaders of national women’s, children’s, media, and economic, political and philanthropic organizations -- to develop the Real Wealth of America (RWA) Public Policy Project as the first step in our Real Wealth of Nations Public Policy Initiative.
Real Wealth Indicators
Sample Metrics Fact Sheet
Real Wealth Advisory Council
Many nations already have requirements for economic and environmental impact statements for evaluating proposed legislation and other policies. The RWPPI proposes the addition of statements measuring the effect of any new program or legislation on our real wealth:
- people’s health
- education
- equality
- democracy
- human capacity development
- other quality of life indicators.
CPS is working with the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. (world renowned for its work on economic measurement) to gather, evaluate and propose metrics to enable policymakers to advance sound priorities. To this end, CPS is working with representatives from government, business, civil society, and academic sectors.
Full-Spectrum Job Creation Proposal
Riane Eisler, Maia Zohara, and Irene Holombo prepared a Full-Spectrum Job-Creation Proposal for President Obama and the U.S. Congress, which was useful in shifting attention to the need for investment in jobs not only for our material infrastructure (bridges, roads) and our natural infrastructure (green jobs), but also our human infrastructure (caring for people, starting in early childhood).
The Full-Spectrum Job-Creation Proposal proposed that investment in the real wealth of our nation – its people – is essential to stimulate our economy, help families, radically reduce poverty and violence, reward women’s economic contributions, save billions in crime and prisons, and produce the “high quality human capital” needed for our post-industrial economy. The Full-Spectrum Job-Creation Proposal was used by policy makers in drafting their final 2009 job creation program.
