The best restaurants in town take them, as do movie theaters, bowling alleys, two large locally-owned grocery stores, and thirty farmer's market vendors. Ithaca's new HOURly minimum wage lifts the lowest paid up without knocking down higher wages. These farmers benefit by the HOUR's loyalty to local agriculture. But we hear increasingly of professional services provided for our equitable wage. Ithaca Money's 1,200 listings, rivalling the Yellow Pages, are a portrait of our community's capability, bringing into the marketplace time and skills not employed by the conventional market.
Residents are proud of income gained by doing work they enjoy.
We encounter each other as fellow Ithacans, rather than as winners and losers scrambling for dollars. Living beings inhabit these worlds.