Mission

LAANE is a leading advocacy organization dedicated to building a new economy for all. Combining dynamic research, innovative public policy and the organizing of broad alliances, LAANE promotes a new economic approach based on good jobs, thriving communities and a healthy environment.

Did you know that...

• 200,000 people are living better because of LAANE’s work in the last ten years?

• LAANE took on the biggest corporation in the world—Walmart—and won against all odds?

• LAANE’s work at the ports will reduce cases of asthma and bronchitis by over 2,000 a year and will save nearly 100 lives annually?

• LAANE invented the idea of compelling developers to give communities real benefits with a contract in writing – something which has now caught on across the country?

• Senator Ted Kennedy said that LAANE’s work had “changed the lives of countless families in Southern California”?

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