What's in it for Me? Spending Circles and Local Multipliers will determine how much local wealth stays in the community. Knowing how much stays in the community can affect a local business the following ways:

• May determine community cash flow or dollars available for reinvestment in your community. The less dollars available within a community for local reinvestment, the less opportunity a community has to nourish itself.(i.e. support of youth and elder programs, arts and culture, public education, health & human services, etc.)
  
• May determine available discretionary dollars for customers to spend with you.
  
• May indicate ability to retain local workforce: not just seasonal workers, but teachers, police and public safety personnel…those that make up the backbone of our communities.
  
• Can affect local decision-making on future economic development and impacts on infrastructure. (Road capacity, housing, wastewater, public safety services, schools)
  
• May help define stress on infrastructure that can affect need for taxes in community. May indicate existing hidden subsidy levels for some but not all businesses.
  
• Can help determine if earnings gap is growing or declining.
  
• May help define the "leaks" through which our young and profits are escaping. (it may indicate a dearth of sectors that prevent profits and intellectual and human capital from being exported).
  
• Will define the overall economic health of the region, which can help local businesses, residents and boards plan for their futures.
  
• May indicate impacts to our community character and may cause communities to take action to "plug the leaks".

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