The Kirwan Institute has released a powerful new report: ARRA & the Economic Crisis – One Year Later: Has Stimulus Helped Communities in Crisis? (Download PDF.) The report features Reflections from the Field from organizers including TEN Executive Director Laura Barrett on what ARRA has and hasn't done to lift up those hit hardest by the economic crisis.
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In April 2009 the Aspen Institute's Workforce Strategies Initiative (AspenWSI) surveyed workforce development programs that connect individuals to jobs and apprenticeship opportunities in the construction sector. The survey was prompted by growing interest in work opportunities within the construction sector. The Obama administration was then preparing to invest large scale in the nation's infrastructure, promote opportunities to retrofit, weatherize, and otherwise reduce energy consumption, and create "green jobs." In thinking about the jobs these types of investments could create, one of the core questions that arose was how do we, as a nation, prepare people for and connect them to new opportunities that emerge in the construction industry?
Read more: Construction Pre-Apprenticeship Programs: Results from a National Survey
August 18, 2009
Reduction in service and rise in fares in cities across the country especially harmful for families, elderly, low-income & minority populations
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Americans across the country, in towns large and small, are being hurt by fare increases and draconian cuts in public transportation service, an epidemic that did not have to happen, according to a report released today by Transportation for America and the Transportation Equity Network.
New report shows journalists and advocates where the transportation money is and how to steer it to the communities that need it most
It’s not too late for stimulus-funded public transportation projects to be steered to help millions of Americans hit “first and worst” by the economic downturn, according to a new report by the advocacy groups PolicyLink and the Transportation Equity Network.
The report, An Engine of Opportunity: A User’s Guide to Advocate for Transportation Equity in the 2009 Recovery Act, shows advocates and journalists how billions in transportation funding is being pumped out to the state and local level – and spotlights the key deadlines, reporting requirements and policy targets that are still to come.
The Road to Good Jobs examines employment discrimination against African Americans and women in the construction industry. The report builds on its predecessor, The Road to Jobs (released in 2007), by discussing patterns of pay and union membership in construction across the nation's top twenty-five metropolitan areas.
More Transit = More Jobs
Click here for details and to download TEN's new report, More Transit = More Jobs.
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