An Evening With Some Community Organizers
Last night I had the pleasure of attending the 15th Anniversary Awards Dinner for LAANE (The Los Angeles Alliance For A New Economy), which brought 1,000 people to the Beverly Hilton (including Mayor...
View ArticleOn Determining Impact, Or, How Stimulative Is Stimulus?
We strive to be, if anything, a participatory space around here, and I’ve had a question come to my inbox that is very much deserving of our attention. To make a long story short, our questioner wants...
View ArticlePREVAILING WAGES AND OFFSHORING
If off-shoring of manufacturing burns you up, so should the elimination of prevailing wages in construction For years we’ve been hearing about the devastation caused by the off-shoring of manufacturing...
View ArticleSTUDY: Prevailing Wage Adds 17,500 Jobs to California Economy
Prevailing Wage policies add 17,500 jobs and $1.4 billion in output across California’s economy, according to a new study released by Smart Cities Prevail – a leading construction industry education...
View ArticleAB 219 Closes Wage Loophole on Public Construction Projects
By Steve Smith California has long been committed to ensuring that anyone employed on a public works construction project earns a living wage. That just means the wages paid to women and men who build...
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