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At LAANE, we are committed to building a new economy that restores the American dream of fair wages and benefits in return for hard work. We believe that jobs in growing industries which cannot be exported, including those in the fast-growing service sector, must serve as the foundation for rebuilding a strong and vibrant middle class.
LAANE has created an exciting new model for improving the lives of working men and women and building healthy communities. Integrating policy, research, community organizing and communications, we have helped win living wages and better job opportunities for tens of thousands of workers and more sustainable communities for residents throughout the Los Angeles region. More |
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New LAANE Report Paints Mixed Picture of the LA Economy and Calls for Action
An Annual Analysis of U.S. Census Data and the Challenges Facing Our Region
 A new report based on the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau offers a mixed economic picture of Los Angeles County. Despite a small decline in poverty in 2007, L.A.’s economy is still failing to provide adequate incomes to millions of residents. The study calls upon businesses to invest in their workforce and support policies that expand opportunity, labor unions to rededicate themselves to raising standards through organizing workers and policymakers to prioritize education and pursue strategies to help raise wages in growing low-wage industries.
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Activists Want L.A. To Pressure Grocery Owners
 An activist group on Thursday called for Los Angeles leaders to enact “basic standards” for grocery store operation in the city.The Alliance for Healthy and Responsible Grocery Stores convened a panel to highlight the lack of upscale and major grocery store chains in South L.A. and East L.A. and the spread of non-union food retailers. The Alliance, a group of union, community and environmental activists, wants city leaders to enact stricter regulations on grocery stores in the city. More |
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Federal Court Denies LAX Hilton’s Request to Freeze Living Wage Law
A U.S. District Court judge denied a request by the LAX Hilton for a temporary restraining order against a living wage law for thousands of hotel workers near Los Angeles International Airport. The ruling means that the law will stay in effect while the court considers the LAX Hilton’s lawsuit against the ordinance, dealing a setback to the Century Boulevard giant’s attempts to avoid the wage increase. More |
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LAX Rally to Kick Off Week of Actions at CA Airports Challenging Airlines to Improve Jobs, Services and Security
 Hundreds of airport service workers, elected leaders, community leaders, passenger rights activists and disability rights advocates will march and rally at LAX to launch a week of actions at California airports to improve job quality, service and security. In addition to LAX, rallies and leafleting will take place at airports in San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose through June 30. More |
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Living Wage Is Money In The Bank
Many successful business owners have the foresight to see great potential in their environment and are responsive to change as their businesses evolve. As the owner of a large hotel on Century Boulevard near Los Angeles International Airport, I am well aware of the opportunity for economic growth and prosperity in the area, fueled in part by an increasingly important hospitality industry. More |
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Amma, "The Hugging Saint of India," Stirs Controversy Over Refusal To Honor Boycott
Community leaders will hold a “Hug-a-Worker” ceremony outside the LAX Hilton this afternoon. Earlier today they began a 30-hour vigil criticizing Amma, the spiritual leader known as the “hugging saint of India,” for her refusal to move an event from the LAX Hilton, which is at the center of a major labor dispute in Southern California. More |
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Airport To Raise Service-Worker Standards
 The Los Angeles Board of Airport Commissioners approved a policy on Monday aimed at improving contract oversight and training standards for the private companies that hire service workers at LAX. The policy allows airport officials to examine a contractor's training technique, prior experience at major airports More |
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Rallying For Benefits, Wages At LAX
 After 20 years of working as a skycap at Los Angeles International Airport, Henry Watts still smiles as he greets people passing through Terminal Two.
Despite the dedication to his job, Watts said he would like to earn a little more money, along with improved health-care benefits that include dental and vision coverage. More |
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L.A. Living Wage Law Upheld
Airport area-hotels have lost their bid to overturn L.A.’s living wage law as the state Supreme Court on Thursday announced it has denied a review of the hotels’ appeal of the ordinance. The Supreme Court decision not to hear the case appears to end the hotels’ year-long effort to overturn the ordinance, which requires 12 hotels along Century Boulevard to pay their workers $9.39 an hour with benefits or $10.64 an hour without benefits. More |
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School Board Was Right To Take Stand On L.A. Hotels
 The Los Angeles Unified School District board recently passed a resolution that expresses support for Los Angeles hotel workers and discourages LAUSD staff from booking events in hotels boycotted by local community and labor groups. Los Angeles-area hotels currently being boycotted include the Four Points Sheraton LAX, the Hilton LAX and the Wilshire Plaza. More
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Poverty, Jobs and the Los Angeles Economy
An Annual Analysis of U.S. Census Data and the Challenges Facing Our Region
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Shortchanged
Since 2001, the U.S. airline industry has received an estimated $8.5 billion in government subsidies with few strings attached. A new report, “Shortchanged: How Airlines Can Repay Taxpayers for Billions in Subsides by Improving Jobs, Security and Services," finds that the industry has failed to provide a fair return on the public’s investment, creating poor quality jobs and providing inadequate security and services for passengers. |
Feeding Our Communities
 A Blue Ribbon Commission, convened by the Alliance for Healthy and Responsible Grocery Stores, released a report on July 17, 2008 urging City leaders to take charge in remedying a growing divide in how the grocery industry treats underserved and affluent communities. |
Failing California's Communities
 As one of the state’s largest employers, the University of California fails surrounding low- and moderate-income neighborhoods by paying wages significantly below the livable wages paid by community colleges and other hospitals in the state for the same work. If UC were to raise wages these impacts would positively affect many of the state’s neediest communities. More
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The Road to
Shared Prosperity
 A new LAANE report estimates that the San Pedro Ports’ proposed Clean Trucks Program would generate $4.2 billion in benefits to the harbor-region economy over the next five years. More
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