Research Roundup
A Quarterly Selection of New Research on Jobs,
Workplace Standards and the Economy
Left Behind: Workers and Their Families in a
Changing
Los Angeles
 California Budget Project
A new report examines workforce and economic trends in Los Angeles and finds that low-wage jobs have replaced many of the jobs that once provided a decent standard of living for workers and their  families.
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Union Membership in 2005: Data on Los Angeles, California, and the United States
 By Ruth Milkman and Bongoh Kye
Institute for Industrial Relations,
University of California, Los Angeles
Over the past ten years, the nation's unionization rate has continued its relentless decline, but in both the Los Angeles metropolitan area and in California, the unionization rate has held steady and has even edged upward in some years.
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Where Have All the Wages Gone? Jobs and
Wages in 2006
 By Arindrajit Dube and Dave Graham-Squire
University of California, Berkeley
Despite rising productivity and corporate profits, wages for workers in California have remained stagnant for the past year, while pay throughout the United States is failing to keep pace with inflation.
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The State of Working America 2006/2007
 By Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, and
Sylvia Allegretto
Economic Policy Institute
Prepared biennially since 1988, EPI's flagship publication sums up the problems and challenges facing American workers, presenting analyses of the latest data on family incomes, wages, income mobility, international comparisons, wealth, and poverty.
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Poverty in California: Moving Beyond the Federal Measure
 By Deborah Reed
Public Policy Institute of California
This report uses a cost-adjusted measure to analyze the state’s poverty both demographically and regionally, making comparisons to federal findings.
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Where Did They Go? The Decline of
Middle-Income Neighborhoods in Metropolitan America
 By Jason C. Booza, Jackie Cutsinger, and George Galster
The Brooking Institution
This analysis of 1970 to 2000 decennial census data for families and neighborhoods in the 100 largest metropolitan areas charts the dramatic decline of middle income neighborhoods in the country.
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Poverty, Inequality and Justice
 By Daniel Flaming
Economic Roundtable
This paper on the vanishing middle class in Southern California was presented at the Pat Brown Institute, California Agenda Public Policy Lecture Series. |
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Senator John Edwards to Keynote 2006 City of Justice Awards Dinner
Senator John Edwards, who has cast a national spotlight on the issue of poverty in America, will deliver the keynote address at this year's City of Justice Awards Dinner. LAANE plans to honor Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), and Rev. Donald Wilson, diversity organizer for the Hotel Workers Rising campaign. Jackie Guerra, author and host of Air America’s Workin' It, and Amy Wakeland, co-chair of LAANE's Honorary Board, will emcee the event. More
Thursday, November 30, 2006
The Center at Cathedral Plaza
555 West Temple St., L.A.
Reception: 5:30 pm
Dinner & Program: 6:30 pm |
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A Living Wage for Immigrant Workers on Century Blvd Now
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Outside the Radisson LAX
(Corner of Sepulveda and Century Blvds.)
Rally at 4:30
March begins at 5:30
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Join hotel workers and immigrants rights activists for a September 28th march and rally to demand an end to the exploitation of immigrant workers and protesting Congress’ continued inaction on immigration reform. More
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