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This is the first in a series of monthly updates from New Visions, the newsletter of the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy. These updates highlight important recent events in LAANE campaigns and projects. This month we also present a dialogue with economist Steven Pitts, author of a report on job quality and black workers in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Chicago. |
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Justice on the March |
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L.A. Airport to Fund Largest U.S. Study on Impact of Airport Pollution on Local Community |
The Los Angeles Board of Airport Commissioners voted in late February to fund the largest study in the nation examining sources of toxic pollution attributable to airport operations and the impact on nearby communities. More
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LA’s Redevelopment Agency Passes Trail-Blazing Construction Policy |
| After hearing a broad range of testimony, the Community Redevelopment Agency’s (CRA) governing board approved a landmark policy requiring publicly-subsidized projects to hire more local and “at risk” residents from the communities in which the projects are built. The policy also requires these projects to be party to a Project Labor Agreement to ensure the projects create middle class, union jobs. More |
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Truck Drivers, Environmentalists Stand Strong as Long Beach Officials Bow to Corporate Pressure |
Port truck drivers, community members and environmentalists are fighting back in the aftermath of the Long Beach Port Commissioners’ February 19th approval of a staff-devised scheme that satisfied the major shipping interests but will fail to permanently reduce severe port truck pollution. More
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Community Leaders Blast Appeal of Living Wage Court Order, Celebrate Victory at Westin LAX, Announce Boycott at Four Points Hotel |
Faith and community leaders have criticized a February decision by LAX-area hotels to challenge a recent state appellate court ruling requiring hotels near the airport to pay their workers a living wage. Hotels have already spent over one million dollars fighting the living wage ordinance, and their opposition to the wage law has cost workers millions of dollars since February 2007. More
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Dialogue |
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with Renowned Economist Steven Pitts |
A Ph.D. in economics, Steven Pitts joined the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education in 2001 and has published extensively on issues affecting African American workers, economic development and social policy. Most recently, he published an analysis of job quality and black workers in four cities: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and New York. Prior to joining the Labor Center, Pitts taught economics at the University of Houston and Houston Community College. More
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