LOS ANGELES, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- The second largest U.S. city Los Angeles will raise its minimum wage from 15 U.S. dollars to 16.04 dollars per hour starting July 1, Mayor Eric Garcetti said Thursday. To ensure that local workers' wages keep pace with inflationary increases, Garcetti sa...
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A new study is linking homelessness to fast food industry wages. LOS ANGELES - Thousands of fast food workers in Los Angeles County are experiencing homelessness, according to a new analysis. The results published in Economic Roundtable’s study found that workers in the fast-food industry make...
"It's very hard for low-income workers in California," said Zev Yaroslavsky, director of the Los Angeles Initiative at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and a former member of the LA County Board of Supervisors. "In Los Angeles County alone, nearly 40% of the households in our ...
The SELACO Workforce Development Board provides personalized services that foster the progress of employers and encourages the potential of individuals, to build a strong workforce for the Southeast Los Angeles Region. A flexible and entrepreneurial staff uses current technology to stimulate the development...
The SELACO Workforce Development Board provides personalized services that foster the progress of employers and encourages the potential of individuals, to build a strong workforce for the Southeast Los Angeles Region. A flexible and entrepreneurial staff uses current technology to stimulate the development...
The SELACO Workforce Development Board provides personalized services that foster the progress of employers and encourages the potential of individuals, to build a strong workforce for the Southeast Los Angeles Region. A flexible and entrepreneurial staff uses current technology to stimulate the development...
Los Angeles County’s homelessness situation is unlike any other in the United States.1 By recent estimates, LA’s population of people experiencing homelessness has surpassed New York City’s to become the largest in the nation—and it is still growing, with about one in ...
Tom Lieser, executive director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast, said the declining rankings reflect Los Angeles County’s failure to fully recover from the loss in the early 1990s of thousands of jobs providing middle-class wages in the aerospace and finance industries. He said many of the new ...
“We are seeing a pretty high percentage of our workforce in relatively low-paying, low-skilled jobs,” said Somjita Mitra, director of the Institute of Applied Economics at the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp. In the post-Great Recession landscape, the prospect of getting a well...