The Other Los Angeles: The Working Poor in the City of the 21st Century

This report outlines LAANE's vision for Los Angeles in the 21st Century advocating for addressing inequality through increasing wages, increasing employment enforcement, ensure responsible government contracting, expanded education and training, affordable housing, and affordable health insurance. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Los Angeles generated some of the most innovative responses to the problem of low-wage work and working poverty. Community based organizations exposed illegal working conditions; labor unions gained strength, and a local coalition of community groups, clergy, and labor unions worked to pass living wage laws. If Los Angeles epitomizes the problem of working poverty, it also points us towards solutions for the 21st century