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Clean Power, Good Jobs: Realizing the Promise of Energy Efficiency in Los Angeles
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2012
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Energy
The Solar Incentive Program (SIP) is the most established rooftop solar program in the City of Los Angeles. It originated at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power in 2000 with a $150 million investment to incentivize the poliferation of rooftop solar in Los Angeles. With the...
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Stabilizing Customer Rates in Exclusive Franchise Wast and Recycling Systems
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2019
Level City or Town, County
State(s) California
Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources
This report evaluates LA County's waste and recycling systems highlight how localities can keep costs down while maintaining quality and equitable service. The report finds exclusive franchise systems provide the county to the best deal....
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Raise LA: How Good Hotel Jobs Will Boost Local Businesses, Strengthen Neighborhoods and Renew Our Economy
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2013
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Health
This report examines how establishing a minimum wage for hotel workers in Los Angeles would improve job quality, reduce poverty, and bolster the city's tourism industry. It recommends policymakers set the starting hotel minimum wage equal to the existing living wage set for workers...
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Examining the Evidence: The Impact of the Los Angeles Living Wage Ordinance on Workers and Businesses
Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2005
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Policy Areas Economic Justice
This report examines the impact of Los Angeles' 1997 living wage ordinance on wages, benefits, and labor dynamics. It finds that the law increased wages and benefits for thousands of people across the city, and that these benefits were greater when workers were unionized. ...
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Successes of Construction Careers
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2014
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Policy Areas Finance & Procurement, Democracy & Governance, Economic Justice, Civil Rights
Los Angeles is currently embarking upon one its largest investments in infrastructure in decades. Through these investments, we will be modernizing our port, fixing our roads, and undertaking the largest expansion of public transit in recent history. These investments, representing...
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Beyond Unemployment: Rebuilding the Economy With Good Jobs
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2011
Level County
State(s) California
Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance
LAANE report outlining an equitable growth strategy for LA County following the 2008 recession built around good jobs targeted towards communities facing the greatest disadvantage...
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Los Angeles City Construction Careers and Local Hiring Policy
Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2008
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Environment & Natural Resources, Community Development, Public Spaces, Finance & Procurement
The Construction Careers and Project Stabilization Policy establishes a local hiring program and project labor agreement terms that would be applied to all Board-approved projects that meet certain thresholds.The key goals of the Policy are to ensure that (1) CRA/LA-created job opportunities...
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Under the Radar: How Airline Outsourcing of Passenger Services Compromises Security and Service Quality at LAX
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2007
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Health, Housing, Public Safety
The Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE) surveyed nearly 300 passenger service workers to determine the effects of contracting on public safety and service quality at the Los Angeles International Airport. Results show that airlines are compromising security at LAX by failing...
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Hour Crisis: Unstable Schedules in the Los Angeles Retail Sector
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2018
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights
The retail sector is an integral part of the Los Angeles landscape with almost half a million workers in the county, and 147,157 workers in the city. Retail makes up one-tenth of the private sector workforce in the county and is its second largest employer. Yet more than half of the...
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LADWP Equity Metrics Data Initiative
Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2016
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources, Energy
To meet the goal of providing clean and reliable water and power for all ratepayers, LADWP, a public water and power agency, must provide fair and reasonable services to all ratepayers. In examining the issue of fairness, LADWP should examine service disparities, equity among ratepayers,...
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Century Corridor: Turning the Gateway to Los Angeles into a Gateway to Prosperity
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2006
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance
This report proposes a revitalization project of the Century Boulevard corridor in Los Angeles, including improvements to transportation infrastructure, new economic development opportunities, enhanced public safety measures, and increased community engagement. The report also emphasizes...
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The Road to Shared Prosperity: The Regional Economic Benefits for the San Pedro Bay Ports' Clean Trucks Program
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2007
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources, Energy, Transportation & Mobility
This report analyized the potential impact of the proposed LA and Long Beach Clean Truck Programs. They how that these programs would not only imporve the environment but would also have large financial benefits for the truck drivers and their communtieis....
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Give Kids a Chance: Stop Starving Out Public Schools
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2018
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Education
Outlines the teachers and communities vision for equitable schools in LA. Calls for reducing class sizes, less testing, community investment, fair wages, charter school oversight, and increased funding....
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Training for the Future: Workforce Development for a 21st Century Utility Los Angeles's Utility Pre-Craft Trainee Program
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2013
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Energy, Economic Justice, Civil Rights
This paper offers background on the development of Los Angeles's Utility Pre-Craft Trainee (UPCT) program, and highlights the features of the program that make it a best practice model for workforce training for entry-level workers. First, it provides an overview of the statewide...
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Taking Care of Business: An Evaluation of the Los Angeles Business Team
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2000
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Community Development, Finance & Procurement
This report systematically evaluates the Los Angeles Business Team (LABT), a Mayoral initiative, and its effectiveness in creating an accountable decision-making process, quality job opportunities, allocating resources, and driving business growth in Los Angeles. The report offers...
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Liquid Assets: How Stormwater Infrastructure Builds Resilience, Health, Jobs, & Equity
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2018
Level City or Town, County
State(s) California
Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Environment & Natural Resources, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Energy, Finance & Procurement, Environment & Natural Resources
Southern California’s water supply is precarious, and our current practices are unsustainable. Of the roughly 500 billion gallons used annually in the L.A. Basin, only one-third comes from local groundwater; the majority of our water is transported from hundreds of miles away, at...
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LADWP Solar Rooftops Resolution
Type Ordinance or Resolution
Year 2016
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Energy, Housing, Public Safety
This Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is committed to expanding usage of renewable energy in the city to 33% solar energy in 2020, and 50% in 2050. To meet this goal, LADWP is easing residential access to solar by carrying out Phase 1 of the Solar Rooftops Program,...
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Unmasking the Hidden Power of Cities: USING THEIR AUTHORITIES, ENERGY AND PROMISE TO SECURE THE COMMON GOOD
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2018
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Community Development, Public Spaces, Democracy & Governance
We are in an unprecedented moment in U.S. history. It is a time of resurgent racism and inequality, but also of newly energized and ambitious activism. We propose that the most effective way to take advantage of that momentum and reclaim American democracy is through investment in...
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City at a Crossroads: Poverty, Jobs and the Future of Los Angeles
Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2006
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Housing, Public Safety, Health, Education
This factsheet highlights the economic challenges facing low-income communities in Los Angeles, including poverty, a declining manufacturing industry, unemployment, increasing costs of living, and inadequate access to education and training programs. It argues that the city must act...
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Flying Higher at LAX: Family Healthcare Coverage for Airline Service Workers
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2010
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Health
This report evaluates the impact of Los Angeles' decision to update their Living Wage Ordinance to provide healthcare coverage for airline service workers and their families. Six months after the update, access to family healthcare and passenger safety, service, and security improved....
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Foreclosure on Wheels: Long Beach's Truck Program Puts Drivers at High Risk for Default
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2008
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources, Energy, Transportation & Mobility
This report discusses Long Beach's Clean Trucks Program that aims to replace polluting trucks with cleaner models. The program requires individual drivers, predominantly low-income Latino immigrants, to invest in new trucks and bear the associated costs, while in Los Angeles, trucking...
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From Waste to Resource: Restoring Our Economy with Recycling Careers
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2014
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Energy, Finance & Procurement, Economic Justice, Civil Rights
In this report, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE) outline a new model for recycling job growth with the potential to encourage quality jobs and to improve the environment. LAANE is advocating for a transformation of the waste and recycling...
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MOVING LA FORWARD Promoting Construction Careers at Metro
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2011
Level City or Town, County
State(s) California
Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Economic Justice, Transportation & Mobility
This report finds that transit investment would improve air quality and mobility for LA residents, and metro projects with targeted local hiring strategies could create billions of dollars in public economic benefits for the county. It recommends that the city create a construction...
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Short-Term Rentals and LA's Lost Housing
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2015
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Policy Areas Finance & Procurement, Democracy & Governance, Housing, Public Safety
In March 2015, the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE) released Airbnb, Rising Rent, and the Housing Crisis in Los Angeles. That report, based on data gathered in October 2014, found that Airbnb listings were dominated by commercial operations and were exacerbating the...
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Cleaning Up Waste and Recycling Management and Securing the Benefits: A Blueprint for Cities
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2015
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Energy, Finance & Procurement, Economic Justice, Civil Rights
Managing a city’s waste and recycling sector is a core governmental responsibility and, when done well, helps cities realize benefits and meet constituents’ expectations. Residents expect government to prevent pollution and protect neighborhoods, create good quality jobs, and operate...
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