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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...

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....

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

Keeping the Score: The Impact of Recapturing North American Film and Television Sound Recording Work

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2014

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights

Governments across the U.S. and around the world are investing billions of dollars in the film and television industry in an effort to create and retain the high-quality jobs attached to the industry. Yet musicians – the highly-trained and highly-talented women and men who record...

Lost Wages, Soaring Revenue: An Analysis of the Impact of the Failure of Hotels to Implement the Century Corridor Living Wage

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

The Los Angeles City Council adopted an ordinance requiring LAX-area hotels to pay workers a living wage. Hotel industry groups responded by launching a referendum and filing a lawsuit, delaying implementation of the living wage ordinance for more than a year. This report outlines...

Helping Renters Save Through Shared Solar + Energy Efficiency

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2018

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Energy, Housing, Public Safety

Solar hasn’t been available to everyone. The majority of Angelenos, who are renters, have been excluded from the solar market and resulting savings. LADWP historically has lacked renter oriented solar programs. These barriers have resulted in disparities in who has access to solar...

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....

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....

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Undertrained, Underpaid, and Unprepared: How LA's Commercial Office Building Owners Are Failing Security Officers and Compromising Public Safety

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, Public Safety

This report details how substandard training practices, high turnover rates, and low wages in Los Angeles's security industry has left the city particularly vulnerable to natural disasters, crime, and terrorist attacks. The report uses case studies from across the city to provide...

Zero Waste LA Franchise System

Type Ordinance or Resolution

Year 2014

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Energy

Under the City's RENEW LA Plan, the City committed to reaching Zero Waste by diverting 70% of the solid waste generated in the City by 2013, diverting 90% by 2025, and becoming a zero waste city by 2030. In order to meet these goals, increasing recycling and diversion in the commercial...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Training for the Future II Los Angeles's Utility Pre-Craft Trainee Program: Progress to Date

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2016

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 report discusses the progress of the Utility Pre-Craft Trainee (UPCT) program since its launch in 2011. The UPCT program, jointly operated by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 18, is an earn-and-learn,...

Los Angeles Tariff No.4, Section 20 Approving The Port of Los Angeles Clean Truck Program

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, Environment & Natural Resources, Energy, Transportation & Mobility

The Clean Truck Program at the Port of Los Angeles was designed to make the trucks at the city's ports more environmentally sustainable. The Program reduced emissions and did not allow port companies to shift the costs of the truck upgrades on to the drivers. Section Twenty of the...

Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority Construction Careers Policy

Type Executive Order

Year 2019

Level County

State(s) California

Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy

Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Transportation & Mobility

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (LACMTA) Construction Careers Policy (CCP) encourages construction employment and training opportunities in ways calculated to mitigate the harms caused by geographically concentrated poverty and unemployment in economically...

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