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Type Model Law

Year -

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source -

Policy Areas Economic Justice

This model ordinance requires every “covered employer,” or contractor that enters into a city contract where the annual value of payments is $25,000 or more, to pay their employees no less than a living wage. Beginning at $10.55 per hour, each year the living wage shall be adjusted...

Seattle Executive Order 2014-03: Equity in City Contracting

Type Executive Order

Year 2014

Level City or Town

State(s) Washington

Source Mayors Innovation Project

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources, Children & Families, Democracy & Governance

An Executive Order to affirm Seattle's commitment to equity in City contracting and to advance the City's mission to promote race and gender equity in contracting. This Executive Order directs City departments and offices to increase the opportunities for women and minority owned...

Homegrown: Implementing State & Local Preferences for Food Procurement

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2018

Level City or Town, County, State

State(s) All States

Source ChangeLab Solutions

Policy Areas Health, Finance & Procurement, Food

Government agencies often procure goods, including food, for use by employees, students, and community members. Generally, when a state or local agency purchases food, the agency uses a competitive process to find the supplier who can provide the lowest-priced goods. However, when...

San Francisco Local Hiring Policy for Construction Fact Sheet

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2011

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights

This fact sheet briefly summarized San Francisco's Local Hiring Policy for Construction. It requires 30% of all project hours within each trade to be performed by local residents, and no less than 15% of all project work hours within each trade to be performed by disadvantaged workers....

Exploring Targeted Hire: An Assessment of Best Practices in the Construction Industry

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2014

Level County

State(s) All States

Source Mayors Innovation Project

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Children & Families, Democracy & Governance

Public construction projects are an expenditure of public tax dollars; as such, public agencies have an opportunity to develop policies for public construction projects to benefit taxpayers with employment and business opportunities. Targeted hire initiatives create institutional...

Key Elements of a Targeted Hiring Program

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2014

Level County

State(s) All States

Source Mayors Innovation Project

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Children & Families

Most targeted hiring programs include mechanisms that do two things: 1) Maximize the chances that workers from the targeted category who are already in the construction industry will get called to work on that job. 2) Create opportunities for new workers - aspiring apprentices who...

MOVING LA FORWARD Promoting Construction Careers at Metro

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2011

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy

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

Los Angeles is about to embark upon one of the largest investments in transportation infrastructure in the county’s history—an array of projects worth more than $72 billion over the next 30 years. This investment has the potential to be a massive economic recovery project at a time...

Understanding Healthy Procurement: Using Government’s Purchasing Power to Increase Access to Healthy Food

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2012

Level City or Town, County, State

State(s) All States

Source ChangeLab Solutions

Policy Areas Health, Finance & Procurement, Food

State and local governments can improve residents’ diets by exercising their power to purchase goods and services. By adopting healthy procurement policies, governments can improve public health, lower overall costs, and provide leadership for the private sector to do the same....

2003 Milwaukee Ordinance 310-17

Type Ordinance

Year 2003

Level City or Town

State(s) Wisconsin

Source Milwaukee Common Council

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance

This ordinance provides that all contracting departments shall award contracts in excess of $5000 related to the purchasing, renting, laundering and dry cleaning of items of apparel to contractors and subcontractors who are able to provide for the fulfillment of the contracts from...

2018 Utility Supplier Diversity Update: Opening Doors for Entrepreneurs of Color

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2018

Level -

State(s) California

Source The Greenlining Institute

Policy Areas -

Supplier diversity helps direct corporate procurement to businesses owned by historically marginalized communities. The California legislature created a supplier diversity program at the California Public Utilities Commission that requires regulated utilities (such as energy and...

The Business Case for Sustainable Procurement

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level City or Town

State(s) -

Source American Sustainable Business Council

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources

Sustainable procurement benefits the larger economy by reducing damages associated with climate change and hazardous chemicals, minimizing costly environmental and health problems in workers and other people, especially children. Shifting to sustainable procurement resonates through...

Seattle Priority Hire on City Construction Projects

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2015

Level City or Town

State(s) Washington

Source Mayors Innovation Project

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources, Democracy & Governance, Children & Families

The City of Seattle supports construction jobs and meaningful employment for those in our community through programs that prepare and train workers for careers with family-sustaining wages. In early 2015, the Seattle City Council adopted a new City law, proposed by Mayor Ed Murray,...

Building America While Building Our Middle Class: Best Practices for P3 Infrastructure Projects

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2016

Level County

State(s) All States

Source Mayors Innovation Project

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance

Policymakers have long understood the job creation opportunities that public infrastructure projects provide. To enhance these jobs' economic and social impact and lift families out of poverty, many cities and states have incorporated job quality and equity policies into public infrastructure...

Invest, Democratize, Organize: Lessons on Building More Equitable Cities From Nashville and Raleigh-Durham

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2018

Level City or Town

State(s) North Carolina, Tennessee

Source Partnership for Working Families

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Community Development, Housing

Citywide development that uses traditional business practices, which have historically benefitted from and perpetuated racialized inequality, can threaten to displace the most disadvantaged communities. This report provides tools and resources for groups that are advocating for more...

Standing Guard: How Unaccountable Contracting Fails Governments and Taxpayers

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2014

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source In the Public Interest

Policy Areas Finance & Procurement

As local and state governments increasingly contract out public services that impact the well-being of their community, the need for robust contract oversight is increasing. A lack of oversight has detrimental impacts on the people served by a program or service, and for the public...

Executive Directive No. 15 Equitable Workforce and Service Restoration

Type Executive Order

Year 2016

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source City Of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance

Los Angeles Mayor Garcetti's executive order promoting equity in Public Procurement....

1996 Los Angeles Service Contractor Worker Retention Ordinance 171004

Type Ordinance

Year 1996

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source Council of the City of Los Angeles

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights

Incumbent workers have invaluable knowledge and experience with work schedules, practices, and clients. The benefits of replacing these workers without such experiences decreases efficiency and results in a disservice to City and City financed or assisted projects. As a result, this...

2001 Wales First Source Hiring and Local Business Enterprise Policy

Type Act or Session Law

Year 2001

Level City or Town

State(s) New York

Source Wales Town Board

Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Economic Justice, Civil Rights

An act requiring that for city-assisted development projects, developers and employers of the built business are required to hire 30% local residents, or make efforts to do so....

Saving Time and Making Cents: A Blueprint for Building Transit Better

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level City or Town, County, National, State

State(s) All States

Source Eno Center for Transportation

Policy Areas Finance & Procurement, Transportation & Mobility

Transit projects in the United States suffer from high costs and take longer to complete than they do abroad. After conducting 117 interviews with key stakeholders, this report finds that institutional structure and decision-making, procurement specifications, utility relocation,...

Our communities are DWP's Future Workforce: The Utility Pre-Craft Trainee Program (UPCT)

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2015

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Energy

The factsheet outlines the cities The Utility Pre-Craft Trainee Program (UPCT) in LA which aimed to place low income and minority city residents in good union utility jobs through an innovative training program....

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...

The Power of Sustainable Purchasing

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2018

Level County

State(s) All States

Source Mayors Innovation Project

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Environment & Natural Resources, Energy

Companies, governments, and institutions of all kinds purchase goods and services for their own use. But what they buy - and how they buy it - has a significant impact on local communities, the environment, and the economy - and in some unexpected ways, on the success of the business...

Project Labor Agreements and Bidding Outcomes: The Case of Community College Construction in California

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2017

Level County

State(s) California

Source U.C. Berkeley Center For Labor Research and Education

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Finance & Procurement

This report using both case studies and statistical analysis of construction projects at local community colleges in California found that projects with Project Labor Agreements did not reduce the number of bids received or the costs of the projects....

2010 Hartford Ordinance 06-10, 3-22-10 Living Wage

Type Ordinance

Year 2010

Level City or Town

State(s) Connecticut

Source Hartford Court Of Common Council

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights

This ordinance requires employers to pay their employees no less than the living wage for work on contracts awarded by the City....

Closing the Books: How Government Contractors Hide Public Records

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2015

Level State

State(s) All States

Source In the Public Interest

Policy Areas Finance & Procurement

This report provides case studies that illustrate how private contractors hide three key types of information: the fees they charge the public, how they spend public funds, and details on the quality of public services. Decision-makers should adopt strong sunshine laws that require...

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