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Aspen Institute Quality Job Tools Library

Type Policy Brief or Report, Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2020

Level City or Town, County, Other Boards and Agencies

State(s) All States

Source The Aspen Institute

Policy Areas Economic Justice

The Aspen Institute's Economic Opportunities Program developed this Job Quality Tools Library to provide actionable tools – including checklists, instructions, and guidelines – to help leaders adopt practices to strengthen job quality in their own organizations, in the businesses...

St. Petersburg Wage Theft Ordinance No. 161-H

Type Ordinance

Year 2015

Level City or Town

State(s) Florida

Source Mayors Innovation Project

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Finance & Procurement, Children & Families

This ordinance details the procedure for wage theft complaints in St. Petersburg, FL, including the process of filing wage theft complaints, employer responses, conciliation, and hearings before a hearing officer. Moreover, this ordinance also outlines enforcement practices and retaliation...

It is Time for Earned Sick Leave in Michigan

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2016

Level State

State(s) Michigan

Source Michigan League for Public Policy

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Children & Families

Michigan should enact an earned sick leave law. An earned sick leave law in Michigan would require most employers to bank sick time for their workers based on the number of hours they have worked. This would help low-paid workers keep their jobs, increase productivity and reduce employee...

Achieving the Anchor Promise: Improving Outcomes for Low-Income Children, Families and Communities

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2013

Level County

State(s) All States

Source Mayors Innovation Project

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

It is widely acknowledged that hospitals and universities are anchor institutions - that is, place-based institutions that are tied to their location by reason of mission, invested capital, or relationships to customers or employees and hence have a vested interest in improving the...

2005 Hudson County Ordinance 360-9

Type Act or Session Law

Year 2005

Level County

State(s) New Jersey

Source Hudson County Board Of Chosen Freeholders

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights

This ordinance specifies minimum wage and benefit requirements for service workers of vendors, contractors, and subcontractors who contract with the County of Hudson. The ordinance grants the following for workers who work 20 hours or more per week: an hourly pay rate 150 percent...

Voters Express Broad Support for Paid Family & Medical Leave

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2018

Level County, City or Town

State(s) All States

Source SiX Action

Policy Areas Health, Housing, Public Safety, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Children & Families

Polling conducted in advance of the 2018 legislative session in key battleground states showed broad support among likely voters for policies that provide working families with economic security. In particular, the polling found high levels of support for expanded healthcare coverage...

First Source Hiring and Local Business Enterprise Policy

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2010

Level County

State(s) All States

Source Mayors Innovation Project

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

A policy on obligations of developers and contractors to seek local employees, service providers and businesses to meet their needs....

2010 Hartford City Ordinance Number 06-10, 3-22-10

Type Ordinance

Year 2010

Level City or Town

State(s) Connecticut

Source Hartford Court Of Common Council

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights

This city ordinance requires a living wage for all workers employed to perform work associated with city contracts....

Educator Expectations, Qualifications, and Earnings: Shared Challenges and Divergent Systems in ECE and K-12

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2017

Level State

State(s) All States

Source Center for the Study of Child Care Employment

Policy Areas Children & Families, Economic Justice, Education

While there is wide agreement across states and types of schools that K-12 teachers should obtain a bachelor's degree, no consensus exists within the early care and education workforce. This report analyzes how this lack of consensus has led to disparities in minimum qualifications...

Jersey City Prevailing Wage Ordinance 12-090

Type Ordinance

Year 2020

Level City or Town

State(s) New Jersey

Source Jersey City City Council

Policy Areas Economic Justice

This ordinance amends the Jersey City Municipal Code by requiring City contractors to provide their employees, whether full- or part-time, with a standard hourly rate of pay, benefits, and paid leave during the time of their contract. Additionally, when a contractor’s service is terminated,...

Newark Ordinance No. 2:4-20

Type Ordinance

Year 2012

Level City or Town

State(s) New Jersey

Source Newark Clerk Office

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

This ordinance requires contracting companies to maintain, to the greatest extent possible, a workforce composed of 40% qualified Newark residents....

Saving Made Simple: An Evaluation of an Employer-Based Automatic Savings Program in Austin, TX

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2016

Level City or Town

State(s) Texas

Source Child & Family Research Partnership

Policy Areas Economic Justice

Almost half of U.S. households do not save. This brief presents evaluation findings from a pilot program designed to help low- and middle-wage workers achieve greater financial stability through an employer-based automatic savings program. The program offers employees the opportunity...

1998 Oakland Ordinance 12050

Type Ordinance

Year 1998

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source Oakland City Council

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Finance & Procurement

The ordinance requires companies or non-profits with service contracts with the city worth at least $25,000 or benefiting from at least $100,000 in city subsidies to pay workers a minimum of $9.25 an hour; entitles workers to 12 paid days off per year; and allows collective bargaining...

Strategies in Pursuit of Pre-K Teacher Compensation Parity: Lessons from Seven States and Cities

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2017

Level City or Town, State

State(s) Alabama, California, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, West Virginia

Source National Institute for Early Education Research

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Education

Teachers in publicly funded pre-kindergarten programs across the nation are increasingly expected to earn educational qualifications and credentials similar to their peers teaching older children. Yet salaries and benefits remain consistently lower for pre-K teachers than for kindergarten...

What Is a Project Labor Agreement?

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2013

Level County

State(s) California

Source Mayors Innovation Project

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance

A fact sheet summarizing project labor agreements....

2000 Santa Cruz Living Wage Ordinance 25

Type Ordinance

Year 2000

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source Santa Cruz City Council

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Finance & Procurement

This ordinance requires city service contractors to pay workers a living wage. Each year the city council will review and extend the living wage by at least an amount which corresponds to the cost of living increase as measured by the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose area Consumer...

Memphis Fast Forward Program

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2013

Level City or Town

State(s) Tennessee

Source Mayors Innovation Project

Policy Areas Education, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Health, Finance & Procurement, Environment & Natural Resources, Community Development, Public Spaces, Democracy & Governance

Suffering from years of disinvestment and persistently high rates of poverty, this case study shows how Memphis city officials joined forces with the private and nonprofit sectors to have a collective impact on some of the city's most pressing social issues....

2014 Milwaukee County Ordinance 14-7

Type Ordinance

Year 2014

Level County

State(s) Wisconsin

Source Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Finance & Procurement

The ordinance requires Miwaukee County and employers that are contractors, subcontractors, or lessees of, or recipients of economic development financial assistance from, the county to pay all covered full and part-time employees a living wage equal to 100% of the poverty income level...

Philadelphia PA Wage Theft Ordinance No. 150741

Type Ordinance

Year 2015

Level City or Town

State(s) Pennsylvania

Source Mayors Innovation Project

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Children & Families, Finance & Procurement

This ordinance creates a wage theft coordinator for the City and provides definitions, duties, penalties, feed, procedural requirements, a private right of action and other related items regarding wage theft....

Pennsylvania's Fresh Food Financing Initiative

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2009

Level County

State(s) Pennsylvania

Source Mayors Innovation Project

Policy Areas Food, Finance & Procurement, Democracy & Governance, Environment & Natural Resources, Energy, Children & Families, Economic Justice, Civil Rights

The Pennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative (FFFI) is a statewide financing program designed to attract supermarkets and grocery stores to underserved urban and rural communities....

2011 Seattle Ordinance 123698

Type Ordinance

Year 2011

Level City or Town

State(s) Washington

Source City of Seattle

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Health, Children & Families

This ordinance requires employers to provide a certain number of hours annually, depending on business size, to employees for sick leave to care for themselves or others, or for safe leave to address the after-effects of sexual assault....

First Source Hiring Initiatives

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2011

Level County

State(s) All States

Source Mayors Innovation Project

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

First source hiring ordinances, contract clauses, and related agreements seek to provide meaningful employment opportunities to residents living within communities most directly impacted by local development projects. Local development projects are typically undertaken based on broad...

1998 Detroit Ordinance 45-98: Living Wage Ordinance

Type Ordinance

Year 2008

Level City or Town

State(s) Michigan

Source Institute for Local Self-Reliance

Policy Areas Economic Justice

This ordinance mandates city service contractors or recipients of city financial assistance of $50,000 or more pay employees a living wage equivalent to the federal poverty line for a family of four. It also requires companies to have local-hiring policies for new jobs created through...

“The Forgotten Ones”—The Economic Well-Being of Early Educators During COVID-19

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2022

Level State

State(s) California

Source Center for the Study of Child Care Employment

Policy Areas Children & Families, Economic Justice, Education

This report provides a closer look at the well-being of California's early educators during the COVID-19 public health crisis, using data collected from the 2020 California Early Care and Education Workforce Study. Key findings show that educators' low wages leave them vulnerable...

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...

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