Resources for Employment Issues

Reports 

• Hometown Prosperity: Increasing Opportunity for DC's Low-Income Working Families, DC Appleseed and Fiscal Policy Institute (January 2008)
• DC's Two Economies: Many Residents Are Falling Behind Despite City's Revitalization,  DC Fiscal Policy Institute, (October 2007)
• Meeting DC's Challenges, Maintaining Fiscal Discipline: Policy Proposals for the New Mayor and Council, DC Fiscal Policy Institute (March 2007)
• The State of Adult Literacy Report, State Education Agency/Adult Education and Family Literacy (March 2007)

Briefing Papers, Speeches & Press Releases

• New Paid Sick and Safe Days Law Will Benefit All DC Workers, Families, D.C. Employment Justice Center (May 1, 2007)
• Access to Sick Days Vastly Unequal, Economic Policy Institute (April 2007)
• Securing the Wage Floor: Indexing Would Maintain the Minimum Wage's Value and Provide Predictability to Employers, Economic Policy Institute (October 2006)
• Job Growth Has Slowed Significantly in 2006, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (October 2006)
• Latest Data on Minimum Wage Workers and Taxable Estates, By State, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (August 2006)

D.C. Government Plans

• A District That Works: The Mayor's Strategy for Workforce Development

Organizations

• D.C. Employment Justice Center. Local nonprofit organization that combines legal services, community education, organizing, and advocacy work  to achieve justice for low-wage workers.
• DC Fiscal Policy Institute. Conducts research and public education on budget and tax issues in the District of Columbia, with particular emphasis on issues that affect low and moderate income residents.
• Jobs With Justice. National organization that seeks to engage workers and allies in campaigns to win justice in workplaces and in communities where working families live. Builds coalitions of labor, religious, student and community organizations to address diverse social justice issues.

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Facts and Figures

• Employment and Wages

Recent SOME & Client Testimony

• Regarding the Fiscal Year 2009 Budget Support Act of 2008 (April 25, 2008)
• Regarding the Department of Employment Services Budget (Emily Price) (April 22, 2008)
• Regarding the Department of Employment Services Budget (Jenna Gold) (April 22, 2008)
• Regarding the Budget Office of the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (April 11, 2008)
• Regarding Oversight of the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (March 7, 2008)
• Regarding the Public Oversight Hearing for the Department of Employment Services (February 11, 2008)
• Regarding the Public Oversight Roundtable Regarding Poverty Issues (January 16, 2008)
• Regarding the Public Oversight Roundtable Regarding Poverty Issues (Phillip Thomas) (January 16, 2008)
• Regarding the Public Oversight Roundtable Regarding Poverty Issues (Deidra Foster Williams) (January 16, 2008)

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