Creating Good Jobs: Strategies to Cut Poverty and Build Lasting Economic Stability

Add to Calendar 4/13/11 5:30 am 4/13/11 7:00 am America/New York Creating Good Jobs: Strategies to Cut Poverty and Build Lasting Economic Stability

To reach our goal of cutting poverty in half and moving millions of low-wage workers toward economic stability, developing innovative workforce practices must be a key component of a national strategy. This comprehensive workforce agenda must focus on preparing workers; promoting new industries for employment that will pay workers appropriate wages; and creating jobs that provide benefits and workplace flexibilities.

Join national experts as they discuss a range of job creation strategies including recent research on low-wage workers and the challenges they face in the current labor market; federal policy recommendations to engage dislocated workers including women, youth, and those living in urban communities; efforts to increase workplace flexibility; and effective community partnerships to create better paying jobs for low-wage workers.

Center for American Progress Action Fund, 1333 H St. NW, 10th Floor, Washington, DC, 20005

To reach our goal of cutting poverty in half and moving millions of low-wage workers toward economic stability, developing innovative workforce practices must be a key component of a national strategy. This comprehensive workforce agenda must focus on preparing workers; promoting new industries for employment that will pay workers appropriate wages; and creating jobs that provide benefits and workplace flexibilities.

Join national experts as they discuss a range of job creation strategies including recent research on low-wage workers and the challenges they face in the current labor market; federal policy recommendations to engage dislocated workers including women, youth, and those living in urban communities; efforts to increase workplace flexibility; and effective community partnerships to create better paying jobs for low-wage workers.

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Coffee will be served at 9:00 a.m.