In order to build wealth and create opportunities in and across underserved communities, and reverse the troubling trends we’re seeing in our economy, we no longer find it defensible to focus on job creation alone. It’s clear that job creation does not itself equate to lasting economic change. And so, we must shift our focus to the creation of higher quality jobs — jobs that are good for workers and their families, good for businesses, and good for communities — enabling us to build an economy that works for everyone.
Each month, we bring you the latest roundup of news from the fight for quality jobs for working people.
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Why Chase Bank is giving their 18,000 tellers and administrators a raise. Read more >[/block_grid_item]
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The candidates need an agenda for working families — we can’t live on the status quo. Read more >[/block_grid_item]
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Monopoly power and the decline of small business: The case for restoring robust antitrust policies. Read more >[/block_grid_item]
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How rural farming communities are fighting economic decline. Read more >[/block_grid_item]
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Inequality spans all colors: The long, bleak history of the country’s white poor. Read more >[/block_grid_item]
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How to make “bad jobs” better. Read more >[/block_grid_item]
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How low-paying retailers can adapt to higher minimum wages. Read more >[/block_grid_item]
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Setting aside politics to try to create an entrepreneurial economy in Coal Country. Read more >[/block_grid_item]
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Test City: San Jose ballot initiative would give part-time workers more hours. Read more >[/block_grid_item][/block_grid]
Beginning this year, PCV has shifted its mission in order to move our economy to one where quality jobs are the norm—not the exception. CDFIs like ours must build consensus around a common definition of a quality job, undertake practical efforts to foster the creation of quality jobs, and measure results to understand what works.