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The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) and Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW) present
More Than a Paycheck:
Click here to listen to this audio conference in streaming audio. The American Dream promises that if you are willing to work hard, you will be able to achieve a better life for yourself and your family. But too many people are stuck in bad jobs—jobs that pay poverty-level wages and offer no benefits, jobs with little opportunity for advancement, jobs in which workers don’t know from week to week if they’ll get enough hours to pay their bills, jobs that workers can lose for staying home with a sick child. In this audio conference, you’ll hear
about the state of job quality in the Guests: Liz Krueger, New York State Senator, 26th District Elizabeth Lower-Basch, Senior Policy Analyst, Center for Law and Social Policy Joan A. Kuriansky, Executive Director, Wider Opportunities for Women Moderator: Jodie Levin-Epstein, Deputy Director, CLASP Resources for Further Information:
Opportunity at Work: Improving Job Quality by
Elizabeth Lower-Basch, CLASP. This paper describes the state of job quality in
the
Reality Check: Promoting Self-Sufficiency in the Public Workforce System,
Wider Opportunities for Women. Reality Check
documents 22 case studies of state and local workforce boards that are using
Self-Sufficiency Standards or similar measures as a defining characteristic in
their work. The report highlights practices that improve a
worker’s chance of finding a good job in the labor market and using the
self-sufficiency standard to set program goals, spend training dollars,
establish local economic development initiatives, and ensure access to career
services for the most vulnerable job seekers. Information on the Unemployment Insurance Modernization Act Information on the Balancing Act
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