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The Low-Wage Work in California Data Explorer provides users with graphics, ... downloadable data. Use the site to explore a wide range of data on California’s low-wage workers: numbers of workers, demographics, job quality, occupations, ...
January, 2017
Data Tool
On March 27, 2020, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. 1 The CARES Act, a $2 trillion stimulus bill, builds on H.R. ... and that it is crucial to have inclusive recovery policies in order for all of us to be healthy and safe. Nevertheless, ...
April, 2020
Issue Brief
... stay home rather than return to the frigid poultry plant in Georgia where she had been on the packing line for nearly ... to work to feed America. But my mom was sick,” said one of Ms. Grant’s sons, Willie Martin, 34, a teacher in South ... typically stand elbow-to-elbow to do the low-wage work of cutting, deboning and packing the chicken and beef that ...
April 9, 2020
News Article
Description Join us for a highlight of clips and discussion of Episode 4 of the immediately ... agents, letting viewers peer into the secretive agencies waging the war on immigrants. Episode 4 focuses on ... to Panama City to help rebuild after Hurricane Michael in 2018. Conservative residents admit they need these workers ...
August 18, 2020
Webinar
... U.S., has had to rapidly adapt to an unprecedented model of service delivery at a time when America’s most ... 22 million Americans have been laid off ,representing 1 in 7 workers, and low-income communities, communities of ... challengesthat families are facing, adaptationsthat IRC programs are making, and the lessons that are emerging as IRC ...
April, 2020
Report
... our nation’s deep inequalities and broken safety net programs leave millions of people without help or relief. While we applaud ... weather the economic fallout, we know there are millions of families bearing the brunt of this crisis who won’t ...
April 10, 2020
Response Fund
Restaurant Workers Community Foundation was founded in 2018 to advocate for gender equality, racial justice, fair ... work environments in the restaurant industry. In the wake of the coronavirus / COVID-19 pandemic, RWCF’s full focus ... in crisis. Restaurant workers make up 10 percent of America’s workforce, and they are among the country's ...
March 15, 2020
Response Fund
... college advocate Darlene Miller, Executive Director of the National Council for Workforce Education, who served ... from Nancy Miller, Director of Regional Adult Education Programs at Santa Rosa (CA) Junior College and Carola Otero ... Link Nancy Miller, Director of Regional Adult Education Programs, Santa Rosa Junior College Building Partnerships: ...
September 6, 2018
Group Meeting
Description Despite the highly polarized nature of federal immigration policy debates, most agree that once immigrants are admitted to the United States it is in the country’s—and immigrants’—best interest that ... performance measures that make it all but impossible for programs to provide knowledge and skills that would support ...
October 11, 2018
Co-Sponsored Program
Description The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been felt all over the world, ... public health systems and the death of loved ones. Here in the United States, the harm to immigrant communities has ... their financial stability and the need to pivot critical programs like census outreach to virtual platforms, all of ...
April 15, 2020
Webinar
The Honorable Gavin Newsom Governor of the State of California State Capitol Sacramento, ... to express our appreciation for your tremendous leadership in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic and for your long track ... or citizenship status, excluding immigrants from relief programs and protection from harsh enforcement actions ...
April 9, 2020
Blog Post