Economic Development

How can cities effectively participate in economic development? What can cities do to improve the quality of jobs? What are the sorts of data and data analysis needed, the sorts of staff capacity needed, the best techniques on process, etc., and how are they most cost effectively acquired? This section deals with economic development and job retention/creation issues.

•  Stanton, G. 2006. Accessing Capital Markets for Community Development Priorities. Wall Street Without Walls.

• "High Road or Low Wages: Choices on Economic and Workforce Development”. Joel Rogers, Director of the Center on Wisconsin Strategy [PDF]

• “Demystifying Federal Funding for Local Economic Development”. Robert Davenport, National Development Council

• “The Regional Call and the Local Government Response”
  David Thornburgh, President and CEO of the Alliance for Regional Stewardship 

• “Good Jobs for Downtown Workers”
  Jennifer Sung, Economic Justice Project at the Brennan Center, NYU School of Law 

• "Building Community: An Integral Approach to Addressing Day Laborer Related Concerns"
  Pablo Alvarado, National Day Laborer Organizing Network

• "Linking Workforce Development and Economic Development"
  Deputy Mayor Larry Frank, Neighborhood and Community Services, Los Angeles, CA 

• "An Ounce of Prevention: Connecting Youth to Jobs"
  Linda Harris, Center for Law and Social Policy 

• "Creating Jobs and Opportunities for Youth"
  Mark Mallory, Mayor of Cincinnati, OH 

• "An Ounce of Prevention: Connecting Youth to Jobs"
  Enid Rey, Director of Youth Services, Hartford, CT  

• “The New Fiscal Realities”. Alice Rivlin, Senior Fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. [PDF]

• "Budgeting for Basics: The Changing Landscape of City Finances".  Bruce Wallin, Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University.

• Larisa Ortiz, LISC Commercial Markets Advisory Service

• Lynn Knox, Economic Opportunity Initiative, Portland, OR

• “The Tragic Loss of the Summer Jobs Program: why it is time to reinstate!” Linda Harris,(Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, July/Aug 2007)

•  “Mayor Mark Mallory’s Summer Youth Jobs Initiative” City of Cincinnati,(2007)

• “Future Workforce Investment System” City of Hartford, CT, (Jan 2006)

• “Junior Youth Apprenticeship Program” Athens/Clarke County GA, (2008)

• “Program Summary” Operation Fresh Start (2008)

• “Summer Jobs Campaign” and “Classroom at the Workplace”, Boston PIC (2008) available at: http://www.bostonpic.org/

• "From Anti-Immigrant to Pro-worker" National Employment Law Project, (Dec. 2007)