Research Roundup
A Quarterly Selection of New Research on Jobs, Workplace Standards and the Economy
 
Winning Construction Jobs for Local Residents:
A User’s Guide for Community Organizing Campaigns
The Brennan Center for Justice
This report looks at how low-income communities can get involved in redevelopment issues as well as benefit from them by assuring that jobs created by publicly funded projects go to local workers.
 
Minimum Wage Increases Boost the Earnings of
Low-Wage California Workers
California Budget Project
A recent study by the California Budget Project finds that minimum wage increases effectively increase earnings without contributing to job loss, though the purchasing power of California’s minimum wage has dropped a hefty 33% since 1968.
 
Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income Trends
Economic Policy Institute
New research from EPI has found that income inequality has once again begun to increase
(as it did substantially between 1980 and 2000) after a brief respite between 2000 and 2003, leaving working families vulnerable and once again belying the trickle down theory of economic growth.
 
Declining Job-Based Health Coverage in the United States and California: A Crisis for Working Families
UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education and Working Partnerships USA
This new study documents the erosion of job-based health coverage and forecasts trends that will be of interest to policy makers, health care analysts and concerned citizens in California and around the country.
Events and Actions
National “Hotel Workers Rising” Kickoff with Senator John Edwards and Danny Glover
Thurs., February 16, 5 p.m.
Sheraton Hotel
711 South Hope St. at 7th St.
Downtown Los Angeles
Join political, community, labor and entertainment figures, including Sen. John Edwards and actor Danny Glover, in drawing attention to the campaign to improve conditions in the hotel industry nationwide.

For more information please see hotelworkersrising.org.
“Stop the Racism, Stop the Greed” Action to Support Security Officers
Tues., February 28, 2006
Time and Location to be Determined
This Black History Month rally and action will highlight the injustice and racism security officers endure without union representation.

For more information, please call Rev. William Smart at
(213) 977-9400, ext. 106.
Women for a New Los Angeles Luncheon
Fri., May 19, 2006
USC's Town & Gown Hall
665 Exposition Blvd.
Los Angeles
Join Southern California’s most dynamic women for what is proving to be the event for women in the progressive movement.

For more information, please contact Stella Maloyan at
(213) 977-9400 ext. 110.
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
464 Lucas Ave., Suite 202, Los Angeles, CA 90017
213-977-9400 | Fax: 213-977-9666 | Website: www.laane.org
LAANE is a non-profit organization.
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