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Who's Building Milwaukee? Race/Ethnicity Of Employees In The Largest Construction Firms In The Milwaukee Area, Lois M. Quinn
Who's Building Milwaukee? Race/Ethnicity Of Employees In The Largest Construction Firms In The Milwaukee Area, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunities Commission requires private companies with 100 or more workers to report annually on the race/ethnicity and gender of their workforce by ten occupational groupings. The EEOC summaries of this data for the four-county Milwaukee metropolitan area help measure the economic health of the construction industry as well as the commitment of the largest firms to hiring of African American, Hispanic and other minority workers. The report focuses on the race/ethnicity of employees in the blue collar occupational areas (skilled craft workers, semi-skilled operatives including apprentices, and unskilled laborers) and at the executive and managerial levels. …
Building On African American Assets: Resource Data For The One Mke Summit, Lois M. Quinn
Building On African American Assets: Resource Data For The One Mke Summit, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
The ONE MKE Summit has raised important concerns about who defines the assets of Milwaukee neighborhoods and where the considerable income of residents in central city neighborhoods is spent. This paper, prepared for the NAACP Young Adult Committee and the African American Chamber of Commerce, details Census Bureau American Community Survey five-year estimates for 2011 by zip code and race to help describe concentrations of income for African Americans. Purchasing power profiles prepared from the 2000s are included to show the comparative advantages of urban neighborhoods with dense housing and large numbers of workers. African American residents of Milwaukee County …
Wisconsin's Mass Incarceration Of African American Males: Workforce Challenges For 2013, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
Wisconsin's Mass Incarceration Of African American Males: Workforce Challenges For 2013, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
Among the most critical workforce issues facing Wisconsin are governmental policies and practices leading to mass incarceration of African Americans men and suspensions of driving privileges to low-income adults. The prison population in Wisconsin has more than tripled since 1990, fueled by increased government funding for drug enforcement (rather than treatment) and prison construction, three-strike rules, mandatory minimum sentence laws, truth-in-sentencing replacing judicial discretion in setting punishments, concentrated policing in minority communities, and state incarceration for minor probation and supervision violations. Particularly impacted were African American males, with the 2010 U.S. Census showing Wisconsin having the highest black male incarceration …
Who's Training Milwaukee's Future Builders? Race/Ethnicity Of Construction Trade Apprentices In The Milwaukee Area, Lois M. Quinn
Who's Training Milwaukee's Future Builders? Race/Ethnicity Of Construction Trade Apprentices In The Milwaukee Area, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
This report provides racial/ethnicity and gender data on apprentices by construction trade joint apprenticeship committee, based on data from the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development Bureau of Apprenticeship Standards. Part One examines hiring patterns of 15 union joint apprenticeship committees serving the Milwaukee area with report cards provided for 217 contractors with apprentices. Part Two identifies the apprentice levels sponsored by 120 union contractors through the statewide Wisconsin Operating Engineers Joint Apprenticeship Committee. Part Three analyzes the apprenticeship patterns for 81 non-union contractors with apprentices through the Associated Builders & Contractors of WI-Waukesha Joint Apprenticeship Committee. The data are provided …