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A "Milwaukee Plan" For Construction Trade Apprenticeships? Workforce Challenges For 2014, Lois M. Quinn, John Pawasarat
A "Milwaukee Plan" For Construction Trade Apprenticeships? Workforce Challenges For 2014, Lois M. Quinn, John Pawasarat
ETI Publications
In 1970 the Labor Department called for a “Milwaukee Plan” that over five years would bring the number of African Americans employed in skilled construction jobs proportional to their percentage of the population (i.e. 11-12% in the city of Milwaukee and 6-7% in the four-county area). As an alternative, the Milwaukee Building and Construction Trades Council worked with the Milwaukee Urban League to create a Labor Education Advancement Program (LEAP) that helped bring 104 African American apprentices (or 9% of the total) into the trades as of 1973. In the past forty years the minority population of the Milwaukee metro …
Issues Related To Wisconsin "Failure To Pay Forfeitures" Driver's License Suspensions, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
Issues Related To Wisconsin "Failure To Pay Forfeitures" Driver's License Suspensions, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
This paper examines the compounding problems resulting from court-ordered removal of driving privileges for low-income residents in Milwaukee County and Wisconsin as a “tool” for spurring payments of municipal fines, forfeitures and fees (including charges for violations unrelated to dangerous driving). The analysis is based on data from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation Division of Motor Vehicles, the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office, and Branch A of the Milwaukee Municipal Court (i.e., handling municipal cases incarcerated in county jail). Police and court actions taken in Ferguson, Missouri, brought national attention to one suburban municipality’s routine use of traffic stops, arrest warrants, …
State Imprisonment Of Milwaukee County Women: 1990-2012, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
State Imprisonment Of Milwaukee County Women: 1990-2012, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
This research study by the Employment and Training Institute provides data on the 4,300 Milwaukee County women who were incarcerated in adult state correctional facilities from January 1990 to January 2012 using the Wisconsin Department of Corrections public inmate data files. Two-thirds of the women were African Americans. whose incarceration numbers spiked in 2003 during the height of the “war on drugs” enforcement years. The heaviest concentrations of imprisoned women were from the poorest neighborhoods on Milwaukee’s near north side and near south side.
Statewide Imprisonment Of Black Men In Wisconsin, Lois M. Quinn, John Pawasarat
Statewide Imprisonment Of Black Men In Wisconsin, Lois M. Quinn, John Pawasarat
ETI Publications
This report provides data on African American male incarceration for the state onf Wisconsin at the request of the NAACP Wisconsin Conference of Branches. For most ex-offenders, prison records remain public and impediments to employment for the rest of their lives. Consequently, unlike studies reporting point-in-time levels of incarceration or average daily inmate populations, this report identified the total populations of African American men who had been incarcerated in adult state correctional facilities from 1990 to 2012 using Wisconsin Department of Corrections public inmate records. State DOC records showed incarceration rates for African American men at epidemic levels throughout Wisconsin. …
Wisconsin's Mass Incarceration Of African American Males, Summary, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
Wisconsin's Mass Incarceration Of African American Males, Summary, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
This two-page paper provides a summarizes the Employment and Training Institute research on mass incarceration of African American males in Wisconsin, the state’s ranking as having the highest percentage of black males in state prison and local jails (according to the 2010 U.S. Census data), and costs of incarceration.
Wisconsin's Mass Incarceration Of African American Males: A Powerpoint Summary, Lois M. Quinn
Wisconsin's Mass Incarceration Of African American Males: A Powerpoint Summary, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
The Employment and Training Institute analysis of Wisconsin Department of Corrections public inmate files showed incarceration rates for African American men at unprecedented levels in Wisconsin. This presentation summarizes ETI research on prison rates in Milwaukee and Wisconsin and offers recommendations for addressing workforce needs of ex-offenders.