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Urban Industrial Land And Land Policy: National Context, Laura Wolf-Powers
Urban Industrial Land And Land Policy: National Context, Laura Wolf-Powers
Laura Wolf-Powers
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Chains And Ladders: Exploring The Opportunities For Workforce Development And Poverty Reduction In The Hospital Sector, Laura Wolf-Powers, Marla Nelson
Chains And Ladders: Exploring The Opportunities For Workforce Development And Poverty Reduction In The Hospital Sector, Laura Wolf-Powers, Marla Nelson
Laura Wolf-Powers
In this article, the authors investigate the potential of hospitals to offer low- and semiskilled workers employment and advancement options. This study uses the job chains approach to measuring economic development impacts devised by Persky, Felsenstein, and Carlson to compare hospitals with three other industries highly concentrated in central cities and examines the practical challenges facing workforce development professionals. The findings suggest that growth in hospital employment has the potential to outstrip the impact of growth in accommodations, legal services, and securities and commodities on the well-being of low-income workers and should prompt economic development practitioners to take the sector …
Community Benefits Agreements And Local Government: A Review Of Recent Evidence, Laura Wolf-Powers
Community Benefits Agreements And Local Government: A Review Of Recent Evidence, Laura Wolf-Powers
Laura Wolf-Powers
As community benefits agreements (CBAs) become more common in urban redevelopment, they are generating conceptual confusion and political controversy. Planners who encounter CBA campaigns in practice have limited means of evaluating CBAs’ desirability and likely impact without a more complete understanding of how they interact in practice with municipal government leadership and policy. This paper examines four urban redevelopment projects in which community benefits agreements have been enacted by some combination of community organizations, legislators and developers. While much of the expository literature on community benefits agreements is focused on the inclusivity and political moxy of local organizing coalitions, I …