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Goal: Quality employment supports and opportunities are available for those who are
traditionally underserved and to ensure that workers are earning a livable wage.
Five-Year Focus:
- Support businesses which provide livable wage jobs.
- Encourage the
development of livable wage programs.
- Maintain and strengthen efforts in the
field of women's economic opportunity.
- Support the Women's Small Business Program.
- Support the startup and expansion of immigrant and refugee owned
businesses and the Vermont Refugee Microenterprise Program operated by the Micro
Business Program.
- Support programs to assist non-college bound youth.
- Work
to establish and support innovative programs (such as ReCycle North and the Good
News Garage) for job training and adult education, targeted to the resident
population most in need.
- Encourage state agencies to eliminate disincentives
such as loss of benefits for those entering the workforce from public assistance
programs.
- Upgrade transportation services for low-income residents.
- Improve transportation connections between areas where low-income residents live
and areas where jobs exist.
- Support the Good News Garage in its efforts to
provide affordable vehicles and rideshare alternatives for low-income residents.
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Encourage coordination of the myriad of transportation services currently
being offered and ensure outreach to make sure the services are reaching those
in need.
- Support assistance to the targeted population in obtaining
transportation vouchers, coordinating ridesharing, and acting as an advocate on
their behalf.
- Support expansion of public transportation routes and hours of
service.
- Support the development of a new Bike Path through the Intervale
linking the Old and New North End.
- Support and expand quality pre-school and
daycare programs for working parents and for parents attending education and
training programs.
- Make child care more affordable.
- Support
expansion/strengthening of state funding mechanisms for child care, such as the
Early Care and Learning Initiative and increased childcare subsidies.
- Support
national accreditation of early care and education programs.
- Support efforts
to increase wages and skills of child care providers.
- Encourage on-site
childcare.
- Explore opportunities to develop group health insurance policies
for childcare providers.
- Support the efforts of the Vermont Department of
Employment & Training to develop new training programs for industry and for
businesses in the region.
- Work through the Community Outreach Partnership
Center and its University of Vermont economic impacts project to expand economic
opportunity for Burlington residents.
Page last updated May 13, 2003
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