Break down employment barriers with training, education programs


Break down employment barriers with training, education programs

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Assembly Bill 628 would assist workers in obtaining the skills necessary to prepare for jobs in high-demand industries.

By Zima Creason, Special to CalMatters

Zima Creason is the executive director of the California EDGE Coalition, [email protected].

“You can’t have just one job in America,” says a gig worker in Los Angeles County, and “you could get replaced like this. ‘Say one wrong thing to me? You’re fired …There is a line outside the door who wants your job.’”

That is one of several perspectives from struggling workers in California captured in a new report by the Institute for the Future, which interviewed a cross-section of Californians paid less than $15 an hour last fall. The report, released March 24, explores troubling trends that preceded the pandemic but now are worsening. 


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