A Discussion on Kansas Regional Unemployment and Job Creation Strategies

UNEMPLOYMENT AND JOB CREATION

The Challenge of the Green Economy

in the Urban Core Community

The World wants Black America to project success, but what we are really seeing every day is fewer Jobs and more Despair!

 
                 Economic                       Community                Human Resource
                 Development ----------------- Development -------------  Development
                   (defined)                         (defined)                     (defined)
 
 
                                  HUD - COPC Theory Based Modeling
                                    UMKC - Bloch School of Business

                                               Ellison/Michael Porter 
                            Economic Development Issues ICIC Harvard U.
                                Strategic Planning and SWOT Analyses
                                             in Target Communities 
                                           (Theory Based Modeling)
 
 
                                    Lazone Grays Program Logic Model 
                                (customized to specific local community)
                                           (Theory Based Modeling)
              
Urban Modeling/Models:
Urban Demonstration Laboratory Model:
 
                          #1                     Greater Cleveland, Ohio Prototype
                                        *Congressman Louis Stokes/UTC and NIST Partnership
 
                          #2        St. Louis, Mo./East St. Louis Demonstration (underway)
 
                          #3        Wyandotte-Leavenworth-Johnson County Urban Core
                                                        Communities with MARC Definitions
                                                        (target Community Applications and UDLM)
                                                        WyCo Unified Goverment Master Plan
                                                      - Workforce Development System
                                                      - Bi-State Empowerment Zones
                                                      - Public Housing - HOPE VI Initiatives
                                                      - Technology HUB Initiatives
 

 

The Seed CenterKC  

(Faith based "Safe Haven"  Initiative in the Weed and Seed Community)

The Pre-Employment and Training  Center Project

IBSA, Inc. - Lazone Grays Urban Change Models and Minority Unemployment Data

Quindaro Northeast Neighborhood Network - Community Planning and Neighborhood Participation

 

Safe Havens role in Unified Goverment Master Plan Follow up

* EOF Perspectives on the National Economic Stimulus directions of the Federal Government (or options)
 
Each panelist will make a five-six minutes presentation and then entertain question for the remainder of the hour.   It is anticipated that a strategy for Community Partnership planning and Capacity Building for 2010 will be identified by persons attending the session.   The NEDC "Unity In the Community" input and planning in 2010 is an anticipated next step direction for the Workshop participants.   The Workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Nolen M. Ellison, Board member of the Seed CenterKC.

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WHERE:  Reardon Center 520 Minnesota, KCK  

WHEN:  4:00 pm Saturday, January 9^th, 2010

For details See www.breakingthesilence.us  

34.5 percent of young African American men are unemployed!!

Now that we have the facts to back up the claim, the question becomes "what are we going to do about it"?

 

 

Blacks hit hard by economy's punch

34.5 percent of young African American men are unemployed

By V. Dion Haynes

Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Joblessness for 16-to-24-year-old black men has reached Great Depression proportions -- 34.5 percent in October, more than three times the rate for the general U.S. population. And last Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that unemployment in the District, home to many young black men, rose to 11.9 percent from 11.4 percent, even as it stayed relatively stable in Virginia and Maryland.

The jobless rate for young black men and women is 30.5 percent. For young blacks -- who experts say are more likely to grow up in impoverished racially isolated neighborhoods, attend subpar public schools and experience discrimination -- race statistically appears to be a bigger factor in their unemployment than age, income or even education. Lower-income white teens were more likely to find work than upper-income black teens, according to the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University, and even blacks who graduate from college suffer from joblessness at twice the rate of their white peers.

The Obama administration is on a tightrope, balancing the desire to spend billions more dollars to create jobs without adding to the $1.4 trillion national deficit. Yet some policy experts say more attention needs to be paid to the intractable problems of underemployed workers -- those who like Spriggs may lack a high school diploma, a steady work history, job-readiness skills or a squeaky-clean background.

"Increased involvement in the underground economy, criminal activity, increased poverty, homelessness and teen pregnancy are the things I worry about if we continue to see more years of high unemployment," said Algernon Austin, a sociologist and director of the race, ethnicity and economy program at the Economic Policy Institute, which studies issues involving low- and middle-income wage earners.

Earlier this month, District officials said they will use $3.9 million in federal stimulus funds to provide 19 weeks of on-the-job training to 500 18-to-24-year-olds. But even those who receive training often don't get jobs.

"I thought after I finished the [training] program, I'd be working. I only had three jobs with the union and only one of them was longer than a week," Spriggs, a tall slender man wearing a black Nationals cap, said one afternoon while sitting at the table in the living room/dining room in his mother's apartment. "It has you wanting to go out and find other ways to make money. . . . [Lack of jobs is why] people go out hustling and doing what they can to get by."

Full article here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/23/AR2009112304092.html

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