ECONOMIC JUSTICE
Advocacy Priorities:
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Create a Homeless Sanitation Employment Program as part of the Homeless Environmental Justice Initiative - to employ people with lived experience at a living wage;
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Ensure that there are employment opportunities for people experiencing homelessness in regional infrastructure projects;
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Advocate to the City and County to create a Homeless Employment Program including a quality Day Labor program for homeless people;
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Partner with Legal Services of Northern CA to ensure that the homeless assistance programs of the County's General Assistance and CalWORKs programs are accessible to homeless people;
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Expand the funding of the Sacramento Employment & Training Agency's successful PathWays to Employment.
Homeless Employment Report: 2010