ECONOMIC JUSTICE:

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HOMELESS EMPLOYMENT ADVOCACY COMMITTEE [HEAC]:  

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;

• Advocate to the City and County to create a Homeless Employment Program including a quality Day Labor program for homeless people;

• 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;

• Expand the funding of the Sacramento Employment & Training Agency's successful PathWays to Employment.

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Homeless Employment Report:  2010