Jobs and Economic Development
Subtitle: Strategies and Practice
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: April 9, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780761909149
Subjects: Employment & unemployment; Social welfare & social services; Work & labour; United States; Government policy; Development - Economic Development; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Business/Economics; North America; Hard-core unemployed; Environmental Science; Labor; Business & Economics-Labor; Local government; Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations; Science / Environmental Science; Science-Environmental Science; Urban poor; Employment; Job creation
First sentence: In March 1997, 100 people convened at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C., to grapple with the issues of job availability, livable wages, and welfare changes (Jobs for the Future 1997).