Add to ORKGGrowing Home is an urban farm that has run a subsidized jobs program in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood since 2005. The program serves individuals who face structural barriers to employment and engages them in immediate, wage-paid employment on the farm. This program spotlight discusses Growing Home's subsidized jobs model and its impact and calls for federal investments in subsidized jobs to support jobseekers facing structural barriers to employment. Growing Home is located in the 1st Congressional district of Illinois. The representative for this district is Bobby L. Rush (D).
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Though the recession is technically over, the large gap between available jobs and people in need of...
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1.5 million Illinoisans experience violations of their human rights due to the impact of poverty on ...
A CCH policy brief that examines housing initiatives in the state of Illinois including: creating an...
Measures the effectiveness of employment related assistance, use of rent breaks as an incentive to w...
This advocacy resource makes the case for why Congress must enact an equity-centered national subsid...
In an effort to obtain resident input on issues around employment advancement, the Corporation for S...
Though the recession is technically over, the large gap between available jobs and people in need of...
The Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) works to reduce recidivism and increase employment amo...
This advocacy resource makes the case for why Congress must enact an equity-centered national subsid...
Many places in the United States are distressed in that they have low “employment rates” (employment...
All work is skilled work. Employment can be a pathway out of poverty, but many people encounter mult...
Subsidized employment programs that increase labor supply and demand are a proven, underutilized str...
The results outlined in this report show that the subsidized job appears to have had an extremely po...
Though the recession is technically over, the large gap between available jobs and people in need of...
[Excerpt] The Middle Class Task Force has always been careful to include those who aspire to rise in...
This brief summarizes the results of an evaluation of Chicago Neighborhood JobStart, a program that ...
1.5 million Illinoisans experience violations of their human rights due to the impact of poverty on ...
A CCH policy brief that examines housing initiatives in the state of Illinois including: creating an...
Measures the effectiveness of employment related assistance, use of rent breaks as an incentive to w...
