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Chenven, L., and L. Dresser. Turn up the HEET!. COWS, 2014.DocumentBetween 2008-2014, Washington State has invested more than $11 million dollars in Hospital Employee Education and Training (HEET) projects to advance health care workers’ careers. This report takes a step back from the day-to-day operation and programs and take a broader view of HEET. With the perspective provided by multiple projects and partners on the ground, HEET adds up to much more than a simple count of students trained. At its core, the innovation of HEET is the partnership of labor, management, and education. Most of the impressive educational and student support strategies that have come from HEET are generated, forged, leveraged, and supported in that partnership. HEET has profoundly transformed workers lives. HEET has transformed systems as well, with innovations cascading out to change education and workforce development throughout the state. This report takes stock of the overall meaning and impact of six years of HEET based on review of existing annual evaluations and retrospective interviews with dozens of leaders, stakeholders, and implementers of HEET projects.
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, E., M. Cociña, L. Dresser, and J. Knauss. Raise the Floor Wisconsin - Minimum Wage Edition. COWS, 2014.
There is a crisis of poverty-wage work in Wisconsin. 700,000 Wisconsinites, one of every four workers in the state, earns less than $11.36 per hour – the wage required for a full-time, full-year worker to keep a family of four out of poverty – according to a new report from COWS and the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
The report helps draw a more complete picture of poverty-wage work in Wisconsin, using federal data to highlight problems in the labor market, the workers that stands to gain from a higher minimum wage, the jobs these workers hold, and the real costs of living that Wisconsinites face. The report also challenges the argument that raising the minimum wage is bad for business.
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Raising the Quality of Childcare looks at three projects.
- Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership (WRTP)
Milwaukee, WI - Hospital Employee Education and Training Program (HEET)
Washington State - TEACH/WAGE$ for Childcare Workers
North Carolina
- Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership (WRTP)
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Dresser, L. State of Working Wisconsin 2014. COWS, 2014.
The State of Working Wisconsin 2014 uses the best and recent data available on jobs and wages to describe the serious economic challenges that Wisconsin continues to face.
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Webber, R. Performance Measures for Nonmotorized Transportation. 2014.
At the May 2013 SSTI Community of Practice, participants requested guidance on performance measures for biking and walking projects. After surveying state DOTs, city and MPO staff, national organizations, and the research literature, this draft report outlines strategies used to assess the success of state and local projects. The narrative document examines metrics currently being used as well as the drawbacks or challenges to using each one. A matrix also summarizes the pros and cons and expense or difficulty of gathering the data needed.
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Aki, M., M. Ebeling, B. Forman, and R. Parr. Going for Growth: Enhancing the Economic Impact of Public Transit in Gateway Cities With Comprehensive Service Planning. MassINC, 2014.Massachusetts’s Regional Transit Authorities have an opportunity to improve their existing service and make the case for more funding from the state by making the most of a new planning requirement from the legislature. As part of 2013’s landmark transportation finance legislation, the state legislature mandated that the RTAs conduct comprehensive service plans. This paper argues that if done well, these assessments could help make the case for more funding from the state going forward.
This policy brief, released by MassINC’s Gateway Cities Innovation Institute in collaboration with the SSTI is the sixth in MassINC’s Going for Growth series, compares Massachusetts to best practices in regional transit planning from across the country.
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Rogers, J. The Right’s Kill Shot. Vol. 298, The Nation, 2014, pp. 4-6.
Harris v. Quinn has the highest stakes for labor in April 14, 2014, The Nation.
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DocumentRogers, J. How Harris V. Quinn and Burwell V. Hobby Lobby Turned the First Amendment into a Weapon. The Nation, 2014.
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DocumentRogers, J. “What Do You Think Is The Most Important Single Step Progressives and Democrats Can Take to Regain Support Among White Working Class Americans”. The Democratic Strategist, 2014.