Summit Focuses On Finding Workers

“Our model works. We are a city that welcomes everyone,” Elicker said.
He ticked off a string of recent groundbreakings and ribbon-cuttings in town on projects ranging from the rebuilding of the old Coliseum site to Beulah Land’s Dixwell project; he spoke of how ConnCAT’s upcoming Dixwell Plaza remake will be a ​“game-changer.”

It will be a ​“game-changer.” Allright.The poor and working poor will be push out as the wealthier people moving in.

Daum noted that 100,000 jobs are currently open in Connecticut, waiting for people to fill them.

Snake Oil and Three Card Monte being sold.The major of these Jobs are gig economy jobs which relies heavily on temporary and part-time positions filled by independent contractors and freelancers rather than full-time permanent employees.Also,No safety net and workers are responsible for paying their own income tax.

@ThreeFifths $70K/year "nursing, info-tech and welding positions" are "gig economy jobs?"

The majority of jobs that are hiring are lower income part time or independent contractor or gig economy jobs, because then employers don’t have to pay for benefits like health insurance, paid sick or family medical leave time, or vacations.
The majority of the rest of the jobs are highly trained, highly skilled, or highly educated jobs that require technical certificates or college bachelors degrees or higher degrees, and/or union membership, or are jobs that are dangerous or repetitive or physically demanding.
Most of these jobs are only possible if you have reliable transportation, quality childcare, a permanent address, a social security number, citizenship or a green card or an Employment Authorization Document.
There are far fewer jobs that pay a living wage, under good working conditions, with mostly daytime shifts, with benefits, for those who have less than a college degree.
There are also many teachers, nurses, and other jobs that used to pay enough with enough guaranteed hours that you could afford a middle class lifestyle, that no longer pay enough to keep up with the rising costs of living.
The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, and the middle class is rapidly shrinking.

Curator
Nov 30, 2022 9:13 am
@ThreeFifths $70K/year "nursing, info-tech and welding positions" are "gig economy jobs?"

Did you read what I wrote?


Snake Oil and Three Card Monte being sold.The major of these Jobs are gig economy jobs which relies heavily on temporary and part-time positions filled by independent contractors and freelancers rather than full-time permanent employees.Also,No safety net and workers are responsible for paying their own income tax.

New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker (pictured addressing the confab) urged the state to follow his city’s lead in seeking ​“inclusionary growth” in crafting its plans.

This cat from New Canaan never misses an opportunity to inject his woke agenda.

Did someone say “woke”? My knee just jerked.

Dennis, “inclusionary growth” is not a woke term, it is simple economics. We’re both white, non-Hispanic men. Collectively, our demographic accounts for about one-third of the American population. Unless the economy works for the other two-thirds, it doesn’t work, period. And the economy does not work well for many in our demographic.

Few workers are going to come to CT, because there is no affordable housing available.

New Haven is basically the only town in the entire state that is building new housing, but clearly not fast enough because all of the new buildings fill up within a few weeks of opening.

The state needs to invest more in housing and high-quality transportation (which allows people to live a little farther out from their job, so makes more areas attractive to workers and developers), and provide more incentives to developers, such as brownfield credits and tax breaks.

Some of the media covering Elicker really need to challenge some of his statements

“Our model works. We are a city that welcomes everyone,” Elicker said.
It works? Really, for whom? Rents are through the roof. The NHPS are a mess. The City is filthy. And he keeps raising taxes.

He ticked off a string of recent groundbreakings and ribbon-cuttings in town on projects ranging from the rebuilding of the old Coliseum site
The coliseum site took more than 15 years. That doesn't sound like a system that works.
To Beulah Land’s Dixwell project; good people and good project. But really the proverbial drop in the bucket.

He spoke of how ConnCAT’s upcoming Dixwell Plaza remake will be a ​“game-changer.”
ConnCAT will never happen

“I just cringe,” he quipped, ​“at what Yale would be if not for the city of New Haven.”
This statement is simply backasswards.

Dennis, we agree that working hard, playing by the rules, and getting an education are good things. The vast majority of state residents do these things. Nonetheless, about 40% of all CT households are housing cost burdened, i.e., pay 30% of their incomes on housing cost. More than one quarter of CT renters send more than half of their income on rent. Statewide, more than one household in six faces food insecurity, e.g., the pantry/refrigerator is empty towards the ende of the month I think it is fair to say the economy does not work well for these housholds.

Dennis.. Kevin McCarthy
Nov 30, 2022 9:41 pm
The US and the US economy work for Americans who play by the rules, get an education, and are willing to work. There are plenty, though not enough, of success stories across all ethnic groups in New Haven.

Here we go with the pull yourself up by your bootstraps mind set.if what you say is the case then why is there a Black-White wage gaps?Every here about the 'Whitening' the Résumé
Tahani Tompkins was struggling to get callbacks for job interviews in the Chicago area this year when a friend made a suggestion: Change your name. Instead of Tahani, a distinctively African-American-sounding name, she began going by T. S. Tompkins in applications.

Yvonne Orr, also searching for work in Chicago, removed her bachelor’s degree from Hampton University, a historically black college, leaving just her master’s degree from Spertus Institute, a Jewish school. She also deleted a position she once held at an African-American nonprofit organization and rearranged her references so the first people listed were not black.

The dueling forces of assimilation and diversity have long battled for primacy in the American experience, most acutely among African-Americans. It’s not clear that assimilation has gained an edge here in the waning days of the decade, but the women’s behavior — “whitening” the résumé — is certainly not isolated. Ms. Tompkins and Ms. Orr were among the more than two dozen college-educated blacks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/weekinreview/06Luo.html

Every hear of this one
In Job Hunt, College Degree Can’t Close Racial Gap
Johnny Williams has scrubbed his résumé of any details that might tip off his skin color.
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/us/01race.html

Part One

Part Two
Look at what a conservative who became woke wrote

“I grew up in the suburbs. I used to think that I could write a prescription for a poor man: ‘Get a job, save your money, pull yourself up by the bootstraps.’ I don’t believe that anymore. I was ignorant to the experiences of poor people. I’d invite anyone to come and meet the people who live in this neighborhood. Right now we are surrounded by working poor people. These are the people who sell your tools at Sears, and fix your roofs, and take care of your parents, and mow your lawns, and serve your meals. They’re not getting a living wage. There’s no money left to save. There’s nothing left if they get sick. Nothing left if their car breaks down. And God forbid they make a mistake, because there’s nothing left to pay fines or fees. When you’re down here, the system will continue to kick dirt in your face. You can’t pull yourself up when there’s nothing to grab onto. We aren’t paying our brothers and sisters enough to live. We want them to serve us, but we aren’t serving them.”

My Bad.Can not forget the Great Texaco lawsuit that Black workers had to file.

THE lawsuit contends that her employers called her uppity. She says she was merely asking questions. But the bottom line is that Bari-Ellen Roberts, a black senior financial analyst at Texaco Inc. here, believes she hit a glass ceiling.

''Not only was I passed up for a promotion,'' said Ms. Roberts, ''but they brought in a white male with no experience in pensions and investments and told the group that I would train him. I filed suit a week later.''

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/14/nyregion/texaco-accused-of-bias-in-suit-by-blacks.html

And this is stiil going on today.

“… the US economy work(s) for Americans who play by the rules, get an education, and are willing to work...”

Literally the exact opposite of the racist, twice-impeached Putin-puppet insurrectionist groomer….

Dennis, please re-read my comment. All of my data were for the state, not the city. We can agree that NHPS has real deficiencies. But CT on the whole is largely suburban and middle or higher income. In spite of this, nearly half of its households have a hard time paying their housing costs.

Hi Kevin...affordable housing is a major issue across the entire country for many reasons. I was addressing Elickers proclivity for expanding his focus beyond New Haven while the city burns.