Employment

Objective: Everyone has an opportunity to put their skills to work in a thriving economy that enables them to provide for their needs.

How do we do this?

Ensure everyone has the training they need to thrive

Category: Education

• Microfranchise programs improve outcomes with business education
• Community garden turns unemployed homeless into small-scale produce entrepreneurs
• Community garden program teaches life and career skills to homeless teens
• Food bank gets free publicity from local student marketing club
• Food bank launches culinary job skills training program

Lending and capital are affordable and abundant

Foster a thriving economy that enables full labor participation

• New startup creates storefront marketplace to lease out a city's empty spaces
• Fellowship program places graduates in less popular startup communities
• Instead of "buy one give one," support local economies
• Pairing Senior Citizens with ESL students solves two problems at once
• Mayor finds ready workforce in local homeless

Make fundamental services affordable to all

Combat corruption and abusive business practices

• To fight graft in Congress, put a politician on the Supreme Court

Promote fair compensation

• When fighting for fare wages, try starting with yourself

Encourage kindness and helpfulness between people

• Longtime food bank patron gives back by volunteering weekly
• High school students receive immersion experience in philanthropy with Community 101 course
• Botanic garden trains next generation of advocates with summer internship program
• Coffee shop movement allows patrons to buy a coffee for someone in need
• Young caped superhero makes weekly trip to Detroit to hand out bag lunches and coats