SPUR Forum: The Economic Prosperity Strategy
From SPUR:
11:28 PM PDT on October 12, 2014
From SPUR:
Making sure that the Bay Area has opportunities for everyone to move up is key for the region’s long-term prosperity. SPUR and a group of partners recently released a strategy for economic mobility that highlights the need to simultaneously put workers on pathways to the middle, grow the economy to help create more middle-wage work while improving conditions in existing lower-wage jobs.
+ Egon Terplan / SPUR
+ Steve Levy / Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy
+ Kirsten Spalding / San Mateo County Union Community Alliance
+ Louise Auerhahn / Working Partnerships USA
Stan Parkford is a graduate of the Urban Studies and Planning Department at SF State University.
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