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The Neighborhood Jobs Initiative

An Early Report on the Vision and Challenges of Bringing an Employment Focus to a Community-Building Initiative

05/2001
| Frieda Molina, Laura Nelson

This first publication from the Neighborhood Jobs Initiative (NJI), a project that is developing innovative place-based employment strategies in several inner-city communities, introduces NJI’s rationale and design. It describes the early steps taken in each of five low-income communities to define a local neighborhood-focused employment strategy, and it documents the challenges faced in the early phase of NJI implementation.

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Issue: 
Work and Income Security
Focus Area: 
Housing/Community Initiatives
Population: 
Populations with Barriers to Employment
Focus Population: 
People in Low-Wage JobsPeople Who Are Unemployed or Underemployed
Locations: 
Connecticut, Dist. of Columbia, Illinois, New York, Texas
Intervention: 
Employment Services, Job Training
Project: 
Neighborhood Jobs Initiative