Solutions

Policy Solutions

Practical, evidence-based recommendations to expand workforce opportunity and strengthen community hiring outcomes.

Expand Apprenticeship Pathways

Create accessible pre-apprenticeship and registered apprenticeship programs that reach underserved communities, with a focus on removing barriers to entry and providing supportive services for participants.

Fund community-based pre-apprenticeship programs

Partner with schools for early career exposure

Provide transportation and childcare support

Track completion and placement rates by demographic

Improve Community Outreach

Strengthen recruitment and outreach efforts to ensure job opportunities on public projects reach all qualified workers, particularly in historically underserved neighborhoods.

Partner with community organizations for outreach

Hold hiring events in underserved neighborhoods

Create multilingual job information resources

Establish community liaisons on major projects

Increase Transparency in Reporting

Implement comprehensive public reporting on workforce demographics, contractor performance, and community hiring goal progress on all publicly funded projects.

Require monthly workforce demographic reports

Create public dashboards for project data

Publish annual workforce equity assessments

Make contractor compliance data accessible

Strengthen Contractor Accountability

Establish meaningful consequences for contractors who fail to meet community workforce goals and reward those who demonstrate commitment to equitable hiring.

Include workforce goals in contract requirements

Monitor and enforce compliance

Recognize high-performing contractors

Create incentives for exceeding goals

Support Local Hiring

Prioritize local workers on publicly funded projects and create mechanisms to ensure Sacramento residents benefit from public investment in their communities.

Implement local hire requirements

Create a local worker registry

Provide skills training aligned with project needs

Track local hiring outcomes

Improve Workforce Data Collection

Develop standardized data collection practices that enable meaningful analysis of workforce participation trends and identification of disparities.

Standardize demographic reporting categories

Collect data at project and trade level

Enable longitudinal analysis of trends

Share data with researchers and advocates

Promote Responsible AI Hiring

Advocate for transparent, fair AI-powered hiring tools with mandatory bias testing, human oversight, and regulatory frameworks.

Require bias audits for AI hiring tools

Ensure human review of automated decisions

Support federal and state AI regulation

Educate workers about AI in hiring

Increase Community Engagement

Create meaningful opportunities for community members to participate in workforce development decisions and hold public institutions accountable.

Establish community advisory committees

Host regular public forums

Create feedback mechanisms for workers

Support community-led research

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