Category: Clips
Shot & Edited: Graduation, not incarceration
Originally published on CA Fwd Louie Chagolla first ran into trouble with the law when he was 13 years old. The South Los Angeles teen grew up around drugs and gangs and eventually was arrested. Chagolla spent time in youth correctional facilities and it was a cycle that repeated itself with Louie and too many…
Shot & Edited: 2015 Latino Policy Forum
Posted on Southern California Latino Policy Center. Local Latino elected officials and policymakers representing a wide swatch of Southern California recently converged on the Cal State LA Campus for the Latino Policy Forum’s “21st Century Cities and Schools.” The main themes — Bringing technology to cities and school districts, and addressing the technology jobs gap…
VIDEO: Social entrepreneurs set out to save world, make money
There's a growing category of businesses looking to make money while saving the world. Rather, they look to have some sort of social or environmental impact while running a business and providing jobs. They're called for-benefit or part of the "fourth sector." If you're looking to get into the sector, good news: There's an effort…
Millennials optimistic about future but down on present economy
Long Beach City Council member Rex Richardson speaking at Millennial Economic Summit in Los Angeles this week. (Photo Credit: John Guenther) At an event on millennials and the economy this week, Long Beach City Council member Rex Richardson pointed out that his generation is made of the first-ever "digital babies." "I'm on the older end…
Wanted: Skilled workers for California’s manufacturing comeback
3D printing workstation. (Photo Credit: Nicolás Boullosa/Flickr) When podcaster Adam Carolla, whose father worked for the Lockheed Skunk Works, kicked off a manufacturing event this week, he started with his own personal story of being a ceramics major in high school and afterward working a series of low-paying jobs. "Somebody should have tapped me on the…
College report and Toyota news place California economy at crossroads
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom speaking at Long Beach City College. (Photo Credit: John Guenther) In the week following the Toyota relocation news, California saw a good amount of hand-wringing, followed by finger-pointing at reasons for the move. Whichever reason is given, it still should add fuel to the resistance to do things in the same…
Report: California’s aerospace industry bigger than Hollywood
Boeing's C-17 Globemaster plant in Long Beach, CA will shut down production in 2015. (Photo credit: Greg Bishop) What's nearly invisible but bigger than California's agriculture and entertainment industries combined? It's the state's aerospace industry. That's the story coming from a new economic impact report trying to show how aerospace is a massive but endangered species…
Shot & Edited: Medical school gives Inland Empire economy a shot in the arm
Economic recovery throughout California has been an uneven experience. Unemployment rates for coastal communities have dipped, many below the state’s unemployment rate of 8.3 percent. It’s a much different story when you travel inland where unemployment rates remains in the double digits. Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, also known as the Inland Empire, are no…
Edited & Shot: Moving into middle class by making things
There’s no arguing the facts: Manufacturing, in California, is a huge element of the state’s economy. According to the state’s Employment Development Department, there are more than 360,000 workers in the industry, in Southern California alone. California Governor Jerry Brown and GO-Biz have made manufacturing a priority. Brown signed two bills designed to help manufacturing,…
I also edited this! A Tale of California’s Two Economies
Originally published on CAeconomy. California is an economy of regions—from the north to the south—from the inland to coastal communities—California’s regional economies are diverse. When the recession hit in 2008, no region was exempt. Five years later, the state’s economy is improved, but not every region has bounced back in the same way. In fact,…