Tag: Jobs

  • Business Enterprise Center Opens in City Heights

    Business Enterprise Center Opens in City Heights

    Dante Dauz wanted to help young people stay out of gangs and help train them to get jobs. He soon realized that, once students were trained, there were no places for them to work in City Heights. The Union of Pan Asian Communities (UPAC) Neighborhood Enterprise Center became a vision and a solution. At the…

  • University of Iron Comes to City Heights, With Living Wages In Tow

    Ironworkers Local 229, Councilwoman Marti Emerald and other elected officials celebrate the opening of the University of Iron Oct. 27. | Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Brian Myers When it comes to grand openings, a ribbon cutting isn’t satisfactory for ironworkers. With sparks flying Local 229 of The International Association…

  • Summer Job Fair Aims to Keep Teens Busy (and Safe) This Summer

    By Brian Myers Hundreds of youth, young adults and their parents attended an exhibition of local employers and social service organizations April 28. The inaugural City Heights Youth Resource and Job Fair, held at the Mid City Gymnasium, was hosted by the Collaboration to Keep City Heights Youth Safe. The collaboration is a network of…

  • Tweet City Heights: Community Groups Want More Say in City Budget

    By Megan Burks Community Groups Want More Say in City Budget KPBS reported Monday some community groups are upset neighborhood councils and residents have been shut out of the preliminary phases of the city’s budget process. Each spring, the mayor releases a budget draft after consulting with city departments and staff. His office then presents…

  • Study: Immigrants Assimilating Well

    By Ruxandra Guidi The report, called “Assimilation Tomorrow,” was co-authored by the Center for American Progress and demographers from USC (University of Southern California). Focusing on the last great wave of immigration in the 1990s, authors Dowell Myers and John Pitkin found that those immigrants are integrating well into American society and across all generations. Analyzing demographic trends – including education, home…