The Alliance joined our partners in the HIRE Minnesota coalition today for a public action to call on our leaders to end the shutdown and put Minnesotans back to work. Dozens of unemployed construction workers, carpentry students, people representing faith-based groups and employment advocates rallied at the abandoned construction site at the interchange between Highway…
Alliance Associate Director and Summit Academy OIC CEO Louis King write that with Minnesota’s nation-leading racial economic disparities, now is not the time to dismantle policies and programs that protect women and people of color in the workplace. Read the letter to the editor >
We are honored to announce that the Stops for Us coalition, which the Alliance is a member of, is the winner of an Environmental Protection Agency National Achievements in Environmental Justice Award for 2010. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson made the announcement yesterday at the first-ever White House Environmental Justice Forum, convened to…
HIRE Minnesota wants Central Corridor decision-makers to require contractors to submit workforce plans before a contract is awarded. Read the story >
The Twin Cities metro area has the biggest disparity in black-white unemployment rates of any major metropolitan area in the country. What is going on here? Read more from the Twin Cities Daily Planet >
MPR reported today on the work of community groups to secure the Federal government’s support for the missing three stations on Central Corridor. The head of the Federal Transportation Administration tells the story of being convinced of the injustice of the missing stations by Stops for Us coalition members – while in line for coffee…
The neighborhood needs were always there. The political will was there, too, and growing rapidly over the past several weeks. Now, the money’s there, and it’s official: The proposed Central Corridor light-rail line will stop three more times along its 11-mile route between St. Paul and Minneapolis. Read more from the Pioneer Press >
The Obama administration is changing a decision-making rule that has long rankled transit advocates. The rule change would allow the FTA to factor in livability as it awards federal money for a project and it could affect the Central Corridor light rail project. Read more from Minnesota Public Radio News >
Community groups pushing for three additional stops along a proposed light-rail transit line are fired up about new federal concerns over when those stations could be built. The fight for additional stops has been an ongoing symbol in the debate over the project. Project planners have placed some stations as far as a mile apart,…
An impassioned group of St. Paul citizens, civic leaders and city officials on Tuesday urged state officials to help fund the construction of three additional light rail stops along University Avenue. Addressing the House Transportation and Transit Policy and Oversight Division at a legislative hearing, they said it’s necessary to have stations at Hamline Avenue,…