WOOSTER — A lack of reliable transportation limited Glen DeHart’s employment prospects. He could only apply to jobs close to his home in Orrville and take the pay that was offered. DeHart then got an interview at Speed North America in Wooster, but he informed the human resources coordinator that he couldn’t take the job…
SARTA announced this week it is adding express routes in western Stark County and around the Akron-Canton Airport in order to get employees to work before 6 a.m.
Lake County officials recently collaborated with Lincoln Electric’s Mentor facility and Component Repair Technologies to develop an approach to connect people from low-income areas to opportunities at the companies.
As more jobs are located in the suburbs, The Fund For Our Economic Future’s Paradox Prize aims to make the commute a smoother ride for Northeast Ohioans without cars.
Northeast Ohio is a region built for the car, evidenced by cross-cutting freeways and huge parking lots that dominate the landscape. For the past year, I have lived carless in this car-centric community, using public transportation, ride-hailing services and my bike to get around. During my morning bus commute, I have come to know many…
Share, a ride-sharing company, was awarded $16,000 from The Paradox Prize for helping job seekers and workers in East Cleveland, Euclid and Glenville commute to job hubs in Mentor and Painesville in Lake County. The Paradox Prize, a public competition looking for mobility solutions, was started in June by The Fund For Our Economic Future.…
CLEVELAND, Ohio – It’s called the “transportation paradox” and it goes like this. “No car, no job; no job, no car.” Acknowledging that a dependable ride to work is a stumbling block to permanent employment, several local organizations are offering the “Paradox Prize” as a solution to the transportation dilemma, according to the Fund for…
CLEVELAND — Community Action Wayne/Medina has won $100,000 as part of The Paradox Prize, a competition to support pilot programs that will connect people to jobs in Northeast Ohio.
There are two more winners of funding in The Paradox Prize initiative, a program created by the nonprofit Fund for Our Economic Future to get organizations and people thinking about solutions to what the Fund calls the transportation paradox of “no car, no job; no job, no car.”
CLEVELAND–October 4, 2019–Community Action Wayne/Medina and Laketran have won funding to support pilot efforts that will connect people to jobs in Northeast Ohio, as part of The Paradox Prize initiative seeking to address the “no car, no job; no job, no car,” paradox in the region.
