The Paradox Prize announced the first winners in its competition to connect Northeast Ohioans with job centers. The top award goes to a plan to use church vans in Cleveland for daily commutes to suburban businesses.
The Akron Metro Regional Transit Authority has nabbed a $75,000 grant from the Cleveland-based Fund for Our Economic Future to test a door-to-door service to get workers to their jobs in northern Summit County.
Academic research, anecdotes and common sense tell us that Northeast Ohio suffers from a workforce mismatch, with a lack of reliable transportation standing in the way of many people getting and keeping jobs. This is a difficult problem, but it’s fixable, and we’re encouraged that there’s both increased recognition of the challenge and a willingness…
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The folks at the Fund for Our Economic Future and other organizations want to hear from you. Well, more specifically, they want to hear your ideas for new and innovative solutions for one of the region’s most wicked problems — spatial mismatch.
For years, manufacturers have said they struggle to find reliable workers who can show up on time, day after day. As the labor market tightens, there are efforts underway across the region to examine the root cause of workers’ transportation challenges and begin looking for solutions.
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Interested in getting part of a $1 million prize? Then come up with a good idea — a big idea — on helping Northeast Ohio residents who don’t have a car get to where the jobs are.
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Residents across Northeast Ohio are faced with an untenable choice: a commute by public transit that can be as long as three hours every day, an expensive commute by car that can consume more than an hour’s worth of wages, or a significantly smaller set of employment options closer to home. Too many residents find…
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Connecting workers to available jobs involves bridging the skills gap, but that’s not all. To get and keep a job, an employee has to be able to get to the job. And especially for low income workers, that can be a real problem. If you don’t have a car and can’t travel quickly and conveniently…
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Electric scooter rentals will be allowed in targeted areas of Cleveland this summer as part of a pilot project to try out new regulations governing the businesses. The regulations, which City Council approved unanimously Monday night, will allow vendors to set up scooter stands in key areas – most of which have proven to be…
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“For decades, industrial, commercial and residential development has migrated outward, but there has been no net increase in jobs or population to substantiate the regional spread,” the organization said on The Paradox Prize’s website. “People spend more time and money commuting, if they can get to a job at all. Businesses struggle to fill open…
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