Since 2009, SCOPE has worked to inspire and motivate South LA residents to make their voice heard by voting. This report describes how we're building a base of 50,000 voters who support progressive tax policies at the local and statewide levels and, in the process, transforming our city and state politics.

We surveyed over 1,000 working-age adults throughout LA about challenges to finding and securing a good quality job. This report summarizes what we learned and recommends strategies to address barriers to good jobs.

We asked thousands of Los Angeles area residents how government should respond to the economic and environmental crisis. Overwhelmingly, community members said they want our local economic to grow through green investment. This factsheet summarizes the results of this survey done by SCOPE community leaders & organizers.

South Los Angeles is at the center of the city's grassroots green jobs movement. This paper provides new data gathered by SCOPE's community organizers and members showing that inner city residents want quality jobs in the new green economy and that these residents are a vital part of the movement to ensure that the promise of good jobs and cleaner neighborhoods becomes a reality for all.

The concept of “green jobs” has created dialogue between groups promoting environmental sustainability and others interested in shared economic prosperity. Diverse groups are coming together to talk about how to create both economically and environmentally sustainable communities. The question that many are grappling with is: “How can we merge these shared values and create tangible results that ensure an equitable green economy?” This briefing paper articulates our principles for how we envision a sustainable economy in Los Angeles.

This report was prepared to provide a vision for a Green Career Ladder initiative and to provide recommendations for the first year of implementation to ensure that low-income communities can access jobs that will be created in green construction and operations/maintenance through the city's municipal green retrofit program.

Before launching the Los Angeles Apollo Alliance in February 2006, CIPHER, SCOPE's research component, spent a year in the exploration and development phase, identifying and evaluating potential scenarios for creating quality and sustainable employment in the renewable energy industry. CIPHER has developed a discussion paper series to support the Los Angeles Apollo Alliance as they explore the potential for developing a vibrant green industry in Los Angeles. This series is intended to encourage discussion among stakeholders, policy-makers and civic leaders and convey the preliminary research results compiled through interviews, case studies and data on green building.

Public green building projects, media attention, public awareness, and political support favoring the environment all indicate movement towards a greener future. Despite such positive trends, there is little to no dialogue or research about the manufacturing industry used to support what seems to be the beginning of a larger, ubiquitous green building movement. Commissioned by and completed with CIPHER/SCOPE's guidance, this report conducted by a team of UCLA Urban Planning graduate students provides a profile of the green building materials manufacturing industry in Los Angeles County.

This report provides an analysis of workforce development opportunities in the green building sector and recommendations for integrating low income communities of color with green building sector jobs. Case studies on three select green buildings were conducted along with interviews with key green building industry representatives. The analysis of the green building sector revealed that promising opportunities for job creation and local economic development exist.

The purpose of this paper is to study the extent to which race and class influencesa community's access to healthcare services by examining the location of healthcare facilities and the number of employees in a community. The empirical model presented in this report reveals that over time race has become increasingly significant in determining access to healthcare, as defined by the number of healthcare employees, in a neighborhood. Ageographic analysis reveals that South Los Angeles is the only area with average or above average population density in Los Angeles County that does not have basic emergency services within a three-mile radius.

Over 1,000 residents participated in a survey designed to identify barriers to quality employment in Los Angeles' low-income communities of color. This report is intended to guide the decisions of policymakers, workforce and economic development practitioners, foundations, and other community-based organizations as they develop and fund programs that help lift the city's underserved communities out of poverty.

Founded as an innovative response to 1996 federal welfare reform legislation, the Los Angeles City Jobs program is a job training and placement program that transitions people living in poverty and the hardest-to-employ into City jobs that offer livable wages and clear career paths. This paper highlights the components of the program that contribute to its success. After outlining current threats to the program, it concludes with recommendations to address these threats in order for the City to maintain and expand this highly successful program. California Health Care Crisis Briefing Book, January 2002 This briefing book outlines five underlying causes of California's health care crisis: managed care, the growing numbers of uninsured, staffing shortages, hospital mergers and closures, and seismic retrofitting requirements. It also provides a landscape of key statewide players and major battles, both past and present. It concludes with key questions and implications for a statewide strategy.