Employment & Workforce
Promote full and productive employment and economic opportunity
Objectives
- Create new jobs and economic opportunities.
- Expand living wage jobs.
- Provide career pathways through targeted workforce training and placement.
- Increase financial security through financial literacy and debt reduction initiatives.
- Increase access to high quality, affordable childcare.
Indicators
- Household income at 30th, 50th, and 80th percentiles.
- Average hourly earnings, by occupation, age, and persons with disabilities.
- Percentage of households living below the local poverty level, by race.
- Unemployment rate, by race, sex, age, and persons with disabilities.
- Childcare cost burden by race.
- Average hourly earnings by occupation classes, by race, sex, age, and persons with disabilities.
- Employment-to-population ratio for adults ages 25 to 54.
- Share of households with debt in collections.
Illustrative Targets
- Double the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs, and entrepreneurship by 2030.
- Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value by 2030.