The Chicago Institute on Urban Poverty requested that the Center for Urban Economic Development complete a preliminary assessment of the market feasibility of a proposed job referral collective called MANOS. Job services that might be provided in Cook County by members of the collective include house cleaning, house painting, gardening, minor home repairs, child care, and elder care. For purposes of this study, these services were grouped under three categories: "house maintenance worker," "child care worker," and "elder care worker."
1992
Work Book for the Planning Meeting for a National Conference on Demilitarization and Transition to Civilianization, April 27, 1992
This report presents the technical documentation as presented in the Planning Meeting for a National Conference on Demilitarization and Transition to Civilianization held on April 27, 1992.
This report contains the following:
1) a written agenda of the National Conference on Demilitarization and Transition
2) draft #2 of Civilianization of Military Personnel and Community Development Intervention: A Proposal and Prospectus for Collaborative Planning and Implementation and the Rebuilding of America's Communities; Douglas Gills, February 1992.
Transnational Investment and Job Loss: The Case of Chicago
This report estimates the job loss associated with transnational investment policies of firms based in Chicago at the beginning of the 1980's decade. We examine that magnitude in several ways. First, we develop an estimate of the number of jobs lost because of factory closings or major layoffs by corporate parents of Chicago firms. We include those parents who were engaged in significant international operations at the time they reduced or eliminated production in Chicago. Our estimate is 79,744 jobs eliminated in the City of Chicago between 1980 and 1990.
Real Estate Development and Property Taxes in DuPage County: Final Report
This report presents results of an analysis of the issue of the relationship between real estate development and property tax increases in DuPage County, Illinois during the 1980's. The motivation for this analysis is the interest of the East-West Corporate Corridor Association in clarifying issues raised by the report Impacts of Development on DuPage County Property Taxes (DuPage County Development Department, 1991a and 1991b).