Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin on Economic Growth in the City
Idea Category: Economic Safeguards
Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin discussed steps he's taken to encourage economic growth in the city, such as pardoning residents with marijuana-related convictions and creating a workforce tax abatement to help employers pay their workers living wages. Notable, Mayor Woodfin also founded Birmingham Promise, a citywide program that offers two and four-year scholarships to in-state colleges and allows students to earn credits from working part-time jobs. "Whatever that is, whatever that looks like, that pipeline is cradle to career," he said. "You can't detach economic development from workforce development, and you can't detach workforce development from education either. I started with education first."
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