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By Doug Cunningham

The progressive think tank, Mobility Agenda, is out with a report on community benefits agreements that says these agreements are transforming thousands of low-wage jobs into good, living wage jobs in communities across the nation. These agreements between developers and labor/community coalitions on p[rojects that use some public finding are legally binding and designed to boost wages and stregthen local labor markets. Mobility Agenda’s Margy Waller says these community benefits agreements will become more important than ever as public investments in various projects increase substantially. Mobility Agenda’s Margy Waller.

[Waller]: “We have too many jobs that pay low wages and don't provide benefits. So one in three jobs in the country today pays about 11 dollars or less per hour. And unless we start focusing on how to make those jobs better jobs, we're gonna continue to have a problem with our national economy."