The Economic Security Cabinet (”Cabinet”) has been charged with developing an Economic Security Agenda to support New York State’s working families and grow the State’s middle class. The Cabinet has four main objectives:
1) Reduce New York State’s high cost of Living;
2) Expand educational opportunity in New York State’s increasingly knowledge-based economy;
3) Strengthen New York State’s […]

Charge: Identify ways to improve employment and training opportunities, particularly for low-income/disadvantaged populations, through low-wage worker initiatives.
Recommendations:
3 months
Improve access to E&T, particularly by disadvantaged populations, by ensuring program policies and procedures encourage E&T:
Catalog existing policies to determine where policy changes could increase access to E&T, particularly by disadvantaged populations; identify recommendations/findings from the Higher […]

Charge: Align workforce development system enhancements and economic development investments to maximize employment and training efforts.
3 months
Align DOL, Empire State Development Corporation(ESDC), and State Education Department (SED) geographic workforce structures:
Develop agreement on consolidated regional structure. DONE. (See Appendix F for a map of NYS workforce regions.)
6-9 months
Align DOL, Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC), and State […]

Charge: Improve low-income working individuals and families’ access to work support bnefits through technological enhancements of existing screening and eligibility tools.
Recommendations:
3 months
Identify current state, local, and private sector technology practices that support expedited access to and accurate applications for work support benefits. (See Appendix E for a list of current technology practices.)
6-9 months
Develop […]

Charge: Improve the presentation of work support benefits, particularly Unemployment Insurance Benefits (UIB), to increase low-income working individuals and families’ knowledge, access, and use of these benefits. (See Appendix D for a list of current outreach and marketing strategies used by Cabinet member agencies, and ideas for expanding these strategies to include other work support […]