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The National Skills Coalition (NSC), a Surdna grantee, released a report, Building Pathways to Employment in America’s Cities through Integrated Workforce and Community Development, which explores ways that federal policy can better support cities’ efforts to integrate human and physical capital investments, particularly in the areas of public housing and transit oriented development.  The report is the result of a collaboration between NSC and local leaders in five cities—Baltimore, Chicago, New Orleans, Twin Cities, and Seattle—who are working to bridge the worlds of community and workforce development locally.

Despite growing interest in building these bridges, it has been challenging for local community development and workforce development practitioners to collaborate, even as both know that coordination is essential for improving the skills and employability of low-income individuals and for more efficiently using limited public resources. Federal Policy has a role to play in making this type of coordination easier.

America’s cities have the potential to be the engines of full national economic recovery and growth. Realizing this potential requires integrated investments not only in places, but also in people.

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