Tarecq Amer, Program Manager

Tarecq Amer, works on issues of employment and formerly incarcerated people, the impact of California’s Proposition 209 on contracting with minority- and women-owned businesses, and on the development of  tools that help move families to economic security. He has published reports on self-sufficiency and hotel workers in Los Angeles, the use of temporary staffing agencies to move hard-to-employ populations into the workforce, and developing career ladders for workers in the Early Care and Education industry. Tarecq has extensive experience in labor and living-wage studies. He investigated the impact of living-wage ordinances in Los Angeles and Oakland on the working poor and business, and has researched the state of Bay Area working youth with an eye toward developing an alternative view of employment structures. Tarecq has also studied the state of affordable housing in California and investigated innovative ways in which community-development corporations can tackle issues of endemic poverty and housing crises in their communities.

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