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Nurturing Inner City Entrepreneurs: Jose Corona of Inner City Advisors

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." -- Jose Corona, Inner City Advisors Jose Corona is the Executive Director of Inner City Advisors , a nonprofit that helps build sustainable and responsible inner city businesses that create quality jobs, reinvest in the community, and contribute to the local economy. I'm going to be green. I'm going to be great here in Oakland.

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Raising the Floor of the Platform Economy: Co-ops, Unions, and the Struggle to Transform Technology

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If you need a ride to the airport, wish to order a pizza, plan a vacation, or search for a job, there is a good chance that you will use an app to get it. This contractor status makes it easy for companies to exploit platform workers by forcing them to pay high premiums for affiliation with the platform or even refusing to pay them for jobs.

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Alli Chagi-Starr, Art in Action/Ella Baker Center, Podcast Interview Transcription

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The slogan is "Green Collar Jobs, not Jails" and what we're trying to promote a big vision which includes being able to employ formerly incarcerated people from the Oakland area, "at risk" -- quote unquote -- people from this area into jobs which don't hurt the environment, that actually help sustain us as a community.

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