CareLab | Blueprinting Care: Public Job Banks for Community Resilience

A triangle that reads jobsforall with a mother and son reading a book, a man thrumbing his guitar and aperson in a wheelchair.

Project Description

This research explores how public-service employment can function as civic care infrastructure. By linking unemployed or underemployed residents with work at community organizations via a public job bank, the project imagines a system that meets local care needs while providing dignified work: a vision for collective resilience through public employment

People

Yash Pawar
Parsons:MS Strategic Design & Management

Althea Erickson
NSSR:Public & Urban Policy

Marie Therese Kane
Parsons: Environmental Policy & Sustainability Management

Themes

Care and economy, Care and Labor, Care and community, Care and design

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