Los Angeles County's Workforce Landscape: What is promising and can we build on it? (Report 2)

Los Angeles County has one of the largest workforce and education ecosystems in the nation, with 21 community colleges, 7 workforce development boards and more than 30 America’s Job Centers of California, dozens of public and private universities, 5 California State Universities, 100+ adult education providers, 80 K-12 school districts, and a multitude of labor unions, private postsecondary vocation education and trade schools, non-profits, and other stakeholders. Despite an abundance of resources and successes, the region faces many challenges leveraging these systems to advance the economic mobility of the County’s 10 million residents.

The attached resource is the second of three reports shared for the LAEDC series, "Bolstering L.A.’s Workforce Ecosystem: A 3-Part Funder Dialogue." The three-part series aimed to inform and engage the philanthropic community on the workforce development landscape, trends, sources, and uses of funds, best practices, challenges, and successes particular to Los Angeles County.