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<\/a><\/p>\nMade up of ten key industry sectors, this framework will help streamline the state\u2019s economic, business, and workforce development programs to create more jobs, faster, as part of the California Jobs First initiative. The state\u2019s\u00a0thirteen economic regions<\/a>\u00a0engaged more than 10,000 local residents and experts who collectively identified these sectors as key to driving local economies into the future.<\/p>\n California\u2019s economy has industries at all stages. They are categorized as follows within the Economic Blueprint:<\/p>\n The California Jobs First Economic Blueprint will highlight the ways in which workforce development can help Californians, particularly the most uninvested in communities, in meeting the specific skillset needs of the State\u2019s and our regions\u2019 priority industry sectors.<\/p>\n \u201cToday is another critically important milestone in aligning strategic investments that further economic growth and job creation in every region of California,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0said Dee Dee Myers, Senior Advisor to Governor Newsom and Director of the Governor\u2019s Office of Business & Economic Development.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cThis new economic framework will set the foundation for sustainable and inclusive growth, ensuring that the industries of today and tomorrow provide the good-paying jobs Californians deserve.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The complete Economic Blueprint will be released early next year, along with $120 million over three years in competitive funding to support \u201cready-to-go\u201d job-creating projects aligned to state priority sectors, ensuring that every region across California continues to play a critical role in the sustainable growth of the world\u2019s fifth largest economy.<\/p>\n \u201cGovernor Newsom has driven an unprecedented $4 billion of state investment in training people for good jobs, and California continues to lead the nation in education, apprenticeship and earn-and-learn programs,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>said Stewart Knox, Secretary of the Labor and Workforce Development Agency.\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cHaving a well-prepared workforce is a crucial part of ensuring that our state has a healthy economy for decades to come.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Melissa James, President & CEO, REACH (Central Coast region):<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cPeople have been at the heart of the California Jobs First process, where broad, inclusive outreach has allowed local residents across the state\u2019s 13 regions to design strategies and projects that uplift their economies. This historic, people-first investment infuses real resources into the economy to uplift both people and communities, ensuring growth and opportunity are shared across the state.\u201d<\/p>\n Manpreet Kaur, Project Director, Kern County Coalition (Kern County region):\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cA rich history of labor movements was born right out of Kern County, with incredible leaders like Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta and yet, we haven\u2019t always had the opportunity to come together as one community and develop the roadmap for the future of our workers and our community. California Jobs First set the table for all of us, as one Kern County, to sit together and do the hard work, ensuring all people in our region can access quality jobs into the future.\u201d<\/p>\n Karen Warner, CEO, Beam Circular (North San Joaquin region):<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cCalifornia is home to the industries and innovators that are shaping the materials, food, energy, and products that we use every day. California Jobs First will help us make big bets on the industries of the future that will deliver quality jobs, a healthy environment, and new pathways to prosperity in local communities across every region of the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fresno, CA…Alongside community leaders, local officials and business owners from the Central San Joaquin region, Governor Gavin Newsom yesterday unveiled the framework for the forthcoming California Jobs First Economic Blueprint \u2013 a first-of-its kind, bottom-up strategy for creating good-paying jobs and regional economic development. Made up of ten key industry sectors, this framework will help […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":185679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/unnamed-11-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185678"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185682,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185678\/revisions\/185682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/185679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\u201cEach region of California has its own strengths \u2014 we\u2019re helping build out each local economy with a bottom-up approach that\u2019ll connect more good-paying jobs with California families. From agriculture to clean energy to manufacturing and everything in between, these blueprints will foster growth and expansion throughout every community of California.\u201d<\/h4>\n
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<\/p>\nHow we got here<\/h2>\n
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<\/h2>\nWhat local leaders are saying<\/h2>\n