MORE² joined 15 other cities on October 4th at Berkley Riverside Park in Missouri and 87th & I35 in Kansas to call for more jobs and to present a study by the Transportation Equity Network.  The study called The Road to Good Jobs: Making Training Workpresents the first-ever compilation of data from all 50 states on their use of on-the-job-training and apprenticeship programs to boost job access for minorities and women in the federal highway construction field from 2008-10.

This article in The Kansas City Star says the MORE2 plan is a national model:

http://www.kansascity.com/2011/10/04/3186950/missouri-workforce-plan-considered.html#storylink=misearch

7:00 pm Thursday, November 3, 2011

Pleasant Green Baptist (340 David L Gray Ln, KCKS)

Come take your  ”Place at the Table.”

· MORE2 Leadership will talk to our public officials about jobs, food access, transit, and other issues of our metro area.

· Our work has culminated into our realization that we all should get a “Place at the Table.”

· Listen to stories of people affected by our policies and add your voice to the many.

On August 4, 2011, members of the MORE2 Clergy Caucus met with Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II to discuss the “Budget as a Moral Document”.  This event was pulled together by allies, Faithful America, who worked with local clergy on Health Care Insurance Reform.  Rev. Bob Hill, MORE2 Clergy Caucus Co-Chair, committed Rep. Cleaver to find ways to push business leaders to join the dialogue in finding compromise.

 

Some of our principles that we believe:

 

The Federal, State and Local governmental budgets should reflect our values.

We must find ways to push our elected officials to find compromise.

 

Business leaders in our community have already expressed the desire to work with elected officials to find the “third way”.  That this debate must address building revenue through equitable distribution and NOT just about budget cuts.

 

Rep. Cleaver stated, “I would love to work with MORE2 on this.”

 

Congratulations MORE2 Clergy Caucus for taking the initiative on continuing this push for our legislators to see that our budget impacts many people that don’t get invited to the table.

 

Click here for more coverage in the Washington Post:  http://wapo.st/qPWofB