CAMEO 2012 State Legislative Priorities
- Maintain and reinforce legislative support for programs and services that impact CAMEO and its member organizations, including:
- self-employment programs under the California Economic Development Department and within the Workforce system,
- the Governor’s Budget Proposal to fund over $500 million in job training through borrowing from the State Disability Insurance Fund.
- Secure Workforce Innovation Funding from the Department of Labor.
- Facilitate partnerships with the California Senate Office of Research to collect information necessary to demonstrate the impact of micro enterprise development on the California economy. Read the 2010 SOR Analysis of Self Employment in CA.
- Facilitate relationships with state agencies and departments such as California Department of Housing and Community Development to ensure that CDBG funding is administered so that it serves the needs of the field and that Micro Enterprise is recognized as an integral part of local economic development in the State of California.
Read an overview of the California legislative process.
Find out which state agencies fund Micro Enterprise.
CFED released a new report – With a Stroke of a Pen: Two Dozen Low-cost, Politically Viable State Policy Ideas to Increase Financial Security and Opportunity in Tough Fiscal Times, which presents 24 low-cost, politically-viable policy ideas to increase financial security and opportunity in fiscal times. Supporting Micro Enterprise is one of those ideas.