focus questions
economic IMPACT OF COVID-19
1. How did COVID-19 pandemic impact the economy and economic development?
2. What are the ways to mitigate the negative impacts?
3. What can the government (local, state, and federal levels) do to help the economy recover from the impact of the pandemic?
General Questions
1.What are the major industries that exist on Long Island?
2. What skills are in demand in the growing economy?
3. How can teens prepare to have better job opportunities in a next generation economy?
4. What can we do to create interesting, high-paying jobs on Long Island?
5. What can young people do to balance the need to get educated, to keep in check their student debt, and to afford to live on their own? Please provide some creative solutions.
6. What is the percentage of Long Islanders who spend more than 35% of their income on housing?
7. What is Smart Growth?
8. What is mixed-use zoning and how it could benefit economic development?
9. What is Transit-Oriented Development (TOD)? Why is having public transportation important for economic development?
10. What non-profit organizations based on Long Island work to advance the causes of alternative housing, better transportation, and economic development?
LINKS
GENERAL QUESTIONS
1. What are the major industries that exist on Long Island?
Bureau of Labor Market Information; Division of Research and Statistics:
https://labor.ny.gov/stats/PDFs/Significant-Industries-Long-Island.pdf
Empire State Development:
http://esd.ny.gov/RegionalOverviews/LongIsland/InsideRegion.html
Office of the State Comptroller:
http://osc.state.ny.us/reports/li_ag_rpt_10_2013.pdf
Long Island Sustainable Wine Growing:
http://www.lisustainablewine.org/sustainable-viticulture.html
Long Islands Contractors’ Association, Inc.:
http://www.licanys.org
Long Island Forum for Technology:
http://www.lift.org
2. What skills are in demand in the growing economy?
Bureau of Labor Statistics:
http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_table_203.htm
http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_table_104.htm
The Wall Street Journal:
http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2016/05/06/it-job-growth-slows-tech-sector-hiring-up/
Big Future by the College Board:
https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/explore-careers/careers/industries-with-the-fastest-and-biggest-growth
World Economic Forum:
http://reports.weforum.org/future-of-jobs-2016/employment-trends/
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/12/the-19-most-in-demand-jobs-for-2016/
CNN Money:
http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/05/news/economy/job-skills-in-demand/
3. How can teens prepare to have better job opportunities in a next generation economy?
The Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-kushell/how-to-prepare-young-peop_b_4593076.html
4. What can we do to create interesting, high-paying jobs on Long Island?
5. What can young people do to balance the need to get educated, to keep in check their student debt, and to afford to live on their own? Please provide some creative solutions.
6. What is the percentage of Long Islanders who spend more than 35% of their income on housing?
The Rauch Foundation:
http://www.policyarchive.org/handle/10207/bitstreams/95988.pdf
LION (Long Island Organizing Network):
http://www.nyslocalgov.org/pdf/hearings/072407/LION.pdf
The National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University:
http://www.hofstra.edu/pdf/academics/css/ncss_new_cassel_0711.pdf
Long Island Association:
http://www.longislandassociation.org/assets/downloads/LIAFACTBOOK_2012_final.pdf
Long Island Press:
http://archive.longislandpress.com/2012/01/20/study-long-islanders-pay-too-much-for-housing/
“The Truth and the Facts”: Food Inequality on Long Island (Adelphi University):
http://chi.adelphi.edu/files/2013/04/Food-Inequality-Report-2013.pdf
Yes In My Backyard:
http://www.yimbyli.com/what-is-affordable-housing.php
Long Island Community Foundation:
http://www.licf.org/Portals/0/Uploads/Documents/Long-Islands-Rental-Housing-Crisis.pdf
The New York-Connecticut Sustainable Communities:
http://www.sustainablenyct.org/docs/Long%20Island%20Affordable%20and%20Fair%20Housing%20Report_051614.pdf
7. What is Smart Growth?
Smart Growth America:
http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/what-is-smart-growth
Smart Growth Network:
http://www.smartgrowth.org/network.php
Vision Long Island:
http://www.visionlongisland.org/vli_mission.htm
Empire State Future:
http://www.empirestatefuture.org/smart-growth/
United States Environmental Protection Agency:
http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/about_sg.htm
Sustainable Connections:
http://sustainableconnections.org/greenbuilding/sg
Natural Resource Defense Council:
http://www.nrdc.org/smartgrowth/
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation:
http://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/45970.html
8. What is mixed-use zoning and how it could benefit economic development?
Livable
http://www.aging.ny.gov/livableny/resourcemanual/planningzoninganddevelopment/ii2g.pdf
Metropolitan Area Planning Council:
http://www.mapc.org/sites/default/files/Mixed_Use_Planners_Toolkit.pdf
Useful Community Development:
http://www.useful-community-development.org/mixed-use-development.html
Real Estate Issues:
http://www.cre.org/memberdata/pdfs/Mixed-Use_Development.pdf
Smart Growth Network:
http://www.smartgrowth.org/principles/mix_land.php
American Planning Association:
https://www.planning.org/pas/quicknotes/pdf/QN6.pdf
9. What is Transit-Oriented Development (TOD)?
Transit-Oriented Development:
http://www.transitorienteddevelopment.org
Reconnecting America:
http://reconnectingamerica.org/what-we-do/what-is-tod/
The Center for Neighborhood Technology:
http://www.cnt.org/tcd/projects/ctod/
Victoria Transport Policy Institute:
http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm45.htm
National Development Council:
http://nationaldevelopmentcouncil.org/blog/?p=1511
CIBS - Commercial Industrial Brokers Society of Long Island:
http://www.cibs-li.org/news/241-transportation-and-real-estate
Empire State Future:
http://www.empirestatefuture.org/geography/state/tod-line-winter-2013-edition-barclays-center-yonkers-long-island-and-more/
Sustainable Long Island:
http://sustainableli.org/2012/05/eye-on-the-island-redeveloping-li-anton-community-newspapers/
Ronkonkoma Hub Transit-Oriented Planning Study: Town of Brookhaven:
http://www.brookhaven.org/Portals/0/Documents/Planning/Hamlet%20and%20Vision/2009%20RONKONKOMA%20HUB%20TRANSIT-ORIENTED%20PLANNING%20STUDY.pdf
CTOD (Center for Transit-Oriented Development):
http://www.ctod.org
United States Department of Transportation:
http://www.fta.dot.gov/12347_6932.html
Why is having public transportation important for economic development?
The Rauch Foundation - How the Long Island Rail Road Could Shape the Next Economy:
http://www.rauchfoundation.org/files/9913/5818/7008/How_the_LIRR_Could_Shape_the_Next_Economy.pdf
Eastern Long Island (New York State) Intermodal Transit Oriented Development Project:
https://www.dot.ny.gov/recovery/sponsors/tiger/repository/Riverhead%20Application.pdf
American Public Transportation Association:
http://www.apta.com/gap/policyresearch/Documents/facts_economic_09.pdf
http://www.apta.com/resources/reportsandpublications/Documents/twenty_first_century.pdf
http://www.apta.com/resources/reportsandpublications/Documents/economic_impact_of_public_transportation_investment.pdf
Public Transportation:
http://www.publictransportation.org/benefits/Pages/default.aspx http://www.publictransportation.org/community/media/coverage/print/Pages/SampleOpEdEconomic.aspx
Smart Growth America:
http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/issues/transportation/
Transportation and Economic Development (Hofstra University):
http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/ch7en/conc7en/ch7c1en.html
National Association for State Community Services Programs:
http://www.nascsp.org/data/files/csbg_publications/issue_briefs/issuebrief-benefitsofruralpublictransportation.pdf
Long Island Index:
https://lii-production.s3.amazonaws.com/cms-uploads/presses/99/Third_Track_Press_Release.pdf
The New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/10/us/use-of-public-transit-in-us-reaches-highest-level-since-1956-advocates-report.html
The Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nancy-rauch-douzinas/long-islands-future-prosp_b_2633708.html
10. What non-profit organizations based on Long Island work to advance the causes of alternative housing, better transportation, and economic development?
Vision Long Island:
http://www.visionlongisland.org/vli_mission.htm
Long Island Forum for Technology:
http://www.lift.org/mission.php
Sustainable Long Island:
http://sustainableli.org/who-we-are/our-mission/
Action Long Island:
http://actionlongisland.org/about-ali/
Long Island Bus Riders Union:
http://www.longislandbusridersunion.org/p/about-us.html
Options for Community Living, Inc.:
http://optionscl.org
Long Island Housing Partnership, Inc.:
http://www.lihp.org/mission.html
Long Island Progressive Coalition:
http://lipc.org/who-is-lipc-long-island/
Long Island Housing Services, Inc.:
http://www.lifairhousing.org