Community Snapshot

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Community Snapshot: Edmonton's Job Bus Preparations Challenge Strategy Lack of transportation and child care are In the fall of 2006, members of VCE met widely acknowledged by job seekers as the two with representatives from a large Edmonton top barriers to securing and keeping employment. [...] After reviewing the Communities Edmonton (VCE) participants survey results and analysis, the company decided began investigating the creation of a similar to continue exploring the financial and logistical service for large employers in their city. [...] VCE continues to promote the Job Bus Setting up a "Job Bus" program is par- concept with other large Edmonton employers; ticularly vital in Edmonton where outlying three more are in the process of completing the industrial areas are so underserviced by public survey and another three are at the information- transit that job seekers choose not to apply for gathering stage. [...] Statistics Canada confirms that the farther a job is located Though the original transportation from a city centre, the less likely that people will company's directors were interested in the use public transport to get there. [...] Charles immigrants and women - the groups most likely was interested in the possibility of making some to seek work in industrial and outlying areas systemic changes that would allow a Job Bus [Heisz and LaRochelle-Côté 2005].