The AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust on Friday appointed Theodore Chandler as managing director of
Midwest@Work. The initiative aims to spur economic development, build and
renovate housing and increase union jobs across the industrial Midwest, with a
focus on nine cities including Pittsburgh.
The others are Minneapolis, Saint Paul, Milwaukee, St.
Louis, Detroit, Columbus, Cleveland and Buffalo.
The MidWest@Work initiative could result in more than
25,000 total new jobs, of which 9,700 would be union construction jobs. The
projects are expected to provide $1.4 billion in income paid to local residents
in the nine metro footprint, and the total local, state and federal tax revenue
generated are estimated at about $400 million.
Source: Pittsburgh
Business Times
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