Bobby Shriver Policy Paper on Jobs and Business
Bobby Shriver on Jobs and Business
Bobby Shriver is running for LA County Supervisor to fix tough problems and to create jobs. Shriver has an impressive record of success as an entrepreneur. After an early career in finance and television and film production, he applied his entrepreneurial talents first to raising $150 million for the Special Olympics and then to fighting poverty and disease in Africa. Together with U2's lead singer Bono, Shriver founded the ONE Campaign, which has grown to 3.5 million members and engages ordinary citizens and political leaders in combating AIDS and preventable disease and enhancing the transparency and effectiveness of poverty-fighting programs. In 2006, Shriver and Bono launched (RED) to enlist the private sector's marketing prowess and resources in the fight against poverty and disease in Africa. (RED) has raised over $240 million through events and the sale of (RED) products. Shriver has also served in local government in Santa Monica and brought good jobs and created great neighborhoods.
Los Angeles County needs Shriver's business experience. In 2012, Los Angeles County was down 223,701 jobs from its previous employment peak in 2007. LA County had 80,655 fewer jobs in 2012 than it did a decade earlier, despite growing by almost a million people. Shriver is committed to creating business and job growth in Los Angeles County. - Shriver will push to finish rail lines to West LA, and will connect the Valley to the region Valley and finish the connection to LAX, saving millions in productivity and fuel costs now wasted in traffic.
- Shriver will use his business acumen and experience to attract capital to invest in Los Angeles County, particularly to support and build on LA's growing tech economy.
- Shriver will cut red tape at the county and make it more transparent and simple to get documents, information, permits and licensing to help both large and small businesses.
- Shriver will work to make permanent and substantially increase the California state tax credit for filming and television jobs. While California's overall economy suffered a jobs decline of 5.1% from 2007 to 2012, the creative sector fell more than twice as far, losing 12.1% of its jobs or 94,000 positions. Shriver will work with the many who have been battling for this credit to convince the state that we cannot afford to lose another job and must act urgently to save our signature industry.
- Shriver will work to reverse the substantial cuts to our legal system that have delayed civil courts and closed seven LA County courthouses. These cuts of more than 65% have decreased predictability for business and litigation, further hampering job creation.
- Shriver will lobby for federal funding to support our manufacturing industries such as aerospace and defense. Manufacturing employs over 360,000 people throughout the county, particularly in the San Fernando Valley and West LA. Shriver will work to support local job training and advanced manufacturing hubs tied to the region's colleges and universities.
- Shriver will be a strong advocate for LA County's creative economy. Not only are the arts and creative industries central to the identity of Los Angeles but they are a major source of employment and economic output, and a magnet for tourists and the highly skilled professional workforce that will help secure LA's place as a world-leading 21st century metropolis.
- The arts and creative industries, broadly defined, directly employ over 300,000 people in LA County. Fashion and the visual and performing arts directly employ over 110,000 people, with another approximately 130,000 people directly employed in motion picture and sound recording. The arts and creative industries, broadly defined, are estimated to have generated $120.9 billion in revenue in 2011 with indirect spillover effects of another $85.1 billion, for a total economic impact in the county of $206 billion (Source: Otis Report on the Creative Economy of the LA Region, 2012).
- Shriver will build on the recent and considerable philanthropic investments in LA's major art institutions that are (have?) transforming Los Angeles into an arts destination and trendsetter on par with New York City. County government's role will be to encourage arts education both in the public schools and through model non-profits such as Harmony Project and Inner-City Arts, maintain the high levels of philanthropic investment in our public arts and cultural institutions, ensure the highest caliber management of our public arts and cultural institution, as well as support county-wide collaborations, such as the Getty Center's "Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA, 1945-1980" initiative, which attracted the participation of 60 arts and cultural institutions, 70 galleries, and 1.8 million visitors throughout the region, as well as generating an estimated $280.5 million in economic output and 2,490 jobs (Source: Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA, 1945-1980-Economic Impact Analysis)
- Shriver will also work to build synergies between the emerging tech ecosystem ("Silicon Beach") and the arts and creative industries by attracting innovative institutions like Google's YouTube Space LA--"a state of the art production facility in Los Angeles, CA, designed specifically for YouTube creators to produce original digital video content, from production and editing through uploading to YouTube. YouTube Space LA serves as a creative production facility for both established and emerging YouTube creators who are part of the YouTube Partner Program"; --and tech incubators and accelerators that work with arts and creative industry startups, such as LaunchpadLA (http://launchpad.la/) and the HubLA (http://www.thehubla.com/). The County's encouragement of broadband access will be crucial to this effort.
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