Carolina Real: Jorge Milares

Our City needs to do its part to foster economic mobility and development. We need to assist families who suffer from generational poverty while also cultivating entrepreneurship and job development. That means connecting our residents to existing resources and providing those that aren’t offered but that are desperately needed.

We need to provide families living in poverty with:

• Career Skills assessments.
• Education and Vocational Training.
• Workforce development (Resume workshops, interview roleplays, etc.).
• Ongoing career guidance
• Credit improvement programs
• Homeownership counseling and courses
• Financial literacy courses and ongoing guidance
• Long-term planning by teaching them how to save for their retirement and their children’s college funds

By financially investing in these families and helping them escape generational poverty, we are placing them on a long-term path to homeownership, job stability, and changing the trajectory of their family for generations to come.

We also need to support our business community by:

• Providing more city contracts to local business owners. 
• Cultivating entrepreneurship by connecting people to existing resources to build and manage local businesses. 
• Being proactive about the way we attract successful companies to Charlotte. In doing so, we create incremental job opportunities for the residents of our city and provide a boost to our local economy. 

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The City has already taken a significant first step in proposing the Office of Equity, Mobility, and Immigrant Integration. Now, we must hold them accountable to become an economically equitable city that is no longer 50 out of 50 in the US.