138:(EDD), from 1999 to 2004, and has been involved in developing and implementing job training and employment projects on the state and local levels for over four decades. He is the author of a series of articles and books drawing on these projects and centered on achieving fuller employment and expanding the middle class. He continues to be active today in the employment field as counsel with
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Francisco Renaissance Center. The Renaissance Center developed literacy and vocational training classes, an
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Francisco School Board voted to eliminate the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) in the San Francisco Public Schools. Bernick and a number of other parents immediately formed a pro-JROTC committee to reverse the decision and keep the JROTC program. The committee
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in June 1996 that BART Director
Michael Bernick "accepted campaign contributions from BART contractors". Moreover, "excerpts of a federal wire tap showed that Bernick regularly talked to contractors about extending a deal for them at the same time they were helping to raise campaign contributions
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At CWA, Bernick helped develop and oversee projects testing a range of employment strategies: re-employment for the long-term unemployed, apprenticeships in non-traditional fields, internet job search and placement tools, and public service employment for adults with developmental disabilities.He
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on employment law and policies. Underlying the projects and writings are themes of expanding the middle class and achieving this expansion through a jobs strategy. He argues against movements on the left toward guaranteed income and benefits expansions, and proposes approaches that emphasize the
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and other journals, he examined the breakdown in full-time employment and rise of alternative forms of employment, the projected growth of the "non-knowledge economy," the evolving forms of job placement, policies that restrict job creation, crowdfunding and anti-poverty impacts, and why most
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The main section of the collection focuses on job training and employment strategies. The collection also includes sections on the transit village movement in
California, autism employment and inclusion, California government, and the long-distance running sub-culture of Southern California.
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Arnelle and Hastie. He continued in the workforce field as a board member of several community job training agencies, including the Ella Hill Hutch Community Center, Friends Outside and the Mission Reading Clinic.
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gathered 13,800 signatures and placed a measure on the
November 2006 ballot. Given the left politics of San Francisco, the measure was not expected to pass. Instead, it passed with over 55% of the vote. JROTC was restored, and has even grown in size in the years since.
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traces employment shifts in
California, as well as emerging employment trends and lessons of the previous 50 years of training programs. Other writing for the Milken Institute focused on job ladders for low-wage workers and employment for workers with disabilities.
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Following his time at EDD, Bernick returned to law in San
Francisco at Sedgwick LLP (2004-2017) and later at Duane Morris LLP (2018–present). He also joined the Milken Institute in 2004 as a fellow in employment policy, and became research director of CWA in 2009.
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October 2015, the California State Library opened a collection of Bernick's writings and papers. The Collection includes over 200 articles by Bernick covering 35 years, as well as background material on his six books and two additional book
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joined with La Cooperativa, Growth Sector, Transmosis, and other workforce intermediaries in worker retraining for growth occupations in engineering, health care, trucking, and information technology.
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