Atlanta to create its first-ever city labor department

Details: The proposed department — one of the mayor's campaign promises — will oversee WorkSource, the city's job training agency.

• The new department will also oversee the city's youth employment programs and work with public unions that represent City Hall employees, along with some private unions.

The big picture: As a whole, the department's programs will help people live a "full, productive, safe, honest life," Dickens said at a press conference following a tour of the YouthBuild facility where young people learn welding, laser-engraving and other skills.

What's next: Dickens plans to propose legislation next month to officially create the department. He plans to ask for $9.4 million to prop it up — roughly two-thirds of which will come from federal funding — in next year's budget.