Press Releases & Statements / Other
The U.S. Department of Education announced it is cutting 50% of its staff. These layoffs are considered phase one of completely shuttering the Department of Education—an agency established by Congress. This is part of a plan first outlined in Project 2025, the Trump administration’s policy blueprint.
Blog / American Jobs Plan Blog Series
When it comes to buildings, the American Jobs Plan charts a strong path forward by highlighting the key areas within the buildings sector that can make a significant impact in addressing all three intersecting crises: climate change, racial inequality and economic equality.
Blog / American Jobs Plan Blog Series
The economic and environmental success of the nationwide transition to cleaner vehicles hinge on the extent to which decision-makers prioritize domestic EV manufacturing and good jobs as a part of a robust EV policy agenda, and a broader clean transportation agenda.
Blog / American Jobs Plan Blog Series
EVs are on their way to dominating the worldwide passenger vehicle market, representing an important stride toward national and global climate goals. But what will this mean for workers and communities here in the U.S.? That depends on decisions Congress and the Administration make today.
Blog / American Jobs Plan Blog Series
Healthy ecosystems are a key component in building resilient communities that can adapt to the impacts of climate change. Coastal ecosystems and healthy dunes, wetlands, and forests shield people and property from sea-level rise and severe storms and flooding and provide benefits for wildlife and water quality.
Blog / American Jobs Plan Blog Series
Our country deserves world-class transportation options, and such investment will pay dividends in jobs, access to opportunity, economic growth, and savings of time to be with our loved ones. We need an infrastructure bill that will match the scope of our aspirations and needs as a country, so that we will not continue to fall behind. We can choose to build top-flight transportation systems, and the AJP is a strong blueprint to do so.
Blog / American Jobs Plan Blog Series
To achieve true economic recovery, we need to rebuild stronger, more resilient communities while investing in our health care systems, public health agencies, education, community-based services, essential utilities (i.e. water), and the workers that operate these services.
Blog / American Jobs Plan Blog Series
As we work to rebuild our economy we must prioritize equitable rebuilding and investments in those workers and communities most in need, including those impacted by changes in our nation’s energy system. America’s energy transition is well underway. But a transition that is fair for workers and communities isn’t something that will happen organically.
Blog / American Jobs Plan Blog Series
As the U.S. takes necessary steps to both promote an economic recovery and mitigate climate change, two efforts must advance hand in hand: supporting domestic manufacturing and reducing emissions from the industrial sector.
Blog / American Jobs Plan Blog Series
The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act—which President Joe Biden included in his historic American Jobs Plan—is a meaningful step to bringing back the American middle class.
Blog / American Jobs Plan Blog Series
Our nation’s drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure is vital to the protection, treatment, and distribution of clean water. However, age, strain from population growth, lack of investment, the pervasiveness of lead pipes, and emerging threats from climate change have increased the burden on the current water infrastructure system and health risks to communities.
Blog / American Jobs Plan Blog Series
Yesterday evening as President Joe Biden spook to the nation during his first joint address to Congress this evening, we heard about his American Jobs Plan, a historic plan to invest in America and take steps to jumpstart our economy while addressing the three intersecting crises we face—climate change, income inequality, and racial injustice.