The Build Back Better Act is a big deal for workers and the climate. The significant investments in manufacturing, clean energy, infrastructure, and the care economy will put our nation on a path to a clean, prosperous, and equitable economy—built for America, by America. The bill makes investments to deploy clean energy and clean vehicles—with strong labor and domestic content standards—and to support the growth of clean technology manufacturing and supply chains, modernize our infrastructure, support the care economy, and reinvest in workers and communities.

Together with the investments from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), these measures will support existing and create millions of new good-paying, union jobs across the country and fight climate change and economic and racial inequity. They must not be watered down or stripped as the bill advances.

We cannot wait any longer to build back better. Congress should pass this bill and send it to the president’s desk.

This site explores the job creation benefits from several key investments in the Build Back Better Act as it stands today. In addition to the priorities explored here, the Build Back Better Act has a number of additional provisions that the BlueGreen Alliance supports and that will create quality, family-sustaining jobs, including:

• More than $550 billion to support clean energy development and fight climate change;
• $320 billion in clean energy tax credits with labor and domestic content standards that support the growth of good family-supporting jobs and domestic manufacturing in the clean economy and an electric vehicle (EV) tax credit that will lower the cost of purchasing Eps and speed the deployment of EVs made in America by union workers;
• $110 billion to spur new domestic supply chains and the manufacturing of technologies—like solar, batteries, and advanced materials—while modernizing and cutting emissions from essential basic industries like steel, cement, and aluminum;
• $150 billion in our care economy to ensure that our physical and social infrastructure are resilient in the face of climate change or other crises moving forward; and
• A major investment in clean procurement, a critical element of the BlueGreen Alliance’s Buy Clean concept, which rewards companies that utilize cleaner methods to make the materials we need to repair and modernize our infrastructure in cleaner ways.