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.
Reports & Fact Sheets / For America, By America
A survey of 1,607 registered voters, conducted by Hart Research from April 5-13, showed 90% percent of voters across six key states and across the political spectrum prioritize repairing and modernizing America’s aging physical infrastructure and rebuilding and retooling American manufacturing to build more products and technology here in the United States
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.
Testimony & Comments / Manufacturing and Industrial Policy
Walsh talked about how the Senate Finance Committee and U.S. tax code can play a critical role in addressing the climate crisis, creating good jobs, and injecting equity into our society as we work to rebuild our economy and recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. He concluded saying, “Through federal tax policy, we can make strategic…