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 / Clean Economy Union Jobs
What we’ve seen from the GOP in negotiations with the administration on President Biden’s American Jobs Plan is ‘rope-a-dope’ not compromise. The GOP is simply not interested in matching the administration’s efforts at a good faith negotiation, a reality that Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) made clear earlier this month when he stated that “100% of our focus is on stopping this new administration.”
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.
Blog / Equity and Healthy and Safe Communities
Every four years, the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) releases a Report Card grading the nation’s infrastructure from “A” to “F.” In 2017, the Infrastructure Report Card remained stagnant at a “D+”— the same grade the United States received in 2013. The current year’s report incrementally improved to a “C- ” scorecard— five categories increased and just one category decreased in their benchmarks. This improvement, however marginal, is the first time the metric has risen out of the D range in 20 years. Nonetheless, the report once again plainly demonstrates that America’s infrastructure is falling apart at the seams and we are not making long-term strides to fix the basic systems we rely on for clean water, energy, to communicate with each other, or to get from place to place.
Blog / Racial and Economic Equity and Environmental Justice
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are inheriting a nation in crisis. The Covid-19 pandemic has touched every corner of our society and its impacts have exacerbated the ongoing and devastating crises of climate change, economic inequality, and racial inequality. The actions that this administration take now will determine the course of our recovery from this overwhelming chapter of American history.
Blog / Clean Economy Union Jobs
Donald Trump is once again making sweeping statements of success and false promises from sea to shining swing state. But the numbers—and the facts—tell a different story.
Blog / Clean and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
California, like the rest of the nation, is facing a number of gut punches including a pandemic, systemic racism, historic wildfire season, and unemployment.This September, BlueGreen Alliance is supporting a bill in California that, while not a silver bullet for all of our ailments, aims to move the needle slightly on every one of these issues.
Blog / Clean Economy Union Jobs
The ten-week total for unemployment claims has reached 40.8 million, suggesting about a quarter of our workforce has lost jobs during the pandemic and projections suggest that even if we start to recover, the unemployment rate will still be around 9.3% by the end of the year. And months into this pandemic, workers continue to…