Policy Priorities / Clean Economy Union Jobs
BlueGreen Alliance National Energy Transition Policy Framework
America’s energy transition is well underway. This platform is a roadmap to ensure that the transition is fair for workers and communities.
Policy Priorities / Clean Economy Union Jobs
America’s energy transition is well underway. This platform is a roadmap to ensure that the transition is fair for workers and communities.
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.
Policy Priorities / Workers' Rights
As we make investments to get the economy back on track, everything we do must be aimed at building a stronger, fairer, and cleaner economy that creates and sustains the good, high-paying jobs of the future and makes our communities and workers more resilient to crises.
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.
Reports & Fact Sheets / Clean Economy Union Jobs
As the current presidential term comes to an end, the nation is at a natural moment for taking stock. In evaluating the Trump administration, Americans will want to know: has this President improved my situation in life and is the nation’s future brighter? Analysis of a range of policy actions made by the Trump administration reveals that overwhelmingly the answer to that fundamental question for working families is a resounding “no.”