Climate Smart Ports Act
The legislation would green the country's ports, fight climate change, and create good green jobs.
Accelerator for America: Maximizing Investment for Job and Small Business Growth
Local officials across the country are contending with how to build a sustained recovery from the coronavirus pandemic that includes the entire community, including how to get residents back to work into well-paying jobs.
Recovery from COVID-19? Not without real public oversight
California lawmakers will soon oversee billions of stimulus dollars and pass a state-level recovery package. But a loophole in the state’s public records law is preventing workers and communities from real recovery.
Good jobs can break the crisis-recovery cycle
The bailout after the Great Recession led to a proliferation of low-quality, gig economy jobs. To recover from COVID-19, we can’t repeat the same mistakes.
Take to the digital streets for Earth Day
If there was ever a time to come together to turn the tide on an economy that puts profits over people and the planet, it is now.
Sunshine in California Public Contracts
We're fighting to bring transparency to public contracts in California.
Worker-centered state climate policy in Illinois
Illinois is poised to pass comprehensive energy legislation in the upcoming 2021 session. Our Illinois team is organizing with environmental and labor coalitions to propose worker-centered policies that would ensure an equitable transition to 100% clean energy and transition the state's public vehicle fleets.
Legal, but despicable: Employers looking to cash in on stimulus checks
Corporate employers are pursuing nefarious tactics to cash in on the stimulus checks people receive from the federal government by docking workers’ pay.
Corporate giveaways gutted the South’s safety net, recovering from COVID-19 requires rebuilding it
Alabama gives away billions of public dollars to corporations, often with no strings attached. Our new research-action program is organizing for a better deal for Southern workers and communities.
Taking on COVID-19
A real recovery from the devastating economic and public health consequences of COVID-19 means putting people over profit, once and for all.