Lift the ban on local hire campaign factsheet
This factsheet outlines JMA's work on our campaign to lift the ban on local hire.
National program factsheet
This factsheet outlines Jobs to Move America's work at the national level.
Biden’s jobs plan could build racial equity with one simple fix
How the infrastructure bill could easily be engineered to also build justice.
Local hiring gains steam as Biden pushes infrastructure, equity
The Department of Transportation is aiming to reinstate a program the Trump administration scrapped that would allow local hiring requirements to be added to federally funded infrastructure projects.
How much would it cost to electrify the nation’s school buses?
To electrify half of the nation's 500,000 fossil-fuel-powered school buses, it would cost approximately $30 billion.
Biden’s infrastructure plan endorses PRO Act, labor boosts
President Joe Biden's infrastructure plan unveiled Wednesday calls for boosting workers and organized labor, including by overhauling federal labor law to make it easier for workers to form unions and negotiate the terms of their work.
Jobs to Move America urges White House to repeal local hire ban to maximize benefits of infrastructure investment
As President Biden rolls out his infrastructure plan today, Jobs to Move America Executive Director Madeline Janis issued a statement urging the Biden administration to repeal the ban on local hire.
NYC’s purchase of school buses should supercharge transition to electric fleet: advocates
The city’s purchase of hundreds of yellow buses could jump-start what has been a slow effort to add electric vehicles to the diesel-guzzling school-bus fleet, advocates argue in a new report.
To build a worker-centered economy, pass the PRO Act
The PRO Act would fix these problems in federal labor law by protecting workers’ right to collective action, holding employers accountable for breaking the law, ensuring free and fair union elections, and creating a fair process for a first union contract.
New study paints bleak picture of Alabama’s tradeoff of tax breaks for jobs
Big companies benefit at the expense of their employees and surrounding communities, researchers at Alabama A&M say.