Clean electric school buses are healthier for kids, but there could be a downside for workers
JMA’s Ian Elder discussed how the transition to electric school buses needs to protect workers.
New public investments are creating new jobs. Let’s make sure they’re good ones.
In the Public Interest covered the essay JMA Co-Executive Director Madeline Janis co-wrote for the American Prospect about creating “industrial policy for all.”
Primer: Green Industrial Strategy for Just Transitions
The Climate + Community Project’s report mentions JMA’s U.S. Employment Plan as model legislation to leverage government purchasing power to support the development of a high-road electric vehicle manufacturing industry.
Will ‘Made in America’ Really Lead to Good Jobs?
JMA’s Co-Executive Director Madeline Janis co-wrote this piece about what we haven’t done, and what we should do, to ensure that “new industrial strategy” actually benefits workers.
Southern Manufacturing’s Impact on Jobs and Community report presentation
A summary of the report on manufacturing jobs in Mississippi and Alabama.
Job Quality in Alabama and Mississippi’s Manufacturing Facilities
JMA’s Angela Dawson talks about our recent report about manufacturing jobs in Alabama and Mississippi.
Education Workers Deserve To Be Properly Compensated For Their Labor of Love
by Martin Barrera, California Senior Workforce Equity Coordinator The United For L.A. Schools Rally on March 15 As a former high school teacher in Los Angeles, I have been reflecting on the ongoing strike by United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA)
Ensuring the Green Jobs are Good Jobs
The issue is that despite this booming industrial development, communities in the South continue to be chronically impoverished. Corporations take advantage of a system that includes some of the lowest wages in the nation, along with a relative lack
Local Opportunities Coalition comment in response to Office of Management and Budget’s Request for Information
The Local Opportunities Coalition and supporting partners wrote a comment in response to the Office of Management and Budget’s Request for Information on how the Uniform Guidance can be updated or revised to give state and local recipients of federal
Creating Good Jobs Through the CHIPS and Science Act
Rewarding companies who make strong commitments around job quality; requiring them to provide detailed, publicly available data around wages and benefits; and then holding them accountable to those commitments through the contract—these are the key elements of our U.S. Employment Plan.