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.
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.
A summary of the report on manufacturing jobs in Mississippi and Alabama.
JMA’s Angela Dawson talks about our recent report about manufacturing jobs in Alabama and Mississippi.
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)
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
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
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.
In our house, we believed that able-bodied men and women should work and become productive citizens in their communities. We believed that America owes each of its citizens an equal opportunity to get an education in order to prepare him
For Tanya Brown, a painter at electric school bus maker Thomas Built Buses in North Carolina, being in a union has helped her finish her degree and is creating equal opportunities for women in the workplace. College business courses are
