Jobs to Move America

Posted in :: Los Angeles Times, December 1, 2022

Editorial: Taxpayer money can build transit projects — and a stronger middle class. L.A. Metro shows how

Taxpayers’ money should deliver the most good. We can build new transportation projects and propel entry-level workers into solid middle-class careers. Good for Metro for leading the way.

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Posted in :: Gotham Gazette , November 14, 2022
Categories:: Climate Change, Infrastructure/Transportation, Manufacturing

With the Environmental Bond Act’s Passage, Let’s Ensure the Green Transition Creates Good Jobs

JMA’s Farah Mehreen Ahmad wrote about what the passage of the Bond Act means for New York.

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Posted :: November 8, 2022
Categories:: Climate Change, Economy, Infrastructure/Transportation

The Electric School Bus Is the Climate Hero We Need

JMA California Director Héctor Huezo wrote the blog with Earthjustice’s Yasmine Agelidis how electric school buses are an opportunity to fight climate change, make healthy air for kids and create good jobs.

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Posted in :: Forbes, October 7, 2022
Categories:: Infrastructure/Transportation, Labor, Manufacturing, Racial Justice

‘Made In America’ Should Not Mean ‘Made Under Injustice’

The Biden administration is making historic investments in U.S. manufacturing–through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act, and by increasing domestic content requirements under

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Posted in :: The American Prospect, September 28, 2022
Categories:: Climate Change, Labor, Manufacturing

Industrial Policy Without Industrial Unions

Coalitions like Jobs to Move America are focused on winning community benefit agreements in places like Illinois, where labor and environmental groups are calling on Lion Electric to allow employees to decide on union representation.

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Posted in :: AL.com, September 23, 2022
Categories:: Health & Safety, Labor, Racial Justice

Group calls for putting an end to alleged use of child labor at Hyundai suppliers

JMA is part of group of 24 regional and national labor, community, civil rights, faith and environmental justice groups calling on Hyundai to ensure that child labor is not being used in any of its supplier plants, as reports of

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Posted in :: CBS 42, September 5, 2022
Categories:: Economy, Labor

Minimum wage debate continues in Alabama

JMA Southern Policy Manager and former Alabama State Representative Patricia Todd weighed in on Alabama’s $7.25 minimum wage.

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Posted in :: WLBT, July 1, 2022
Categories:: Labor, Racial Justice

U.S. Secretary of Labor makes visit in Capital City to discuss ways to improve work conditions in the Magnolia State

U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh visited Jackson State University (JSU) on Thursday, June 30 for a panel with labor officials and community organizers.

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Posted in :: E&E News, June 28, 2022
Categories:: Climate Change, Economy, Infrastructure/Transportation, Manufacturing, Racial Justice, Workforce Development

DOE: Here’s what’s happened to EV, renewable, fossil jobs

Jobs to Move America expressed concern over the patchy levels of diversity in clean energy industries, “especially for people of color and women.”

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Posted in :: National League of Cities , June 6, 2022
Categories:: Climate Change, Infrastructure/Transportation, Labor, Manufacturing, Racial Justice

Empowering Cities to Use Federal Funds to Create Local Jobs

As the Biden administration begins to distribute infrastructure funding to states and cities, elected officials and contracting agencies will play a key role in using this money to create good-paying jobs for their communities. But one federal regulation is standing

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