Virtual event to focus on labor rights in the South
An upcoming virtual event to feature Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin is to center on work in Alabama and across the South to build sport for labor rights, corporate and government accountability.
We must invest in a transportation transition — and workers
Transportation is the largest source of climate-disrupting pollution in the U.S. Fortunately, electric vehicle (EV) technology has progressed to the point where we can now start replacing tens of millions of fossil-fuel vehicles with EVs.
Game Changer Award awarded to Birmingham native Erica Iheme
The inaugural Game Changer Award from the National Women Innovating Labor Leadership (WILL) Empower program was awarded last Friday to Erica Iheme, the southern director at Jobs to Move America.
5 Questions with Patricia Todd: Alabama’s Transparency Problem
Good Job First speaks with Jobs to Move America’s Southern Policy Director about her new report about the lack of transparency around Alabama’s corporate tax incentives.
How Corporate Subsidies Sink Small Businesses
Pat Garofalo’s Boondoggle newsletter covers Patricia Todd’s report on corporate tax giveaways in Alabama.
AL Politics This Week: Dark Days (Guest: Former State Rep. Patricia Todd)
Former state Rep. Patricia Todd Zooms in to discuss Alabama tax dollars being given away secretly to major companies.
The V – September 5, 2021 – Guest: Former State Rep. Patricia Todd
Jobs to Move America Southern Policy Manager Patricia Todd appears on The V to discuss our report on Alabama’s corporate tax giveaways.
20 graduate from BYD and SMART’s manufacturing apprenticeship program
BYD and SMART Local 105 announced the graduation of the first two classes from its Industrial Manufacturing Technician Apprenticeship program, a first of its kind training program in California to prepare workers for the electric vehicle revolution.
Alabama’s $4 Billion in Corporate Giveaways with Patricia Todd
Jobs to Move America’s Southern Policy Director spoke to The Valley Labor Report about her new report on Alabama’s corporate tax giveaways.
Alabama’s corporate subsidies cost $4 billion over three decades, report says
A report released Wednesday by Jobs to Move America calls Alabama’s system for corporate tax incentives “exactly the wrong way” to improve the state’s economy, citing $4 billion in giveaways between 1993 and 2020 with scant information about what taxpayers have received in return.