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.
Group: state taxpayers left in dark on industrial incentives
Alabama hands out millions of dollars in industrial incentives for the purpose of luring jobs to the state, but taxpayers are too often left in the dark about the deals and what the state ultimately gets in return, a new report from an advocacy group said.
Report: Alabama’s incentives to businesses lack transparency, accountability
The report published Tuesday highlights Alabama’s secretive incentives for businesses, and urges lawmakers to improve transparency and hold businesses accountable for promises made about job creation and wages.
Mayors: End ban on local hiring for federal projects. These jobs are economic lifelines.
"We are calling on President Joe Biden to fully lift the federal ban on local hiring for federally funded projects. This will allow cities to use those federal dollars to create local jobs – and help us, as mayors, make our regions more prosperous and sustainable for all."
Advancements in electric buses making green transit more accessible for rural areas
Christy Veeder, national program director, speaks to the societal and economic benefits of electric buses and the possibility of Biden's infrastructure plan.
CCIA advocates make push with only weeks to go in session
Mo-Yain Tham, a senior researcher at Jobs to Move America, said the CCIA will create 160,000 jobs. “There’s massive potential to transform our economy," Tham said "The CCIA assures these jobs will be quality jobs contributing to a green economy.”
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.
Opinion: Why we need to Electrify America’s school bus fleet
In this op-ed, John Costa (ATU) and Sonal Jessel (WE ACT for Environmental Justice) draw on Jobs to Move America's research to show how electrifying our school buses can create good jobs, healthier communities, and advance equity.