Driving the Future: How to Electrify our School Buses and Center Kids, Communities, and Workers in the Transition
This represents a trailblazing effort to document the opportunity of school bus electrification in all its complexity.
Letter to OMB on Uniform Guidance Updates – April 2022
Representative Bass, Senator Gillibrand, and Senator Duckworth led a letter signed by 73 of their Congressional colleagues in support of Jobs to Move America’s local hire campaign
Providing Training for Zero Emission Buses: Recommended Expanded RFP Language
JMA released a report with The International Transportation Learning Center (ITLC) to assist public transit agencies in meeting the requirements in the bipartisan infrastructure bill to train workers in the operations and maintenance of zero emissions buses (ZEBs). In the
Toward a New Procurement Law: Reclaiming Competition for the Common Good
About the panelPanelists presented a groundbreaking new analysis of federal procurement law to reveal how regulatory changes can transform the U.S. economy by directing federal resources for physical, social and climate-related infrastructure to rebuild high-road American businesses and create good jobs
About JMA factsheet
This factsheet outlines JMA's vision, what we're doing to get there, and who we work with.
What is a CBA? factsheet
This fact sheet explains the basics of a CBA and our work to win them.
Lift the ban on local hire campaign factsheet
This factsheet outlines JMA's work on our campaign to lift the ban on local hire.
National program factsheet
This factsheet outlines Jobs to Move America's work at the national level.
How much would it cost to electrify the nation’s school buses?
To electrify half of the nation's 500,000 fossil-fuel-powered school buses, it would cost approximately $30 billion.
Analysis of USDOT Local Labor Hiring Pilot: Local hire increases opportunities for disadvantaged workers, strengthens local economies
This report from Jobs to Move America demonstrates that the lifting of a Reagan-era regulation prohibiting cities and states from using local hire policies in federally-funded construction projects would create stronger local economies, advance racial equity, and increase the ways that cities and states can create good jobs while building and repairing infrastructure.