Diversity for Hire: Astroturfing, New Flyer, and the Transportation Diversity Council
How New Flyer and the Transportation Diversity Council are “astroturfing” worker and community demands for racial and economic justice.
Accelerator for America: Maximizing Investment for Job and Small Business Growth
Local officials across the country are contending with how to build a sustained recovery from the coronavirus pandemic that includes the entire community, including how to get residents back to work into well-paying jobs. To accelerate the economic recovery, the
Good Jobs Everywhere: Why Manufacturing Jobs Should Advance Equity and Strengthen Communities
Jobs to Move America released this white paper documenting the results of interviews with New Flyer workers and preliminary findings from an academic study of manufacturing workers across Alabama and Mississippi by Alabama A&M University’s (AAMU).
Transforming Transit, Realizing Opportunity
Through economic modeling and dozens of interviews, this report offers policy recommendations to enable agencies to center community health, climate solutions, and good job creation in their transition to electric buses.
Inclusive Procurement and Contracting: Building a Field of Policy and Practice
This study, co-authored by Emerald Cities and PolicyLink, surveys the current landscape on inclusive procurement and contracting policies and practices in the infrastructure and construction industries.
Moving Forward: Toward Women’s Equity and Inclusion in the Rail and Transit Sector
The resources in this toolkit support the recruitment, training, and retention of women in nontraditional apprenticeship and jobs in the rail and transit sector.
Reagan vs. Cities: The 20th Century Battle Over South African Apartheid and Lessons For The Trump Era
By the 1980s, the apartheid political system in South Africa and its brutal oppression of people of color had become increasingly shocking to the world. Sustained global opposition resulted in the system’s collapse by the beginning of the next decade.
Memo: Effect of U.S. Employment Plan on Competitive Bidding
This UCLA Law School study demonstrates the U.S. Employment Plan‘s impact on price and bidder pools.
Harnessing Government Spending to Revitalize Good Manufacturing Jobs
This report considers new ways in which government can play a role in revitalizing manufacturing, and brings to light new tools to ensure good jobs, inclusivity, and community benefits.
Strengthening U.S. Manufacturing Through Public Procurement Policies
This seminal study advances a policy framework capable of supporting a major revival of the U.S. manufacturing sector with a focus on expanding good job oppotunities for workers.
