Jobs to Move America

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.

Categories:: Climate Change, Economy, Labor

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Reports & Policy Briefs

New York MTA Electric Bus Transition

The ElectrifyNY coalition pushed the largest transit agency in the country to commit to electrifying its entire bus fleet.

Categories:: Climate Change, Economy

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Climate Justice Policies

The History of Privatization

This article from Talking Points Memo, by Donald Cohen of In the Public Interest, explores the history of privatization and the four decade attack on government.

Categories:: Economy, Transparency

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Big Ideas

Purchasing for the Common Good 201

An introductory webinar to "inclusive procurement" or "purchasing for the common good."

Categories:: Economy, Labor

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Webinars

BYD Apprenticeship Readiness Training

This pre-apprenticeship program will train people with systemic barriers to employment for clean, union jobs in the manufacturing industry.

Categories:: Infrastructure/Transportation, Labor, Racial Justice, Workforce Development

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Workforce Equity Programs

Good Jobs through LA Metro’s purchasing process

In 2018, LA Metro committed to creating tens of thousands of good manufacturing jobs by adopting our good jobs and equity policy.

Categories:: Infrastructure/Transportation, Labor, Manufacturing

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Good Jobs Policies

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.

Categories:: Economy, Labor, Workforce Development

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Reports & Policy Briefs

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.

Categories:: Feminism, Infrastructure/Transportation, Labor

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Reports & Policy Briefs

Electric buses are creating jobs in SoCal

An inside look into the Community Benefits Agreement between the JMA coalition, SMART union Local 105, and electric bus manufacturer BYD.

Categories:: Climate Change, Labor, Workforce Development

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Multimedia

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.

Categories:: Economy, Racial Justice

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Reports & Policy Briefs

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Transforming Transit, Realizing Opportunity

New York MTA Electric Bus Transition

The History of Privatization

Purchasing for the Common Good 201

BYD Apprenticeship Readiness Training

Good Jobs through LA Metro’s purchasing process

Inclusive Procurement and Contracting: Building a Field of Policy and Practice

Moving Forward: Toward Women’s Equity and Inclusion in the Rail and Transit Sector

Electric buses are creating jobs in SoCal

Reagan vs. Cities: The 20th Century Battle Over South African Apartheid and Lessons For The Trump Era

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