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.
Strengthening Skills Training and Career Pathways Across the Transportation Industry
This report analyzes employment and skills data in the transportation industry to highlight future areas of growth and identify high-demand jobs with good wages.
Comments on U.S. Department of Transportation Notice of Proposed Rulemaking DOT OST-2015-0013-0002
In 2015, JMA and 39 organizations submitted this letter to then Secretary of Transportation, Anthony Foxx, about strengthening geographic-based hiring preferences in federal transit awards related to equipment procurement.
Community Benefits Agreements
Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs) are legally enforceable agreements between private companies and coalitions of community and labor groups that are used to secure a wide range of job standards and equity measures.
Creating U.S. Manufacturing Jobs: How “Buying American” Can Raise the Job-Creation Potential of Public Transit Investments
This research brief finds that when manufacturers raise the domestic content of their products, they create at least 26% more jobs than manufacturers that only meet the 60 percent Buy America requirement.
Workforce Equity Programs
Jobs to Move America is working across the country to develop apprenticeship programs and job pipelines that will ensure people who have historically been denied access to manufacturing careers have the necessary skills to obtain good, family-sustaining manufacturing jobs.
Our CBA with electric bus builder BYD
This landmark CBA with electric bus manufacturer BYD led to the country's first electric bus apprenticeship program.
Pathways to Equity: Effective Transportation Career Partnerships
This report by the Transportation Learning Center examines two programs aimed at advancing equity by expanding access to quality careers in transportation.
Public Transit Procurement: A National Initiative to Promote Economic Prosperity and to Unite Communities, Workers and Business
This paper describes a national initiative to increase the quantity and improve the quality of U.S. manufacturing jobs related to the production of rail cars, clean buses and component parts used to operate public transit in the United States.
Make It In America: The Apollo Clean Transportation Manufacturing Action Plan
The Transportation Manufacturing Action Plan recommendations, outlined in this report, present a comprehensive plan to scale up investments in public transit, rail, and clean freight, while simultaneously building up manufacturers and the jobs that they support.