Lee en español As a major transportation seating manufacturer that serves public sector customers and has benefited from public tax incentives and financing, Chicago-based Freedman Seating, now owned by Lippert Components, has a particular responsibility to provide jobs that deliver
This pioneering study from Columbia Labor Lab provides a rigorous, large-scale statistical analysis of the economic impact of prison labor in driving wage suppression in Hyundai/Kia’s supply chain. Drawing on an original survey of more than 600 workers, combined with
A newly released report from Jobs to Move America and Cornell University’s Climate Jobs Institute reveals troubling findings about working conditions at MTA contractor Kawasaki’s railcar manufacturing facilities in New York and Nebraska. Citing low pay, hazardous conditions and widespread
Community benefits agreements, once primarily used for real estate development projects, are increasingly used in the manufacturing space as a tool to ensure that public investments yield measurable results for the public. The case study by Athena Nicole Last, PhD,
The report from In the Public Interest and Local Progress mentions JMA’s U.S. Employment Plan as a way to weave equity into the procurement process. Harnassing-the-Power-of-Procurement-Report-July-2023Download
The Climate + Community Project’s report mentions JMA’s U.S. Employment Plan as model legislation to leverage government purchasing power to support the development of a high-road electric vehicle manufacturing industry.
A summary of the report on manufacturing jobs in Mississippi and Alabama.
Manufacturing is big business in the South. Lured by generous tax incentives, global companies like Mercedes, Boeing, Nissan and more have set up shop in Alabama and Mississippi. But what's the quality of these jobs these major companies are creating with residents' tax dollars?
This represents a trailblazing effort to document the opportunity of school bus electrification in all its complexity.
Between 1993 and 2020, Alabama gave away $4 billion in tax incentives to corporations like Amazon, Mercedes, Toyota and Google to incentivize job creation. But those giveaways were made with little to no transparency and accountability—and with often questionable return
