We're Overlooking One of the Best Solutions for Creating Clean Jobs
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We're Overlooking One of the Best Solutions for Creating Clean Jobs
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President Biden has made it clear: climate and clean energy legislation is about jobs, jobs, jobs. You needn’t look further than his first offering of an infrastructure package, titled the American Jobs Plan and whose factsheet by my count used the word “job” no fewer than 80 times.
As Congress considers Biden’s plan, you can bet the jobs debate will only grow louder. How do we recover the millions of jobs lost since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic? How do we address historic inequities and ensure opportunities are available to everybody? And as the economy shifts toward a clean energy future, what is going to happen to the millions of workers in fossil fuel-related industries?
Read Alliance President Paula Glover's full op-ed in The Hill.
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