Center for American Progress

RELEASE: 4 Lessons on Creating Good Manufacturing Jobs Through the Biden-Harris Administration’s Industrial Investments
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RELEASE: 4 Lessons on Creating Good Manufacturing Jobs Through the Biden-Harris Administration’s Industrial Investments

Washington, D.C. — The Biden-Harris administration’s industrial investments mark a turning point for economic policy that can help the United States regain competitiveness in several emerging sectors and create jobs across the economy. Already, these investments have created hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs that, at their best, provide routes to the middle class. On top of this, these investments have bolstered the country’s competitiveness in key manufacturing sectors, from semiconductors to clean energy to electric vehicles. 

A new Center for American Progress report takes the initial step to identify and refine the road map to support good union manufacturing jobs. This report offers four lessons on how the Biden-Harris administration’s industrial policy strategy has worked to create new jobs and support emerging manufacturing sectors and where policymakers can go from here to keep improving manufacturing job quality. These include: 

  1. Strong domestic content requirements spur investment and create more jobs in the United States. 
  2. Pair consistent incentives to boost job quality with ongoing oversight. 
  3. Unions are crucial partners in training and retaining a skilled workforce.
  4. Further administrative and legislative action is needed to raise standards, spread best practices, and uphold minimum standards. 

“The Biden-Harris administration’s signature industrial policy program demonstrates that government spending can be leveraged to create good, union jobs for workers from all walks of life,” said Karla Walter, senior fellow for Inclusive Economy and co-author of the report. “While the progress made possible through this investment package surpasses the scale of any federal investment in manufacturing in decades, strengthening and expanding the reach of manufacturing job quality policies will ensure that the American manufacturing sector is an engine of middle-class growth.”

Read the report: 4 Lessons on Creating Good Manufacturing Jobs Through the Biden-Harris Administration’s Industrial Investments” by Aurelia Glass and Karla Walter

For more information on this topic or to speak with an expert, please contact Sarah Nadeau at [email protected].

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