Too Many Airport Service Workers Earn Low Wages and Benefits ArticleJanuary 13, 2025 Too Many Airport Service Workers Earn Low Wages and Benefits New CAP analysis shows many essential airport service workers earn less than $15 per hour. Here’s how policymakers can fix that. Jan 13, 2025 Aurelia Glass, Karla Walter
Industry Standards Boards Are Delivering Results for Workers, Employers, and Their Communities ReportNovember 21, 2024 Industry Standards Boards Are Delivering Results for Workers, Employers, and Their Communities State accomplishments demonstrate that boards work best when they have the necessary legal authority and resources. Nov 21, 2024 David Madland, Sachin Shiva
Workforce Development State Strategies: A 50-State Scan of Best Practices From Recent Action ReportOctober 31, 2024 Workforce Development State Strategies: A 50-State Scan of Best Practices From Recent Action States can strengthen their workforces through fostering registered apprenticeships, establishing career pathways, providing supportive services, addressing demand in critical industries, and other measures. Oct 31, 2024 Veronica Goodman, Tania Otero Martinez, Kennedy Andara
Community Navigators Can Increase Access to Unemployment Benefits and New Jobs While Building Worker Power ReportOctober 22, 2024 Community Navigators Can Increase Access to Unemployment Benefits and New Jobs While Building Worker Power Evidence from the Maine Peer Workforce Navigator program shows that workers and government can benefit from well-designed community partnerships. Oct 22, 2024 Michele Evermore, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, David Madland
What You Should Know About the 2023 Gender Wage Gap ReportOctober 22, 2024 What You Should Know About the 2023 Gender Wage Gap For the first time in two decades, the gender wage gap widened significantly in 2023—and between 2022 and 2023, the wage gap increased by 1 cent for women working full time, year round, to an average of 83 cents for every dollar men made. Oct 22, 2024 Amina Khalique
Project 2025 Would Undermine Registered Apprenticeship System and Put Corporations Over Workers ArticleSeptember 16, 2024 Project 2025 Would Undermine Registered Apprenticeship System and Put Corporations Over Workers Instead of weakening apprenticeships, policymakers should invest more in the existing registered apprenticeship system, which benefits workers and employers alike. Sep 16, 2024 Veronica Goodman
Clean Energy Investments Are Boosting the U.S. Economy TestimonySeptember 12, 2024 Clean Energy Investments Are Boosting the U.S. Economy Trevor Higgins, senior vice president of the Energy and Environment department at the Center for American Progress, filed written testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Energy, Climate, and Grid Security; the testimony occurred at a hearing on energy costs titled “From Gas to Groceries: Americans Pay the Price of the Biden-Harris Energy Agenda.” Sep 12, 2024 Trevor Higgins
Offshore Wind Development in Maine Is a Collaborative Effort VideoAugust 14, 2024 Offshore Wind Development in Maine Is a Collaborative Effort Building off the success of the Inflation Reduction Act, a coalition of labor unions, green nongovernmental organizations, and community leaders came together to advocate for the inclusion of strong labor standards in the build-out of offshore wind in Maine. Aug 14, 2024 Margaret Cooney, Adam Reich, Olivia Mowry, 2 More Hai-Lam Phan, Matthew Gossage
Unions Are Building a Clean Energy Future in Wisconsin VideoAugust 13, 2024 Unions Are Building a Clean Energy Future in Wisconsin The Inflation Reduction Act has introduced key standards for high-quality jobs that include apprenticeships to unlock federal funding, and it’s changing lives and communities in Wisconsin. Aug 13, 2024 Margaret Cooney, Devon Lespier, Adam Reich, 3 More Olivia Mowry, Hai-Lam Phan, Syrus Sadvandi
New Samsung Semiconductor Plant in Taylor, Texas ArticleJuly 26, 2024 New Samsung Semiconductor Plant in Taylor, Texas An investment by Samsung, spurred by funding from the CHIPS and Science Act, will create a new semiconductor plant in Taylor, Texas, to complement the company’s previous investment in chips in Austin, Texas. Jul 26, 2024
Organized Labor Is Uncovering the Truth About Offshore Wind in Rhode Island VideoJuly 22, 2024 Organized Labor Is Uncovering the Truth About Offshore Wind in Rhode Island On the front lines of the clean energy transition, Rhode Island’s offshore wind developments and union workforce are disproving misinformation spread by the fossil fuel industry and showcasing the benefits of federal climate investments for local communities and economies. Jul 22, 2024 Margaret Cooney, Devon Lespier, Hai-Lam Phan, 2 More Adam Reich, Olivia Mowry
Public Officials Should Use Their Bully Pulpit To Support Worker Organizing and Bargaining ReportJuly 22, 2024 Public Officials Should Use Their Bully Pulpit To Support Worker Organizing and Bargaining Pro-worker policymakers should use public and private rhetoric to support organizing campaigns and ensure government spending creates high-quality union jobs. Jul 22, 2024 Karla Walter, Sachin Shiva
Opinion: Baby boomers are retiring. Helping fill those work vacancies is government’s job In the NewsJune 13, 2024 Opinion: Baby boomers are retiring. Helping fill those work vacancies is government’s job Veronica Goodman explains what a reauthorization of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) would look like and why it’s needed right now in an op-ed published in MarketWatch. Jun 13, 2024 MarketWatch Veronica Goodman
Recommendations for Reauthorizing the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act ReportJune 11, 2024 Recommendations for Reauthorizing the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act As WIOA turns 10, policymakers should reauthorize it to remake and prepare the U.S. federal workforce development system for the next decade. Jun 11, 2024 Veronica Goodman
The Biden Administration’s Targeted, Strategic Tariffs Are Effective Industrial Policy at Work ArticleMay 29, 2024 The Biden Administration’s Targeted, Strategic Tariffs Are Effective Industrial Policy at Work Standing up for American workers while fighting the climate crisis is smart and pragmatic policy. May 29, 2024 Ryan Mulholland, Mike Williams
Wisconsin Broadband Infrastructure Deployment Program ArticleMay 22, 2024 Wisconsin Broadband Infrastructure Deployment Program The Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa received funds to expand broadband access and internet connectivity into its reservation and community. The funds will provide for around 700 connection points around the reservation. May 22, 2024
Rebuild Blatnik Bridge Connecting Wisconsin and Minnesota ArticleMay 22, 2024 Rebuild Blatnik Bridge Connecting Wisconsin and Minnesota Utilizing funds provided by the Biden administration, the cities of Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin, are rebuilding a bridge that would otherwise need to be shut down in 2030. May 22, 2024
Unions Give Workers a Voice Over How AI Affects Their Jobs ReportMay 16, 2024 Unions Give Workers a Voice Over How AI Affects Their Jobs Collective bargaining is a powerful tool workers can use to ensure artificial intelligence and algorithmic technology improve their jobs instead of make working conditions worse, and workers have won several recent contracts that give them power over how AI will affect their working lives. May 16, 2024 Aurelia Glass
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Failed To Deliver Promised Benefits ReportApril 30, 2024 The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Failed To Deliver Promised Benefits Benefits of the business tax changes in Trump’s 2017 tax bill were costly and did not trickle down to workers and families. Apr 30, 2024 Jean Ross
8 Ways the Biden Administration Is Improving the Lives of Service Workers ArticleApril 9, 2024 8 Ways the Biden Administration Is Improving the Lives of Service Workers The Biden administration is raising pay, building power, and improving living standards for service workers across the economy—including fast-food cooks, call center workers, teachers, home care workers, and federal employees. Apr 9, 2024 Karla Walter
It’s time for local policymakers to cement the Biden administration’s workforce gains In the NewsMarch 25, 2024 It’s time for local policymakers to cement the Biden administration’s workforce gains Karla Walter writes in Route Fifty about the need for policymakers to build on the Biden administration’s historic federal infrastructure investments, arguing that one of the best ways to cement these workforce gains is for local jurisdictions to strengthen their job quality standards. Mar 25, 2024 Route Fifty Karla Walter
North Carolina Wolfspeed Materials Efficient Silicon Carbide Facility ArticleMarch 19, 2024 North Carolina Wolfspeed Materials Efficient Silicon Carbide Facility Wolfspeed Silicon Carbide Materials is building a new facility in North Carolina to expand production and become the largest plant using silicon carbide to make semiconductor chips. Mar 19, 2024
Arizona Semiconductor Technician Quick Start Program ArticleMarch 19, 2024 Arizona Semiconductor Technician Quick Start Program This program provides students at Maricopa Community Colleges with the opportunity to become trained as semiconductor technicians. Mar 19, 2024
Underserved Communities Are Benefiting From the Inflation Reduction Act’s Investments in Clean Energy and Technology ArticleMarch 12, 2024 Underserved Communities Are Benefiting From the Inflation Reduction Act’s Investments in Clean Energy and Technology Many congressional districts, especially those with underserved communities, have seen a surge in clean investment since the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act. Mar 12, 2024 Jasia Smith, Jamie Friedman
Tackling Climate Change and Environmental Injustice Tackling Climate Change and Environmental Injustice We pursue climate action that meets the crisis’s urgency, creates good-quality jobs, benefits disadvantaged communities, and restores U.S. credibility on the global stage.
Restoring Social Trust in Democracy Restoring Social Trust in Democracy Democracy is under attack at home and abroad. We must act to ensure it is accessible to all, accountable, and can serve as a force of good.
Building an Economy for All Building an Economy for All Economic growth must be built on the foundation of a strong and secure middle class so that all Americans benefit from growth.