Cindy Carr, cindy.carr@sierraclub.org
***MEDIA ADVISORY***
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Yesterday, the Sierra Club released a landmark report and the Political Economy Research Institute released a new economic analysis detailing the millions of jobs that could be created by Congress passing a bold, forward-looking stimulus package. The report, Millions of Good Jobs: A Plan for Economic Renewal, found that such a stimulus plan could create family-sustaining jobs for over 9 million Americans each year for the next 10 years while helping to tackle public health issues, joblessness, inequity, and the climate crisis. Even further, this bold plan would strengthen our clean energy economy with cleaner air and water, higher wages, healthier communities, and a more stable climate by enabling a 45 percent reduction in U.S. climate pollution by 2030.
The report also details the jobs that would be created from 39 specific stimulus priorities backed by unions, environmental justice groups, and climate organizations. For example:
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A program to exchange gas guzzlers for affordable, clean electric vehicles would yield over 635,000 jobs each year – nearly the entire population of Detroit – including over 77,000 good manufacturing jobs to produce the vehicles and components.
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Nearly 400,000 workers could be hired each year to upgrade every public housing unit, school, hospital, and municipal building in the nation to support healthier living conditions, lower energy bills, and reduced pollution.
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Over 350,000 workers could be employed each year to replace lead pipes and secure clean drinking water.
The full report and additional resources can be found on the Sierra Club’s website.
What: Experts, including the lead economist and report’s author, will give further detail about the report and its findings
When: May 27, 2020 at 9 a.m. ET
Where: Please RSVP to cindy.carr@sierraclub.org.
Who: Speakers include:
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Robert Pollin, lead author of the job estimates and Distinguished University Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Roxanne Brown, International Vice President at Large of the United Steelworkers
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Jason Walsh, Executive Director of the BlueGreen Alliance
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Rev. Mike Atty, Executive Director of United Congregations of Metro-East and a leader in the push for the Clean Energy Jobs Act in Illinois
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Ben Beachy, the Sierra Club’s Living Economy Director and report author
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Read the Sierra Club’s report here.
Read the Political Economic Research Institute’s economic analysis here.
Read the Sierra Club’s April 2020 stimulus letter to Congress here.
About the Sierra Club
The Sierra Club is America’s largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization, with more than 3.5 million members and supporters. In addition to protecting every person's right to get outdoors and access the healing power of nature, the Sierra Club works to promote clean energy, safeguard the health of our communities, protect wildlife, and preserve our remaining wild places through grassroots activism, public education, lobbying, and legal action. For more information, visit www.sierraclub.org.