Prioritize partnerships to meet clean energy workforce needs
Through research, NSC found that states who embrace workforce partnerships and proactively align their workforce strategies with federal investments will be best positioned to address workforce shortages, disrupt patterns of occupational segregation, and create a strong, diverse, and multigenerational clean energy workforce.
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In 2022 President Biden signed into law a historic, nearly $1 trillion bill to invest in American infrastructure. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, is an investment that can meet the demand for resilient, sustainable, and equitable infrastructure, which will only increase in the midst of global transformation and climate change.
But investing in hard infrastructure isn’t enough – we must also invest in a diverse, multigenerational workforce trained to power our infrastructure. Join NSC in urging policy makers to support people powered infrastructure!
Unprecedented Opportunity: Meeting Infrastructure Workforce Demands
National Skills Coalition and the BlueGreen Alliance released new research and key findings that quantify the impacts of the laws on our nation’s labor supply. Based on the findings described in this data brief, we’ve identified three critical areas for meeting the opportunities posed by this historic investment while ensuring that a greater number and diversity of workers have the training, credentials, and support to access and succeed in these roles.
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Public Perspectives on Infrastructure Jobs
A majority of voters believe skills training is essential to the infrastructure industry, particularly in the construction and manufacturing sectors - and they support diversifying the infrastructure workforce through industry partnerships.
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Combined federal investments will support nearly 3 million jobs per year
New analysis by the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst commissioned by the BlueGreen Alliance and National Skills Coalition estimates that the combined investments in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), Inflation Reduction Act, and CHIPS and Science Act (CHIPS) will support nearly 3 million jobs per year over the life span of the laws. In total, the research shows the investments will support 19 million job-years.
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