media text image
semi-hook
circle
hook
triangle

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.

View Key Findings

People Powered Infrastructure

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!

Sign the Petition
People Powered Infrastructure
semi-hook
square_1
circle
semi-hook
media text image
semi-hook
circle
hook
triangle

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.

Public Perspectives
media text image
semi-hook
circle
hook
triangle

NSC Launches the Infrastructure Equity Policy Project

Through the Infrastructure Equity Policy Project, NSC is working with partners in states to increase the number of training and support programs that prepare workers for infrastructure and clean energy jobs—with a strong focus on increasing racial and gender diversity within these programs—so states can cultivate a strong, diverse, and multigenerational workforce.

Read the blog
media text image
semi-hook
circle
hook
triangle

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.

Learn more

Campaign Blogs

Read the latest from NSC's team of experts on infrastructure investments, workforce development, and the keys to an inclusive economic recovery

Campaign Resources