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Building the Future Workforce

Building the Future Workforce offers six recommendations and four case studies that illustrate how state policymakers can connect more working people to quality infrastructure and clean energy jobs and create benefits for residents, businesses, and communities that rely on the implementation and maintenance of critical infrastructure.

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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!

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Campaign Update: People-Powered Infrastructure 2023

Get caught up on NSC's campaign to train our infrastructure workforce

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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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As the infrastructure bill is implemented, NSC pushes training for the next generation of infrastructure workers

Read about NSC's People Powered Infrastructure Campaign, our five policy recommendations build an inclusive infrastructure workforce for the 21st century, and how we are
calling on policymakers to invest in skills training, supportive services, and local employment strategies that can support the inclusive infrastructure workforce our country needs.

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Summit Sequel: People Powered Infrastructure

Learn about federal workforce policy and funding opportunities connected to recent investments in transportation infrastructure as well as perspectives on how training investments can drive more equitable access to infrastructure careers.

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Campaign Blogs

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

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