Three years into the Biden administration, communities ranging from Jacksonville, Florida, to the state of Maryland are helping a new generation of Americans access middle-class careers in construction and manufacturing. This work has only been made possible thanks to the administration’s historic federal investments to strengthen the nation’s physical, digital and clean energy infrastructure and to create good jobs while doing so. Now it’s time for cities and states to extend the impact of these investments to their own publicly supported jobs by strengthening quality standards.
The above excerpt was originally published in Route Fifty.
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