How to Build Back Better: A Plan for Economic Renewal

Over 15 million people are out of work.  The economic crisis has reinforced longstanding injustices, as women, Black workers, and low-income households endure particularly severe job losses.  Toxic pollution and escalating climate disasters only magnify the inequity by exacerbating threats to public health and economic security. 

We cannot afford to return to “normal.”  “Normal” was fundamentally unjust, unhealthy, and unstable.  Instead, we need to put millions of people back to work building a more equitable, clean energy economy.  To "build back better," we need an economic renewal plan that is as big and interconnected as the crises we face.  

A new economic analysis reveals the path forward.  With a bold economic renewal plan based on the THRIVE Agenda, Congress could provide family-sustaining jobs for over 15 million people for the next 10 years – enough to essentially end the unemployment crisis – while countering systemic racism, supporting clean air and public health, and cutting climate pollution nearly in half.  Click on the links to check out the jobs this plan would create, broken down by race, gender, wage, benefits, union access, and sector: 

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Report Contents

• Full Report
• Executive Summary
• Economy-wide Investments: Over 15 Million Good Jobs 
• Cross-cutting Environmental, Labor, and Equity Standards
• Why Standards Matter: Breakdown of the Jobs Created