Guide: Promoting Good Jobs Through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), also known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), was signed into law on November 15, 2021. This federal legislation will bring $1.2 trillion to...
View ArticleLocal Opportunities Comment Re: Office of Management and Budget’s Request for...
The Local Opportunities Coalition and supporting partners wrote a comment in response to the Office of Management and Budget’s Request for Information on how the Uniform Guidance can be updated or...
View ArticleEmpowering Cities to Use Federal Funds to Create Local Jobs
The $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, also known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, represents a historic opportunity to rebuild our nation’s infrastructure, fight the climate...
View ArticleEnsuring Federal Investments Benefit Workers and Communities
by Michael Lawliss, JMA Senior Policy Coordinator As states and cities begin to receive funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), President Biden signed off on two new laws that...
View ArticleLocal Opportunities Campaign Summer 2023 Congressional Letter
Last week, a letter signed by 61 Members of Congress was sent to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in support of the Local Opportunities Campaign efforts to update current federal grant...
View ArticleScraping Away the Anti-Worker, Anti-Racial Equity Vestiges of the Reagan Era
Sarah Anderson writes about how outdated Uniform Guidance policies reinforce historic racial and economic inequities and what the Local Opportunities Coalition is doing to update them. Read more on...
View ArticleReclaiming the Progressive Potential of Procurement
A longstanding misinterpretation of procurement law keeps cities and states from using federal money to advance local policy goals. JMA’s Madeline Janis and UCLA School of Law Professor of Legal...
View ArticleWebinar: Empowering States and Localities
Jobs to Move America and Rutgers’ School of Management and Labor Relations hosted a webinar on how to use the recent changes to the OMB’s Uniform Guidance to make federal funds work for communities...
View ArticleFederal News Network Interview
Federal News Network’s Eric White spoke on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with the assistant director for policy at Jobs to Move America, Valerie Lizarraga, about the Office of Management and Budget...
View ArticleBlog: Updated federal grant guidance will help create good jobs
The U.S. Department of Labor published a blog about the OMB’s recent updates to the Uniform Grants Guidance, highlighting many of the updates the Local Opportunities Coalition advocated to include....
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