Kudos To Ohio Apollo Alliance
We received a nice gift yesterday afternoon.
John Nichols of The Nation posted his list of Most Valuable Progressives.
The winner of MOST VALUABLE STATE OR REGIONAL GROUP:
Here’s what he said:
Bridging the gap between sometimes esoteric national debates about economic issues and the real-life challenges faced by people living in Cleveland, Youngstown and Dayton, Policy Matters Ohio is a non-profit research and advocacy organization that pushes the envelope on debates about tax policy and the funding of essential education and safety-net programs. Intellectually rigorous, yet always accessible in its approach, this group has produced more than 160 reports that have given Ohio’s progressive activists and legislators the tools they need to challenge corporate spin and pressure tactics. In tight economic times, groups such as Policy Matters Ohio are absolutely essential players in life-and-death debates about how state and local governmental agencies should respond to revenue shortfalls and rising demands for services. PMO’s founding executive director, Amy Hanauer, is great at making the link between the initiatives of national groups with which she works — the Economic Policy Institute, Demos and the Apollo Alliance — and local and legislative policymakers in Ohio, moving progressive priorities out of Washington to the communities where good ideas can and must be turned into practical programs. As an example of what Policy Matters Ohio does, check out the group’s great report: Limiting Loopholes: A dozen tax breaks Ohio can do without.
You can check out other Apollo friends on the list including The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Rep. Hilda Solis, Jamie Galbraith.
–Heidi Pickman
Green Jobs and Infrastructure Act of 2008, Model Programs
The numbers below provide background information for the Apollo Green Jobs and Infrastructure Act of 2008, developed by Senator Debbie Stabenow’s office in consultation with the Apollo Alliance, along with Green For All, the Corps Network, the Center for American Progress, and others.
Job Consequences of Green Jobs and Infrastructure Act
These are the components of the Green Jobs and Infrastructure Act:
1. Clean Tech Manufacturing Incentives – $50 billion in loans but not at full cost to the government.
The Green Jobs and Infrastructure Act calls for federal loan guarantees to create a $50 billion loan program for manufacturing plants in order to help them retool or retrain workers to produce clean energy and energy efficiency components or end products. This would create 250,000 direct manufacturing jobs in the U.S., and support an additional 725,000 indirect jobs. With an economic multiplier of 2.43 for investment in manufacturing, the loan program would generate as much as $120 billion in revenue due to increased demand for products and services.
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Stabenow Outlines Clean Energy Path to 1 Million New Jobs
WASHINGTON – As the nation’s concern over job losses and a faltering economy reached new depths this week, the Apollo Alliance and a group of prominent public interest organizations joined today in applauding Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow’s introduction of a landmark clean energy economic recovery bill to rebuild the American manufacturing sector.
Boston Green Justice Coalition Joins Apollo Alliance
BOSTON, Dec. 7 - The Boston Green Justice Coalition this weekend became the newest member of the Apollo Alliance, a national network of clean energy, good jobs organizations working to build a cleaner, more efficient, and more prosperous economy.
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Economic Outcomes of The Apollo Economic Recovery Act
The Apollo Economic Recovery Act is a comprehensive quick start economic stimulus strategy to accelerate development of wind, solar, biofuels, and other clean sources of energy, create or retain nearly 2 million new jobs, and restore America’s economic strength. Enacting this proposal would produce significant economic results for the nation.
Apollo Weekly Update, 12/8/08: Economic Recovery and Clean Energy Stimulus
This week, as the clean energy, good jobs economy again attained prominence at the top levels of national policy making, the Apollo Alliance introduced the Apollo Economic Recovery Act. Our one-year, $50 billion proposal is a comprehensive quick start, clean energy economic recovery strategy to immediately create or retain 650,000 direct green-collar jobs and an additional 1.3 million indirect jobs in communities across the country. Look for the full proposal on our Web site here.
