Data Points: 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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Data Points: 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.

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Data Points: The New Apollo Program Fact Sheet

The New Apollo Program will generate billions of dollars in savings each year through greater efficiency in buildings, industrial facilities, power plants, and the power grid.  It will generate and invest $500 billion over the next ten years and create more than five million high quality green-collar jobs.

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Data Points: Energy Efficiency

Energy efficiency is one of the tools in The New Apollo Program toolbox that will create a clean energy, good jobs economy.  And it’s a big tool, one that offers great opportunity.  By 2035, three-quarters of U.S. buildings will be either new or substantially renovated.  And energy efficiency pays for itself with energy savings and creates high-quality jobs.

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Data Points: Economic Consequences of The New Apollo Program in Select States

During the first two weeks of October, the Apollo Alliance introduced The New Apollo Program in town hall meetings and news conferences in six states - California, Colorado, Michigan, Ohio, Oregon, and Washington State. Our preparation included determining the consequences of our plan in building the economy and green-collar job prospects in each.

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