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: Transportation Spending in the U.S.

The United States’ transportation infrastructure is the web that connects Americans to the places they live, work, learn, and play. Our country’s vast network of roads, from interstate highways to rural byways, is supported by federal dollars matched, in most cases, with state and local funds. Today, with gas prices at historic highs and cities seeing unprecedented shifts from private vehicle travel to public transit, transportation spending should be adapting to the times - but it’s not.

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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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Data Points: Investments In Clean Energy Soar

Governments, banks, and private investors around the world are furiously pumping capital into renewable energy, research and development, and clean energy manufacturing.

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Data Points: Comparing Energy Plans

Senator Barack Obama placed clean energy and good jobs at the very top of his presidential agenda. In St. Paul, Senator John McCain described an energy plan that focused on more domestic oil and scaling up nuclear power. Read more

Data Points: Green-Collar Jobs

When people talk about green-collar jobs, two questions always pop up. What is it? And how many are there?

“Green-Collar Jobs in America’s Cities,” the Apollo Alliance’s March 2008 report, defines the term this way: A job qualifies as green-collar if it provides high enough wages and good benefits to support a family, opportunity to advance and build a career, and reduces waste, pollution, and other environmental risks. Read more