Elected Officials
As elected officials, you play a crucial role in updating the Uniform Guidance. These decades-old federal grant regulations constrain your ability to bring jobs to your communities. Local and state governments need clarity and the ability to decide how they implement federal investments in their communities.
We need your leadership in urging the federal government to modernize the Uniform Guidance. Let’s take advantage of this monumental opportunity.
We thank the following elected officials for working with us:
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Updates
Empowering 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...
Congressional Letter to OMB in Support of Updating the Uniform Guidance
In April 2022, Representative Karen Bass, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, and Senator Tammy Duckworth led a letter signed by 73 of their Congressional...
Mayors Call for Ending Ban on Local Hiring for Federal Projects
For more than 30 years, cities have been barred from leveraging our buying power to put local people to work on public projects. The regressive...
Resources
Local Opportunities Coalition: Fact Sheet on Proposed Updates to Uniform Guidance
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Webinar: Preemption Through Procurement
On November 8, 2023, Jobs to Move America and the UCLA Law Review presented “Preemption Through Procurement” a webinar discussing the evolution and impact of a long standing legal misinterpretation of “competition” in federal procurement law, which has prevented state...
Local Opportunities Campaign One-Pager
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