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
5 Steps to Take Advantage of New Job Quality Guidelines
Over the next decade, $2 Trillion in new Infrastructure funding is coming into our communities. New federal guidance means that states and local communities will now be allowed to attach enforceable policies to these federally-funded projects to require good paying...
Rutgers Presentation: Empowering States & Localities
Jobs to Move America and Rutgers' School of Management and Labor Relations hosted a webinar on empowering states and localities after the OMB's changes to the Uniform Guidance. See the presentation from the event below. OMB UG Presentation
Rutgers Webinar: 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 and workers. Watch it below.