Updates
Birmingham Leverages Public Funding for the Most Public Good with Historic Local Hire Ordinance
A Local Hire Ordinance passed unanimously by the Birmingham, Alabama City Council in January is a perfect example of leveraging public goods for the...
OMB’s Uniform Grants Guidance Updates Take Effect Today, Empowering Communities and Workers
by Valerie Lizárraga Today, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)’s updates to the Uniform Grants Guidance released on April 4, 2024 officially...
Blog: Updated federal grant guidance will help create good jobs
The U.S. Department of Labor published a blog about the OMB's recent updates to the Uniform Grants Guidance, highlighting many of the updates the...
Federal News Network Interview
Federal News Network’s Eric White spoke on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with the assistant director for policy at Jobs to Move America, Valerie...
Reclaiming the Progressive Potential of Procurement
A longstanding misinterpretation of procurement law keeps cities and states from using federal money to advance local policy goals. JMA's Madeline...
Scraping Away the Anti-Worker, Anti-Racial Equity Vestiges of the Reagan Era
Sarah Anderson writes about how outdated Uniform Guidance policies reinforce historic racial and economic inequities and what the Local...
Ensuring Federal Investments Benefit Workers and Communities
by Michael Lawliss, JMA Senior Policy Coordinator As states and cities begin to receive funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act...
Local Opportunities Comment Re: Office of Management and Budget’s Request for Information
The Local Opportunities Coalition and supporting partners wrote a comment in response to the Office of Management and Budget’s Request for...
Jobs From Infrastructure Bill Will Be More Fairly Distributed Thanks to This Provision
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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...
JMA Recommendations in White House Task Force Report
Yesterday, the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment brought us one step closer to ending the federal prohibition on local...
It’s Time To Unleash The Power Of Cities And States To Build Back Better
The bipartisan infrastructure bill currently in Congress presents an opportunity to rebuild from the pandemic and prepare for the worsening climate...
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...
Coalition Launches Campaign to Overturn Ban on Local Hire
Across the country, cities and states are working hard to rebuild communities and recover from the devastating impacts of the pandemic on working...
How JMA is Ensuring the Infrastructure Bill Works for All of Us
Earlier this month, Congress made a historic investment in our nation’s physical infrastructure by passing the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure...