Tell your representative to co-sponsor the THRIVE Act
Because we cared, fought, showed up and voted last November, we now have a president and administration focused on helping our country recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. The American Rescue Plan helped put money in people’s pockets and vaccines in people’s arms. Now, President Biden’s focus is on creating green new jobs and a sustainable future, to truly “build back better.” Today, we have a real opportunity to ensure that our economy, our environment and our communities thrive.
The Transform, Heal, and Renew by Investing in a Vibrant Economy (THRIVE) Act would do just that. Click here to call your representatives to ask them to add their support to the bill and include these bold provisions in the next recovery package.
If passed, the THRIVE Act will invest a minimum of $1 trillion per year for more than 10 years to create 15 million jobs and achieve full employment. It will create:
- More than 2 million jobs in the education and care economy, including teachers and workers in healthcare, child care, elder care and public health.
- More than 5 million jobs to upgrade our infrastructure for clean water, affordable public transportation and a reliable electric grid.
- More than 4 million jobs to manufacture and expand access to wind and solar power, electric vehicles, and clean and healthy buildings.
- Nearly 4 million jobs to protect our wetlands and forests and invest in family farmers who are embracing regenerative agriculture.
The THRIVE Act will build the power of workers to fight inequality by:
- Expanding all workers’ rights to form and join unions and negotiate with their employers through adoption of the Protecting the Right to Organize Act and the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act.
- Ensuring high-road labor standards for all jobs created by THRIVE investments by guaranteeing family-sustaining wages and benefits, expanding union apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship programs, requiring Project Labor Agreements, strengthening Buy American standards and more.
- Protecting wages and benefits for any workers or communities adversely affected by the economic transition to renewable energy.
- Preventing privatization of any public sector jobs and public resources.
In addition, the THRIVE Act will ensure environmental justice, protect the rights of Native American and Alaska Native tribes, and include binding climate targets to ensure 100 percent clean energy generated by 2035. If passed, the THRIVE Act will center and lift up communities that have been left behind for decades, creating a future where we can thrive instead of just survive.