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To: Speaker Pelosi, Leader Schumer, and Congress

We can’t wait: Congress must put Americans back to work with climate jobs and deliver justice now

Meet the urgent moment to get Americans back to work and recover from COVID by creating millions of good-paying clean energy jobs

Why is this important?

My name is Lois and I live in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Before the pandemic I worked at an Inn as a dishwasher -- but then, like millions across the country, I was laid off. Each month without work is an impossible decision between paying my water and sewer bill or making repairs on the house so it’s not condemned. It feels like I’m never going to get out of my terrible financial situation.

I need to be able to take care of my family. I'd like to get back to work at a safe, good paying job and ideally it would be doing something that helps the country. I want to help us build back better with clean energy -- with the right training, I would be a great administrator or an instructor that we need to make it happen. Clean energy workers are builders, roofers, engineers, electricians, accountants, administrators, researchers and teachers who are all working to deliver renewable energy, like wind or solar power, to create a cleaner, safer, more just country, and I’d love to join them.

Congress should see these crises as an opportunity. They have the power to get us back to work NOW, after delivering relief checks, while also tackling the climate crisis and environmental injustice. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer can lead the way.

We can solve these problems all at once. Climate Action = Jobs, and right now we NEED good paying jobs that get folks like me back to work ASAP. President Biden’s plan to build back better with clean energy means creating millions of good-paying, clean energy union jobs that provide relief. And it means protecting our air and water for communities suffering from decades of environmental racism, who are consequently disproportionately suffering from COVID. At the same time, we’d tackle the biggest existential crisis of our time -- climate change.

Millions of people like me want to get back to work. We want to be part of the fastest growing industry in America, which we need to grow even faster.

At 50, I’m an older worker, and it’s harder for me to find work. The hospitality industry that I was in before the pandemic has been affected badly and probably won’t recover for a while. I’ve been trying to cobble together unemployment insurance, and the $600 stimulus check was helpful, but it’s gone, and without work I can’t pay my bills. With the right investments in our economy, all of us can thrive.

Congress needs to deliver for the American people as quickly as possible. We can build a clean energy future and create good paying jobs, with an emphasis on the low-income communities and communities of color who are bearing the brunt of COVID and the climate crisis.

Congress -- we have no time to wait.

ADD YOUR NAME: Demand Congress take immediate action to create clean energy jobs and get Americans back to work NOW.

Lois P.
Pittsfield, Massachusetts

Partner

Updates

2021-02-06 00:23:09 -0500

500 signatures reached

2021-02-04 17:25:33 -0500

100 signatures reached

2021-02-02 17:04:20 -0500

50 signatures reached

2021-02-02 13:12:06 -0500

25 signatures reached

2021-02-02 12:15:21 -0500

10 signatures reached