That's one of the findings of a new Sierra Club report, "Millions of Good Jobs: A Plan for Economic Renewal," based on a new economic analysis that quantifies the jobs that would be created by a holistic economic renewal plan to tackle the overlapping crises of public health, unemployment, inequity, and climate change.  The economic analysis was conducted by the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), whose job creation estimates helped shape the scope of the 2009 stimulus.  

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Also included in today's release: job creation estimates for 39 specific stimulus priorities backed by many labor, environmental justice, and climate groups.  E.g., investing in clean energy workers (600,000+ jobs per year), making electric vehicles affordable (635,000+ jobs per year), upgrading all public housing, hospitals, and schools (400,000+ jobs per year), manufacturing clean energy goods (over 1 million jobs per year), replacing lead pipes and ensuring clean water (350,000+ jobs per year), cleaning up toxic pollution and restoring wetlands and forests (225,000+ jobs per year), and more.  

There's a ton of useful info in these 34 pages of jobs numbers and it's all open-source -- feel free to use the numbers for your own advocacy!  Here are some materials to illuminate topline takeaways: 

In case there was any doubt, this stimulus plan is not aimed at getting "back to normal."  The crisis has laid bare that "normal" was fundamentally unjust, unhealthy, and unstable.  Due to decades of “normal” conditions, communities of color are more likely to breathe polluted air and thus more likely to die today from COVID-19.  Normalcy is what enabled Jeff Bezos to rake in over $30 billion in the first two months of the pandemic -- more than 1 million times what an Amazon warehouse worker makes in one year.  And business as normal is what has brought us increasing climate-related droughts, fires, and storms that are only compounding the threats to our health and our economy.  

Like you, our sights are set on economic renewal, not a return to the unjust status quo.  This plan would create family-sustaining jobs for millions of people while counteracting racial and economic inequity, delivering cleaner air and water, improving public health, upgrading our infrastructure, and cutting U.S. climate pollution nearly in half by 2030.  It's up to Congress -- and us -- to make this vision a reality.  Looking forward to working with you to that end. 

In solidarity, 

Ben Beachy