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Who will be employed through Biden's Climate Stimulus?

President-elect Joe Biden's $2 trillion climate stimulus will help the US economy recover from COVID-19, creating upwards of 10 million American jobs. Key elements of Biden's climate plan are:

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Infrastructure
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Auto Industry
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Transit
Rebuilding and modernizing outdated infrastructure, such as roads, bridges, and transmission lines
Creating 1 million new jobs in the American auto industry, domestic auto supply chains, and auto infrastructure, and adding 500,000 public EV charging stations by 2030
Providing cities with high quality, zero-emissions public transportation options, improving existing transit and bus lines, and installing infrastructure for pedestrians and bicyclists
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Building Energy Efficiency
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Renewable Energy
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Agriculture & Conservation
Investing in energy efficiency in buildings, including completing 4 million retrofits and building 1.5 million new affordable homes
Moving towards clean, American-made electricity, including spending $400 billion annually on clean energy R&D and doubling offshore wind production by 2035
Creating 250,000 jobs in climate-smart agriculture, resilience, and conservation, including plugging abandoned O&G wells and reclaiming abandoned mines

However, new green jobs created by these packages will go to white men if nothing changes.

Total green jobs created by industry and by sex (,000s)

Using jobs data from The Sierra Club, and matching this with BLS industry data, the chart shows that more than 8 million out of 9 million jobs created by climate related stimulus will go to men, and fewer than 1 million jobs will go to women.

US stimulus dollars will go to white people (probably men)...

Green jobs created by race or ethnicity (%)

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Jobs in industries supported by climate stimulus will disproportionately go to white people. Take a look at our policy implications page for some suggestions on what policymakers can do now to make the climate industry more inclusive.

Disclaimer: We know that women and people of color are not a homogenous group and that biological sex is not gender identity. But data collection on where people work treats them as such. We're sorry it is presented without an intersectional framework. Data collectors, and anaysts, need to be better to accurately reflect all of us, just like climate jobs.

     
This webpage was developed by Harvard Kennedy School students for DPI-691M: Programming and Data for Policymakers.