According to a USDOT news release issued today, since 2021, the president’s Investing in America Agenda has produced 1.7 million construction and manufacturing jobs and more than 700,000 transportation sector jobs. It has also advanced over 60,000 projects that receive IIJA (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law) funding. Other administration policy accomplishments cited in the release are:
- After subtracting out increases in the residential construction industry, the growth in construction and manufacturing employment since 2021 amounts to 1.3 million jobs, 400,000 of which are union jobs.
- Construction employment has reached its highest level in the 85 years since data collection started. The overall unemployment rate is the lowest in over 50 years.
- The new transportation sector jobs are going to occupations including pilot, port worker, bus driver, and rail engineer.
- Domestic factory construction investment “has nearly tripled.”
- IIJA-funded infrastructure development is “strengthening the American economy by fortifying supply chains and lowering costs, improving America’s global competitiveness, and creating millions of good-paying jobs that bring people into the middle class.”