The report, “Clean Energy, It’s Where the Jobs Are” highlights that 3.3 million Americans worked in the clean energy economy in 2016. It shows that renewable energy specifically now employs more than one in three Americans who work in electric generation and fuel production employment. Projections indicate that this is just the beginning and the transition to clean energy will create millions of additional jobs.

Joint Economic Committee Democrats will release a report later this week on the costs of corruption for the U.S. economy. Beyond enriching the corrupt, evidence from around the world shows that corruption poses real and significant economy-wide costs.

Congressional Republicans seem to have already forgotten the wreckage left in the wake of the financial bubble of the late 2000s. During the 2008 financial crisis and related recession, 8.7 million Americans lost their jobs, 3.8 million homes were foreclosed on, and households lost $17 trillion in wealth. As a result of Wall Street’s actions, the U.S. economy lost an estimated $7.6 trillion in goods and services from 2008 to 2018—lost output that Americans are still feeling today.

State-by-state graphics with information about the cost of child care for single mothers and families.