Memo: Voters Back the American Jobs Plan
By Danielle Deiseroth, Senior Climate Data Analyst, Data for Progress
Key Findings
An overwhelming bipartisan majority of all voters support key climate and clean energy components of the American Jobs Plan, including improving the resiliency of roads and bridges to the impacts of climate change (87 percent), removing and replacing all lead pipes (85 percent), modernizing the electricity grid (84 percent), and building new renewable energy projects like wind and solar power (70 percent)
A bipartisan majority of voters (72 percent) support the government making investments to create clean energy jobs
Nearly two-thirds of voters (62 percent) agree lawmakers should keep ambitious climate and clean energy investments in the American Jobs Plan to create new, good-paying union jobs rather than narrow the focus of the legislation to only roads and bridges
Over two-thirds of voters (67 percent) agree the government should make investments to create clean energy jobs, even if they raise taxes on large corporations and the wealthiest Americans to pay for these investments
