Delia supports a Federal Jobs Guarantee focused on clean energy while investing in healthcare and infrastructure so that everyone who needs a job is guaranteed work that pays them a living wage.
Support a federal jobs guarantee focused on clean energy, healthcare, and infrastructure so that anyone who needs work can get a job that pays a living wage.
Occurrences
Evidence
Ramirez's campaign worker-rights page says she supports a federal jobs guarantee centered on clean energy and investments in health care and infrastructure, with living-wage work for people who need jobs.
Congress.gov lists Rep. Delia C. Ramirez as a cosponsor of H.Res.319 on April 24, 2023. The measure remained at the Introduced stage, with later referrals to committees and subcommittees.
The text of H.Res.319 calls for a Green New Deal to create high-wage union jobs, invest in infrastructure and industry, shift to clean renewable energy, provide high-quality health care, and guarantee a family-sustaining-wage job to all people in the United States.
H.R.5065 would create Labor Department grants for local job-guarantee programs. Congress.gov lists only Ilhan Omar and Summer Lee as cosponsors; Ramirez is not listed. The latest action was referral to a subcommittee.
The H.R.5065 text requires a pilot to ensure applicants in eligible areas receive jobs, sets wage and benefit standards, and lists priorities including child care, care for seniors and disabled people, clean energy jobs, and sustainable infrastructure.
H.Res.1011 expressed that the federal government has a duty to create a federal job guarantee. Congress.gov lists zero cosponsors and the latest action was referral to House Education and Workforce on February 14, 2024.
Assessments
Ramirez promised to support, not necessarily enact, a federal jobs guarantee centered on clean energy, health care, infrastructure, and living-wage work. In her first House term she cosponsored H.Res.319, the Green New Deal resolution, which expressly called for high-wage union jobs, clean-energy and infrastructure investment, high-quality health care, and guaranteeing a family-sustaining-wage job to all people in the United States. More direct job-guarantee bills did not pass and the record provided does not show her cosponsoring H.R.5065 or H.Res.1011, so this should not be treated as enactment of a federal jobs-guarantee program. But for a promise framed as support, her same-term cosponsorship of a close policy vehicle is sufficient for delivery.