Chart: Nearly half of the jobs supported by climate and infrastructure investment and rebalancing trade would be good middle class jobs in manufacturing and construction | Economic Policy Institute

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Nearly half of the jobs supported by climate and infrastructure investment and rebalancing trade would be good middle class jobs in manufacturing and construction

	Agriculture, mining, utilities	Construction	Manufacturing	Services
Climate and infrastructure	2.4%	12.6%	33.1%	51.9%
Rebalancing trade	21.2%	1.3%	39.5%	38.0%

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Source: EPI analysis of jobs supported by industry from the $2 trillion investment and trade-balancing program outlined in Scott, Mokhiber, and Perez 2021.

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