Every pothole in D.C. is not just a pothole—it’s an opportunity to employ one of the 9.1 percent unemployed D.C. residents. Everywhere you look in D.C.; there are bridges, potholes, dilapidated buildings, crumbling houses, understaffed schools and unfinished projects.
Join the Work That Needs Doing campaign to document your community.
That is why Our D.C. is participating in the Work That Needs Doing campaign. We want our neighbors to document all the jobs that are ready to be completed in our communities today. From the broken Metro escalators to the defaced stop sign near your house, every D.C. ward has work that needs doing.
The District is in a fiscal crisis and our communities are in crisis everyday. The effects of high, long-term unemployment are clear: theft, murder, homelessness, at-risk youth, drug dealing, eviction and shut-off notices.
While many of these are long-term problems to address, we can head in the right direct with the passage of the American Jobs Act. Passage of this bill will mean real money and real jobs for our community.
- $87 million for impoverished D.C. schools. This money will modernize technology and science labs and renovate our schools creating 1,100 jobs.
- $387 million to improve D.C. highways, transit and rail infrastructure creating 5,000 jobs.
- $20 million to revitalize and refurbish vacant and foreclosed homes.
Take a picture of a project ready to be fixed or completed.
We need to pass this bill and move beyond the false choice of jobs or cuts. The creation of new jobs for our neighbors is non-negotiable.
The jobs are ready to be finished.