Building a Human-Centered Digital Future, Part 2: Data Center Job Creation

Data centers create jobs in construction and skilled trades during development, followed by permanent, often high-paying technical, maintenance, and energy-sector jobs.

Infographic: Data Center Job Creation

This infographic shows how data centers positively impact job growth.

Data centers create jobs and economic opportunity, Sutherland Institute report finds

A new report from Sutherland Institute shows that data center projects can create significant employment opportunities, including high-paying construction, skilled-trade, and permanent technical jobs.

The war on poverty we never finished

It is as timely as it is necessary for state and federal leaders to advance a new social welfare reform movement that can finally realize the vision of America’s war on poverty as a war for opportunity.

Federalism can provide solutions to pressing concerns like caring for individuals with disabilities

Federalism ensures that these critical decisions can be made by representatives closest to the people who will be affected by them.

Nic Dunn Statement for the Record House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Work and Welfare: Welfare Reform at 30: Restoring the Promise of Work and Personal Responsibility in Federal Welfare Programs

The solution to these challenges lies in the already proven model of welfare reform: unleashing state-led innovation that prioritizes pro-work, pro-family reforms that are temporary, targeted, and fiscally responsible.

Could giving states more freedom to experiment help America find better answers to our toughest challenges?

On this episode of Defending Ideas, Sen. John Curtis of Utah joins host Nic Dunn to discuss how state-level experimentation can lead to better policy on some of the country’s most difficult questions. From AI and data centers to wildfire prevention, forest management, and public lands, Curtis and Dunn explore why a marketplace of ideas generally leads to better outcomes than a one-size-fits-some approach.

Curtis also explains why he believes policymakers should embrace pilot programs, encourage innovation, and demand accountability so they can learn what works – and what doesn’t.

Instead of imposing the same rules on every state, contentious issues like immigration, social safety net reform, and election policy could benefit from 50 states testing 50 different approaches.

Can the states fix what Washington can’t? | Sen. John Curtis

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Building a Human-Centered Digital Future, Part 2: Data Center Job Creation

Infographic: Data Center Job Creation

Data centers create jobs and economic opportunity, Sutherland Institute report finds

The war on poverty we never finished

Federalism can provide solutions to pressing concerns like caring for individuals with disabilities

Nic Dunn Statement for the Record House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Work and Welfare: Welfare Reform at 30: Restoring the Promise of Work and Personal Responsibility in Federal Welfare Programs

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